Botched Repair, now what

My Sony KP-51WS500 had convergence ICs go bad. I had it repaired for$528.00 (ouch). When the TV was returned the color alignment was terrible, and there was still a pin cushion effect. They came back to fix it, 2 weeks later, and at 6pm. It is better but not as good as it was. They did a lot of fine 'local' adjustments on the cross hatch pattern. Now there is still a bit of a bow in the picture and things that should be straigt across the screen, have a bit of a wave to them. I still have a Size Limit Error on the Auto Registration function and a Vertical deflection stopped self diagnostic message. I'm quite frustrated with the company I went through. I will be dealing with them. In the meantime, do you have any suggestions? Thanks, Ken

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I would only suggest to get back to the people who service the set until they get it right.They have to finish what the started.

Posted on Sep 21, 2006

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