New TV - recommendations or stay away from?

mobileron

Tosh is now a supermarket brand along with Sharp,Hitachi etc,made by Vestel in Turkey.

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mobileron said:

Tosh is now a supermarket brand along with Sharp,Hitachi etc,made by Vestel in Turkey.

Hence the phrase, "What a load of Tosh"

no1catman

mobileron said:

Tosh is now a supermarket brand along with Sharp,Hitachi etc,made by Vestel in Turkey.

Interesting - did not know that. Latest news - had a problem with it - back light went - this after four months!! Toshiba Customer Service has been a joke - 'keystone cops' come to mind. Very poor interaction - tried to get an 'escalation' told to email - did with full details - had a general reply - didn't answer any of my points, or reply to my request for a new set - even suggest I ring Customer Service. Went through the retailer instead who tried escalating to Toshiba senior management  - but again no feedback. Finally retailer authorised yesterday refund - took it back to the store, finally sorted.
The morall of this story is - stay away from Toshiba!!

Neil_Jones

no1catman said:

mobileron said:

Tosh is now a supermarket brand along with Sharp,Hitachi etc,made by Vestel in Turkey.

Interesting - did not know that.

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The morall of this story is - stay away from Toshiba!!

As was previously stated your TV is (was) Vestel in new colours.  Most other brands are repackaged Vestel products - Toshiba, Sony, Goodman, HItachi, JVC, the Argos brands Alba and Bush, Sharp, Panasonic (off and on)...  The only companies who make their own TVs these days are Sony, Samsung and LG, which is reflected in the price.  Some of the other brands like Philips pulled out years ago and "their" TVs are again something else with their name slapped on it.

So if you want to avoid Vestel (aka cheap and cheerful), don't buy anything unless its one of the three exceptions.

no1catman

II got a new TV from a Euronics store - even paid extra to have it installed, what did I get - LG 43" 4k UHD. Impressed with its 'tech', no problems - apart from a few days late last week - but that was down to Virgin!

mobileron

Have a look at the Hisense brand in Richersounds,its Chinese,they  sponsered the last soccer world cup.
Check the reviews on you tube.

Neil_Jones

mobileron said:

Have a look at the Hisense brand in Richersounds,its Chinese,they  sponsered the last soccer world cup.
Check the reviews on you tube.

Hisense bought Toshiba's TV business a few years ago, and Toshiba TVs are rebranded Vestel.  So a Hisense TV sort of goes round the houses of Vestel without going inside, so to speak.  I'd say Hisense is sort of a halfway house between Samsung/LG/Sony and everybody else, but looking at forums they can be a bit hit and miss in certain areas.  Amazon Prime functionality got nobbled on them I seem to recall. It worked and it played Prime fine, it just took all day to get around the interface.  Your mileage may vary.

mobileron

I agree with some of your points,theres no vestel connection any more,they also bought Sharp name in the USA.
Amazon prime works fine easy setup,i bought on the recommendation of the Sony engineer repairing my old tv,they seem to be very informative on the web with update info, and with a 6 year warranty and saving £150 against major brands a good buy.
So no British made tv any more,remember  Philips Pye Ferguson etc.

roddydogs

As its from may, the tv is probably been bought by now

tempus_fugit

mobileron said:

I agree with some of your points,theres no vestel connection any more,they also bought Sharp name in the USA.
Amazon prime works fine easy setup,i bought on the recommendation of the Sony engineer repairing my old tv,they seem to be very informative on the web with update info, and with a 6 year warranty and saving £150 against major brands a good buy.
So no British made tv any more,remember  Philips Pye Ferguson etc.

Philips were Dutch, weren’t they?