Re: The Sharp CS chassis- our least favourite TV
I think Sharp were convinced that the CS would make service engineers redundant as it was such a reliable chassis and the whole chassis could be replaced by a fairly unskilled tech if it did go wrong.
That was the theory.
However putting everything on an A4 sized chassis with a dodgy LOPT and flaky power supply inches away from a lot of SMD ICs was asking for trouble which they certainly got!
After rebuilding one you'd put an aerial in, sort out the E/W and then - oh no, where's the sound? Ah - a hole in the flat pack class-D IC....
It was a triumph of design, but in the real world should never have been produced. Their subsequent return to conventional chassis proved this, and being on normal SRBP with no clever twists probably cost less to produce.
Their LCD sets were actually pretty good - just repaired an early 12-year old set which just needed an on-off switch and works fine. The biggest problem was the screen in the LD44 which used short-lived backlight tubes. Easy to replace, but at £20 each?
Don't complain about Vestel Sharps until you've seen a UMC Sharp...
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