Bad capacitors hit Chinese LCD tellies - report

Apologies? Why? You didn't use the dodgy caps in the tellies. Of course, the Chinese will never, never, never apologize....

But those people stuck with defective tellies do have my condolences...

He sells all his tellies with a free 5 year guarentee, and he promises that he will match any other high street retailer on price (and some online sites too).


If you see how large china is and how big their production is this is akin to saying 'someone on the globe made a defective product', it seems unfair to link it to the country, I'm sure 'britain' or any other country also have manufacturers that make failing products, not to mention america and japan etcetera, but then it's not 'japan makes a dodgy product' or 'america makes a bad product' or 'britain created a faulty thisandthat', to link it to the country rather than the manufacturer seems only done in the case of china, and not only that but more often than not they equate china with hong-kong (somewhat doable) or even taiwan.

that somehow this must be Nvidia's fault.

erm, i don't get that comment. saying that you can't point the finger at china just because they produce a hell of alot of equipment, is like saying you complain about Vista being bloatware because they are a monopoly!!!!

lmao, some people!!!

Title: Sony?

If you see how large Sony is and how big their production is this is akin to saying 'some company on the globe made a defective product', it seems unfair to link it to Sony, I'm sure 'Microsoft' or any other company also have suppliers that make failing products, not to mention Nvidia and Apple etcetera, but then it's not 'Nvidia makes a dodgy product' or 'Apple makes a bad product' or 'Microsoft created a faulty thisandthat', to link it to Sony rather than the supplier seems only done in the case of Sony, and not only that but more often than not they equate Sony with Tokyo (somewhat doable) or even Osaka. 


... Yep, the argument still makes just as much sense as before. Looks like we can't bash Sony for their exploding batteries anymore either.

I never understand those slaved off working in China. It ain't the workers it's the quality control.

They are a menace to enviroment and something should be done about them.

In the past everything i ever bought (clones and cheap stuff and non-branded things only) have always had a design flaw of some sort. Sometimes it's so small you'd think maybe they cant even count millimetres.

Example i bought a slicer thing (officical but cheaper then original), and guess what the blades bend and come off when i tried to make some chips changed it out and when the same thing hapen again i got a refund.

The PS2 slimline is another example - cheap lazers that burn out after half the time of the big brick ps2.

Cheap and cheerful and so on but a desaster to enviroment.

So far Taiwan has be very, very good for me anyway. All my motherboards come from there. And they're all prefect.

By the way remember the babies toy recall - had led on it. Come on these guys eat dogs for gods sake.

No, I think what the previous poster meant was that since we don't blame the country of USA for making Vista bloated, or making bad Nvidia chips, we shouldn't blame China the country for making bad LCDs.

You'd think most people who've had a few years of post-secondary education would understand this kind of things. 

In fact, if you go around saying "Damn those Americans would never apologize for their crappy Geforce chips", people would think you are an idiot. Because other than a few people in Nvidia, most Americans have nothing to do with this issue. And the same logic applies to the LCDs as well, in case you haven't got it.


Of course they are going to deny everything!!

Forgot about the less mentally gifted I guess, I'm saying that when you have 1.3 billion people you also have thousands upon thousands of companies, meaning that sooner or later one screws up, at that point you don't say the country failed, you say a company failed.
When sony had exploding batteries did you ANYWHERE read 'japan makes exploding products'? No, you read sony did.
How about this nvidia chip issue? Did you read at any time 'america makes faulty stuff'? no because you only name the whole country if the company was in china.

...maybe the capacitors were only designed to operate at temperatures below -5°c, so when the TV heated up, they glassified :-)

Goes off to check Panny TV .... Phew :-)

After useless motherboard syndrome from about 6 years you think someone would have worked this one out....

Just had my 2001 vintage motherboard recapped a few weeks ago and it's fighting fit again after a £1.50 eBay spend on parts.

Lol, just a matter of time really. Anyways, not a big deal.

As I recall britain once had a bad reputation for making unreliable products, mostly cars I think.... ;oP

Anywho, probably a good thing we don't make anything much here in Australia. Might give us a bad rep......

Bad capacitors are a recurring tale in the electronics industry. Ever notice the little cuts in the top of an aluminum electrolytic cap, looking like a cross? That's so that the cap can boil and pop in a controlled manner instead of spewing aluminum shrapnel all over the place. There's a reason why so many devices come with 90 day warranties...

anyone who complains will be shot

I am not a native english speaker but i have no problem understanding that the "Apologies" are not on behalf of the producers, but on behalf of the Inquirer desk for the unverified/FUD information (which may cause unnecessary "grief" for the buyers).

(or poor with English) to fail to realize that this article is talking about one or more as-yet-unnamed Chinese LCD manufacturers, not the 1.3 billion people living in China as a whole, or the thousands of non-LCD-producing Chinese companies. Perhaps they're taking an overly broad stroke, but when a companies produce inexpensive products and send them out under a ton of different brand names that are meaningless to most people then this sort of categorization is pretty much inevitable.