Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Stupid Sony SXRD bulb died.
Just my luck -- the DLP bulb in my Sony SXRD crapped out. The front light went red, indicating "lamp". It took a while to find the manual pdf online for my model, the KDSR60XBR1. Sure enough, the red light means the lamp is dead, see page 104 for replacement instructions. Basically, you can buy the bulb (XL-5100 replacement lamp from Philips) in the housing for $200 from this vendor, or the bulb without the housing for $140 from this vendor. Removing the old bulb from the housing takes about 15 minutes and can be done with a philips screwdriver and pliers as described in this blog.
This is the second major problem I've had with my SXRD, which is about 15 months old. The first problem was a colored pixel problem where the blue pixels failed in a nice C-shapped wave. This made everything look more yellow (white-blue=red+green=yellow). Fortunately, that was covered by Best Buy's warrantee, including in home repair. Best Buy won favor with me on that one, but I'm not thrilled with Sony for this TV. My other WEGA is an regular TV and it's been fine. I remember growing up we had the same Sony TV for what seemed like 15 years.
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