Alain Fontaine’s Jabberbox

So, for Christmas I got myself a very nice Apple TV2, which I love. As we still own a pretty old Plasma TV set which features only 2 HDMI inputs, I had to get a HDMI switch to connect all of our gear. Without really paying attention, I chose a Philips 4-port automatic HDMI switch.

It worked very well for two weeks now – until this evening when it just went black and never came back. The power indicator LED doesn’t even come on anymore. Of course I tried it with everything disconnected and on various power plugs. It’s DEAD. I can surely have it replaced on warranty, but …

This put into the context of my other big Philips failure, makes me definitely now say that I will NEVER, EVER buy any of this cheap-ass Philips bullshit anymore. EVER!

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ever.

It’s about time I depressurize a bit on these two very annoying pieces of hardware. Why ?

1. The Philips HTS7502/12 bluray homecinema kit has a lot of trouble reading the latest Bluray disks
2. The Lenovo X301 high-end laptop ships with an SSD disk that does not support TRIM

The issues identified make me classify these two pieces of hardware as DON’T BUY.

Read on to find out more…

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