@equinoximmure wrote:
Why is it that in some instances (on other websites) you have people saying that they have had no issues whatsoever with their TV since purchase and then on the other hand so many problems being reported here? Are there particular models that are affected more than others? Or do Sony's later builds incorporate more hefty processors?
I think the issues, being in the Android software common to all these sets, is likely to affect them all equally.
If there were hardware fixes that could be done, I think we would have heard about sets going back and having these retrofitted; we don't hear any such. I make a possible exception for the 2016 sets, but I don't think they are out yet, are they?
Even here, we have seen that usage patterns make a difference; those who use their TV as not much more than a monitor for their Sky box seem to have many fewer problems than those who poke about in all the dark corners of the smartness on these sets.
Also, those 'monitor' users are, paradoxically, probably less tolerant than people here; if the sets works for what they do with it, fine; if it doesn't, whoosh, back to the shop it goes to be replaced with one from a brand that does work.
They aren't hanging on in a sort of reversal of the sour grapes fable, going 'sweet picture grapes', 'sweet price grapes' while their mouth puckers every time the set self-reboots, or Sony announce that HDD recording has been put back another few months.
So people for whom the sets work self-select; they stay happily outside the normal population of optimists, masochists and wannabe beta testers who report here daily on the latest calamity that has befallen them, or how, with relief, they unshackled from the ball and chain when they finally got shot of their set, and got their refund...
YouView Superuser, but not an employee of YouView, nor retained by them for this purpose. It's purely me speaking
