I got my Hitachi F510 about 2 weeks ago. And I plugged it in to my DVD player and started watching movies after a lil color tweaking and convergence fiddling.
Image was absolutely outstanding! Couldn't have been happier. Into about the third or fourth day of viewing...(still under 10hrs of usage) while watching a DVD, the image suddenly disappeared. The power light stayed on...no image.
I tried to play around...nothing worked. Remote didn't function, not even buttons on the tv. No menus showed up. Only the power button worked, but nothing happened. Still a brand new TV. I even turned down brightness/contrast..30/35 respectively. No abusing...nothing.
Called up Hitachi, repairman came within 3 days, took a look at it for about 15 minutes and deemed he couldn't repair it there. He opened the back and took out the whole unit, put it in his van and drove off to the repair shop. Picked it up on a Friday, and was going to call Monday to tell me how it would take to fix. He eventually called Tuesday, and said they still haven't located the exact problem, although it was based on some chip/transformer in power supply. He sed they'll run test throughout the night on it.
*sigh* GRRRR...now i have to wait to finish my movies!!! lol
Brand new TV, under 10h usage. I am suspecting a power surge, but I am not totally sure if that was the case.
So the question I ask are, how do CRT RPTVs stand up to power surges? Hitachi in particular (since i bought the Hitachi over the Panny due to Hitachi's good reliability/quality record). Is it a good idea to get a surge protector? I don't have one yet to protect the TV.
Thanks in advance for your replies!
Image was absolutely outstanding! Couldn't have been happier. Into about the third or fourth day of viewing...(still under 10hrs of usage) while watching a DVD, the image suddenly disappeared. The power light stayed on...no image.
I tried to play around...nothing worked. Remote didn't function, not even buttons on the tv. No menus showed up. Only the power button worked, but nothing happened. Still a brand new TV. I even turned down brightness/contrast..30/35 respectively. No abusing...nothing.
Called up Hitachi, repairman came within 3 days, took a look at it for about 15 minutes and deemed he couldn't repair it there. He opened the back and took out the whole unit, put it in his van and drove off to the repair shop. Picked it up on a Friday, and was going to call Monday to tell me how it would take to fix. He eventually called Tuesday, and said they still haven't located the exact problem, although it was based on some chip/transformer in power supply. He sed they'll run test throughout the night on it.
*sigh* GRRRR...now i have to wait to finish my movies!!! lol
Brand new TV, under 10h usage. I am suspecting a power surge, but I am not totally sure if that was the case.
So the question I ask are, how do CRT RPTVs stand up to power surges? Hitachi in particular (since i bought the Hitachi over the Panny due to Hitachi's good reliability/quality record). Is it a good idea to get a surge protector? I don't have one yet to protect the TV.
Thanks in advance for your replies!