Bloody useless Teac DV-B420

[Garry Ozols]

Well I finally got the time to take my 420 to the Teac service tech last
week because it would get hot and then freeze up, last time it did this all
I could get out of it was pictures in primary colours.
Tech rang yesterday and said that the output was set to RGB and I was
running it to component, thus the primary colour issue. took it home,
plugged it in and it ran for about 4 hours then the picture just
died..............nothing but a blue screen. I took it back to the tech
again today and now await the verdict. Look like he will have to send it to
Teac for them to look at it, he says its about a 3 week turnaround,
hopefully they will replace it with a newer model, but I wont hold my
breath.
thanks for letting me rant
Garry

--
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." - Lazarus Long
..

[Michael Trebilcock]

Avoid TEAC in the future.. For anything..

Everything TEAC i've bought has had incurable problems.

The S-Video on the model of TV I had (I got a refund, after A LOT of fuss)
had a manufacturing fault in it's S-Video support. Every TV of that model (I
forget which one now) had it, and therefore couldn't be replaced nor fixed
(TEAC said it was supposed to be that way, lol). It was way too red. New
Sharp TV is fine ;)

TEAC DV-2000 doesn't like many burnt DVD's and cannot read any brand of
CD-R's at all. I had the lazer replaced on it and it didn't help.

A TEAC set top box I saw in a Retrovision store was making the picture
flicker black for 1 frame, every 10 secs or so.

So just avoid them ;)

and yeah... don't hold your breath, I went through FOUR of those faulty TEAC
TV's before I blew my top and had enough of TEAC.. Talk to the head-office
of the store you bought it from and get a replacement of a different brand.

"Garry Ozols" <garryozols at optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:42392910$0$12026$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...
> Well I finally got the time to take my 420 to the Teac service tech last
> week because it would get hot and then freeze up, last time it did this
> all I could get out of it was pictures in primary colours.
> Tech rang yesterday and said that the output was set to RGB and I was
> running it to component, thus the primary colour issue. took it home,
> plugged it in and it ran for about 4 hours then the picture just
> died..............nothing but a blue screen. I took it back to the tech
> again today and now await the verdict. Look like he will have to send it
> to Teac for them to look at it, he says its about a 3 week turnaround,
> hopefully they will replace it with a newer model, but I wont hold my
> breath.
> thanks for letting me rant
> Garry
>
> --
> "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." - Lazarus Long
> .
>
>

[Bruce Graham]

In article <42392910$0$12026$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, "Garry
Ozols" <garryozols at optusnet.com.au> says...
> Well I finally got the time to take my 420 to the Teac service tech last
> week because it would get hot and then freeze up, last time it did this all
> I could get out of it was pictures in primary colours.

Mine had a similar fault.

> Tech rang yesterday and said that the output was set to RGB and I was
> running it to component, thus the primary colour issue. took it home,
> plugged it in and it ran for about 4 hours then the picture just
> died..............nothing but a blue screen. I took it back to the tech
> again today and now await the verdict. Look like he will have to send it to
> Teac for them to look at it, he says its about a 3 week turnaround,
> hopefully they will replace it with a newer model, but I wont hold my
> breath.
> thanks for letting me rant
> Garry
>

I took mine back to Port Melbourne on a friday afternoon (LOTS of traffic
and delay) and they refused to accept it for warranty repair. Knowing
that it had only been on the market for less than a year (the warranty
period) I had skipped digging out the receipt. The ape on the counter
was not the least bit interested in helping. I took it back to my local
Myer store (with receipt) and they exchanged it. Hopefully they have a
way to stick it sideways up TEAC and hopefully the new one will last more
than the six months I got out of the old one. It does recover an
excellent RGB picture from a crappy signal however.

But:
1. a multimeter on its antenna shield shows 110VAC leakage on three
units I have measured. I measured because I could feel a tingle when
plugging in my antenna.

2. it won't release the SCART AV connection on the TV when you turn off
the power, (unless you quickly cycle the TEAC power line an extra time).
This is probably related to the ground leakage fault above.

3. it once tripped an earth leakage breaker when plugging in the antenna
- probably also the same problem.

4. it produces nasty interference to the analog signal, especially
channel 2, even when switched to standby - you need to rip its plug out
of the wall if you need to watch analog and of course the video recorder
is now essentially useless if you are watching digital TV while wanting
to record another channel.

I think other people have documented all these problems except 3. at one
time or another.

I won't be buying another TEAC product full stop, but I will continue to
buy from Myers even at full list price (as this was).

Bruce

[Mot Adv-NSW]

"Michael Trebilcock" <trebs@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
news:42393727$0$27564$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
> Avoid TEAC in the future.. For anything..
>
> Everything TEAC i've bought has had incurable problems.

TEAC are in Sat TV terms like UEC. Garbage!

[Peter Allen]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:51:59 +1100, "Garry Ozols" <garryozols at
optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>Well I finally got the time to take my 420 to the Teac service tech last
>week because it would get hot and then freeze up, last time it did this all
>I could get out of it was pictures in primary colours.
>Tech rang yesterday and said that the output was set to RGB and I was
>running it to component, thus the primary colour issue. took it home,
>plugged it in and it ran for about 4 hours then the picture just
>died..............nothing but a blue screen. I took it back to the tech
>again today and now await the verdict. Look like he will have to send it to
>Teac for them to look at it, he says its about a 3 week turnaround,
>hopefully they will replace it with a newer model, but I wont hold my
>breath.
>thanks for letting me rant
>Garry

The S-Video output on mine lost almost all constrast 6 months after I
bought it (seems to be the magic number for these units). A day later
both the S-Video and composite outputs (all I had connected) died.
After a day cooling its heels unplugged, I tried to troubleshoot it on
a better TV. Initially composite was fine, S-Video was bright again
but had a fine cross-hatch patterning. After an hour both outputs just
dropped out.

I've found one advantage of purchasing this level of equipment from
K-Mart - money back no questions asked, no warranty rubbish. You can
then purchase something else, or the same unit brand new with another
12 months warranty (and maybe some problems fixed - yeah, yeah, just
joking, but one lives in hope :-) So I didn't have to travel to one of
the only two Teac warranty service centres in Melbourne (Port
Melbourne and Dandenong - both of which are very inconvenient).

Cheers,
Peter