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One thing I have found which "helps" with this problem is keeping the vents to the case meticulously clean. I have been living with the problem most of the service life of now my third lamp. The lamps wear out faster because the only way to correct the "half screen" problem is to shut the set down. ...

I'm pretty clear on that issue. Board pricing... We have "given up" on this $2500 investment but are trying to limp along using it as a TV displaying standard definition source content which, for some reason, rarely triggers the problem. I suspect that it is in the programming approach used to imple...

FYI: I went so far as to post a complaint to the consumer watchdog agency of the federal government and got back a reply which indicated that they only did "class actions." I guess this means that they need a lot more complaints before they will do anything. The problem here is partly the typical pr...

No comments? Anyone else out there with the same issue?

One quick thing to try... get a can of compressed gas used for cleaning the inside of computer cases, open up your set and blow out the dust. Installing a new bulb often disturbs old dust and if a bit gets in the wrong place it can be the cause of symptoms like you descirbe. Do it now to avoid damag...

Too bad I didn't find this thread sooner. I've just installed my third lamp on an HLR5688W. I've been getting about 2 years to 16 months on lamps. The second lamp wore out faster than the first, in part due to a chronic and unfixable defect. The DMD board on my set is not available and has not been ...

I purchased this large pedestal "top of the line" DLP Set in 2006. Within a year and a half it began occasionally "going blank" on the right hand side of the screen when I used the TV Guide function and very occasionally when watching an HD commercial from a local station. The set is configured with...