Picture We have a rca 52 inch wide screen with built -in dvd player. Recently when you turn on the tv we have good quality sound, but a snowy picture. Within 10-15 minutes everything appears to be fine. The tv might play fine for hours and then all of a sudden the picture will go snowy, turn the tv off and back on and the picture is fine. After the tv sat all night, then turn it on in the morning and it is all snowy with good sound. If you put a dvd in the tv set the picture comes in fine, seems like it's something external of the tv. Could it be the piece on the back of the tv where the coax attaches?

That set is a beauty if it is equipped with the built in DVD player--they were all poor quality---only possible but not easy thing is it can be got at by removing entire front grill beneath the front screen and has only a few plugs to actually remove the unit.

I presume you have tried to change inputs with the remote etc.

Something has definitely gone wrong. When picture fails, generally the audio will still play; but since the set is shutting down completely after a short time - it is going to more involved.

Firstly, anything can be fixed. The questions to ask are: 1) At what point do you stop spending money to repair a device that is XX years old? 2) How much would a replacement / upgrade cost?

Given that your set is an older SD (standard definition) with an old analog NTSC legacy tuner, it may be worth while to make the move to a digital HDTV. The picture quality will "blow away" any SD version of the same image / program that your old TV displayed. Unlike several years ago, the HDTV has come way down in price, too. A 32 inch, wide screen HDTV price starts at just $235 as results shown by a search in Google. In order to view HD signals, you'll need either 1) a plain UHF/VHF antenna (and local broadcasters in range), 2) HD cable TV service or, 3) HD satellite service. Cable and satellite providers offer SD service and for slightly more, HD service. Most people are not happy watching SD signals on an HD display - so you'll probably want to change the level of service if you're not using an antenna. Old DVD players only send SD signals, you might consider upgrading to a Blu-Ray player. Blu-Ray players provide SD and HD signals - depending on whether you insert an SD DVD or an HD Blu-Ray disk. The Blu-Ray players, like the HDTVs, have also dropped in price significantly.

See if you can find a place that provides free estimates. If not able to locate, find someone that will apply the cost of diagnostics (ask what the diagnostic fee is) to the total repair charge, and decide to either fix or replace.

I hope this helps and good luck! Please take a moment to rate my reply - thank you.

I unplugged the tv and the cable box and pulled out the battery of controls for 12 hours. When I turn on again, the tv and cable box back to normal.

Resolder pinns on FBT flyback transfomer and on tuners.

What is your TV input connection? Are you using Antenna? Cable? Dish?

The Unusable Signal sounds like the TV is not getting a signal. Does your TV have a built in HD Tuner?

If you are using Antenna you might want to try setting up the connections and it should search for quality channels that you get good signal strength. If you are on channel 2 and there is no over the air channel 2 it may say "unusable signal".

tv worked great, turned it off one day and back on the next and the on light would not come on nor would the tv work, rear projection 52 inch rca

check your picture in picture, sounds like your dvd imput is set for split screen, dvd on both sides

Does the picture just get dark or does the picture go out completely? Does it do this with both the cable and the DVD? Is the audio affected?

get a sony

Put something else, DVD player, VCR or a second signal, into one of the other inputs on the unit and switch the PIP to watch that input...