Konka tv

Bought this thing last year and so far been loving it until yesterday, lights dimmed and on resumption the thing is on and has sound but the whole screen is dark… Like what the fuck happened, can it be repaired or Issa throw…

LED strips zime burn
can be repaired easily

Tell him the truth. That’s not the problem. The problem is he decided to buy funny brand of a TV instead of saving up and buying a decent brand

Thank you

We modafuk I scratch where I reach… Not everyone affords everything

There are decent TVs for all budget segments. We hujaona juzi @Nyamgondho akiita TV yangu cheap and yet I saved a month for it?

Tifii gani iyo…

TLC

Iyo ni ya nguvu.

You mean TCL

Those kind of TVs are like that because of poor quality LEDs or backlight power supplies. If you take it to a repair shop they will replace the whole set of LEDs with a worse kind. let me give you a schooled guy advice. open the darn thing. open the plate protecting the back of the screen to get to the LEDs. test each one using appropriate voltage for failure(can use small batteries like eveready). the thing is those LED lights don’t all burn at the same time. only one burns and shuts down the power to others because they are connected in series. replace the LED light. otherwise short it and leave it out, but you will notice a not so bright patch on your TV.
next time buy a known brand that issues warranty.

PREACH!!!

He he he, yeah I always confuse the two sijui ni juu ya ile show

You’ll find out there is nothing like a cheap TV. You get what you pay for.

When Konka Launched on Kilimall and Jumia. I checked if they have a website where you can get more details but there was none. Their global website didn’t even mention the Kenyan Market. A further search on gugu revealed that they have a factory in Egypt intended to serve Africa. I went to some Egyptian website to see if they were selling their TVs there including Jumia Egypt and Souq but nikapata the models there were different to those in Kenya.

Konka are respected worldwide and see very good TVs in the USA and chinese market. But being a chinese company they aren’t prone to pulling tricks on unsuspecting customers. These TVs may even be produced by a amorphous company under KONKA’s license. I classified them in the same category with UKA, MOOKA, Vision and Bruhm and moved on.

Btw just remembered. Kilimall put a video showcasing the 55" Konka TV on youtube. I still believe the video is there. Within a week negative comments started streaming in. But then Kilimall disabled comments by the third week. I captured a few things from those comments before they were removed

  1. The TV couldn’t play netflix in full HD
  2. Some couldn’t play netflix at all
  3. Some TVs had a faulty display
  4. Some TVs had very poor sound

I think the 55" Konka was 35K which is the price of TCL 43" P8M which @Jimit owns. So considering that TCL is a value brand, how does KONKA manage to price it’s model that cheap. For comparison, the 55" TCL p8m will cost 52,000. So does TCL make almost 50% profit on a TV set. The answer is no!

Value brands will do the following

  1. Use inferior parts as components
  2. Avoid paying licenses: Like the HDCP license from Intel which will allow a TV to play 4K videos from PrimeVideo or Netflix
  3. Refuse to customize their linux/android UI and install some open-source or cheap vendor stuff which is just bare-bones crap
  4. Will never set-up a robust quality control section. So for ever 10 customers, two may receive a faulty unit.
  5. Have minimal marketing budget.

That’s how your TV becomes cheap. If they incorporated all these things, that 55" would cost 50K at the lower end but the TV would be good.

I didn’t ask you to buy an expensive TV, I just let you know that TCL did cut a few corners to give you the TV at that price. My posts only let you know the areas where TCL took shortcuts so that you can have a 4K TV in your house at a cheap price.

Just a quick-one. Go check your TVs power cable. It must look very cheap a simple cable like this

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My LG (EAK) model came with a power adapter…looks similar to a laptop charger and is extremely well built. Which explains why the TV is more expensive. That power adapter alone is worth a few sausands.

My simple advice, repair the TV if you can. Take it shaggz where people don’t watch TVs very often. Save up and buy a decent TV. if it’s a 43" 4K don’t buy models that go for less than 35K. If mungu amekubariki nunua TV iko approx 50K+. These funny brands do not have TVs in that price segment

Nyamgondho unajua kuna venye unanitusi na ata hutumii derogatory words. Why are you throwing in there the word cheap?

This thread is so timely. I’m in the market for a screen. 55" konka went out of stock about 2 months ago. The 49" model has been swinging in and out of stock periodically.
Very informative thread.

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