Kyrsten Brad
Senior HTF Member
Well folks a little backstory. Bought both my new Vizio HDTVs back in 2013-2014. The 70 E-SeriesI got on a Black Friday Special and I did purchase the WalMart Extended Warranty Protection. The 49 M-Series (1080P HD) for our bedroom I got for my birthday back in September 2014 but without the Extended Warranty Protection. Loved them both.
Guess which TV blew a circuit!!
Don't know exactly how it happened yet by my wife and our neighbor confirmed it, the LCD screen on the 49 cracked somehow leaving only about 2/3 a image. Basically impossible to repair without considerable expense. My suspects were a power surge (we have good surge protectors and no storm was in the area), rain blowing in (near a window but no rain that night), my wife's cat (has claws which could damage a screen but that cat never jumps up on that platform, at least we never saw her) or something just plain went kaput. Of course its 1 month out of warranty and no extended.
DRAT DRAT and DOUBLE DRAT!!
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Anyway I've put on layaway its replacement, the new Vizio 50" 4K M-Series. One inch bigger (for a additional $100) but superior screen image & systems to the 4K 49" Vizio),
I'll keep you all posted on how my first ever 4K set does. And yes, two years earlier than I had planned. (I was waiting for UHD Blu-ray to settle in).
In the meantime, I'm combing the budget to compensate for the $814 I'm shelling out ($698 plus tax, plus of course Extended Warranty Protection for 3 additional years). There went my hoped-for Region-free Blu-ray ($300 Sony 6200 from Bombay Electronics) this Christmas season. And the new storage garage shelving ($100 from Home Depot).
Still have to keep in there the new laptop ($770), no choice on that.
And keep the wife's Caribbean cruise for this coming February (Happy Wife, Happy Life)!!
Here we go 4K, Here we GO!!
UPDATE: Called Vizio. Looks like I can get the 49 repaired if I so desire. Don't know the cost yet but if it's reasonable, might just do it and make a gift of the repaired 49.
Still getting the 4K 50 though.
Guess which TV blew a circuit!!
Don't know exactly how it happened yet by my wife and our neighbor confirmed it, the LCD screen on the 49 cracked somehow leaving only about 2/3 a image. Basically impossible to repair without considerable expense. My suspects were a power surge (we have good surge protectors and no storm was in the area), rain blowing in (near a window but no rain that night), my wife's cat (has claws which could damage a screen but that cat never jumps up on that platform, at least we never saw her) or something just plain went kaput. Of course its 1 month out of warranty and no extended.
DRAT DRAT and DOUBLE DRAT!!
====================================================
Anyway I've put on layaway its replacement, the new Vizio 50" 4K M-Series. One inch bigger (for a additional $100) but superior screen image & systems to the 4K 49" Vizio),
I'll keep you all posted on how my first ever 4K set does. And yes, two years earlier than I had planned. (I was waiting for UHD Blu-ray to settle in).
In the meantime, I'm combing the budget to compensate for the $814 I'm shelling out ($698 plus tax, plus of course Extended Warranty Protection for 3 additional years). There went my hoped-for Region-free Blu-ray ($300 Sony 6200 from Bombay Electronics) this Christmas season. And the new storage garage shelving ($100 from Home Depot).
Still have to keep in there the new laptop ($770), no choice on that.
And keep the wife's Caribbean cruise for this coming February (Happy Wife, Happy Life)!!
Here we go 4K, Here we GO!!
UPDATE: Called Vizio. Looks like I can get the 49 repaired if I so desire. Don't know the cost yet but if it's reasonable, might just do it and make a gift of the repaired 49.
Still getting the 4K 50 though.
