Red I have a totally red background however most of the time when i first turn on a decent picture then red red red

Toshiba e-studio 18 every morning frist time copy light and background

Please change the T-CON board, if it did not fix the problem, you may have a defective LCD Panel.

the number of flashes of the red indicator lamp points to the possible cause of the delay of the raster or picture, but usually it's an indicator of an emission unbalance between crt(picture tube) guns. the picture will take longer to show up as the emission on either of the picture tubes goes down.

check system mode on dvd player,should be on pal

Is it just in the screen or the prints as well?

Problem solved. I tried playing DVD and the TV picture was fine. So I double-checked cable wires from cable box - one of the wires was loose (obviously it was the red color input). After tightening, the TV picture is good as new.

same as ak_medic

do you happen to have any speakers of any size within about 3 feet in any direction of the tv?? move them if so, I have large speakers about 5 feet from my tv at home and i still get some distortion once in a while with red and dark green streaks.

If, when you turn down the color control all the way you have a black and red picture, then your picture tube is most likely weak and it's time to replace the set. If the black and white picture is normal, then the set could have a problem in the chroma circuit. Either way, it would not likely be worth repairing.