Tried a search on this and got nothing so please forgive me if this issue has been posed and answered.

About a month or so ago the screen on my 7000 seems to flicker a bit, not always just sometimes. It is not an on/off but more of a bright/dim manifestation. I can't place exactly when this started to happen but I can state it did not happen before I changed the battery and downloaded the latest System/Edit updates.

Any ideas on what causes this and how this can be resolved?

This is the first I've heard of this. First off, presuming that you reflashed the firmware, go into 'Setup' and play with the backlight settings. It sounds like either you have a backlight about to go out or the new battery you put in (don't know where you got it), may be surging power a bit at times. I highly doubt the "surge" problem so I'd think you might want to get the remote looked at.

Peter D, any comments? This one is news to me.

Lyndel,

I did go into the setup screen shortly after I wrote the post and increased the brightness from only the first bar to the second bar as an experiment. Since that time I've seen no flicker but I'll keep you posted.

Bought my battery from Eric Remy - a super High-Capacity. That was last October (now that I've checked) and the problem started only a few months ago so its probably not the battery.

If the flicker starts again I'll reflash the firmware.

Thanks for the ideas.

I have experienced flicker at the lowest "one bar" level where the CCFL backlight is illuminated, and wrote to Philips, don't have anything saved, though. The bottom line was what you are doing - moved up to "two bars" and that was that. Just tried the lowest level, and it seems to work, but perhaps room temperature is a factor; it's going towards spring here and it's warmer. Philip's response was, if I recall, was nothing more than turn it up a notch, which led to questions of battery life, does the stepped down brightness save any power, to which there were no responses.

This had nothing to do with firmware, software or anywhere. It's likely the same bad luck that has permanently dimmed the EL hardbutton backlight, I hope the CCFL behind the LCD panel stays bright!

Bill Halvorsen

Bill,

Thanks for your reply. I feel a lot better now. I guess few operate on just one bar of brightness or more people would have noticed, also it is intermittant and possibly related to temperature or other invironmental conditions because my flickering occurred but rarely.

By the way, I've been on two bars of brightness for over two days and still no flicker!