Re: 3 year old 32 inch Sony TV died!???
- From: mm <NOPSAMmm2005@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:14:22 -0500
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:54:44 GMT, wlwallick <wl.wallick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>My son-in-law "had" a Sony 32 inch flat screen tv that he bought about
>3 years ago.
>
>Really great picture, etc.
>
>About a week ago it suddenly died - no picture - sound still works.
>
>He took it to a repair shop and their story is the grandkids killed it
>playing their Playstation on it. This is also a Sony product.
>
>Something about resolutions and stuff that the tv couldn't handle!!??
I don't remember what I've heard about computer monitors, and feeding
them the wrong signal. But there were warnings about burning the
things out. Did you ignore any warnings on either the TV or the
playstation. Get your manuals and r ead them again. If there were no
such warnings for either of them, I think they need to replace the tv
at no charge. If there were warnings but the warnings are hard/
impossible to understand, get back to us and we'll say if we think you
shoudl have understood them somehow, or if they were insufficient for
you to protect yourself.
If what the repairman says is true:
It would be reasonable: If it were impossible to protect a circuit
with a fuse that a high voltage input would ruin a circuit.
It seems to me that it is not reasonable to design something that can
be damaged by the wrong frequency being input.
I would bring this to the attention of Sony. Either their devices
were designed poorly, or the service man is not telling the truth.
The worse result for you would be that they would deny that their
playstation damaged the tv, and they would just say that they
repairman is right asbout the problem but wrong about the cause.
OTOH, they might admit that their design was defective. Get something
in writing from the repair man.
When FET meters first came out, and we're not talking about so much
money (20 or 40 dollars 25 years ago, for the lower priced ones, I
bought one from Lafayette Radio, (anyone remember them?) and it had an
OFF position on the multi-swtich, and it was OFF when I applied the
leads to some moderate voltage. Turned out that OFF was not off and
because the copper traces were poorly placed, one was connected where
it should never be connected in the OFF position, and the meter was
MORE vulnerable than in ANY of the ON positions. I thought it was
there fault and they should give me a new meter. And I believe they
did.
(They also sold me a tube tester, marked down, after I asked if they
would be able to provide me with the manual. (Each tube required
different settings for switches and different meter readings were
adequate. No way I could figure it out myself. It took 6 or 9
months, most of the time they never got back to me at all. They
didn't offer to refund my money and take the tester back, and I wanted
the manual more than the money. I think after about 9 months it came
in the mail.
Those are two reasons Laffayette is out of business.
>Want 5 to 6 hundred dollars to fix.
>
>In today's adds, the same tv can be had for $600 or less.
>
>No, he didn't have an extended warantee on it.
>
>Does all this sound on the up and up or what?
>
>WLW
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