mylastnameisgunter wrote:we got one a year and a half ago from Woot.... It broke within 90 days and Phillips paid to fix it...it worked another 4 mos and then..kaput. Phillips would not replace or fix it again.

Buying a TV that is likely to break within the first year is not a good buy.

Thanks, I will not buy.

If your skerrrrrrred of Phillips there is always Walmart: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Element-ELDFW322/15105546?findingMethod=rr&ssm=0&sspt=1

pricecheckaisle5 wrote:Perhaps it reads like a Harlequin, but sounds like Uncle Ben?

For all one knows, I could have text-to-speech going. So, no correction needed! :P Thanks anyway.


Incidentally, anyone who wants an arguably better deal can head here
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thanks. I'm a 21 year old college kid who works summers at walmart. My %10 discount will work with this.

jacvoyt wrote:I've done work for Philips installing TVs in hotels. My advice is simple...STAY AWAY from Philips TVs. They have HORRIBLE firmware issues. The company completely doesn't care about their products. Many of these tvs ship with a power saving feature set by default, and it's very buggy causing the TVs to take 2 minutes to turn on and start displaying channels. This can be improved on if you turn off this option but good luck figuring it out.

Seriously, stay away from Philips TVs. Literally, get anyone else.

Also, I think they just lost a major contract with a big hotel chain so you may want to short the stock...just saying...

I could not agree with this more. I purchased a Philips TV new, and of course, like this poster says, it died. A quick search on the web showed that my problem was a MAJOR problem for my particular Philips TV, and I was just another lucky owner. It was 3 months past warranty, so tough luck for me. Their customer service sucked, they refused to do anything even though it was a well-known issue, and basically gave me the middle finger of their corporate hand.

I will NEVER buy another Philips product, and I feel obligated to tell as many folks as I can to stay away from their products. I wouldn't buy ANYTHING from them, based on their QC, their customer service, and their complete lack of concern for their customers. If this TV was 5 bucks, I would pass.

Their business model seems to be to build products to last just long enough to make it beyond the warranty date, hope the product dies, and enjoy watching their customers scramble to try to get Philips to fix it.

I loathe Philips. You should too.

zer07777 wrote:thanks. I'm a 21 year old college kid who works summers at walmart. My %10 discount will work with this.

You're welcome!
Thank you for making my point!
Someone's gotta look out for our youth! People! They're not made of money like you disposable income types.

Why, if my man Obama were in office, he'd spread the wealth. Just you wait and see!

Announcement: OMGOMGOMGOMG poooony
I'm the cat that wants a $1000 tv for free! ;)
(But that's not gonna happen)

Lol buffoon

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mdnorman wrote:I find it annoying when people refer to information as "sounding" like something, when there was nothing to be heard. It's just a pet peeve of mine.

pe·dan·tic
[puh-dan-tik]
–adjective
1. ostentatious in one's learning.
2. overly concerned with minute details or formalisms

rkossik wrote:pe·dan·tic
[puh-dan-tik]
–adjective
1. ostentatious in one's learning.
2. overly concerned with minute details or formalisms

I could kiss you.

lol only joshin'

But I'm going to take this as a "back up"
Backing up, her daddy taught her good

And all us wooters learned a new word for the day! Kudos to @rkossik and a special woot high five!

I quit buying Philips products over 5 years ago after having 3 different Philips pieces of equipment quit working within a year.

As God is my witness, I WILL NEVER BUY A PHILIPS BRAND PRODUCT AGAIN.

(And highly recommend nobody else does either.)

jacvoyt wrote:I've done work for Philips installing TVs in hotels. My advice is simple...STAY AWAY from Philips TVs. They have HORRIBLE firmware issues. The company completely doesn't care about their products. Many of these tvs ship with a power saving feature set by default, and it's very buggy causing the TVs to take 2 minutes to turn on and start displaying channels. This can be improved on if you turn off this option but good luck figuring it out.

Seriously, stay away from Philips TVs. Literally, get anyone else.

