Philips 49PUS7100 - Bug 12 - What time is it?

This post is part of a series of posts that I am currently writing about the bugs that I have found in my Philips TV since I bought it in January 2016   The twelfth problem Just the other day I managed to capture some images of an eleventh issue that the TV has. It apparently sucks at telling time correctly. I turned the TV on because I wanted to record the current program, but it didn’t go q... [More]

Philips 49PUS7100 - Bug 7, 8 and 9 and a major meltdown

This post is part of a series of posts that I am currently writing about the bugs that I have found in my Philips TV since I bought it in January 2016 After installing the update in May I was getting tired of the dialogue with the support from Philips, we started getting accustomed to common errors and various issues with the TV. The problems we have had falls in to 3 primary groups.   The se... [More]

Philips 49PUS7100 - Bug 11 - Recording and viewing at the same time

This post is part of a series of posts that I am currently writing about the bugs that I have found in my Philips TV since I bought it in January 2016 Yet another bug has shown its face on the TV.   The eleventh problem This bug occurred at a time, when I had paused live TV and had rewound the recording to see the program. All of a sudden when playing the recording the screen suddenly went bl... [More]

Philips 49PUS7100 - Bug 10 - more strange behaviors

This post is part of a series of posts that I am currently writing about the bugs that I have found in my Philips TV since I bought it in January 2016 I updated the TV back in January but I had lost faith in the fact the Philips probably couldn’t fix the problems, and I was right. Instead I started seeing new issues as well.   The tenth problem When watching Netflix we suddenly started seeing... [More]

Philips 49PUS7100 - Bug 6 - EPG? isn’t that something new?

This post is part of a series of posts that I am currently writing about the bugs that I have found in my Philips TV since I bought it in January 2016   The sixth problem While waiting for the response to bug 2, 3, 4 and 5, I encountered yet another bug. This bug was experienced when I attempted to start the EPG, when I got this error It is nothing serious as it is “just” a message saying th... [More]

Philips 49PUS7100 - Bug 4 and 5 - Visiting with an old friend with a twist and questioning why you should record flow TV

This post is part of a series of posts that I am currently writing about the bugs that I have found in my Philips TV since I bought it in January 2016 While I was communicating with Philips support regarding bug 2 and 3 I had two new bad experiences just adding to the my annoyance.   The fourth problem Bug number 4 starts out like my bug number 2. It starts by showing the “Safe mode” error me... [More]

Philips 49PUS7100 - Bug 2 and 3 - Time to stop using apps and watching TV

This post is part of a series of posts that I am currently writing about the bugs that I have found in my Philips TV since I bought it in January 2016   So after having experienced my first bug on my TV and having installed my first software update from Philips, I was thinking that it might be a good TV after all. But that feeling didn’t last long and the update was only newly installed when ... [More]