Question posted by johnnyandanna on January 19th, 2013

Loss Of Signal, Black Margins Around Picture, And Shrunken Picture.

My picture is surrounded by a 3 inch black border. then picture shrinks. Frequent loss of signal.  When turned off and on again, problem resolves but then quickly returns.  This tv is a Hitachi and i 3 weeks old.  Customer service representative on phone refused to send out a service person, saying it was the tv.  This problem of shrinking pic and margins started this morning.

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