Also, I think they just lost a major contract with a big hotel chain so you may want to short the stock...just saying...

my 1st LCD that i purchased back when they came out was a philips. It lasted no longer than 18 months and was going to cost around $400 to repair it for a 37". I started looking around (on google) and the issue that i was having turns out to be a very common issue with that particular model. Needless to say, I havent bought a philips brand since that whole fiasco. I considered this tv until i saw it was a philips just b/c im looking for a small tv to throw in the spare bedroom and want something cheap b/c it wont be used but once a month..

pricecheckaisle5 wrote:

Incidentally, anyone who wants an arguably better deal can head here
Freshly squeezed, for your enjoyment

Ugh - but then you have to give $ to WALMART.

madkatya wrote:Ugh - but then you have to give $ to WALMART.

You could always steal it!

But I don't advocate that.

You hear me, Clipper Chip? I say no to shoplifting.

Price check, aisle 5!

A Previous Woot!

Don't do it!!! I bought this last time. First one was stuck on a white screen when not HD. Second one was the same problem, but a green screen. Third one finally worked...it wasn't worth the trouble to keep calling Philips, giving a credit card for a hold, worrying when they'd leave a box showing it was a tv on my steps when I was at work, then taking the old ones to ship back. Avoid this deal.

No QAM tuner. USELESS!

Got this last time it was on Woot. It's an OK TV, but I wish I'd held out for the Visio. The one feature it lacks is a "favorites" selector. On the plus side, when I hooked it up in the bedroom with no cable box, just a cable line into the back, I now get some weird new channels and true HD of all of the big network channels.

hoosac wrote:How is this shipping? Does anyone know? Not SmartPost I hope? Please God, not by SmartPost. . .

I thought UPS ground was standard? That's how I got my notebook computer...

jacvoyt wrote:I've done work for Philips installing TVs in hotels. My advice is simple...STAY AWAY from Philips TVs. They have HORRIBLE firmware issues. The company completely doesn't care about their products. Many of these tvs ship with a power saving feature set by default, and it's very buggy causing the TVs to take 2 minutes to turn on and start displaying channels. This can be improved on if you turn off this option but good luck figuring it out.

Seriously, stay away from Philips TVs. Literally, get anyone else.

Also, I think they just lost a major contract with a big hotel chain so you may want to short the stock...just saying...

You forgot to add: The above is not investment advise. Investment may go down in value. Talk to a professional before doing anything stupid.

Just trying to cover your a** and of course this is not legal advise :P

nieltj wrote:Correction. It reads like a personal problem.

It sounds like it is getting worse with more people chiming in...

brendan948725 wrote:Just lost one of these to a lightning strike. We paid a bunch more for it the first time.

well, if you get this one, you won't have to worry about that happening...striking twice and all that...

In for one as a bedroom TV. Considering its replacing a 27" tube weighing about as much as my gf, anything more attractive and light is fine by me. In reality just need a new TV for all those Law and Order SVU marathons.

btw: everybody quoting everyone else who ever had a friend whose brother's cousin worked at best buy and said 60hz sucks; 60hz and 720p still look freggin great. Played my ps3 on a 60hz/720p samsung for over a year now from no more than 5ft away(yes, brain to bananas), and iv'e never said to myself "that damn 60hz"

mitchwooter wrote:No QAM tuner. USELESS!

I purchased this TV last time and it does indeed have a QAM tuner.

hoosac wrote:How is this shipping? Does anyone know? Not SmartPost I hope? Please God, not by SmartPost. . .

HEY... there is NOTHING WRONG with SmartPost. You can order this TV today and I'm sure it will make someone a very nice Christmas present! :P

Got one of thes on last timeit wooted.
When Direct Tv turned it on for the first time there was a great picture on half the screen saying "LIPS". The left half was black. Philips service was great-and easy to deal with. Gave them a credit card# and in came another one with a shipping lable to send the old one back.
It has a beatiful picture and very good sound and lets you tweak the picture as you see fit. It is a greattv.

rkossik wrote:pe·dan·tic
[puh-dan-tik]
–adjective
1. ostentatious in one's learning.
2. overly concerned with minute details or formalisms

Woot needs a [Like] button! [LIKE]

mylastnameisgunter wrote:we got one a year and a half ago from Woot.... It broke within 90 days and Phillips paid to fix it...it worked another 4 mos and then..kaput. Phillips would not replace or fix it again.

