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Old 02-23-2009, 06:16 AM   #1
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Thanks Janet, that is good to know, i love the pictures of the plasma tv's. i will do a comparison when i go back on bestbuys.. i have to order all of Micahs stuff today for his birthday party...
Well I didn't want to contradict anyone, but I thought...who better to ask than someone who works on them. Plus the added fact that he doesn't work for a company...he works for himself repairing TV's. So I just wanted to share what he told me. I'm hoping he can come today and then I will ask him some other questions....like what brand does he work on less than any others.
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Old 02-23-2009, 06:26 AM   #2
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Well I didn't want to contradict anyone, but I thought...who better to ask than someone who works on them. Plus the added fact that he doesn't work for a company...he works for himself repairing TV's. So I just wanted to share what he told me. I'm hoping he can come today and then I will ask him some other questions....like what brand does he work on less than any others.
Oh ask him lots of questions.. thank you !!
ask him what digital ready tv's are? and why some of them aren't digital ready?
I know whem plasma's first came out they didn't last that long, but like you said they must of improved on the life span... i just love the pictures on plasma tv's.. so nice !!!!!
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Old 02-23-2009, 06:27 AM   #3
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He still hasn't called yet, but I will ask him your question.
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He still hasn't called yet, but I will ask him your question.
Thank you Janet, i just don't understand why tv's today aren't digital cable ready... i just don't understand this high tech crap!!!! I told Mike how many times to look at these tv's and decide what he wants to get. oh well.. his 1/2 of the tax refund is whatever he wants to do with it,, my 1/2 is going in my safe... just in case we need it....
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Sorry Haley...forgot to ask about the digital ready part, but he did say that Samsung and Panasonic are the best...fewer repairs.

We paid $1457.00 for our TV 2 years ago. It's going to cost a little over $500 to fix it, IF we decide to fix it. He said that some of the TV's (ours included) need fans in the back to keep them cool otherwise they will over heat one of the computer boards and they will go out. Said it could happen again. He also said it would probably help if we had a fan blowing at the back of the TV and I asked if he was serious and he said "yes."

Sorry I didn't get the digital question answered, but I was so much in shock over how much it will cost to fix this TV that everything else went out of my brain. I told my husband it may be better to toss this one and buy a smaller one for the same amount it would cost to fix this one.

I did call Toshiba and tell them I was really disappointed in their product and asked if they could give me a discount on the computer board (serviceman said some companies will) , but Toshiba said no. I told them where they could go and hung up. I'd like to take the TV and the jerk I talked to out back and blow them both up. I hate it when a company won't stand behind their products.
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Old 02-23-2009, 11:18 AM   #6
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Janet that is what i have in my living room right now is a Toshiba, and its garbage its only not even 5 years old and the color is going in it.. i am going to try and get it fixed when we get our new tv, and put that one in the basement for us to watch, never in the basement but Mike goes down there alot... i can't believe there not even giving you a discount, i'll never buy that product again..
As for the $500.00 with tv prices so low, you minds well get a new one, i would..
do you have a circuit city around you? the tv's right now are all 30% off..
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I'm with you that I will not buy another one of their products...Toshiba or h.h. gregg. They do not stay behind the products they make or sell. I don't like the idea of paying that much to fix this one when it will probably happen again. Not sure what my husband wants to do, but I'm leaving it up to him. We have three other TV's in this house so don't know why we even need another one. He'll have to come up with the money out of his 'stash' because the household fund doesn't have it.
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