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Hi Paul,
Tuesday, March 23, 2004, 10:21:52 PM, you wrote:
PC> Yuki,
PC> Dead guns in monitors happen all the time. It's a very common
PC> fault that shouldn't cost that much to fix. Usually just a
PC> transistor plus labour. I would get a quote for getting the old
PC> monitor fixed. Just about any TV repair place should be able to
PC> handle the job. Unless it was the tube of course; then forget
PC> it.
I would have considered that Paul, but this particular Viewsonic I
had shipped from America -- I got a great price even with the
shipping at that time. Trying to get anyone in Japan to touch
anything that wasn't made in Japan is nearly impossible. And there
are very, very few independent TV shops in Japan -- I don't even know
of any, although surely there must be some somewhere. Almost all are
subsidiaries of the big manufacturers. So not only won't they touch
"foreign" stuff, they won't even touch stuff not made by their own
parent companies. It's one of the sad things about Japan: We don't
repair *anything* anymore, and haven't for a long time. We just junk
it and buy new.
If you ever visit here you will be amazed by the traffic. Not by the
volume of it, but by its makeup. There is little on the road here
that is more than 3 or 4 years old. A few, but only a very few. We
have strict laws about inspections (mandatory and very costly) that
are required more and more frequently the more a car ages. After a
few years, it just about costs less to buy a new car than to go
through the hassle and pay the big money for inspections so often.
Nice, cozy government-industrial relationship. ^^_^^
Yuki
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