HELP!! Think new HDTV got zapped by lightning!

[Chris Shooter]

I have a Samsung TXN3075WHF 30" Widescreen HDTV and it's not even a month old. Tonight when I came home from work there was a pretty bad lightning storm going on. I was changing my clothes when a bolt of lightning hit something really close to the house. The power didn't go out or anything and it seemed like all electronics were still functioning. I have my HT equipment plugged into a surge protector strip, plugged into an APC Surge/Backup. Nothing was tripped. After the storm went away, I turned on the equipment and now notice in the upper right corner and lower left corner radiating outwards a couple inches of green or purple (changes colors depending on the video image). The rest of the picture looks fine. What the heck happened? HEEEEELLLLPPP!

[Clint DeBoer]

Turn the set on and off a couple of times and see if it goes away. Wait a couple of minutes between each power cycle.

[Chris Shooter]

I turned the TV back on this morning before work and the splotches are gone. Maybe the degauser took care of it? Something else I now notice... When a 4:3 image is displayed and it has the black bars on the right and left, well on the left side of the image it is slightly concave - or rather it bends inwards. The right side is fine. Does this make sense? Is there a setting to adjust that?