Re:Ask HN: What’s the best TV to buy?
by drewg123 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @01:52PM
(#29343880)
I had a horrible experience w/Samsung as well. I bought their highest end non-curved TV in 2015 for ~$3,000. It was delivered when I was away from home and my ex did not notice it had a glaring defect -- very bright corners. It turns out that they had switched out packaging, and the new packaging was pinching the corners of TVs in transit. Soon after I got mine, there was a whole thread on AVS Forums about it.
Samsung told me the TV was "in spec", which was absurd for a top of the line $3k TV. After I exhausted my options with Samsung, the local retailer grudgingly replaced it free of charge with a new one from a different shipping lot that did not have the issue.
Samsung's refusal to take responsibility for this issue has caused me to refuse to consider any Samsung consumer electronics or appliances, and I tell this story to anyone considering buying anything made by Samsung.
Re:Ask HN: What’s the best TV to buy?
by Spare_account on Thursday November 25, 2021 @01:47PM
(#29343843)
You got a full refund (minus small-print about sales tax) after ~1.5 years of ownership?
Re:Ask HN: What’s the best TV to buy?
by gordon_freeman on Thursday November 25, 2021 @01:55PM
(#29343901)
TVs are not supposed to break after just 1.5 years. That’s money lost for the owner even though it’s just a tax. My LG tv is still going strong after 10 years and I don’t want to replace TV until at least another 5 years.
They got the use of a TV for about 5% of the price / year. That'd be a crazy good leasing deal for consumer electronics.
Sitting in a 3rd world country, I am amazed at the service people in 1st world countries get and crib about.
I look into other TV brands and either they have very suspicious privacy practices (Roku and TCL) or they are made with items sourced in just one country (e.g., TCL and Hisense, which are both based in China).
That leaves me with either Sony (too pricey) or LG and LG seems like the most non-smart TV with sources all over the world (Vietnam and sometimes Mexico), as opposed to mostly from one country.