![]() ![]() Widespread issue, class action settlement Then I heard about a report on the exact same issue from newscaster CBS4 in Miami (CNET is a property of CBS corporation). I said such stories are tough for me to write, mainly because getting a TV maker to say anything worthwhile on the record is basically impossible. I told him I'd heard about problems like this before, and in fact he wasn't the first co-worker to describe a TV "up and dying" to me (for the record the other, making two in ten-odd years of doing what I do, was a Vizio). Bill even found YouTube videos like this one of intrepid users replacing their capacitors-a $5 part-and fixing the problem.īill said he planned to call Samsung but was wondering if I wanted to write something about it. Online stories and forum posts mentioned a bum capacitor that wasn't properly suited to the job. At first a picture would eventually appear after ten minutes or so, but after a week or two the TV wouldn't not turn on at all, although it did continue to click. The red power indicator would flash on and off, accompanied by a clicking sound. Here's the 2010 story Bill found that "started the whole thing" for him.īill told me the TV simply wouldn't turn on despite repeated presses of the power button. It was a Samsung LCD from 2008, and according to my colleague-let's call him "Bill" since he said he'd rather not be identified in this story-a quick Google search revealed hundreds of other Samsung TV owners with the same problem. ![]() A couple of weeks ago a colleague at CNET walked into my office and told me his TV had died. ![]()
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