My 52 rca screen looks like

hows the picture? is it 3d looking? do you have the convergence option in the setup menu

My rca 52 inch hdtv picture looks bowed on the top and bottom of screen. And everything looks like it has a red shadow behind it.

the picture is bent inward and shadow looking sides are cut off.

It sounds like your TV needs to be aligned. There should be a menu item in your setup menu called "Alignment". Once you choose this the system will either automatically align itself, or the screen will display a graphic that will allow you to align the guns manually. Normally you will move either up or down or side to side until 2 separate lines look like one.

Sounds like a capacitor in the power supply is beginning to fail.Unless your good at this type of repair, I would call a tech to have it serviced. And I would also not use the set until the problem is corrected, or it could get real expensive to fix.

where are yo located

you ca take the scren out and clean it as far as the other problem u may want to call a service tech in

Look, take out back cover and on the bottom left and right side you will see screw (2 or 4), take out it,Disconnect 2 plugs wire from chasis, pull out the box and you will have space for clean your screen.( You will take out all box with main chasis, convergence chasis )

Was an auxillary input accidently selected? Try selecting inputs to see if this straightens it out. What model set do you have?