Buying a TV that is likely to break within the first year is not a good buy.

I had a similar experience, except mine broke after 121 days. No repair offered. Does anyone wonder while SO MANY Philips Refurbs are offered on Woot? Because SO MANY BREAK. Avoid Philips - less you need an odd sized paper weight!

Stay away from this TV - piece of crap - I've already returned three (and counting) from the last time this was sold on woot.

King8654 wrote:In for one as a bedroom TV. Considering its replacing a 27" tube weighing about as much as my gf, anything more attractive and light is fine by me. ...

More attractive and light than your gf, or your current TV?

Please clarify.

jacvoyt wrote:I've done work for Philips installing TVs in hotels. My advice is simple...STAY AWAY from Philips TVs. They have HORRIBLE firmware issues. The company completely doesn't care about their products. Many of these tvs ship with a power saving feature set by default, and it's very buggy causing the TVs to take 2 minutes to turn on and start displaying channels. This can be improved on if you turn off this option but good luck figuring it out.

Seriously, stay away from Philips TVs. Literally, get anyone else.

Also, I think they just lost a major contract with a big hotel chain so you may want to short the stock...just saying...

Thanks. This helps

shortcake49 wrote:It appears that there is consensus that it's not suitable as a computer monitor. Any thoughts about using it to watch streaming video thru a computer and watching it from ,say, 10 feet away ?

I do not know why it would not be a good monitor? I use my 42inch as a monitor, just from a decent distance away. As long as you match the TVs resolution, it should look great.

I play a lot of Street Fighter and Marvel vs Capcom 3 and am looking to upgrade from my old CRT tv. Does anyone know about the input lag (not the response time) on this set?

$239 New with warranty. Per dealnews.
New: Viore 32" 720p Widescreen LCD HDTV for $239 + free shipping
Walmart offers the Viore 32" 720p Widescreen LCD HD Television, model no. LC32VH62, for $239 with free shipping. That's one of the best total prices we've seen for a 32" 720p LCD HDTV this year, although we listed a comparable model for $10 less yesterday (since expired). Sales tax is added where applicable. Features include a 1366x768 (720p) native resolution, 8ms response time, 10,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, 500 cd/m² brightness, three HDMI inputs, and VGA, and other video inputs.

Condition: Refurbished

Nevermind!

I bought this last time around for the kids to play games on and am going to buy another one today for our bedroom, it is an good tv for the price - my only complaint are the speakers, but fixed that with a cheap surround sound system... it was delivered UPS and it only took 4 days to get here, amazing for WOOT.
The settings are simple to change, it works best in retail mode, the colors are brighter and shraper. One more thing, I could not, no matter what, get the volume control to work on our universal cable remote - even the cable company could not to it, just a heads up.

i have one of these in my bedroom. woot purchase for about $300. was a good deal at that price. a great deal at this. probably going to order this one for my office.

I bought one last time they were offered. Couldn't be happier with the TV. Great price for a quality product.

pricecheckaisle5 wrote:You're welcome!
Thank you for making my point!
Someone's gotta look out for our youth! People! They're not made of money like you disposable income types.

Why, if my man Obama were in office, he'd spread the wealth. Just you wait and see!

LIKE

shortcake49 wrote:It appears that there is consensus that it's not suitable as a computer monitor. Any thoughts about using it to watch streaming video thru a computer and watching it from ,say, 10 feet away ?

Purchased this TV from Sam's Club two years ago for $400, and I haven't had a single problem with it. Have it hooked up to a desktop to stream online video, and works perfectly.

bluejester wrote:I like the picture on the screen. Do such cool, refreshing places still exist in the world? It's so hot here, it's hard to believe that a cool morning fog can still happen...

Most summer mornings when I walk out the back door to go to work. Leave the city. Move to the country.

pricecheckaisle5 wrote:Doesn't sound like too great of a price to me.
Especially for refurbished.
Especially for Philips.
Especially for 720p.
Especially as it's not LED backlit.
Especially since the refresh rate is 60hz.
And then a response time of 8ms?

I'll stop now. Especially since my g/f might call me annoying! :P

Show me a brand new (pick your favorite brand) 1280p, LED, 120hz, 6ms TV for $250 and I'll gladly buy it.