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  • Assuming it was a fairly new television and not several years old: no. All televisions are consumer electronics. All products can fail in normal use, because the manufacturing processes cannot make them perfect. A certain percentage will always fail short of their expected life. If you are lucky, they will break down while still under warranty. The warranty period is often a reflection of the quality of the product: a six-month warranty provides no support apart from components that are immediately defective, while a 20-year warranty implies a quality product that is well-supported by the manufacturer (yes, one company that I know of sells audio equipment with a 20-year warranty). The television could have failed for any number of reasons. The pixels don't all suddenly fail when they wear out. Instead, you see a gradual deterioration of the image, as enough individual pixels fail to affect the appearance. Colour shifts are also experienced. Your failure is more likely to have been caused by a problem in the power supply to the plasma screen. When there is a total failure of that nature, it usually means the problem lies in some part of the uit that supplies power to the subassembly or controls it in some fashion. A picture tube could loose its seal, causing a total failure, but a plasma screen has a seal for each plasma element. This makes a total failure unlikely, unless the entire screen has come apart.

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