you lost the quality coffee from Delonghi with beans ....maintenance after 4year of min 8 coffee at day is good diy
China put a lot of pressure on panel makers with higher opex - LG display refocused on oleds as they can`t compete with China.
Sony should be next - while their TVs seem somewhat on the better end, support is the biggest disaster I`ve ever come across.
Sony should be next - while their TVs seem somewhat on the better end, support is the biggest disaster I`ve ever come across.
Sony buys panels from outside, the high end ones use Samsung panels made at their former joint venture in Japan, now owned by Samsung.
Lower end TVs use generic Chinese panels, and blob ICs, direct on PCB under a blob of black goop. One spike in supply, and bye bye.
So they have a reputation for good sound, and you are lucky of they last...not reputed here, especially for second buys.
Lower end TVs use generic Chinese panels, and blob ICs, direct on PCB under a blob of black goop. One spike in supply, and bye bye.
So they have a reputation for good sound, and you are lucky of they last...not reputed here, especially for second buys.
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I have a 46" Bravia from 2009 that still works perfectly - I found it in the garbage three years ago. 😀 The other half uses it as a computer monitor.
That has a good panel from their joint venture...TV made in Japan.
And you don't have spikes like we do.
And you don't have spikes like we do.
My dad had a trinitron from 1987 that worked every day until he replaced it like 8 years ago.
The convergence was horrible but it still worked.
And no, we don't really get spikes here.
The convergence was horrible but it still worked.
And no, we don't really get spikes here.
Will have to look it up...
If it is a low or medium model not made in Japan, and sold outside North America / Western Europe, then yes generic China with a Sony sticker.
If it is a low or medium model not made in Japan, and sold outside North America / Western Europe, then yes generic China with a Sony sticker.
Too late by a long shot
Samsung were powering forward with the flat screen monitor market and selling them in the millions back when I was still packing and labelling Dell Computers, that came with a Samsung LCD...so maybe 2010 or earlier.
At the same time we were still selling Sony Trinitron's 21" CRTs...
My uncle has an awesome Cona/Kona coffer percolator.
No filters, no grounds, just coffee.
But it's resembles a still more than anything
I read that those OLED screens don't have the same longevity as LCD/LED screens.
Apparently, the "organic" stuff in them has a short lifespan.
When I was a kid in the 1960s our first colour TV was a Panasonic. It had all the usual multipath, shadows, snow, mosquito races, etc of analog OTA without a proper antenna, but the first time I saw Star Trek in colour... (I think my parents felt the same way about Bonanza).
Ya, I heard that as well, but apparently the latest ones are much longer lasting (at least the phosphor), especially if you buy a high end set.
I still wish they developed SED. Surface-conduction electron-emitter display - Wikipedia
Quantum dot is pretty cool Quantum dot display - Wikipedia
Most of the benefits of OLED regarding colour, but they also last longer supposedly...
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I don't know exactly how heat pumps got in here, but the air-source minisplit heat pumps are all the rage here in Canada and saving people a lot of money. Most people here heat their homes with oil fired furnaces which heat water that is pumped through radiators. Some heat with direct-heat electric baseboards. Heat pumps beat both of those hands down for efficiency. Heat pumps sold in Canada are designed for low ambient temperatures and are good to at least -15C, more likely -25C (though of course less efficient at those temperatures).
I am in the process of installing solar panels and will be adding a second heat pump and an electric (or hybrid) water heater as well, and I look forward to the day I can have our oil tank hauled away.
I am in the process of installing solar panels and will be adding a second heat pump and an electric (or hybrid) water heater as well, and I look forward to the day I can have our oil tank hauled away.
When my dad had our house built (he'll never do that again, we moved in in 1982 or 1983), he got a massive rebate from Ontario Hydro to install a 200A service and use an electric forced air heating system. It was by far the most comfortable heat I've ever experienced but imagine running that today in Ontario? It would cost a fortune!
I have A/C running right now to lower the temperature from 30°C to 24´C in here today... Two weeks ago I has a 750W electric heater running here and there.
Meanwhile, my dad's current house is heated with gas and cooled with a single stage 25 year old central air system. Today, his house was 18.5°C - He only heats the place to 17°C.
I heat and cool to comfortable temperature... With the 24 hours computer, television, and tube audio system running, I only need the heat on cloudy days and late at night.
The fact the electric is included in my rent is such a nice thing 😀
Also, I liked the older Panasonic Viera sets. I'm just not a giant fan of Panasonic. That said, my Inverter grill microwave is still going like the day I got it 10 years later 🙂
I have A/C running right now to lower the temperature from 30°C to 24´C in here today... Two weeks ago I has a 750W electric heater running here and there.
Meanwhile, my dad's current house is heated with gas and cooled with a single stage 25 year old central air system. Today, his house was 18.5°C - He only heats the place to 17°C.
I heat and cool to comfortable temperature... With the 24 hours computer, television, and tube audio system running, I only need the heat on cloudy days and late at night.
The fact the electric is included in my rent is such a nice thing 😀
Also, I liked the older Panasonic Viera sets. I'm just not a giant fan of Panasonic. That said, my Inverter grill microwave is still going like the day I got it 10 years later 🙂
OLED are in fact phosphor based so they can fatigue and burn in just as the old CRT's can. But the picture is fantastic.
I got a 55 inch a80j. The 90 series might have been a hair better, but not for another grand. The LG was also nice, but too many stores have dropped them due to their poor reliability and LG being impossible to deal with. Good old GoldStar. Change the name but not the company. Anyway, do note, there is only one glass factory, that is LG. So Sony glass is actually LG. The Panasonic OLED was even more expensive. Can't imagine how they could sell them, so I guess getting out is smart.
Just don't buy the matching Sony U4K player. They overheat and pause or hang. Search and you find a long history. Mine did. The BB lady admitted they get a lot of them back. I put out the bucks and got the Panasonic player. Expensive, but it works.
I think my Sister still uses our parents Sunbeam toaster.
I got a 55 inch a80j. The 90 series might have been a hair better, but not for another grand. The LG was also nice, but too many stores have dropped them due to their poor reliability and LG being impossible to deal with. Good old GoldStar. Change the name but not the company. Anyway, do note, there is only one glass factory, that is LG. So Sony glass is actually LG. The Panasonic OLED was even more expensive. Can't imagine how they could sell them, so I guess getting out is smart.
Just don't buy the matching Sony U4K player. They overheat and pause or hang. Search and you find a long history. Mine did. The BB lady admitted they get a lot of them back. I put out the bucks and got the Panasonic player. Expensive, but it works.
I think my Sister still uses our parents Sunbeam toaster.
All well and good, but if you worked in my shop for decades and saw the quality among brands, the serviceability, the reliability, and compared, you'd be as excited towards Panasonic as I am.
I always checked the "manufacture date" on the sets that came in, that sold me on Panasonic too.
That's why I strongly lean towards that brand.
I like to buy something once, and have it last a long time, not having to replace it after a couple of years.
Nice!
I still have a 1969 Sunbeam "Mix Master" stand-type mixer on a kitchen shelf that runs like a champ today.
It outlasted those expensive fancy newer Kitchenaid machines!
