@darrenj11 wrote:
Ive bought the TV, ive signed up to the forums, and ive been receiveing your replies for about a week or so, and trying to take an education d guess at wheather I should return the expensive tv or not.
And ive finally come to the conclusion, that this thread is just not relevant,
I wont be returning the tv based on this thread as mine is just not apocalyptic as you guys make out, so therefore I see that the thread in itself is not helpful.
Honestly, I just think that you are not helping yourself. Maybe serial complainers or something, i really dont want to be rude but I cant think of a nicer way to put it, its a moaners thread, and thats fine, but change the title.
Hi @darrenj11
Let's see how you feel when it bites you, as it surely will.
i am judging that you are neither a troll, nor a Sony plant (or you would be making a lot better job of it 🙂 ), just somebody who, as you say, has just bought one of these 2015 Sony Android sets, has turned idly to the Sony forums to see what people are saying about it, and maybe to get a few hints and tips - and has been simply gobsmacked to find a 416-page thread of wall to wall woes. Yes?
So now you have mixed emotions. You invested a lot in your decision, are rightly proud of the discernment that led you to your choice (since the retailers understandably tend to list the technical specs, not the negative comments), and you thought you got very good value for money.
But now this thread has all that in tatters, and you are understandably trying to salvage what you can. And you are in the first stage, Denial - 'No, surely it can't be that bad", "Well, mine doesn't do that", "Humph, they are all moaning Minnies", "Well, I never wanted to record anyway".
The reality? Sony released these sets far too early, woefully incomplete, and I would say that they are still madly scrambling to get them right; if that is, that I didn't think not implementing the year-late HDD recording before March 31st was more a case of 'mildly ambling' rather than 'madly scrambling'.
Can you live with them? Yes, just about, if you are a techie living on your own. But wishing one of these on your family is grounds for divorce in any jurisdiction.
I have in the past summarised these sets as for "masochists, optimists, and wannabe beta testers".
And though they improve slowly, I, like a lot of other people, worry about the implications of the upcoming 2016 sets. Sony are sticking with Android for 2016, we now know from CES, but if, as we suspect, they have realised that the 2015 hardware spec is just not man enough, then the more capable 2016 sets are going to make the 2015 sets look like Trabants in a world of Opels.
There's a word I can't use on here starting with 'cluster' to describe why this thread is 416 pages long and growing, and it's not to do with who is and isn't posting here.
But do stick around. We won't crow when you come dejectedly back with the tales of woe of whichever of the many indignities these sets are capable of visiting on you actually struck; we'll commiserate, help you fix or minimise the issue, or even advise you how best to send it back from whence it came. You choose 🙂
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