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JVC Televisions from Comet
cbram1970
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Just a heads up. If anyone purchases a TV branded JVC from Comet online or stores, every aspect of after sales service is supported by Comet NOT JVC UK.
Support means, instruction manuals, spares, warranty queries, repairs EVERYTHING.
Although Comet staff are bloody clueless as ever and just fob you off to JVC Customer services. They have no information because of the agreement between JVC Japan and Comet, but the Comet way is to sell you stuff then offer bugger all service afterwards.
No wonder they were sold for £2!!!!!!!
Support means, instruction manuals, spares, warranty queries, repairs EVERYTHING.
Although Comet staff are bloody clueless as ever and just fob you off to JVC Customer services. They have no information because of the agreement between JVC Japan and Comet, but the Comet way is to sell you stuff then offer bugger all service afterwards.
No wonder they were sold for £2!!!!!!!
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Very true, I was having a look at some 32" lcd's today, just getting a feel to what's out there as we are after two for the house. Funnily enough I saw a 32" JVC LCD, it was £229, just above it was a Panasonic priced at £279, just £50 more, I know which I'd choose. In addition to that, if I bought the two Panny's, a blu ray and one TV stand they would give me 10% off. Just ashame all their TV's looked terrible because of their rubbish feed, looked like one RF feed split 30 times, I'll see if I can get a decent demo of the Panny before I part with my cash.
They have pulled out of the UK as well, which is why the JVC TV's at Comet are nothing to do with JVC UK.
Presumably Comet have bought the TV rights for the UK?.
I predict Vestel will be the only makers of TV's in the next 15 years!!!! arghhhh
JVC have been mostly Vestel sets for years, they have only rarely made their own TV's in the UK - probably the best sets they ever sold were Thorn ones, the TX100 series.
And who made it?
My last CRT set was a 28" CRT with a vestel chassis, and my present set is a JVC 32" LCD again with a Vestel chassis.
The good thing about Vestel, is the service information for most of them is available for free on the internet.
anyway, what's this thread all about. It seems to be a lot of talk with no specific subject.
They bought sets from various other manufacturers, including Thorn as I mentioned above - Vestel didn't exist back in the Thorn days
JVC have never had a decent name for their TV's, VCR's were their big thing.
I was under the impression that JVC didn't build their own sets, ever?
A monitor and a TV set are *very* different things. *VERY* different.
Don't forget, their monitors are made by their broadcast equipment department. It is the decision of their consumer electronics department if they make and where they source JVC-branded TV sets, so their monitor division has very little to do with their TV division.
JVC were very well respected for their VCRs in the 1980s. Along with their monitors, especially those 1970s/80s tiddly little colour ones, I can't name them for much else.
For consumers, they're pretty much another Japanese "boring but once reliable" budget brand, like Hitachi, Sanyo, Toshiba etc. Not in the same league as, say, Panasonic and Sony.
JVC TV's weren't - broadcast quality monitors were - which aren't in any way connected to TV's.
The only crap spoken here is from you, JVC have never been well respected for their TV's, not that they ever made very many.
They have made a few over the years, they weren't well regarded or well designed and built.
But JVC have never really made any claims to be a major UK TV manufacturer.
I'm a TV collector. Every time I look for 1970s sets, I am surrounded by Thorns, Deccas, Pyes, Philips', Mitsubishis, Hitachis, Sonys, Panasonics, Sanyos etc.
On eBay I have found just one pre-1990 JVC. In about 5 years of collecting, this is the first time I've seen one. I have no idea if it really is a JVC. (It's a 7170GB 14" colour portable).
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/220984274086?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649#ht_500wt_1202
1980s VCRs on the other hand . . .
The monster HV-36P38 was another well made excellent performer complete with separate Line and EHT stages.
The JVC badged sets designed and maufactured by Onwa in their factory near Jarrow were truly appalling.
I did hear a story from someone who worked at Onwa but cannot verify it that end of the assembly line any set with less than 2 production defects got a JVC badge on it, 2-4 defects Bush, 5 or more Alba. :rolleyes:
So in other words you know nothing about it?
And seem to magically believe that sticking a JVC label on a crap make TV makes it a wonderful set
I'm in the trade, and I absolutely know what the reputation of JVC TV's in the trade is (poor!) - and no one was disappointed (or surprised) when JVC stopped selling TV's.
I am surprised mugs still buy them from Comet thinking they are buying something reliable LOL:rolleyes: