I have no heat in my house until it can be repaired in a few days. I expect the temperature to drop to around 50 degrees inside my house.

Is it bad for my brand new Sony Bravia LCD to be exposed to or operate in temps that cold?:confused:

It will be fine.

I have no heat in my house until it can be repaired in a few days. I expect the temperature to drop to around 50 degrees inside my house.

Is it bad for my brand new Sony Bravia LCD to be exposed to or operate in temps that cold?:confused:

I hope yours is ok, mine is out in my truck and it is 16 degrees out there!

It will be fine.

Mike

As long as you can still survive in the house...your tv will also.:p I assume you still have electricity? A couple of cheap space heaters from Wally World could take the edge off the cold quite nicely..

My house gets down to 50 fairly often at night during the winter. So far nothing has exploded.

I have no heat in my house until it can be repaired in a few days. I expect the temperature to drop to around 50 degrees inside my house.

Is it bad for my brand new Sony Bravia LCD to be exposed to or operate in temps that cold?:confused:

You should take it back and get a plasma. Plasmas are great room heaters. With a plasma you won't even need a furnace, just run the TV, it will heat the whole house.

If only that were true. The TV is a lot cheaper to run than the furnace.

Just keep her warn, use your body heat if you have to, give her a hug.

50 really isn't that cold. When it drops below freezing in the house, then you should worry.

When I was in school 10 years ago I saw a few laptop screens wrecked from being frozen in below-zero weather. I have no idea what advances in cold resistance have been made since then.

But 50 degrees is not cold and no problem for exposure. You should be able to find recommended operating temperatures in your manual.

I have an LCD monitor for my computer in a room where the temp frequently dips to <12°c (~50°F) overnight, sometimes colder. I've never had a problem. On the plus-side, my CPU runs around 25°C idle :)

You should take it back and get a plasma. Plasmas are great room heaters. With a plasma you won't even need a furnace, just run the TV, it will heat the whole house.

A Panny 42" Plasma kept our hotel room warm throughout our stay in Las Vegas a couple of weeks back. Never had to turn on the heater even once, even had to open the ventilation at times.

Watch out, the liquid crystals might freeze and crack the screen, but that is better than having the plasma freeze and drain out.

Watch out, the liquid crystals might freeze and crack the screen, but that is better than having the plasma freeze and drain out.

Damn you expecting temperatures below -100c?

You will not be facing any temperatures where humans can survive that will be any sort of threat to these devices.

Heat is the enemy of electronics. There is a reason why cable headends and Colo's are kept cold.

I have no heat in my house until it can be repaired in a few days. I expect the temperature to drop to around 50 degrees inside my house.

Is it bad for my brand new Sony Bravia LCD to be exposed to or operate in temps that cold?:confused: why take the word of somebody here who may or not now the correct answer, when you have the tools to look in your hardcopy manual or simply go to the sony suppprt site, click manuals etc, enter model number, click operating instructions, up pops the pdf and you enter "temperature" into the pdf search and you get:

Avoid operating the TV at temperatures below 41* F (5* C).
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-documents.pl?mdl=KDL46XBR6&LOC=3
http://www.docs.sony.com/release/KDL40XBR6.pdf


TVbc

why take the word of somebody here who may or not now the correct answer, when you have the tools to look in your hardcopy manual or simply go to the sony suppprt site, click manuals etc, enter model number, click operating instructions, up pops the pdf and you enter "temperature" into the pdf search and you get:


http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-documents.pl?mdl=KDL46XBR6&LOC=3
http://www.docs.sony.com/release/KDL40XBR6.pdf


TVbc
Because manuals are about covering the arse of the manufacturer, not about telling the truth to consumers. Using an LCD when it's 4ºC isn't going to damage it.

I am the only one that says - who cares; it's an LCD ;)

Liquid crystal material freezes at -40C.
LCDs can work to -20C at all times "if" they are turned on above 0C.
It is the backlight that is the problem. Fluorescent tubes do not like to be turned on at freezing so if it below 0C (32F) do not attempt to turn on the set because the backlight life will be cut dramatically.