Sony KDFE50A10 50" LCD Rear Projection Television
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List Price: $2,499.99
Features
• 50-inch rear-projection LCD TV; measures 46.6 x 32.6 x 16.1 inches (WxHxD)
• Built-in HD/Digital tuner (ATSC), 181-channel tuner (NTSC); Digital Cable ready
• Front A/V input for easily hooking up a DVD player or video game console
• Inputs: 3 composite, 3 component, 1 S-Video, 1 RF, 1 HDMI
• Two stereo speakers, 12 watts apiece (24 watts total) |
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Sony KDFE50A10 50" LCD Rear Projection Television Customer Reviews
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Great TV while it lasted (Get a warranty)
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After months of research, I bought this this TV in Oct 2005 and we got addicted within 2 days and wondered about how did we survive on our 27 inch:
- Great picture
- Good colors
- Good black
- Great HD experience when hooked with HD feed from cable (using HDMI)
- Sufficient number of other inputs to hook up my DVD player, VCR etc.
Life was beautiful until April 2007. After working flawlessly for 1.5 years, the TV suddenly started displaying multicolored vertical lines all across. I logged a service request with the brick and mortar store's service department right away and started researching and here is what I found:
- Lot of people have problems with these Sony TVs (KDF series, Grand Wega series et al) generally 8 months to 2 years of operation:
(a) Roadmap problem - the screen will have some roadmap image in some particular color
(b) Multi colored vertical lines
(c) others
- General consensus was that this is caused by the "optical engine unit" or "light engine unit" being faulty. This is supposedly an expensive piece of hardware and Sony is replacing this component till Oct 2007 on select models. I'd recommend that you research if you TV falls within this program.
- Folks very often waited months before their TVs were fixed or replaced or were still looking for resolutions (i.e. even when they had warranty).
- Folks got high dollar estimates to fix this issue
- Surprisingly, Sony has not issued a recall.
My recommendations:
1) Buy this TV ONLY IF you are buying warranty
2) If something happens to your TV, be prepared to wait for 2/3 months before it is fixed
3) If something should happen to your TV, be aggressive in following-up. I ended up calling the store manager and then customer service chief at corporate level before THEY agreed to replace my TV (of course it is a floor model and is not new)
4) If you are looking for TVs, go for 720p models which have 1080i up-convert capability. No need to go for 1080p (you'd probably have to pay for a "HD Tier" to get 1080p programming). This way you can get 50inch 720p plasma for upto $2500.
Disclaimer: The delays related to receiving warranty service are rather common to all retailers and you WILL be without TV for at least 4 - 8 weeks. Be prepared. |
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