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The Most Reliable HDTV Brands?
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Have you had many problems with your HDTVs? Have you had zero problems and are completely happy with your HDTVs?
We know what our trusty friends at the AVS Forum have recommended in terms of plasma TVs and LCD screens. PC World magazine did its own poll of readers—16,000 TV owners—to see what they thought when it came to their annual “Reliability and Service” survey.
The big winner? That would be Sony, which scored better than average in the most categories, including the “overall satisfaction with reliability” category—in that one, Sony was only joined by Panasonic and Samsung.
Other brands that scored well in the reliability realm were LG, Panasonic, Samsung, Sharp and Vizio. On the flip side, Westinghouse, Hitachi and Mitsubishi earned “worse” than average overall satisfaction, and Toshiba, Hitachi, JVC and Mitsubishi chalked up multiple “worse” nods.
Interestingly, one of the commenters on Engadget HD offered up some results from a similar Consumer Reports survey, on LCDs only, posting the percentage of brands reported needing repairs. The results aren’t identical, but certain brands are near the top on both, and certain ones are near the bottom on both:
Sanyo – 1%
Sony – 2%
Sylvania – 2%
Panasonic – 2%
JVC – 2%
Sharp – 2%
Toshiba – 3%
Vizio – 3%
Samsung – 3%
Philips Magnavox – 3%
Olevia – 4%
LG – 4%
Hitachi – 4%
Westinghouse – 5%
Polaroid – 6%
Mitsubishi – 7%
So what do you think? Check out the PC World chart below, and let us know how reliable your TV brand is—or what kinds of problems you’ve had.

Personally, this is my list :
1. SONY – i do own Bravia KLV-V32A10 for 2 years now. Menu is easy to use. Picture Quality is good. My families always trust SONY as no 1 TV Brand. SONYis a brand for a life time.
2. PANASONIC — my “future plasma FullHD”. will keep update about this one!
3. SHARP– cannot say much because i dont really have it BUT one thing that make it one of the top list because their 3 years warranty! No others brand can’t beat that!
what about you guys ?






There are 4 comments
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#8 March 9th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Saw this awhile ago, Vizio is making it’s way tot the top and I’m glad, they are a great brand to have in America. This review speaks for itself!
http://tech.msn.com/products/slideshowspecialsav.aspx?cp-documentid=17727909>1=40000
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#245 July 19th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Samsung LTN4069FX is 4 mos. out of warranty and losses it’s picture [ sound ok ] and must be unplugged for hours to reset. Intervals getting very frequent, total failure just around the corner. Many posts on net of same problem. I thought I did my homework cause Cnet recumended Samsung. It’s Sony or Panasonic from now on!