Flm-3201 when i push power button, red light goes from red to blue....but no picture.....screen kind of flashes very faintly at about 3 second intervals

Hello,
the error light sequence that you are seeing is indicating a "backlight error". Most likely you have a bad inverter board -the board that powers up the back-lights behind the display panel. They might be available via ebay if you are a DIYer, or you need to call for sony service.
Good Luck!
Rich Lilja

FAULTY POWER SUPPLY OR INVERTER PANEL ON BACK OF SCREEN

AVERAGE REPAIR COST £60 TO £80+

This is an indication of a protective shutdown. During the startup process, a problem was detected and the unit shutdown to prevent further damage. There's not a lot to go one here. Some measurements need to be taken in side the unit to be sure. A common failure is the capacitors on the power supply board. Any local service shop should be able to get you a reasonably detailed repair estimate. Post the diagnosis here and we should be able to walk you through the actual repair.

Dan

You can download service manual here:
http://www.polaroidsupport.com/polaroid/en_us-sm.html
Look for bad capacitors, burnt parts in the power supply first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

Please post back what you find.

Replace swollen capacitors on power board.

Hello Trashman1000 and Guest,

I would first check to see if the inverter and or the back-light is bad. To check if the back-light and or the inverter is bad take the TV to a dark room turn it on and then with a flash light shine the light onto the screen and see if you can detect a faint picture, if you can this means that the back-light or the inverter has malfunctioned. If you can not detect a faint picture and you have no sound either I would suspect the power supply board.

I hope this helps,

Thank you,

Shuttle83

does anyone have the answer to this problem. it seems like alot of polaroid tv's are doing this. please if anyone knows how to fix the tv and get it to turn back on and not flash red to blue anymore, please let us know.

I would replace the control box assembly that is the most common issue with those TVs

this sound like panel or inverters that drive the lamps ( fluorescent lamps that are not replacable they are part of the panel).

If you have no power light at all on the front of your tv. Check the fuse by the power coard.

If you have a red light only and have the dark power board with black heat sinks. check the fuse in the center of the power board.

if the light turns blue when you hit the power button but no picture and have the dark power board replace the 2- 1000 mfd 10 volts caps with 2- 1000 mfd 16 volt caps at 105 deg.

need more help let me know