Red light is not on and the remote will not...

If you have no indicator light on the TV at all, the first place to look will be the power supply, if you do have light, then at least the 5v standby power supply is working which supplys the power to the controller board, when it receive the ON command from the remote or from the power button, the controller board will send out the ON signal to the main power supply section to supply the power to the rest of the circuit. So 5v standby voltage is a must. You may have bad capacitors in the power supply.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague