Hi, I recently upgraded to a tw65x81 from the tw40x81, and had it ISF calibrated by a tech from San Antonio (Siegfriend at Bjorn's Audio & Video). He is the same guy who calibrated my 40", and both times it looked great. However, all of a sudden yesterday, I noticed that the tw65x81 started to exhibit artifacts. It's almost as if anything bright on the screen is ghosted off to the right side a bit, with little black horizontal lines stretched to the side. This is particularly glaring whenever a bright letter or number is on the screen, because you can see the left edge of the character ghosted onto the character itself, causing very noticeable shadows. This is also easy to see if the tv is in standard mode, with no input. The border between the black center and the right gray bar is ghosted onto the gray bar for about 1.5". This happens regardless of mode (standard, theaterwide, and full) and with any input source (cable, video 1-3, colorstream 1-2). Does anyone have any idea at all what might be causing this? I checked to make sure that SVM was still disabled (I'd disabled it before the calibration by unplugging the power connector from the mainboard), and that the screen was still on tight. Everything seems to be in order. I'd be grateful for any suggestions as to where I might start looking for the source of this. Thanks for any help in advance.

Erasmus,
Sorry, I can't help you there, my set
still is working fine (knock on wood!).
I just wanted to ask, what is SVM and what
advantage do you get when you disable it, and
how is it done, in case I wanna.
Thanks and hope you fix your telly!

Neitzl

Neitzl, you can find a lot more information that I know about SVM at the following website:
http://www.keohi.com/keohihdtv/usefulinfo/toshiba/svm_disable.html

Hope this helps you out.

To anyone who might be able to help, I took some pictures of what the artifacts look like on my tv - the entire screen looks like it's smeared to the right, evident by the black trails next to each letter on the screen and by the snow on the gray border. Thanks for any help any can give me!
<img src="http://www.io.com/gulfcoastjuniors/IMAGE001.jpg"


<img src="http://www.io.com/gulfcoastjuniors/IMAGE002.jpg"


<img src="http://www.io.com/gulfcoastjuniors/IMAGE005.jpg"