Last Friday, I tried to put in the Iron Man Blu Ray. The PS3 wouldn't display.
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David (aka David)
May 11 '10, 10:41
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We spent about an hour trying to troubleshoot it with Sony tech. Eventually, they asked if we could try it on another tv, so I dragged the lodestone into another room wherein it worked on the same brand of tv.
At this point, we realized it was the tv and spent another hour on the phone with LG trying to get it working. It turns out that we've had a set of four HDMI ports that had failed. Eventually, they resolved to send out a tech who arrived about 90 minutes ago. After busting open the tv, he proceeded to switch the circuit board on one side (HDTVs are basically just two circuit boards in a frame). At this point, the HDMI ports started working again.
What caused the problem? We had a lightning storm at 3:30 AM last week. It actually knocked out the local generator for our apartment complex and Wal-Mart/Sams Club. During this lightning strike, a surge so strong that it overwhelmed our surge protector *melted* the signal input for the HDMI ports. I looked at the piece while trying to reconcile how lucky we were that the apartment didn't catch fire and that nothing else was hurt. This is one of those times where I'm glad we didn't skimp on the surge protector, because it saved almost everything and the one thing that it didn't was still under warranty.
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