back in febuary 2000 i purchased a KDS 17" CRT, model vs-7e. it came with a 3 yr warrantee. it completely failed after 18months. i figure no big deal ill just RMA it and that will be that. boy was i wrong. the replacement i got started going bad after about 4-5 months. the picture was noticeably blurry compared to a 2nd monitor i had at the time. i put up with this for about 6mo becasue i was just too damn lazy to RMA it and I was using my laptop primarily anyhow. so finally i decide to send back the replacement and the picture quality of replacement#2 was worse than replacement#1 out of the box, ack!. furthermore it would take replacement#2 sometimes as long as 2minutes to display the picture. i would restart the computer and after the comp shut down the picture would stay black for 2min. it wasnt until windows was already up and running that the picture would finally pop up on the monitor. so replacement#2 lasts about 2 days. replacement#3 is a brand new VS-7p, not a refurb like replacement #2, great i think. 8 months later replacement#3 goes bad. a slight burning smell followed by blurry patches on the screen, sigh. and now they tell me that my warrantee was up in october, even though i bought the monitor in feb of 2000.
to summarize:
model, time to fail or become unusable
vs-7e, 18months
vs-7i, 5 months
vs-7i (refurb), unusable upon arrival
vs-7p, 8 months
needless to say i will never buy from kds again
to summarize:
model, time to fail or become unusable
vs-7e, 18months
vs-7i, 5 months
vs-7i (refurb), unusable upon arrival
vs-7p, 8 months
needless to say i will never buy from kds again