March 17, 2006

Philips Electronics to Fix 12,000 42-inch and 50-inch Flat-Screens Due to Overheating

It's kind of cool when a TV doubles as a bank like we spoke about this morning. It' not cool when a TV doubles as a grill. According to MSNBC:

Dutch company Philips Electronics will make house calls to repair almost 12,000 flat panel plasma TV sets in the United States because they are liable to overheating, it said on Friday.
Several incidents of overheating have been reported in the United States but Philips said materials used in the television sets were all flame retardant and there was no risk that they would catch fire.

this appears to only be an issue in the US:

The problem occurred in 42-inch and 50-inch sets. It is restricted to the United States, because the faulty capacitors involved are used only in the assembly lines for the U.S. market.

So if you own one of these TVs, keep an eye out for the repair guy. Kudos to Philips for doing the in-home repair.

At MSNBC.com