TV - Sony Wega Problem

[wooohooo]

I bought a 60' Sony WEGA about 5 years ago in 2004. Everything was fine until recently. I'm watching cable tv and all of a sudden the feed cuts off and I get a black screen with Video One on the top left. Then randomly (or so it seems) the TV feed will come back. Sometimes it cuts off longer than others.

I've checked all the loose connections, not sure what else there is.
Also, the TV is starting to get dim, so I'm going to replace the bulb but I don't see a correlation between the two.

[ken0042]

What happens if you put a piece of electrical tape over the remote sensor?

Does it go back when you toggle through the "video" modes? What about selecting the channel you were on?

[Ironhorse]

Is there a small child in the house, holding another Sony remote? That's happened to me before...

[wooohooo]

Yup, I've taped the sensors, put the remotes in another room. It doesn't switch around the videos. It just stays put on Video 1. But even when it works, everything is set on Video 1 but on the theatre box thing, we switch it to TV or DVD and what not and the video/audio changes along with it.

[Galakanokis]

Check the connection inside the TV. It will sometimes happen that the solder connections for the video input will crack or become loose on the PCB. If the connector feels like it wiggles more than it should that could be your culprit.

Or, is it heat related? The longer your TV is on the worse it gets?