Collective Soul

It has been quite a while that my 6 months old Hitachi Plasma TV giving me some problem. Initially it could not detect my S-Video input signal but after the service technician came and did something, it seem ok.

Now I am facing another problem, this time is the screen goes black by itself and sometimes just refuse to turn on even though all the plug and cable is well secured intact. It leave me quite frustrated as sometimes I really do want to watch some dvds, it just turn off by itself during the critical moment … very frustrating lol.

Anyhow, I’ve managed to get the service technician here again to check what is wrong with it. I certainly won’t tolerate with the quality anymore as Hitachi is one of the world leading plasma tv manufacturer, I doubt they are having such a low quality component. The technician came to my place at 9:00pm (good service that he tried to accomodate to my time) and brought along a box of item. Not sure what is it, I just started to explain all the problem that I am facing but he just look calm. He took the set off the mounting and started to dismantle the whole set.

It’s the chipset, he said. He suspected that the chipset was faulty and he will replace a new one while I can live with it unless it comes back again. It seem to be good idea as he mention that this is actually his first time hearing the device behave in such manner. Anyway, within just 30 minutes plus minus, the replacement is done. Tested ok and delivered.