This is a widespread issue for early adopters of their plasma television sets, primarily the 2010 models.

It's unacceptable for a top of the line $2,500 television set to last for such a short period of time. No consumer would suggest that a $2,500 piece of electronics is expendable within two years.

This is a widespread issue that is affecting their customers each passing day.

For me, my model television set is PN58C8000, and about 6 months ago I began experiencing a pink/purple banding issue in which a large swatch and at times full band of pink/purple color was splashed across the screen. This is more prevalent on white background images.

At the time the issue started the television set was about 13 months old...or should I say new? This was also THE top of the line with respect for plasma television sets offered by Samsung in 2010.

I encourage anyone experiencing the same issue to state their model number.

Step up and do the right thing Samsung.
You know of this issue and it is VERY widespread.

EDIT - Samsung can no longer ignore this issue as a sevice bulletin was created to address this issue dated May 28, 2013.