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I have replaced the bulb recently. the problem is that intermittently it seems that one color goes missing for awhile. i.e. the screen appears generally more purple or green than it should be, then corrects later. sometimes there is a band of green or purple on the screen. I could get a phillips person to come here and fix for more money or could take it to a shop (it’s BIG and hard to transport) to fix. My fear is that such a problem might involve the main “light engine” or some primary circuit board. I don’t know whether it would be $200 to fix a minor problem or $800 to fix a more likely major problem. Dilemma is that although the TV was worth $2K-$3K+ when purchased that intrinsic new value now may be closer to twice the value of fixing it for $800 and i feel that used equipment is worth half new. i.e. if it costs $800 to fix it, i might be lucky to sell for $800 and would not be worth fixing. If I take it in and price is as such then i still pay $100 or more to look at it and it would be likely just a waste of money. don’t know how likely it would be fixable for only around $200 which would be worthwhile. from calling repair shops, they seem unfamiliar with such a problem (lcos is not a popular technology, mostly people use DLP now) I had taken it apart and looked at it, and saw what appeared to be a spinning part that had some wobbliness (vibration/buzzing of spinning part with flat edges) during the problem. service people on the phone say LCOS has no moving parts aside from fans. This is not visibly the case as it appears this moving part is within the outer part of light engine. so i don’t know if these people don’t know anything about the technology, but it would seem likely that although the part is small, with such things a replacement of the whole “light engine” may be neccesary if they don’t really know what they’re doing to begin with, and i believe that may be a $700 part. So although I think i see a problem moving part, i can only guess that due to phillips lcos discontinued status, local service center inexperience with the product, and location of the specific part that it may cost $800 to fix. So would it be better to sell a mostly working TV to someone who intermittent problem does not bother? through where… ebay local or craigs list or newspaper?, sell it to a pawn shop as-is? or try my luck at getting it fixed by taking it in and hoping it’ll be cheap, maybe letting them keep it if it will cost over a certain amount to fix? would be nice to sell it to a tv repairman or maybe someone here knows the technology and knows of a spinning square part apparently not a fan blade, (lcos is not supposed to have a color wheel like dlp nor a spinning mirror i think) and thus would be able to give repair advice. otherwise the advice i seek is what to do with a TV that is only partially broken where expense to fix is unknown but likely high as local repair shops are unfamiliar with the technology.

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