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In Reply to: RE: "Are Samsungs considered unreliable?" posted by Harmonia on July 21, 2008 at 12:43:57

I've sold several Sam Sung products in the past three years, and all of them have performed flawlessly except for one rear projection set which had the light control PCB replaced under factory warranty. I've had no issues with the plasma sets, nor with the blue Ray machines.

IIRC, Sam Sung also is the major subcontractor for Sony and builds all their LCD sets. So any reflection of their workmanship should be reflected on Sony products which admittedly have suffered more failures than ever before, again in my experience. The higher Sony failure rate was evident long before Sony inked the deal with Sam Sung , though. Their 60 inch plasmas, when available, seem to suffer repeated failures on a timely basis.

As usual YMMV.

Stu

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MM has varied. - Harmonia 13:40:40 07/21/08 (1)
Or rather, my friend Greg's mileage. Very bad luck with his 2 Sammy DLP RPs and his current Samsung BR player. The line appears to offer good bang for the buck but I'd be nervous based on his experiences. I like to plug 'em in and forget 'em.

I haven't bought a recent Sony product but I liked the looks of their latest XBR LCDs, at least for an LCD.

Oddly, I have a Phillips HDTV, a company which I think most people think has a terrible reliability record. But other than some UI quirks, this has been a good, issue free display.
- I have to reiterate this post again.... - kootenay 15:24:36 07/21/08 (0)
  As I owned a Samsung BRP with the updated firmware in place I can�t be happier with its performance as it�s much better against my PS 3 (which was my reference for over a year or so) in every aspect of video and sound quality again with all the firmware upgrades in place.
  
  I�ve read most of the blogs in the �net about the Samsung blu-ray player's shortcoming and issues but so far I haven�t experience them with this model the BD-UP5000 could be that the one I bought is a lemon.
  
  If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
  (Proverb)

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