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Galaki on 12 October 2011

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Sony to recall 1.6 million Bravia TVs due to melting components (update: not a full recall)

By Sharif Sakr posted Oct 12th 2011 5:41AM
A vast number of Bravia LCD TVs dating from 2007 and 2008 will be recalled after components in some Japanese sets went into meltdown and started smoking. So far only eleven incidents have been reported and it looks like no one has been hurt or experienced any wider damage, but Sony says it wants to take back 1.6 million TVs that were sold in the US, Europe, Japan and elsewhere. No word on exactly which models are affected, but we're expecting further details from Sony imminently.

Update: Looks like this might not be a full recall after all. We can't access Sony's support site right now, but the BBC reports that UK owners of the following models can summon an engineer to inspect their set if they're worried: KDL-40D3400, KDL-40D3500, KDL-40D3550, KDL-40D3660, KDL-40V3000, KDL-40W3000, KDL-40X3000, KDL-40X3500.


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NiKKoM on 12 October 2011

You mean Sony products don't normally stop working after 3 years...



 

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Linkasf on 12 October 2011

Well mine smells like it gets heated up quite fast. I wonder if mine will melt down? If so I will never buy a Sony product again.



Ajescent on 12 October 2011
NiKKoM said:

You mean Sony products don't normally stop working after 3 years...

ou burn!



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Mordred11 on 12 October 2011
Linkasf said:
Well mine smells like it gets heated up quite fast. I wonder if mine will melt down? If so I will never buy a Sony product again.

I hate people that have this way of thinking...Don't you think that you're exaggerating?Maybe you'll never buy a Sony Bravia TV ever again,but stopping to buy Sony products altogether seems pretty silly,if you ask me.



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PullusPardus on 12 October 2011

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badgenome on 12 October 2011
NiKKoM said:

You mean Sony products don't normally stop working after 3 years...

No. They normally stop working before 3 years.



Linkasf on 12 October 2011
Mordred11 said:
Linkasf said:
Well mine smells like it gets heated up quite fast. I wonder if mine will melt down? If so I will never buy a Sony product again.

I hate people that have this way of thinking...Don't you think that you're exaggerating?Maybe you'll never buy a Sony Bravia TV ever again,but stopping to buy Sony products altogether seems pretty silly,if you ask me.

Do you seriously think that I have only owned a SOny TV? I also had a radio, it broke. 3 PSones... they broke (now I've got 2 other ones thanks to finding em at America). If this TV breaks, I'll look elsewhere...

I stop buying from certain companies when they show that they are losing quality. Nokia is a huge example of this and I have stopped buying their phones now. Much better phones out there that are not Nokia. When a company starts putting out products that can't last when they are supposed to (come on TVs should last for at least a decade just like the old ones I've had in my house), I will look somewhere else.



TT Makaveli on 12 October 2011
Linkasf said:
Mordred11 said:
Linkasf said:
Well mine smells like it gets heated up quite fast. I wonder if mine will melt down? If so I will never buy a Sony product again.

I hate people that have this way of thinking...Don't you think that you're exaggerating?Maybe you'll never buy a Sony Bravia TV ever again,but stopping to buy Sony products altogether seems pretty silly,if you ask me.

Do you seriously think that I have only owned a SOny TV? I also had a radio, it broke. 3 PSones... they broke (now I've got 2 other ones thanks to finding em at America). If this TV breaks, I'll look elsewhere...

I stop buying from certain companies when they show that they are losing quality. Nokia is a huge example of this and I have stopped buying their phones now. Much better phones out there that are not Nokia. When a company starts putting out products that can't last when they are supposed to (come on TVs should last for at least a decade just like the old ones I've had in my house), I will look somewhere else.

3 Psones? man thats bad...i know alooot of people who had the PS1...the original and the small one and none of them broke...and some of them treated their PSones like shit...i also have/had Sony mobile phones,PS1,2 & 3 and a TV and the only think that happened was YLOD on the PS3...some of us got luck some of us dont i guess ^^



Linkasf on 13 October 2011
TT Makaveli said:
Linkasf said:
Mordred11 said:
Linkasf said:
Well mine smells like it gets heated up quite fast. I wonder if mine will melt down? If so I will never buy a Sony product again.

I hate people that have this way of thinking...Don't you think that you're exaggerating?Maybe you'll never buy a Sony Bravia TV ever again,but stopping to buy Sony products altogether seems pretty silly,if you ask me.

Do you seriously think that I have only owned a SOny TV? I also had a radio, it broke. 3 PSones... they broke (now I've got 2 other ones thanks to finding em at America). If this TV breaks, I'll look elsewhere...

I stop buying from certain companies when they show that they are losing quality. Nokia is a huge example of this and I have stopped buying their phones now. Much better phones out there that are not Nokia. When a company starts putting out products that can't last when they are supposed to (come on TVs should last for at least a decade just like the old ones I've had in my house), I will look somewhere else.

3 Psones? man thats bad...i know alooot of people who had the PS1...the original and the small one and none of them broke...and some of them treated their PSones like shit...i also have/had Sony mobile phones,PS1,2 & 3 and a TV and the only think that happened was YLOD on the PS3...some of us got luck some of us dont i guess ^^

I have to admit though, I gave one of those 3 PSones to a friend for about a year and when I saw it, it was ripped to pieces literally. Obviously I got pissed but whatever most of the games that I had on there got lost in a storage room and I can't find em. Lucky me I found a few games that I really like (GT2, TM4, Nascar 2000, Test Drive Off Road 3). Wish I knew where my Crash bandicoot games went... Loved em to death back in the day!