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Originally Posted by Ronald1973
At my last job (which I worked at for 4 1/2 years), we stocked both LG and Panasonic blu-ray players. Let me state up front that I'm partial to LG. My 55" LED TV is made by LG. Out of the box the Panasonic players looked like absolute junk and nothing in comparison to the LG's. We consistently sent the Panasonic players to our service department and they even said the things were a thorn in the side. LG's did go to service here and there but considering it was rent-to-own store, there's no telling how much abuse they suffered either. You couldn't pay me enough to have a Panasonic.  |
I am not fond of Samsungs modern TV's for a similar reason here. They make the TV itself, but the panels, usually not more than half the time.
Samsung has at least 3 different panel suppliers, themselves being one of them. I can't remember the two others, but the codes to look for a S, A, and C. S is the Samsung panel, the best you can get from them, A is the 2nd best panel, and C is a cheap Chinese panel. My 40" Samsung uses the C panel, and at first it looks fine. Then after 2 years, it develops a nasty image persistence, and a non-uniform spreading of the backlight. I've never seen the A or S panel though so I'm only going on what other people have said about them.
Sadly though, every Samsung I have run into so far, are C panels.