Comments on: Television Repair

By: Pam

Pam — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:40:52 +0000

I came across this site while looking for Phillips manufacturer phone number. WOW I had no idea. We received our Phillips (32PP663 R37A) as an service award gift from my husbands company in October 2003. Just recently decided not to turn on. We’ve had it in the shop, paid over $200 to fix it and within 2 weeks started doing the same thing– would not turn on. The shop kept it for over 2 weeks and decided to refund all but our the initial $35 service charge they couldn’t get it to turn on. My husband wanted to try to see if someone else could fix it but after reading this I’m sure he will change his mind. Well I guess we should be grateful it lasted almost 4 years and only cost 30 years of service. At least we know we won’t replace it with a Phillips. Thanks for all the great information.

By: john

john — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:14:01 +0000

i have a 32PS60 – ok, so it’s 5yrs old, from the sounds of this group – i’m lucky it lasted this long, but i did expect more. i have an rca and zenith that have been around 15+ yrs.

any how… it started not turning on or coming only very slowly. i had to turn it on / off 5 – 10 times before it would “catch” and finally turn on.

now, nothing at all. except, when ever it’s plugged in, it sounds like a cricket… chirp chirp chirp.

By: bill

bill — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:55:12 +0000

I too am having trouble with a model 27pt6441/37.
It has a filp in the screen at the top, the top two inches of the picture bends under and is upside down and covers the next two inches of the picture. I called the service dept. their big idea was to unplug the tv to see if it would reset. it did not work, big surprise. They then told me about 50 times that it was out of warrinty and I would have to pay to have it fixed, also a big surprise. They then provided me with the address of their service center,…. in another state.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:43:53 +0000

I have a magnavox 32MF231D-37 for 1 year the warranty ran out three weeks ago, and the tv shut off last Monday night. My husband and I will neve purchase another Magnavox product again and will gladly participate in a class action suit if our problem is not resolved. I feel for all of you as well, who were raped by this manufacturer and their get rich quick scheme.

By: Richie A

Richie A — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:19:53 +0000

becareful to remove all the screws i forgot to remove the screws to the componet connections and snapped the circuit board. i tried to sauder it as best i could but i could only fix the s-video. it turns on though. I need the componnent plugs so ill have to buy a new tv anyway

By: John

John — Thu, 31 May 2007 02:34:19 +0000

I acquired a (well, OK took it out of a dumpster at a storage unit facility thinking someone didn’t pay their bill or skipped out and the owner dumped all the stuff iin the dumpster) 32RF52 S327 thinking Wow, what a find!! Figured though when I got it home to my shop it wouldn’t work but surprise, I plugged it in and it worked for about 4 hours. Beautiful picture. So in the house it came. Watched it for a couple days then yep, I find myself a member of the club, works for a while, shuts itself off, unplug it for a while, plug it back in it works for a little while then nothing. Since it didn’t cost me anything I figured I’d take it in that surely it wouldn’t be tooo expensive. HA HA on me. Shop said it was the SSB board whatever that is and would cost close to $300 for repair. Saw the same thing on sale for brand new for $389. Told them I’ll pick it up after the holiday. Only charged me a diagnostic fee of $20 but hey I figured now that I know whats wrong with it I’ll order the part and put it in myself. Can’t find a friggin thing about what an SSB board is. Anybody?
Anyway brought it home, plugged it in my shop and had it on all day, maybe 7 hours when it finally shut itself down. Being somewhat a tinkerer and used to work on older TV’s I just had to tear into it. What I have found out is the thermistor intermittemly gets extremely hot then the tv shuts down. So, I cool it down by blowing on it, turn it back on and it stays on, thermistor not getting hot. It satys on. I shut it off and go inside still plugged in but shut off, thermistor cool to touch when I leave. I come back about an hour later, TV won’t turn on, I check the thermistor its hot hot hot. I blow on it to cool it down while pressing the on button when it eventually turns on again, thermistor warm but not hot so I believe I will try replacing thermistor and see what happens. I’m already into it for $20 so why not? I don’t have any other expensive hobbies. Wish me luck.

By: keshX

keshX — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:06:51 +0000

Thanks one and all for the great information abt the fuse issue in Philips #27PT6441/37.

Philips sucks and I am not going to buy it ever again. I will also demotivate other from doin so.

Any way….. After opening the TV, I saw the old fuse from the TV. It had a thin wire in it. I was expecting the wire to be fused but the thin wire was still there in the glass fuse. I assumed that my TV had different issue. BUt when I compared the old fuse with the new fuse(Radioshack 4Amp 250V slow blow) I learnt the difference. The new fuse had a small thick lump in the center of the thin wire inside the fuse. Where as in my old fuse it dint. So i conculded that the fuse had blown off. I just replace the old fuse with the new one and my TV started in jiffy.
Thanks once again Every once.

Philips sucks!!!

By: Kammy

Kammy — Fri, 18 May 2007 08:37:05 +0000

Imagine a resort with 1300 of the commercial version: model 27ST6210/27. Yep, each weighing in at 116 backbusting pounds.

When one of these suffers the sudden death in a guest room it has to be manhandled to a service area where the “Product Modification” is performed.

I’ve seen instances where expressing discontent and disappointment to Philips has granted an extension on warranty. The thermistor and fuse replacement is needed because of the design flaw where one was under-rated.

About 400 have died to this point in time. History repeats itself.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 07 May 2007 22:32:20 +0000

I have the Phillips 32rf82 5327 and it died yesterday. I have the two flashes of the Red LED on front. I turn it on and it stays on for a minute and then shuts off – got progressively worse. Someone said they would try to order a transistor kit to see if this fixed the issue. Anyone have any suggestions? I’ve had this TV for abour 4 years and weighs a freakin ton.

By: M Kara

M Kara — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:05:31 +0000

Glad to have come across this blog – we bought a Philips 42″ LCD TV (42PF76521D) from COSTCO six months ago. Two days ago, it would not switch on and gives 8 red blink, stops and does the same again. We were going to get it repaired but after reading this blog, we decided to return it (still under warranty). Whilst in Costco, there was exactly the same Philips 42″ LCD TV being returned with a label attached to it (would not switch on).