Orange LCD When I turn on the camera the LCD on the back of the camera is very orange to red in color, but I can see the display, menus, etc. After a few minutes everything seems fine. Is this a bad LCD or just a common issue with this model? If it is a problem will it get worse?

Check the speakers connection and that should give you at least 8 of the colors. The ones left then are going to be ground and power and display power. You can figure those out with a meter.

My Westinghouse LCD tv has the same lights on it It goes orange or red when there is no signal from that source... or while it is calibrating itself to the new frequency etc.

i had the same problem with my talon today, all you need to do is get another wire , connect one end to the 12v(red)backup tail light wire and connect the other end to ur dvd player and put it one the wire that is to be connected to the 12v for the revarse camera the wire should be orange but urs might be a different color.

If your set is led or lcd your Tcon board is getting to the end of its life, its the lowest cost board in a TV

It sounds like you may have a broken display. It is possible that it is the main board, but much more likely that it is the LCD display. I can fix this for $40, not matter if it is the display, or the main board. Or you can send it to Pentax in Arizona, and they will fix it for about $90. If you just want to get rid of this camera, I also buy all Pentax Option a10, a20, a30, a40 cameras. Contact me at: mrfixitmark at comcast dot net

If you are handy with very small parts, you can replace the display yourself, and you can buy them on eBay for about $25.

I found that where the monitor connected to the adapter there had been a cat hair; once the hair was removed the colors were normal.

If you connect the monitor to a laptop's "video-out", do you get correct colours, or do you still get the "orange" ??

If so, then the monitor is the problem.