LCD's - Panasonic vs Samsung

"Owain" wrote in message
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David wrote:
I think Samsung might make CRT/ Screens for other makers.

They do, but (according to the demo person on QVC the other night) Samsung
keep the best quality panels for their own-branded products.


lol - i can imagine samsung throwing all the lcds that fail QA into a pile
for sony or panasonic to buy - and those companies happily purchasing them!



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On Tue, 29 May 2007 22:25:46 +0100, "the dog from that film you saw"
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"Owain" wrote in message
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David wrote:
I think Samsung might make CRT/ Screens for other makers.

They do, but (according to the demo person on QVC the other night) Samsung
keep the best quality panels for their own-branded products.


lol - i can imagine samsung throwing all the lcds that fail QA into a pile
for sony or panasonic to buy - and those companies happily purchasing them!


I wouldn't be surprised if they sold them to Vestel.

I know many years ago Plessey sold reject 2 watt audio amplifier chips
to Sinclair who resold them as 5 watt amplifiers with a mark up of
around 2000% knowing that probably half would be returned as 'unfit
for the purpose of'.

Graham C

In message , Owain
wrote
David wrote:
I think Samsung might make CRT/ Screens for other makers.

They do, but (according to the demo person on QVC the other night)
Samsung keep the best quality panels for their own-branded products.


Yep, the QVC salesman is your friend and he is doing you a favour by
selling to you

From what I've seen most of the presenters are well outside of their
comfort zone when talking about anything technical and their guests
often talk b******t about rubbish they are selling.

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Alan
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Better still, go to a good , independant TV dealer who will know about
the sets he or she sells, who will demonstrate them properly and
install them to give their very best. Yes, you may pay a bit more but
you will get a much better deal overall and they will be there for you
if you have a problem. The only reason that the big stores exist is
that people go to them thinking that they are getting a good deal. You
only have to look at the comments on the forums to see that they don't
know what they are selling and the sales children have little or no
knowledge of installation, setting up or real performance.

Whilst on the subject, beware, some of the highest profit making items
on sale in the big stores are the add-ons. Scart leads, wall brackets
and switch boxes.

Last week I was asked to fit a 23" LCD TV flat on the wall. The
customer had bought the set at Currys and the salesperson had sold her
two very high-priced gold plated, thick scart leads to connect her
Tescos DVD player and Alba VCR and also a £110 wall bracket saying it
was the right one for the job.
We used a £9.99 flat-to-the-wall bracket and 2 good quality flat
screened scart leads for £6 each. (Her Sky box already had a scart
lead.)
The total job, including TV sale, from us including lnstallation
labour and setting up would have been considerably less than she was
going to pay altogether AND we would have sold her a model of TV which
could have been controlled with the Sky remote handset. The one she
had been sold could not although she had told them that she had Sky.

This is a LG/Philips LCD

http://uk.aldi.com/sunday_special_bu...pid_54092.html

3 year guarantee

On May 29, 8:07 pm, Dominic wrote:
Paul Martin wrote:
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diy-newby wrote:

"Icky Thwacket" wrote in message
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angle, and the best yet colour rendition I have seen for a LCD.

Go along to your local Comet/Currys etc and have a look. Compare the
Panasonic and Samsung offerings and then make up your mind.

Thanks for the reply. Only thing with Comet/Curry's etc, the source of the
picture is always crap. Why can't they get some nice quality feeds to the
tv's?

If you ask, I'm sure they'll happily connect a DVD to one of the sets
to demonstrate it. I've had them do that in the past. I brought along a
DVD of test patterns that I'd made myself.

I asked them that once. No, they couldn't, because everything was
*chained down*! With chains. The sales person thought it was
stupid too. YMMV!

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"Graham C" wrote in message
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I know many years ago Plessey sold reject 2 watt audio amplifier chips
to Sinclair who resold them as 5 watt amplifiers with a mark up of
around 2000% knowing that probably half would be returned as 'unfit
for the purpose of'.

I think I remember that, or was it all a dream?
Top brands wouldn't really do a thing like that...would they?

Roger R

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Roger R wrote:

"Graham C" wrote in message
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I know many years ago Plessey sold reject 2 watt audio amplifier chips
to Sinclair who resold them as 5 watt amplifiers with a mark up of
around 2000% knowing that probably half would be returned as 'unfit
for the purpose of'.

I think I remember that, or was it all a dream?
Top brands wouldn't really do a thing like that...would they?


I always understood that the 5W Sinclair amp/chip was made for them by
Texas Instruments who refused to put their name on them. I don't think
"unfit for purpose" existed at the time of Sinclair.

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"Roger R" wrote in message .

I think I remember that, or was it all a dream?
Top brands wouldn't really do a thing like that...would they?


An electronics firm near me run out of a compoment, due to rejecting many of
them, so in order to full the order used the rejected ones.


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David

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Better still, go to a good , independant TV dealer who will know about
the sets he or she sells, who will demonstrate them properly and
install them to give their very best......
[snip]
.......The total job, including TV sale, from us......

An completely objective opinion then.

(I'm inclined to agree though)

Roger R

An completely objective opinion then.

(I'm inclined to agree though)

Roger R

I am biased, obviously, but I see it all the time and quite
interestingly, people seem to enjoy telling me how badly they have
been treated by the big stores. I cant really understand this one. I
think I would tend to keep quiet about it if I had been to one of
them, received less than perfect advice or service and still bought
from them.