Sony must die!

[Asher]

In May 2001, we bought a new TV for the living room: a Sony WEGA XBR400 36". It cost us $3500CDN at the time.

It was HDTV capable, excellent picture quality, etc.

We thought it'd be good for many years, because Sony supposedly is of quite good quality for electronics.

Well, here we are now, June 29th, 2003, with an expensive, heavy (~250lbs) TV and a warranty that expired in May 2003.

And the display is ****ed. The top-left of the screen usually has an onscreen display thing that shows the current video mode (TV, DTV, DVD, etc) that's usually bright green in color. And now, it's blue but slowly fades into cyan near the bottom corner of the label.

I thought it may have just changed the setting somehow inadvertently, but I couldn't find any settings. And the menu itself on the TV looked different, I can't explain it really because I can't remember the old one, but the colors looked off.

So I tried booting up the Xbox to see if it was just the video connector on the digital cable box, but the Xbox also looked screwed up. The colors in the games were all noticably off, including some tie-die styled backgrounds that should be blueish...

Grrr!!

Are these things engineered to self-destruct after their warranty period?

[Paul Hanson]

That happened with my TV when I placed my speakers too close to it. You haven't put any devices that generate magnetic fields close to it, have you?

[Asher]

None at all, we've had the same setup unchanged since the week we bought it...

[Atahualpa]

maybe all your raging about apple created an EMP field so strong that it destroyed the tv

[Drake Tungsten]

Your X-box probably has a secret function that destroys any products made by Microsoft's rival Sony. Seems like something Billy and Co. would do.

[Asher]

Watch out Bob Hope, you've got some competition!!!!

[Drake Tungsten]

Bob Hope was the best comedian you could think of? You're a weird guy, Dave.

[Asher]

No, he's one of the worst. Why do you think I chose him?

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Asher
No, he's one of the worst. Why do you think I chose him?

[Asher]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Your X-box probably has a secret function that destroys any products made by Microsoft's rival Sony. Seems like something Billy and Co. would do.

Actually, I take that back. This can be quite funny!

[Paul Hanson]

Please don't tell me you sat there and recorded yourself saying that.

[Asher]

No, I used a stock clip from the internet...

[Kramerman]

i was taught that many companies do statistical analysis on their products, to see when the breakdown point for most of em are, and then set the warranty expiration date to shortly before that. Statistically, they know they will have to fork out for some products that are extraneous and break down early, but most break down after that point. And of course they go thru all this trouble to begin with because i product that has a waranty of somekind is initially much more attarctive to the layman than a competing product that doesnt have a warranty.

[Drake Tungsten]

No, he's one of the worst. Why do you think I chose him?

He's done pretty well for a "bad" comedian. Most performers would love being revered as a national treasure.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
He's done pretty well for a "bad" comedian. Most performers would love being revered as a national treasure.

Replace "treasure" with "turd" and you've got yourself a winner.

If Bob Hope is a funny comedian, perhaps this is by American comedic standards.