bountyhunter
- Joined Sep 7, 2009
- 2,512
I always understood how and why PC's were designed and built to be throw aways after one year.To me, microprocessors are presently the state of the art in planned obsolescence. Any retail product that has one usually can't be repaired.
Ooh...It's a secret how that is programmed. Just throw it in the trash and pay me again.
But I was genuinely shocked to find out that the new crops of LED HDTV products have product spans of maybe 6 months before new products are introduced.
I was also underwhelmed by the way this fact impacts the product: buy an $1100 48" Sony and find out the user manual is a joke. I asked the store guy if it had picture in picture? Nobody there even knew, manual says nothing, I found out it does after I bought it.
And they brag about how it connects to the internet with their browser.... except you can't use it. Any site you try to go to just gets an error screen saying it doesn't have enough memory to display..... and there is no way to add memory
Anyway, yeah it has multitudes of computer "features" and none of them can be used for anything. But at least it has a pretty picture.