@Al_Charles wrote:
@scoopy6
Sorry you are infact incorrect. Sony promised the update earlier, then Cancelled it and have changed the time scale. They have release an update states side.
As for the rest of your arguement, If Sony had said 2016, them most of us would have waited or not purchased, after all why buy a tv in 2015 that wont work till 2016, when in 2016 there will be new models.
Time will tell but yes, I am very gullible and perhaps, for other brands, reliability is often just as poor and marketing just as misleading. We also have a 3 year old Tv Samsung UE55F8000, which had a similar reputation but is now already forgotten, just as the OP has predicted for Sony's 2015 models.
The F8000 seemed extremely expensive but a prominent advertising feature was that it would be future proofed with an 'evo kit' which, in spite of vague promises, has still not materialised in uk. Their customer service dept remains polite but has been completely useless, Samsung's local engineer knew nothing about the current range, the technical department was also in Egypt, and none of our particular niggles has ever been addressed. This morning it started with a lingering message that the camera could not work 'because it was switched off'.
Our old Panasonic was rock solid for 13 years. That is a bit out of date now but maybe the key is to choose a gogglebox with the fewest features, so there is not so much to go wrong, and to be able just to throw away the cheaper accessories.
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