Signature Elite 141 Owners Thread - Page 103

Originally Posted by sk20

I'd describe it as a dark grey. Not black.

Originally Posted by ROMAN O

TO each is own to shop retail or online there are benefits for both. Price for sure online and easier return policy locally. The best place to check out a dealer's ratings is resellerratings dot com and that saves people allot of time and problems.

Originally Posted by madkaw

This one looks pretty good.

http://www.resellerratings.com/store...y_Technologies

Originally Posted by jacobp

When using Internet Explorer, the browser crashes when I enter the password. When using Safari (Mac) or Firefox (Mac), the browser does not crash, but the settings are not saved.

Originally Posted by stevec325

You can run ControlCAL on a Mac - I do. You just need Fusion or Parallels.

Originally Posted by Yog

and Windows

Originally Posted by 141Kuro9g4me

Hi everybody, this is my first post here and my very first post. I have been living with a PRO-1540HD for a little over a year and a half and other than arriving with about 200 to 300 bad pixels that required immediate service, it has been a trouble free panel.

Last Friday I took delivery of my PRO-141FD and got the panel switched out and hung around 4:00 Saturday morning. I watched the TV until about 1:00 that afternoon, left to go out of town, came back around 1:15 Sunday morning, turned it on and watched it until about 4:00 a.m. when by body finally gave out. I got up around 10:00 and turned on the panel and watched it until about 9:00 p.m. when it kicked off. There was no warning, no degradation of picture or anything. The panel just kicked off very unexpectedly. I noticed the stutus indicator light flashing and it was flashing 9 times with a short pause. When I tried to power up the TV it would not do anything at all. I unplugged it for a couple of minutes and plugged it back in and still nothing, just the red led flashing 9 times. At this point I decided to allow the panel to cool off completely for a few hours and see what would happen. This time when I hit the on button I would get the blue led for about 1 second or less and then it would click back to red and flash 2 times between pauses. I tried off and on that night and the next day, only to find the same exact problem with the same trouble code. I called the Pioneer service provider for my area and reported the issue yesterday morning. They indicated they had to check with Pioneer and they would get back with me later that afternoon. Here it is 3:00 in the afternoon and I have yet to hear anything back from the service provider.

Has anybody here experienced a problem like this, where the panel shut down and would not power back up? Has anybody here had any trouble codes with the 9 flashes or 2 flashes? Has anybody experienced a slow response time in the service providers to get back with you?

I find it hard to accept that after purchasing a $7000 Signature Series Elite, supposedly the creme de la creme of Pioneer's plasma lineup with hand selected panels and electronics that the unit would break down after less than 2 days of viewing and I am sitting here with a very expensive TV that I can't watch.

I welcome any thoughts, ideas, advice, input, or words of wisdom.

Thanks in advance!

Originally Posted by stevec325

Ummm... yea - there is that

ControlCAL is one of the few Windoze programs I use.

Originally Posted by D-Nice

The time it took you to post what happen to your 141FD in 2 different theads could have been used to contact your dealer and get a replacement

The specific issue with your panel requires and authorized dealer to open it up and replace parts. Since you got it 2 days ago, send it back to your dealer and get a new one. Its as easy as that

Originally Posted by 141Kuro9g4me

You must have more time than I do on your hands to check how many threads I posted to. It took me all of about 2 seconds to cut and paste after another member suggested that I go to the 141 thread. That would be the 141 thread that I was totally unfamiliar with since this is my first time here.

I'm sorry that I haven't had the time to rack up 10,000 posts like you have, and become adept at navigating this forum yet, like yourself. I'm sure you were new and just starting out once upon a time, and if you spent the money that I did and were experiencing what I am you would possibly Google the subject and try to figure something out while you were waiting to hear back from your service people. At least that is what I did and Google brought me to this forum.

As for sending it back to my dealer, considering how difficult it is to get your hands on these panels now that they are discontinued and the fact that I live in a very rural area in which I have no close dealer, this is not an option for me.

I was merely trying to find out if anyone else experienced this, and if so, how they handled it. My mission was to get some advice or guidance, not have someone scrutinize my post and keep an official count on how many threads I posted it to.

