Yeh, so, hmmm, well (and other such placeholding stalls), dead TV, out of warranty, bought a new one with decent specs-to-price appeal. Remote sucks. Manual sucks dead bunnies (and is ONLY available online, either through the TV itself–a stupidly clumsy implementation–or via third party pdf downloads). Setup sucks worse. STILL only seven channels available, and no digital channels at all. It’s even worse than that. DEMANDS network access before it’ll do ANYTHING (I’ll fix that at the router; just lock it out there). And how many firmware updates will it require? Who knows? Two so far, but says three more. *sigh* Almost want to return it just for the setup headaches.
"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
Yep, that sounds like stupid tec(nical engineers ). I am glad mine wasn’t as big a problem.
Yeh, especially since the manual offered a setup procedure using options NOT AVAILABLE ON THE TV. *sigh* “Customer Service Representatives” (all four–two non-Standard English speakers, two American English speakers) ALL advised setup procedures straight out of the manual telling me to use options NOT AVAILABLE on the TV. Each of them repeatedly telling me to do other things I then did, up to four times each, even as I reported failures each time I did what they suggested.
Finally, by ignoring the manual and all their instructions, I kludged a semi-usable TV. Picture not as good as on the previous TV (same brand), but since I don’t watch it, and it’s acceptable to my Wonder Woman and shipping the thing back for a return is a serious hassle, I’m stuck seeing the thing until it dies. Oh, well. It could have been worse. This is only in my lifetime top five poor purchases. *heh* (And that is pretty much what I said when I reviewed it.)
Moving on.