As I said I could have spent time cutting and pasting only the
relevant parts and if you were not intelligent enough to compare the
fact that the OP "dropped his Sony TV some 2 feet" and the Epinions
article that considerable damage resulting in the need to replace the
picture tube due to mishandling, then I can't help you.
Quotes taken verbatim from the Epinions article:
Before the packing:
"On the day of the move, Excel’s packing team came to my house in Union City,
CA to wrap and box nearly everything in the house. While they worked, my
daughter was watching a show on our 36� Sony flat-panel TV, which was hooked
up to our home theater system. When it came time to prepare the TV for moving,
they directed us to unplug the TV. At that point, the television was obviously
in perfect working order."
After the move:
In particular, the damaged items which prompt my dissatisfaction with Excel
Moving Services were: The Sony Wega TV described above, the television simply
would not turn on"
Interesting. The TV set would not turn on after the move.
"I took the television to Audio Video Specialists in Durham, NC, who is a
Sony-authorized repair center. Kevin, the repair engineer at AVS diassembled
the television, replaced the PC logic board with one from another television in
his shop and determined that the TV’s cathode ray tube (CRT) had a damaged
‘shadow mask’,"
The technician had to replace the mainboard first before discovering that the
picture tube was damaged. On a set that is as well built as a Sony, it would
take a fairly substantial shock to inflict the kind of damage on the mainboard
that would keep the television from powering on in the first place. Sony sets
of that size typically have well secured mainboards and extensive metal
shielding covering all over the outside rear of the picture tube. They also
have fairly substantial structural support due to the sheer weight of a large
TV, especially Sony sets.
"He noted that the only way such damage could occur was by being dropped and
wrote 'Shows Signs of Shipping Damage' on his report to Mayflower. Only after
reassembling the TV and while attempting to use the bezel as a handhold while
moving it to another location in his shop did he notice the slight crack in the
decorative bezel below the TV. He also noted the cracked bezel on his report."
This means that the drop was substantial enough to damage the mainboard, damage
the picture tube, and crack the casing.
All these parts cannot be damaged by a small drop or small incidences of shock,
especially the mainboard which is typically immobolized fairly effectively on a
Sony TV. Since the shock was substantial enough to damage the mainboard,
despite how it was assembled into place, that same shock would likely be more
than enough to wreak havoc on the innards of the picture tube.
It is a sad
fact that any tv, when dropped or roughly handled during transport
(ie, dropped such that only minor indications of physical damage were
noticeable) is highly likely to distort either the shadow mask or the
aperture grille.
That goes against your claim that specifies only Sony tubes as being
susceptible.
"Sony shadowmask tubes are particularly susceptible to damage after being
dropped."
At first, you claim that Sony tubes are particularly susceptible to damage when
dropped. Now you come out and say that "any TV" will likely suffer damage to
the picture tube if subject to excess shock.
You change your statement from a specific accusation to a broad generalization.
And, I say your statement of Sony tubes being "particularly susceptible to
damage after being dropped" an accusation because there is no other definition
of your statement. It is an accusation, pure and simple.
If you disagree, then you need to go back to school and study English.
It seems you are
not able to decipher the relevant aspects in a story and throow out
the bits which are not relevant to the original priblem posed by the
OP.
And you are too ingrained on your opinion that you are unable to view it in
much broader context.
You make an accusation and support it with a story that reveals more about what
happened and consequently downplays your claim. You didn't read the story well
enough to understand everything that could have happened to cause all that
damage.
First off, the author of the Epinions article hired a moving company that's as
trustworthy as Dan Quayle is proficient at spelling "potato." (Since you live
in Australia, you won't get this joke unless you remember that Dan Quayle was
Vice President under George Bush SR. [not to be confused with his son and
current president George W. Bush] from 1988 to 1992 in American politics who
earned a distinction of being an idiot by spelling potato "potatoe" at a public
speech.)
Second, the TV traveled approximately 2800 miles from California to North
Carolina. Anything could have happened between those locations during the
journey that may have caused the TV set to become damaged. This is exacerbated
if the items were not properly secured in the trailer. Anything, like abrupt
maneuvering, potholes, sudden braking, and the like can create the potential of
the load being dislodged and allowed to jostle inside the trailer.
Third, moving companies, like Mayflower, have storage facilities where items
may be taken out of the truck and placed in storage rooms until the items are
ready to be delivered to their final destination. The labor force hired to do
the moving of the items out of the truck and back into it may not have been as
careful as the folks who packed the truck back at the starting point.
Forth, substantial damage to items at the hands of moving companies, especially
if the load traveled a long distance, are not uncommon occurances in the United
States. People have had TVs, sofas, tables, guitar amps, chairs, console
stereos, lamps, paintings and pictures, and the like damaged or destroyed
during transit. I've read about them and I've seen the damage done to such
traveled items first hand while working at a repair shop.
And I stand by my argument that you obviously need every i dotted and
every t crossed and you are unable to sift wheat from the chaff in a
story.
And I guess you like being too lazy and prone to premature condemnation. -
Reinhart
LOL