For the rest of the people that might actually care, I did finally speak to my not-very-local authorized Pioneer service provider, and they informed me that this condition is quite unusual on this model, that it is "one of the boards" but they don't know which one yet, as they are waiting for Pioneer tech support to call them back with details and information on how to tackle this issue. I was also told it would probably be late next week before they are able to come to start the service procedure.

I promise I will not attach this post on any other thread in this forum. I now know that the thread police are watching every move I make and I don't want to be in violation of "double posting" again!

Originally Posted by 141Kuro9g4me

.....Has anybody experienced a slow response time in the service providers to get back with you?

I find it hard to accept that after purchasing a $7000 Signature Series Elite, supposedly the creme de la creme of Pioneer's plasma lineup with hand selected panels and electronics that the unit would break down after less than 2 days of viewing and I am sitting here with a very expensive TV that I can't watch........

Originally Posted by 141Kuro9g4me

Last Friday I took delivery of my PRO-141FD and got the panel switched out and hung around 4:00 Saturday morning. I watched the TV until about 1:00 that afternoon, left to go out of town, came back around 1:15 Sunday morning, turned it on and watched it until about 4:00 a.m. when by body finally gave out. I got up around 10:00 and turned on the panel and watched it until about 9:00 p.m. when it kicked off. There was no warning, no degradation of picture or anything. The panel just kicked off very unexpectedly. I noticed the stutus indicator light flashing and it was flashing 9 times with a short pause. This time when I hit the on button I would get the blue led for about 1 second or less and then it would click back to red and flash 2 times between pauses. I tried off and on that night and the next day, only to find the same exact problem with the same trouble code.

I called the Pioneer service provider for my area and reported the issue yesterday morning. They indicated they had to check with Pioneer and they would get back with me later that afternoon. Here it is 3:00 in the afternoon and I have yet to hear anything back from the service provider.

Has anybody here experienced a problem like this, where the panel shut down and would not power back up? Has anybody here had any trouble codes with the 9 flashes or 2 flashes? Has anybody experienced a slow response time in the service providers to get back with you?

I find it hard to accept that after purchasing a $7000 Signature Series Elite, supposedly the creme de la creme of Pioneer's plasma lineup with hand selected panels and electronics that the unit would break down after less than 2 days of viewing and I am sitting here with a very expensive TV that I can't watch.

I welcome any thoughts, ideas, advice, input, or words of wisdom.

Thanks in advance!

Originally Posted by D-Nice

The specific issue with your panel requires and authorized dealer to open it up and replace parts. Since you got it 2 days ago, send it back to your dealer and get a new one. Its as easy as that

Originally Posted by 141Kuro9g4me

As for sending it back to my dealer, considering how difficult it is to get your hands on these panels now that they are discontinued and the fact that I live in a very rural area in which I have no close dealer, this is not an option for me.

I did finally speak to my not-very-local authorized Pioneer service provider, and they informed me that this condition is quite unusual on this model, that it is "one of the boards" but they don't know which one yet, as they are waiting for Pioneer tech support to call them back with details and information on how to tackle this issue. I was also told it would probably be late next week before they are able to come to start the service procedure.

Originally Posted by turbe

and I have a complete Mac / OS X development platform here too..

What is that ControlCAL Developer thinking anyways..?

Originally Posted by stevec325

Well, surely he is not thinking about releasing the I/P version... now is he???

Originally Posted by stevec325

You need to use ControlCAL with a special profile allowing access to the service menu.

Originally Posted by stevec325

You need to use ControlCAL with a special profile allowing access to the service menu.

Originally Posted by stevec325

Let's drag up another "oldie but goodie"...

Has anyone, using FIOS, been able to get their 141 to send them email?

I have been going round & round on this for a while, with no success. I have tried all different kinds of things, including Turbe's suggestion of using Free SMTP Server. None of it works.

If anyone has been able to make this work - please let me know. Of, if you want to follow along with the saga of trying to figure out WTF Verizon is/is not doing with port 25 - check out this thread over on DSLReports.com: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r224...ort-25-Blocked

I don't know which is more stupid, Pioneer's horrible implementation of this feature, or Verizon's handling of port 25. Both suck - which one is fixable?!?!?!?!

Originally Posted by stevec325

The new profiles are cool

Seems like a ControlCAL version of what you can do in the web interface, yes? It's late and I haven't looked very close, but I assume that these are toggled with the AV Selection and write them out per input.

What's up with the web screen shot "E Z Hours"?