I have a Sony KDL-52XBR4. The LCD display has a Horizontal bar ( darker than the rest of the screen, picture is still visible) 6 inches wide across the bottom of the display and the right most section of this rectangle has some ghosting - previous images slowly resolve.

SOURCE: LCD picture distortion.

This is caused by a failure of the main board. The failure causes the refresh rate of the unit to be off creating a trailing or ghost effect. This will require a technician to replace that board though. Hope this help.

Jerry Greenberg

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• Posted on Aug 06, 2009

SOURCE: SONY KDL-52xbr4 - lcd panel shot after 17 months

This can be the panel itself, and or the matrix decoder/driver boards. The cost of this type of repair can approach the cost of a new set. From your description, I am thinking it is the panel itself that has failed.

Parts for your set are from Sony only because there is no third party manufacturing for these types of parts and assemblies.

Usually, when these types of sets become defective they are usually not worth servicing. During warranty the manufactures generally give a new set to the client, or they give a re-built set which has been built up using parts and modules from other sets that came back for service and had different types of problems.

If you know a tech is is good at servicing these types of set, maybe he can find a number of scrapper set of the same model to take parts from. You just have to hope the ones he finds have the same types of fault.


Jerry G.

SOURCE: Phillips 50 inch Plasma

Philips 50 inch plasma tv no video but has sound

SOURCE: Sony 52 inch XBR with bands of ghosted images

Its a TAB bond Problem with the LCD. You can take apart the TV and install a rubber Bumper to put pressure on the TAB. TAB bonds always get worse... I dont know how long it will solve the issue... but u can get a little more life out of it.
Rember when working with the TV the voltages can kill!!
Heres a link to see someone fixing.
I have the same TV...same problem...common problem...unless u ask Sony.

SOURCE: have horizontal lines across the screen and some

Yeah we have the same exact problem here. Defective TV....ours would correct itself after 30 mins, but now it's blurry all the time. I'm never dropping 2K on a SONY tv again.