Horizontal lines on lower portion of screen

TV worked fine in the morning about seven days ago. At night when I turned the tv on there were about seven black lines horizontally varying in width on the lower 1/3 of the screen. They have been there ever since and will not go away. The tv is hooked through the vcr, but the lines are there when the tv is hooked up to anything else as well. I have a switch box which allows the tv to be hooked to several peripheral devices. The problem is not the tv being hooked through the vcr because all those connections are correct. What could the problem be?

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Your problem is a bad matrix drive circuit or a drive connection cable. There are no user replaceable parts inside this set, so Im sorry to say, you are going to need to call in a trained plasma repair person. good luck!

Posted on Oct 08, 2006

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Hello,
I have a "Home-fix" for you, you should watch this you tube video on how to repair a symptom such as yours even though it is a sanyo tv the fix is pretty much the same for your television and may save you oodles of money!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=purk_SyiT44

Good Luck!
Rich Lilja

Posted on Dec 29, 2013

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