If you're worried about Big Brother Nathan, stay clear of LG...
Personally I love both my Sony TVs and am dissatisfied with both my
Samsungs.
Jez
On 13 April 2014 12:03, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That sucks. We bought a 60" Sony XBR2 rear-projection TV about 6 years
> ago. At the time, had one of the best images available. Only thing is
> that it has a design flaw in the video block that prevents proper cooling
> of the blue LCOS chip, and it will eventually fail. There was a
> class-action suit and Sony reluctantly agreed to replace the faulty block -
> unfortunately for us, ours held on much longer than everyone else's. I
> thought we somehow lucked out, but the ours failed late last year. Sadly,
> the deadline for free replacement ended about 3 years ago, and now it would
> cost about $1500 to replace the block. And the design flaw is still there,
> so the chip would eventually fail again.
>
> We're replacing it with a 70" Vizio in a month or so. I've got a bad
> taste in my mouth for Sony products now.
>
>
> Paul Braun
> Certified Music Junkie
>
> "It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever." -- David St. Hubbins
>
> "Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life" - Berthold Auerbach
>
> > On Apr 13, 2014, at 4:44, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I have never owned a Sony camera, and now I know for sure that I never
> will.
> >
> > We just bought a 65-inch Sony Bravia TV, one of the latest models, not
> cheap to put it mildly. Great picture, but we have struggling for 2 days
> with the simple task (or should be simple) to connect a garden variety
> laptop to the TV using its wifi interface so that the TV in effect acts as
> a computer monitor, but without the clutter of HDMI cables and all that.
> The menus and instructions for Sony products were apparently originally
> written in Klingon, then translated into Japanese and then to English. And
> it appears that unless your computer is a Sony Vaio, you have to perform
> various unnatural acts. Everything Sony seems to be proprietary.
> >
> > I think the TV is going back to the store (fortunately, we bought
> locally), to be replace by a Samsung or LG.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nathan
> >
> > Nathan Wajsman
> > Alicante, Spain
> > http://www.frozenlight.eu
> > http://www.greatpix.eu
> > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
> >
> > YNWA
> >
> >
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