i agree, it's wrong..but for 2002 it isn't a best shit..best shit back then is plasma..but.. the cost was like x2 more than DLP. and i'm sure you know about average bulb life when you bought it. it's a part of the deal.that's why the price of DLP is much lower than plasma for example. can car run 40-50K without oil change? sure..but why there is a certain service intervals?
My TV set became my boss, dictating to me, connected to the whole economy
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i agree, it's wrong..but for 2002 it isn't a best shit..best shit back then is plasma..but.. the cost was like x2 more than DLP. and i'm sure you know about average bulb life when you bought it. it's a part of the deal.that's why the price of DLP is much lower than plasma for example. can car run 40-50K without oil change? sure..but why there is a certain service intervals?
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I have a large DLP Hi Def Samsung. Lamp in it lasts from 4000-9000 hours.
My lamp lasts already for 17000 hours and is still working because I run it at lowest brightness all the time.
But Samsung company made sure that if that happens TV automatically shuts down my WORKING lamp, and wants me to buy a new one.
This kind of product was unthinkable 30-40 years ago, This is exactly why we have and will continue to
have all kinds of economic problems.
We have completely strayed from quality, from endurance, from down right honesty.
I am disappointing with what became normal business practice. This won't end well.
watching 17,000 hrs TV 8 hrs/day for 7 years gives 300 days of TV per year. so basically it is a full time job when you have 2 day weekend off (but no vacation time).
IMHO this much TV makes one very slow at anticipating obvious things (e.g. company trying to screw you over a bulb 7 years down the road)
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I have a large DLP Hi Def Samsung. Lamp in it lasts from 4000-9000 hours.
My lamp lasts already for 17000 hours and is still working because I run it at lowest brightness all the time.
But Samsung company made sure that if that happens TV automatically shuts down my WORKING lamp, and wants me to buy a new one.
This kind of product was unthinkable 30-40 years ago, This is exactly why we have and will continue to
have all kinds of economic problems.
We have completely strayed from quality, from endurance, from down right honesty.
I am disappointing with what became normal business practice. This won't end well.
This started back 50 years ago in the auto industry.
This isn't a Korean, or Japanese, or Asian, or atheist phenomonea. It pretty much originated in England as one "solution" to the Great Depression. It is now common practice in many industries.
It's called "planned" or "functional" obsolescene" - depending on the goal of the producer.
From wiki:
[edit] Origins of the term
Origins of planned obsolescence go back at least as far as 1932 with Bernard London's pamphlet Ending the Depression Through Planned Obsolescence.[2] However, the phrase was first popularized in 1954 by Brooks Stevens, an American industrial designer. Stevens was due to give a talk at an advertising conference in Minneapolis in 1954. Without giving it much thought, he used the term as the title of his talk.[3]
From that point on, "planned obsolescence" became Stevens' catchphrase. By his definition, planned obsolescence was "Instilling in the buyer the desire to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than is necessary."[3]
Stevens' term was taken up by others, and his own definition was challenged. By the late 1950s, planned obsolescence had become a commonly used term for products designed to break easily or to quickly go out of style. In fact, the concept was so widely recognized that, in 1959, Volkswagen mocked it in a now-legendary advertising campaign. While acknowledging the widespread use of planned obsolescence among automobile manufacturers, Volkswagen pitched itself as an alternative. "We do not believe in planned obsolescence," the ads suggested. "We don't change a car for the sake of change."[4]
In 1960, cultural critic Vance Packard published The Waste Makers, promoted as an exposé of "the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals."[5]
Packard divided planned obsolescence into two sub categories: obsolescence of desirability and obsolescence of function. "Obsolescence of desirability", also called "psychological obsolescence", referred to marketers' attempts to wear out a product in the owner's mind. Packard quoted industrial designer George Nelson, who wrote: "Design... is an attempt to make a contribution through change. When no contribution is made or can be made, the only process available for giving the illusion of change is 'styling.'"[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
Obsolescence in general: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolescence
It's called "planned" or "functional" obsolescene" - depending on the goal of the producer.
From wiki:
[edit] Origins of the term
Origins of planned obsolescence go back at least as far as 1932 with Bernard London's pamphlet Ending the Depression Through Planned Obsolescence.[2] However, the phrase was first popularized in 1954 by Brooks Stevens, an American industrial designer. Stevens was due to give a talk at an advertising conference in Minneapolis in 1954. Without giving it much thought, he used the term as the title of his talk.[3]
From that point on, "planned obsolescence" became Stevens' catchphrase. By his definition, planned obsolescence was "Instilling in the buyer the desire to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than is necessary."[3]
Stevens' term was taken up by others, and his own definition was challenged. By the late 1950s, planned obsolescence had become a commonly used term for products designed to break easily or to quickly go out of style. In fact, the concept was so widely recognized that, in 1959, Volkswagen mocked it in a now-legendary advertising campaign. While acknowledging the widespread use of planned obsolescence among automobile manufacturers, Volkswagen pitched itself as an alternative. "We do not believe in planned obsolescence," the ads suggested. "We don't change a car for the sake of change."[4]
In 1960, cultural critic Vance Packard published The Waste Makers, promoted as an exposé of "the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals."[5]
Packard divided planned obsolescence into two sub categories: obsolescence of desirability and obsolescence of function. "Obsolescence of desirability", also called "psychological obsolescence", referred to marketers' attempts to wear out a product in the owner's mind. Packard quoted industrial designer George Nelson, who wrote: "Design... is an attempt to make a contribution through change. When no contribution is made or can be made, the only process available for giving the illusion of change is 'styling.'"[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
Obsolescence in general: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolescence