Let me help you guys not repeat my mistake

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

Thread is kinda OT now

Oh come on, this is as close to staying OT as we get and you know that

Curtes Mathes was the TV (thanks google)

 

[bad @SS chevy 10+ year member]

Ok, this post to help you guys decide on which TV NOT to buy. If anyone else has contradictory feelings, feel free to post. This is my OPINION and my OPINION only but i will back up my feelings will facts.
Well just about 11 months ago, i bought a new tv. Mitsubishi 1080p DLP 57732. Anyways, the picture is awesome, tv is awesome, plenty of great features and all the extras like media card slots so you can plug your camera memory stick right into the tv and show the pics on screen. Well in October, i blew the first bulb...i talked to some folks and turns out the airflow was restricted by dust causing the bulb to blow...egg on my face right? I sucked it up, bought a new bulb...Mitsu..wants 260 bucks....but mine was under warrenty. So i install said bulb and it always smelled like something is burning inside ... slight smell. So today, after the TV was turned off all day, my son presses power and "POP" no picture. I take everything apart and voila, bulb popped. I look around and find the bulb from a electronics place in indiana for $120.

So after only about 300 hours of play on the bulb, i decide to do some research. I run across a site where people are organizing a class action suit against Mits for all kinds of problems with the DLP sets. They are citing experienced TV repairpeople as saying that they have a serious design flaw with the ventilation for the bulbs and Mitsubishi themselves have even admitted to at least 10 incidents where the tv actually caught fire and 2 reports where the back of the tv actually exploded. I am personally in contact now with the law firm who is organizing the suit. They have documented experience with successful suits against Panasonic and toshiba in similar cases.

I love the TV...its absolutely amazing, when it works. But with the inherent risk of fire hazard and just the cost factor to replace parts alone, i can no longer endorse Mitsubishi DLP TV's. I am going to purchase a new Samsung LED DLP 1080p set very soon. I'm going to proceed with the bulb replacement and then try to sell the TV locally. With that being said, make your own mind up, but for me its buyer beware on Mitsubishi's

I have the same mitsubishi, but i have a 55.

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

That reminds me of the "gimmick" slogan one company, had "the most expensive TV in America, but darn well worth it. The name of the company escapes me, but they bragged about having the longets warranty.
All they were doing was building the price of an extended warranty into the price of the tv.

Hey marketing has worked for Bose... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

I remember when I was little we used to have a Mitsu Console TV IIRC.

No remote, you had to change the channels with the buttons on the front.

We replaced it with a Sony XBR Rear Projection Big Screen. I remember the PQ was the shit. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[Fear Of Theive 10+ year member]

Hey how much? Locally //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

i should be able to cop around a grand for it

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

i think google is cool

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

Hey marketing has worked for Bose... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif
I remember when I was little we used to have a Mitsu Console TV IIRC.

No remote, you had to change the channels with the buttons on the front.

We replaced it with a Sony XBR Rear Projection Big Screen. I remember the PQ was the shit. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif Not to one up you, but I remeber when you had to turn a dial to turn the channels (13 in number). In fact, I can remember pissing my dad off because we kids stripped the dial and we had to use a little set of pliers.

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

i think google is cool

google is indeed the shit. At one time we needed our grandparents to pass down the lessons of their lifetimes. Not anymore. Google > grandma.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Mmmm...pliers...around TV's...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

CRT's are the only thing that scare me more from a working around-HV standpoint more than tube amps //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif Not to one up you, but I remeber when you had to turn a dial to turn the channels (13 in number). In fact, I can remember pissing my dad off because we kids stripped the dial and we had to use a little set of pliers.

We never had a dial one, but my grand parents did... We used to steal the knob.

What pissed my dad off was when my brother or I would **** with the color controls... Which we did regularly, I thought it was neat to turn a knob under a spring loaded cover and make everyone look like an alien...

 

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif Not to one up you, but I remeber when you had to turn a dial to turn the channels (13 in number). In fact, I can remember pissing my dad off because we kids stripped the dial and we had to use a little set of pliers.

lmao....been there.....there was a switch on ours too UHF/VHF etc

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Mmmm...pliers...around TV's...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
CRT's are the only thing that scare me more from a working around-HV standpoint more than tube amps //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

Tube CRT scare me more than Transistor CRT's...

My grandpa used to fix/sell TV's in the 50's so he had a few laying around. I got bit once or twice. Not fun...

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

What, you don't like 25kV flyback arcs? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

I don't like it when air stops being the poor conductor it usually is...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

I have not thought about this stuff in forever -- funny stuff.

You know there used to be some type of "film" that you would put on the screen to convert a TV from black and white to color. I never had one, bought I recal hearing about it.

 

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

fukk....i'm going to bed and gonna wallow in my misery.