just bought a Samsung DLP RPTV tv and it is a fly flying around inside the screen, is there a way to remove it or just wait till it dies. i just bought the tv this week should i return it?

There may be two panels on the sides of the tv which are covering openings. They are there so you can remove them and look inside if something happens. See if your model has them, remove them and get the fly out.

Flies have a 2-day lifespan ... I'd wait it out. There's probably not much to eat in there, and chances are it will fall into a nice open area at the bottom.

I am certainly no biologist, but I believe flys actually live 15-30 days depending on if they are male or female.

Ha-ha...this is one of the oddest and most humorous thread I've seen in a while.

The housefly wiki page has a section about the life cycle...

Life cycle

Each female fly can lay over up to 500 eggs in several batches of about 75 to 150, eggs [1] much similar to the close relative of this species, Julieanneia Macdonaldias. The eggs are white and are about 1.2 mm in length. Within a day, larvae (maggots) hatch from the eggs; they live and feed in (usually dead and decaying) organic material, such as garbage or faeces. They are pale-whitish, 3-9 mm long, thinner at the mouth end, and have no legs. They live at least one week. At the end of their third instar, the maggots crawl to a dry cool place and transform into pupae, colored reddish or brown and about 8 mm long. The adult flies then emerge from the pupae. (This whole cycle is known as complete metamorphosis.) The adults live from half a month to a month in the wild, or longer in benign laboratory conditions. After having emerged from the pupae, the flies cease to grow; small flies are not young flies, but are indeed the result of getting insufficient food during the larval stage.[citation needed]
Some 36 hours after having emerged from the pupa, the female is receptive for mating. The male mounts her from behind to inject sperm. Normally the female mates only once, storing the sperm to use it repeatedly for laying several sets of eggs. Males are territorial: they will defend a certain territory against other males and will attempt to mount any females that enter that territory.[citation needed]


Housefly pupae killed by parasitic wasp larvae. Each pupa has one hole through which a single adult wasp emerged; feeding occurs during the wasp's larva stage.

The flies depend on warm temperatures; generally, the warmer the temperature the faster the flies will develop. In winter, most of them survive in the larval or the pupa stage in some protected warm location.
Houseflies can take in only liquid foods. They spit out saliva on solid foods to predigest it, and then suck it back inside. They also regurgitate partly digested matter and pass it again to the abdomen.
The flies can walk on vertical planes, and can even hang upside-down from ceilings. This is accomplished with the surface tension of liquids secreted by glands near their feet. When they are not flying, flies continually preen themselves, cleaning their eyes with their forelegs and dusting off their legs by rubbing them together. They do this because most of their taste and smell receptors lie on the hair of their legs.[citation needed]
Flies have a very highly-evolved evasion reaction which helps to ensure their survival. It is possible to confuse a fly's evasion system by swatting it with two objects simultaneously from different directions. The holes in a fly swatter minimize the air current that warns the fly as being hit, whilst reducing air resistance and increasing speed of the swat.
Houseflies release a pheromone called muscalure that serves both as aggregation and sexual attraction purposes.
The housefly is an object of biological research, mainly because of one remarkable quality: the sex determination mechanism. Although a wide variety of sex determination mechanisms exist in nature (e.g. male and female heterogamy, haplodiploidy, environmental factors) the way sex is determined is usually fixed within one species. However, the housefly exhibits many different mechanisms for sex determination, such as male heterogamy (like most insects and mammals), female heterogamy (like birds) and maternal control over offspring sex. This makes the housefly one of the most suitable species to study the evolution of sex determination.
The average lifespan of an adult housefly is approximately 15 to 25 days. Since they can complete their lifecycle in as little as seven to ten days, flies typically live between 22 and 25 days from egg to death. [2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housefly#Life_cycle

Whoa! I had no idea it was that long ... dang.

Just buy a frog and put it inside the TV - problem solved

Add a spider
;)

you guys are too funny lmao. but i took the tv back because i didnt really want to deal with the lamp replacement thing in the future. so i bought the panny viesa plasma. but thanks guys, at least for the laugh.:D

Before you kill it, make sure it doesn't have a white head.

The average lifespan of an adult housefly is approximately 15 to 25 days. Since they can complete their lifecycle in as little as seven to ten days, flies typically live between 22 and 25 days from egg to death.

This is probably assuming the fly can eat and drink. Without that ... I give it 2 days ... now 1 day.