Run away screaming!
Written: Oct 27 '99
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Pros: Six months of use before it died
Cons: A waste of $1,400 and hours of time!
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| joem5770's Full Review: Sony KV-32XBR200 |
Buy a Vega and you are asking for trouble.
My set "went blank" after six months of occasional use. It took the Sony authorized repair people THREE MONTHS to get spare parts from the factory. Then they couldn't figure out what was wrong. I am in month 4 -- still with no working set.
Is my experience unique? Not according to the SONY authorized repair people I talked to. (Or epinions reviewers -- read Benha for example.) Reportedly, Sony is seeing a huge amount of screen failures on the VEGA. Also, they have spread the production of the boards around the world and as a result, no one takes ownership for the system integration details.
My interpretation -- and I have worked in hi-tech most of my career -- is that the technology is too new, hurriedly put together to exploit a consumer market that is chomping at the bit to get HDTV but can't get it. So Sony comes up with a flat screen gimmick -- unfortunately for consumers the product quality is crap.
Picture? Sound? Sure it's better than the $400 set I was going to buy. But $1,000 better -- no way! And the remote control is a FARCE -- unless you like rows and rows of small buttons with no clear functional clues.
By the way, epinions experts -- a challenge for YOU. Contact Sony and get them to give you their VEGA production quality stats. Ask them about the availability of spare parts. And, finally, don't be such suckers for Sony's marketing hype!
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