Picture goes off and after the tv is jolted, the picture comes back on.

Most likely you either have a defective backlight inverter, bad back lamp. Based off of your model #, I'm gonna lean towards a back lamp.

The tv have 1 or 2 long LCD inverter boards are dying.These 1 or 2 long LCD inverter boards help the tv to have a backlight to produce a picture on to the LCD screen panel.Tries websites like Shopjimmy.com,Ebay.com to buy those 1 or 2 LCD long inverter boards for the replacement.

If you can quickly get to menu before picture goes blank, then go picture / backlight / set backlight to minimum and it will work fine.

is it under warranty, it could be the ysus or the panel

You need to take the back off the set, with the power off, turn it on, then probe around with a long, wooden chopstick until you find the problem.

Hello, it sounds like your inverter board is goin out on the set, when you change channels if you notice on almost any TV the screen goes dark and the new channel appears, it sounds like you are not getting enough power out of the inverter board to power up the backlight enough to come on. This is why the sound remains because everything else works fine and the sound is connected to the main board.

there are bad solder connections on the pictury tube drive module. have it fixed at a repair shop.. the tech will be mystified that you know what the problem was..lol..

If the panel was hit when jolted it may have shorted out the panel. It may have just jarred a connector loose to the panel or some other board. You can try unplugging it for about 5 minutes and see if the picture comes back. If it doesn't come back on, connections should be checked and reseated. If that doesn't work or there is a crack in the panel it will be cheaper to replace the set. Have it checked at a repair shop to make sure a board didn't crack.

Comment by Guest, posted on Oct 25, 2008My Aquos has the same problem. I'm not sure how I discovered this, but when I lean the TV forward and hit the power button it will turn on every time. If the screen blacks out and I don't lean it forward when I hit the power button, the screen will just remain blank. It is very weird, but at least repeatable.

- Thank you, Guest. That did it. It definitely seems to be a problem with the TV. Tilting it and hitting the power button helped me get the video back.

Try resoldering the vertical output IC this is acommon problem with this model