So it's official, my 34XBR910's tube is defective and in need of replacement. So the warrranty company is sending me a check to do as I wish- over $1300 in repairs was mentioned, possibly more. That doesn't factor in the 2 attempted repairs already.

Anyway, they are going to let me keep the old SONY, and give me the money. I'm going to use those funds to get a new TV in the next few months, but would like to be able to watch HD or a DVD on the SONY before that. I need help in adjusting the bad adjustment.

The TV works, PQ is still very good - watching standard cable in 4:3, but there are color blobs growing in 2 of the corners (reds are green, blues are purple) when watching 16:9, and the service tech set my picutue up with an overscan issue, and waves in the horizontal and a keystone effect to the vertical.... So much for service.... I must say the overall colors are better now, but that doesn't fix the tube going or the other poor settings....

So I've got nothing to loose as far as going into the service menus and trying to tweak the best picture I can until I unload the Sony and replace it with something else.

I've never done any service menu stuff, so I would need a bunch of help. What I would like to do is restore the horizontal and get rid of the keystone effect. A bonus would be to minimize the color blobs. Any and all help would be appreciated.

Where should I start? Where can I find the default factory values?
What else should I be thinking before I "go in"?

Thanks in advance.

Tony

Anyone?


Beuler?

I dont get it...you're asking how to calibrate the defective tube???

I wouldn't go so far as to say calibrate. I just want lines to look straight. I want the underscan through the DVI to go away.

I am trying to make a bad situation better by messing with it so that it displays the best it can with the flaw. The flaw being a small color blob forming in the lower left corner of the screen, that is only really evident when a solid color is sitting static in that location. Then there is a color shift - similar to a magnetic field would create (I've removed any magnetic material that could be the cause).

The tube was declared defective by a tech who was called in after it had been serviced by a bad service center twice. The first attempt, the TV was returned - as it was later described to me, it had lost its memory capability, so all the settings were gone, and the color blob had grown and sprouted a friend in the upper right corner that would also appear to discolor the picture. It was then taken back and "repaired" and adjusted to factory specifications - or so they said. It was better than the 1st time it came back, but it wasn't right. Blob still noticiable, and now wave in horizontal and keystone in vertical had grown more than the 1st poor job.

I complained to the warranty co about it and they sent the 2nd guy over (3rd attempt) from a new provider. He looked at it for about 2 minutes, and I said that I wasn't happy with the blob in the corner and the overall adjustments. He said he could get it aligned alright, but the blob wouldn't go away completely. That a new tube was needed with a yoke and other parts to get the blob(s) to go away.

So I have a TV that looks fine to my wife 99% of the time. It looks fine to me as long as we are watching SD content. When we watch 16:9, I will tend to be drawn to the spot I know there's a problem and watch that spot. Ignoring the deep blacks, accurate colors, and otherwise clear picture. So, as someone who purchased at $2200 TV to get a good picture, it's not right. To the masses, it's probably fine, if I can get the lines to be straight I could sell it easier, even with full disclosure of the flaw, if it didn't look bad to the purchaser.

To the masses, it's probably fine, if I can get the lines to be straight I could sell it easier, even with full disclosure of the flaw, if it didn't look bad to the purchaser.


Ahhhhhaaaaaa...there you go. You want quick and easy help in patching up a busted TV to unload it. Ummm...no.

Ahhhhhaaaaaa...there you go. You want quick and easy help in patching up a busted TV to unload it. Ummm...no.


That's 1/2 of it... I want to watch it until we get something new. So I would benefit from the adjustments, it's not really about the money. I'm thinking I would sell the TV for $200-300, a fair price for the SD quality without it being adjusted. A great deal if I could minimize the blobs and get the geometry correct.