Give your TV a new home from IKEA
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2.0 stars
"It's great for as long as it lasts"
Pros: Good picture, good sound--for the short period you can expect to be able to use it before it breaks, it's a perfectly good television.
Cons: The power supply to its backlight failed after only 1 yr and it is impossible to get replacement parts or even a service manual for the set. Using a service center costs so much it makes more sense to just buy a replacement.
Summary: A television this expensive should last longer than one year before crapping out on you, and when it inevitably does break, you should be able to get a service manual for free--they make you buy a service manual subscription for over a hundred bucks just to get the specs for the product they sold you. With or without the manual, if you're enterprising enough to manage to figure out what replacement part you need, there's no way to buy one unless you take something somebody ripped out of another set that's broken, and even then they cost a fortune because they're so hard to find. If you go through an 'authorized service center' expect to pay for the part--a hundred, minimum--plus labor-- another two hundred, minimum--and then you get it home and find they didn't actually fix the machine. If a company is going to manufacture something so shoddily that it has the lifespan of a mayfly, they should at least put the repair manual on the web--for free-- and make replacement parts available for purchase. It's the least they could do, and JVC doesn't.
