RCA F38310 38" 16:9 HDTV with Built-In DirecTV and HDTV Receivers
Better pray it doesn't break
I've owned my F38310 for 30 months and have had relatively little problem with it. Picture quality is good, far superior over any rear projection TV that I have seen.<BR>Last week my wife called me at work saying the TV was making a &quot;beeping and whistling&quot; sound and that there was a burning smell coming from it. I told her to unplug the set immediately. A service man came out the next day and made no secret of the fact that these TV's were a big mistake on the part of RCA. He went through the motions of checking a few things and then just removed the whole chassis to take it with them to the shop.<BR>Earlier today I received a repair estimate for $1,350! The DM1 module, which is basically the brain of this TV, is gone and needs to be replaced. For a TV that is not even 3 years old, that is absolutely unacceptable!<BR>I'm not sure yet how I am going to run with this, but I will put up a struggle before I get handed a bill that big. The amount exceeds 50% of the purchase value of the actual TV, which just boggles my mind.<BR>Maybe other owners are luckier and will never have this problem, but reading through the reviews here gives me little indication that this is an isolated problem.<br />I should have known better than to buy an RCA....