Westinghouse firmware

Hi everyone I have westinghouse 19w6 tv recently I've noticed that when i set timer and it starts to count down last 60 seconds before it turns off, I see number of seconds left and some chinese characters next to it (what's very annoying; it drives me nuts) I called westinghouse and they had a good laugh at my expense and gave me the number to repair center Since it out of warranty they won't let me download firmware updates, if any Does anyone know where i can find ? thanks

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ypylaw1
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Wow!

Sure not like the good 'ole days when companies/corps would bend over backwards to keep client loyalty.

Thanks for the wake up call. I'll make sure I skip consideration of any westinghouse products ...

Regards, JS

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John Smith

Westinghouse has been gone for years, it exists only as a name slapped on Chinese junk. Brand names are nearly worthless anymore.

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James Sweet

Yes, of course you are correct ... cheap junk, plastic fronts and neon signs, loud/blaring commercials ... todays world kinda reminds me of a cheap bordello in NV.

Regards, JS

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John Smith

Many of these low end electronics manufactures will not supply parts or service info to non contracted service reps.

Personaly, I would not go to all that trouble for a low end TV set.

There are a number of old name brand appliances and electronic devices where the names were bought up by production companies in the Orient. Westinghouse was one of them. The US Westinghouse has nothing to do with the consumer products. Under agreement, they will direct a consumer to the consumer manufacture.

Personaly, If the TV is working okay, I would see if I could sell it to someone who does not care about the extra fonts, and get a good quality name brand TV.

Just for curosity, is there a language setting in that TV? If there is, try chaning the language, save the setting, and then go back to the English one. Maybe this might help.

Jerry G. ======

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Jerry G.

"James Sweet ............................. Westinghouse has been gone for years, it exists only as a name slapped on Chinese junk. Brand names are nearly worthless anymore. "

As "James Sweet" said, "Westinghouse" buys "Chinese junk" from China, then American people buy it from "Westinghouse" and use it. So I want to ask dear you, if Chinese oem goods are junk, why "Westinghouse" buys the junk, why American people use the junk??

Assumed that Chinese goods are junk, and you--"American People" and "Westinghouse" are still buying and using the junk, so who are you? Buyer of junk or User of junk, or ** ??

Grow up, American!!

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www.ningbo-electric.com

Sounds good, until you look at the stickers on chit. Even the glass in my "made in America" old car (1998) has a sticker stating it was made in china. The new buick does not have this sticker--you think they stopped making it in china, or do you think they just stopped telling us?

I think the latter ...

I want to know where even my dog/cat food comes from, I don't want to eat any irradiated poison foods, I don't want to eat foods from foreign countries, I don't want to eat foods sprayed with deadly nerve gas (and the is EXACTLY what some insecticides are), I don't want to eat cloned animals--you think I have a FAT chance of even knowing what the cr*p I eat is?

Regards,

JS

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John Smith

To some extend, I agree with JS. Pass and reflect, could we view this issue as: "is the Westinghouse(or other famous comopanies) responsible for letting the consumers know where are the goods original from??" So that the consumers can have the judgement of selecting the goods made in China or the goods made in USA. Now we are living in world of worldwide ecnomics, 2 important factors of which kind of goods consumers will buy are: "brand" and "orignial", so it would better if the distributors in the country can let consumers konw these information.

Brds! alex

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www.ningbo-electric.com

The point is not *where* the goods are produced, but rather that many classic American brands which built up reputations by building quality goods are no longer the companies they once were, but rather names that have been purchased by other companies and stamped on generally low end goods. They could be made in China, they could be made in Korea, they could be made in America, but it doesn't change the situation of a no-name company producing cheap junk and slapping recognized names on the goods to give the impression of quality.

Not everything that comes from China is junk, and the quality does seem to be improving, perhaps it will be the next Japan, but there is a *LOT* of poor quality junk which had flooded in from China and it will take a while for that repuation to change. I used to avoid buying it but I gave up, you simply can't find anything made here anymore.

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James Sweet

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"you simply can't find anything made here anymore. ", it is due to "economic globlization" which is initiated and promoted by developed countries, then more and more developing countries are open gates for the developed ones. "economic globlization" takes greater global connectedness of livelihoods, and of the production of goods and services, just take this as one case: Chinese people buy USA cars or high technology, and USA people buy Chinese OEM TVs. At first developed countries enjoy the advantages of world being of "economic globlization", but finnally negative effects are coming out: more and more companies are moving into developing countries, more and more USA guys are unemployed, ......

But it is still obvious that:USA still is the number one in the world, USA are processing most advanced technologies, taking control of most upriver industirals, USA has the best educations and creative which result in that more and more elites from other countries come to USA to have eduction and attemp to immigrate into USA. Let me tell you the truth, Chinse people perfer the cars of USA Brands than cars of Chinese Brands.

I have to admit that there are many quality problems of Chinese goods, that is right, Chinese goods have gained no or a little reputation in USA, it still need many years and efforts for Chinese Brands to catch up USA Brands which have already gained high reputation in world for many years.But they are improving they are making movements in the competitive world, there will be one day that USA people are pleasure to buy and use the goods made in China.

Also about the lables or stamps, if the goods are from China, there must will be with clear print or marks like "made in China" or "manufactured in China" in visible positions,such as on blister,on box or on logo.

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