Incredible. Here I am, feeling like such a jackass after wondering for so long what the problem was... unplugging this and that, trying this, trying that... then I find this webpage and it hits me like a brick wall. So, a neighbor gave me this TV for free, she didn't need it and hadn't used it for a few years or so. I already had a Sony Trinitron, but smaller, and this one was bigger so I decided to put it to use. It was good for like a month, and then one day the video stopped but the sound kept going, and after another 3 or 4 seconds, the whole unit just shut down. I turned it back on... it was fine for a few minutes and then the same thing happened. After that, it wouldn't work, so I disconnected it and hooked up my old TV. A friend of mine suggested that maybe we accidentally had it set to go into rest-mode, on a timer or something. Maybe my daughter had done it, I thought. Now, another couple of weeks later I hooked up the big one again, the KV-27V40. It worked fine... for a couple of days! Suddenly, after maybe 5 hours of use, it went dead again and wouldn't come back on at all. I finally noticed a red light flashing 4 times, again and again... it was the TIMER light! That lends credence to what my friend said, but it won't come back on!!! Mine was manufactured in November 1998, exactly 10 years old. Happy friggin' Birthday, Sony. Out to the dump you go. I ain't spending $150 to fix this one, and my next one won't be a SONY if they won't own up to this problem.

Reply