The red light showing a message doesn't light up

Panasonic DLP TV Bulbs

Make sure its an original Osram or Philips bulb inside the housing. If its a cheap lamp it will act this way. If it is an original lamp, then you may have a power supply issue. It shouldn't affect your TV but you may want to try resetting the lamp timer by following the instructions that came with the lamp.

TY-LA1001 Timer reset

While pressing the VOL- button on the projection display, hold down the number 0 button on the remote control at the same time for more than 5 seconds.

I haven't worked on an escape, but i can tell you that switch is on the transmission.

That is the message waiting indicator, it is telling you that your Call Notes (Or whatever your service provider calls it's voicemail) has a message waiting. If you do not have a message waiting, you can turn the light of by following these steps:

Resetting the voice message waiting indicator
When you receive a new voice mail message, the new message LED on the top of the handset flashes and
appears in the handset display. In the event your message waiting light gets out of sync with your phone company’s
voice messaging system, you can manually reset it back to the “No messages waiting” state.
Press and hold FIND on the base for five seconds.
Note: The handsets connected to the base will start to beep, however, keep pressing for five seconds.
A beep sounds and the message alert tone is reset.

Auto Setup automatically searches for the right code for your DVD player. For the most popular DVD player models, Auto-Setup takes a few minutes or less, however, less-common models can take much longer or this method may not work at all.

1. Find the Auto-Setup instruction page in the on-screen Setup Guide. Your DVD player must be on the Auto-Setup instructions for this method to work properly.

1. Engage Auto-Setup mode: Hold down the Red button until the setup light turns off. Continue holding the Red button and press the Yellow button three times, then release both buttons. If you’ve done this correctly the light will turn back on and remain on until setup mode is exited. When the setup light remains on, the controller is in setup mode.

1. Wait for a message from your DVD player. Even though you can’t see anything happening, the controller is actually loading and testing various codes. When the right code is found, your DVD player will tell you to press the Home button. If your player doesn’t respond within about 10 Minutes or the time on the estimate chart, press the Home button to exit this method, and use the Direct Entry method instead.

1. When the DVD player instructs you to press the Home button, be sure to do so before the onscreen timer runs out. If you miss pressing the Home button before the timer runs out, go ahead and wait until a message from the DVD tells you what to do. If you have not yet pressed the Home button, the DVD will instruct you to press the Back button to back up to the code you missed.

Assuming these readings are false, I have asimilar problem in my 540 which tells me allt the exterior bulbs are not working. The bulb sensor is faulty so I think you are safe in your assumption although the oil light showing would scare me, false or not. I suggest you get a service agent to cast his/her eyes over that one.

New phone/cable provider corrected the problem on their end. Evreything works at this time.

The red blinking light is an 'event' light, it does not necessarily mean a message is waiting for you, it will also start to flash if you have a missed call.
click 'up' on the round button to show the missed calls list and it will stop flashing, at least it does on mine!

try taking out the battery and wait a minute then put it back in, see if that works.

The term we used for this back when I worked for the phone company was a "stuck message waiting indicator" and the way to fix it was:

Call yourself and leave a message.
Hang up and wait 2 minutes (we used to say 5 minutes, but 2 is plenty)
Retreive/delete your voice mail message
Hang up and wait 2 minutes


That should clear the blinking light.

to get rid of "replace lamp" push the blue action button on the remote and the volumn down on the tv set for a couple of seconds. this has to be done at the same time, good luck.
Bob