Caused by failure of the LCD Panel. The fact that it only happens on a cold start means the inverters (part of the LCD Panel) are bad and the only way to fix it is to replace the whole LCD Panel. The Part is very expensive (usually about $2000) and time consuming to replace (need to take whole TV apart).
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