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It was the temp sensor and now it works fine. But, I wish I had just tried it myself. $19.99!?! I paid a lot more than that for the sensor and maybe a total of 2 hours labor for diagnostics, remove and replace with new one. To be fair, this took two house calls. Oh well..... Another question -- we h...

Service guy came out -- we tried a new lamp which did not fix it. He checked the temp sensor and that looks to be the problem. He's got to put a new one in (on order) so we won't know for sure until it goes in. I'll report back (assuming it is the sensor) so you can add this outcome to your diagnost...

Fred, Can you tell me your lamp code? Your TV may have originally come with a 150W OSRAM bulb if it was a Costco model. Some costco models come with OSRAM lamps in order to keep production costs to a minimum. Unfortunately the OSRAM lamps last no longer than 12-16 months. It may just be a lamp issu...

Thanks. It may well be that the fan is intermittently not working. I don't remember hearing it running early last night when the TV would not come on and displayed the blinking temp sensor light. I'd be a bit surprised if it is the lamp -- the TV did start up again (like "magic" -- it's very weird) ...

I have Samsung DLP HLT5076SX. It is 18 months old. Over the last week, when we turn on the TV we get the chime and then the left (red lamp) of the 3 front LED's blinks, which in the manual means "Check the ventilation hole on the side...temperature too high...power will shut off." The screen is blan...