When I turn on the tv, the screen is light blue in color with white horizontal lines, after a few seconds it shuts off!

Could you also tell me the average life expectancy of tv these days. and which you think are the most reliable inexpensive ones. Thank You very much!

joanismyname@verizon.net, June 2006

Strange. I am having an almost identical problem with the exception that my screen is beige with blue lines.

mermadak, May 2008