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Default Matsui LM19W1 (stuck in standby)

On 8 dic, 11:21, "Arfa Daily" wrote: Thing
is, the
stuff is so cheap now that it's hardly worth worrying about service once the
warranty is out. I was looking just the other day at a 22" fully featured
LCD TV for my newly remodelled kitchen. Built in Freeview receiver, HD,
1000:1 contrast ratio etc etc. UK£179 ! That was from Argos and was some
'never-heard-of' brand, and you would probably say that being in the trade,
I ought to know better, but c'mon ... 179 quid ?? Got to be worth a punt at
that hasn't it ? Anything lost really, if it's naffed-out after 2 years ?

Arfa


Arfa,
I sympathise with what you say here, and from a purely practical
consumer standpoint it is hard to disagree. However, this throwaway
approach is somewhat abhorrent, and has environmental costs which are
borne by us all, through taxes for waste treatment and public
recycling schemes - the manufacturers have only a limited liability
for what happens to their shoddy junk when it expires.

A lot of time and money are needed to deal with the after effects of
this mentality. And worse still, it is particularly the poorer folk in
the third world who bear the brunt - the drive for more raw materials
(metals, minerals etc) leads to civil wars and instability in places
like the congo for example. To keep the costs of our monitors, tvs and
dvds down, whole countries end up being privatized (or should that be
privateered!) and the wealth from their resources exported.

It's not only the production process, but hazardous e-waste from the
first world often ends up in slums in India and Nigeria where the
local water supplies are contaminated....the list really is almost
endless when you look into it a bit.

Anyway, not having a pop at you, my intention is just to comment on
the situation we're all in. but I think more people should be aware
that their buying decisions do have consequences, affecting people
unseen by them. B