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Summary: bad monitor
Review: Hi,
I'm just adding my 2 cents to this monitor mess. I bought my original monitor not quite 2 years ago. Today, my 3rd replacement monitor is now going bad, and I will be contacting SONY to have a 4th monitor sent to me as replacement. Every monitor has done the exact same thing, after so much time, some type of weird greenish monitor flicker starts, usually intermittent at first, and then always. My system is on 24/7, and the monitor does shut off when not in use.
This monitor is terrible. Very disappointed in Sony, the new one cost me $900.
A good thing to note is that SONY has been good about shipping me replacement monitors.
-Jerry
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Summary: Very bad product. bad service
Review: I bought this monitor(SONY SDM-S81R) from DELL last december. It suddenly failed to work after 8 months. SONY sent me a refurbrished one for replacement. This one sony sent is a crapy old one. It even had a stick on it... They did not even clean it before sending out. They refuse to send a new one. The waiting time for customer service takes about 20min.
I called DELL for help, but dell does not want to do anything..
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Summary: Great Image after you fix it
Review: I had problems with this monitor 5 months after I received it. I saw pixels flickering in green all over the screen. It appeared to be electronic noise or interference. I sent it in to Sony for repairs and it was fine for 7 months and then the problem occurred again. This time sony wanted $275 to fix it since the warranty period had expired. FOR ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE THIS PROBLEM DO THE FOLLOWING:
- Remove the screws to the pedestal, and remove the pedestal
- put the monitor face down and remove the screws holding the back cover in place.
- carefully pry off the back cover (it snaps onto the front cover.
- You will see two heat shields covering the power suppy and controller card.
- Remove them (if you plug your monitor back into your system you will notice that the noise problem is gone)
- Line the inside of the heat shield that does not make contact with the IC with duct tape and secure the cables that are under the controller card with duct tape
- Put the heat shields, back cover, and pedestal back on.
- The problem should be gone.
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Summary: Major Problems!!!
Review: I have gone through 3 Sony SDM-S81 monitors and still can't get one that will work more than a month or two. I am trying now to get a replacement model from Sony - they have sent 3 rebuilt units that all end up doing the same thing. Screen has green-glittery haze and contoured lines moving around screen. Very disappointed with Sony for this junk of a monitor. Paid 800.00 for mis-engineered Sony mistake apparently.
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Summary: DON'T Buy Sony SDM-S81!!!!
Review: I'm having the exact same problem. IN the begining everything was great, but after a year it is flashing green pixels around dark black contours.
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Summary: Great monitor. No problems whatsoever
Review: I'm not sure what the problem is with the previous 2 reviewers. We've got a large number of these monitors installed in my office, and there have been no problems whatsoever. Both text and images are quite clear with excellent color balance, brightness, and contrast, with excellent and simple controls via the buttons on the front of the bezel. The screen is viewable from a wide angle (an advantage in an office setting when others need to see what's on the screen, of course).There's an easily-lifted panel on the back which conceals the power connector and the video cable connector, and the user needs to make sure the cables are flat in order to properly shut the panel; but that hasn't been an issue. I recommend this monitor.
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Summary: Major Problems!!!
Review: I've had the same problems with this monitor. This first year is was fine and then it started to go. I called SONY and they send me a rebuilt and that one did the same this after a week. I am now on to my third monitor and just today it started to go bad. So it looks like I'll be calling SONY again. I very disappointed I've got a SONY TV that is 30 years old. I guess they just don't built things like they used to.
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Summary: Big Problems
Review: I've had the same problems with this monitor. This first year is was fine and then it started to go. I called SONY and they send me a rebuilt and that one did the same this after a week. I am now on to my third monitor and just today it started to go bad. So it looks like I'll be calling SONY again. I very disappointed I've got a SONY TV that is 30 years old. I guess they just don't built things like they used to.
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Summary: DON'T Buy Sony SDM-S81
Review: My Sony SDM-S81 was fine when I first got it, but now it's having major problems. Every now and then it flips out, creating a haze of flashing green pixels around dark black contours, red pixels around tan contours and blue just shimmers. Now it's even worse, flipping all the dark parts to gray lines unless I raise the brightness enough. I don't know if anyone else is having this problem, but i wouldn't recomend this monitor. And sony won't even look at it to be fixed cause it's been 6 months since i got it.
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Summary: Really BAD LCD !!!
Review: The LCD is beginning to go bad. Green hazy areas - comes and goes. I started checking out websites to see if there were any reported problems and came accross the reviews posted here about the major problems with the LCD. I guess trying to get a replacement is not going to help.
I was a real Sony fan. I've always bought Sony T.Vs. This has really ticked me off.
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