Red light flashing 4 times on tv

diystarter7

SONY - BRAVIA KDL55W905 Smart 3D 55" LED TV
Bought in 2013, light use in bedroom. Yesterday after an hour went to flash as above. We did resets etc would not work.
This morning left unplugged i switched off after about 4 hours of working.
i then turned on and won't work

Connected to sky/neflix etc.
The tv screen works for set up, home pics/apps etc but no tv ie can't watch tv picture.

The red light under the tv flashes four times over about 3/4 seconds then goes blank for 3/4 seconds.

Its fixed on a wall and trying to get new brackets up/etc and it was a flagship tv cost I think 24/2500 quid plus extended warranty, soundbar etc - so to get similar spec
will cost a lot plus the time/effort of brackets/costs

Please help

Thanks

DullGreyGuy

Prices for TVs depend very much on where in the annual cycle you buy them... top tier 55" TVs like the LG C2 were about £2,000 on launch are £1,300 now and will drop a little lower when the C3 gets announced in January at CES. Overall prices have come down too as my older LG C OLED was circa £2,400 at launch and about £1,900 when I bought it but current model now £1,300 as above.

Have you followed the Sony troubleshooter? Seems to just suggest unplugging everything for 5 minutes but worth doing anyway.

Its a 9 year old TV, you could have someone out to look at it but may question if its economical to do so.

Neil_Jones

As a general rule something's packed up in the TV, typically power.

WhatHiFi suggests that TV would have been brand new in 2013 with a price tag of 2400, as it was a 3D TV.

Well 3D is dead in the water so that puts paid to that particular technology.

The brackets are almost certainly VESA standard - that TV is a 300x300 VESA. size.  Any decent bracket would handle any VESA sizings I'd have thought.

sevenhills

Is a nine year old TV worth repairing?
If you think it's worth a try, take it off the wall and take it to the repair shop.
Getting them out to look at it will just add £100 to the repair bill.

diystarter7

DullGreyGuy said:

Prices for TVs depend very much on where in the annual cycle you buy them... top tier 55" TVs like the LG C2 were about £2,000 on launch are £1,300 now and will drop a little lower when the C3 gets announced in January at CES. Overall prices have come down too as my older LG C OLED was circa £2,400 at launch and about £1,900 when I bought it but current model now £1,300 as above.

Have you followed the Sony troubleshooter? Seems to just suggest unplugging everything for 5 minutes but worth doing anyway.

Its a 9 year old TV, you could have someone out to look at it but may question if its economical to do so.

Thanks I did and you have a point re "economical" as I rang around they are talking 200 to 300 if its the motherboard.
Shopping around on the net and looking at tvs as not really looked since we bought this, I was pleasantly surprised by the chepenss of 65 inch 4k ulta tv's from what i saw we could get a decent one for 11 to 1600 and put the 65 inch in the living room and move the old 60 inch to bedroom - thans

ps, they've stopped making 60 inch tv's

diystarter7

Neil_Jones said:

As a general rule something's packed up in the TV, typically power.

WhatHiFi suggests that TV would have been brand new in 2013 with a price tag of 2400, as it was a 3D TV.

Well 3D is dead in the water so that puts paid to that particular technology.

The brackets are almost certainly VESA standard - that TV is a 300x300 VESA. size.  Any decent bracket would handle any VESA sizings I'd have thought.

Yep, 3D indeed it was and I think 3/4 pairs of really smart 3d glasses, not used even once. But the picture quality was A1 sound was crap as we previously had a flagship Sony rear projection 40/44 inchers but sound blew the roof off the house so we got sony sound bars

thanks re wall brackets I will keep that in mind

diystarter7

sevenhills said:

Is a nine year old TV worth repairing?
If you think it's worth a try, take it off the wall and take it to the repair shop.
Getting them out to look at it will just add £100 to the repair bill.

True - and as above post of mine ie looking at prices, and the quality, should easily get one between 11-1600.

may wait for sales but i dont like the suspense
PS - john lewsi does a free 5 yr warranty, something that may come into the equation when buying new tv

Thanks all.

flaneurs_lobster

diystarter7 said:

may wait for sales but i dont like the suspense
PS - john lewsi does a free 5 yr warranty, something that may come into the equation when buying new tv

Richer Sounds also have a 5 year warranty on TVs. 

diystarter7

Many thanks to all.
I gave away the old tv as it still worked for hours the 4 red lights. Gave it to a local shop that fixes computers/tv's etc and he felt with was the motherboard and would cost me about 250/280 but i did not want to take the risk (it was a 55 ich flagship tv) The tv guy omment the tv looked new as not a mark on it and we even had the unsed stand, 3D glasses and remote had been used once to set the tv up - I'm pleased that someone else will get pleasue out of it

The above tv cost us about 2400 about 9 years ago plus  a 150/200 for the 4 year warranty.

Budget for new tv was a realistic 1200 but we made the mistake of going to Currys last week to look at Sony LED 65 inchers.
Mrs Diy liked the look of OLED tv's but we both agreed that we did not want to spend more than 1400 on a tv.
Got back home and chatted. Liked with everything else we buy we went over our set, redline budget and bought
77 Sony OLED

As posted about here about Richer sounds and when we spoke to one of our children they had used them in the past we bought from them and really happy with the price/service etc. I made sure the 6 year warranty that the 5 years was with the manufacturer.

We've had the tv since Wed and yet to hang it on the wall but the picture quality is great and we use a sound system as not tv, flat screen can match the sound of the sound system we have.

Thanks all.

Neil_Jones

See, for £300 you can get an entire new telly.  Smaller, yes, but new all the same.

That's the way things are these days, its cheaper to replace than to repair.