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Spot on. I'm currently arguing with a retailer over a Toshiba television which can't play mp4 files reliably. It crashed and hangs regularly. They want to send
by bananas 12y ago
Spot on. I'm currently arguing with a retailer over a Toshiba television which can't play mp4 files reliably. It crashed and hangs regularly.
They want to send it for repair because to be honest they are fucking morons and however much explaining I do they don't realise that the manufacturer doesn't support any kind of firmware update. I want my money back so am having to take them to small claims court in the UK to force a refund under the sale of goods act because the item is not fit for purpose.
Between this and a Bravia EX which is buggy as hell I'm tempted to just buy something that will run a Linux based media center with a PC TFT and say fuck it to consumer appliances.
- VLM 12y ago"consumer appliances." All converged appliances suck, and probably always will, and the consumers are figuring it out, which will be the doom of the "convergence" meme. Non-converged appliances usually work pretty well. My dumb TV displays whatever the HDMI flings at it, the separate optically connected surround sound system works beautifully, the computer hooked up to them just does its thing.
- bananas 12y agoSpot on. I agree. I really miss the old Trinitron that this Bravia replaced. I hung onto that unit for nearly a decade and it never skipped a beat.
- astrodust 12y agoWhy not something like the Chromecast widget? (http://www.google.com/intl/en-CA/chrome/devices/chromecast/ http://www.google.com/intl/en-CA/chrome/devices/chromecast/)
- bananas 12y agoI actually ordered one from Amazon yesterday so yes that's a reasonable solution however I'd prefer the devices to work as intended!