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Magnavox MX2790B101 Flickers when screen is bright

18 years ago

My Philips Mag. model#MX2790B101 chassis 27Z500-7563 flickers really fast whenever the screen is bright on the TV. It is almost as if it is going out, but it doesn't go out. It is getting impossible to watch when it does this. Can you help me? Any suggestions? Does anyone else have this problem?

synjyn in OH

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pee_wee
18 years ago
It may help to lower the brightness slightly.

pw
synjyn
Original Author
18 years ago
Thanks, but we have tried that and it still does it. It only stops when it is so dark that you can't see the picture at all.
I did think to lower the brightness you know! I'm not an idiot. I wouldn't have written a question if I hadn't tried other things first.
I suppose the rapid flickering is normal too and I'm not supposed to see the picture while it's flickering right? I know you are trying to help, but... your response was an insult. I'll find another forum where I am not treated like a moron.
Thanks for nothing Pee Wee.
synjyn in Ohio
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Don_
18 years ago
synjyn, it is people like you that have chased away from this forum the most knowledgeable of people. PeeWee has helped more people here than you could possible know. Don't let your escape button hit you in the ass on your way.
synjyn
Original Author
17 years ago
Thanks for your support peewee and don. If peewee does help people on this forum well that is good, but don't insult me by telling me to do something that any normal person would do. He could have asked if I'd turned down the brightness, but he didn't. If it was just a case of turning down the brightness I wouldn't have come to this forum in the first place. It's always nice to hear from idiots like you, don. For your information I don't enjoy being treated like an idiot as the peewee did when he answered my question with his one lined response. I think you are the reason people are driven away from this forum. How many others have you men(I can only assume you to be one after all with a name like don...but then I am only an idiot after all) treated like morons and then accused them of being the case of some rift? I have found some other knowledgeable people who answered my questions about my TV without considering me to be an idiot. Don't let the keyboard come up to bite your arrogant ass. Oh wait, go ahead let it.

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