Konka tv

[HAWLETT]

@Nyamgondho

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

Do you know a guy that can repair and if it’s repaired do I get the same Quality display or I lose the display quality

@Nyamgondho

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.

[Nyamgondho]

@HAWLETT

Do you know a guy that can repair and if it’s repaired do I get the same Quality display or I lose the display quality

Enda Luthuli Avenue tafuta duka inauza Konka ask the seller to point you to a repair shop. Utatengenezewa but just like @Rene Descartes has told you; this will officially be the beginning of the end

[Nyamgondho]

@Jimit

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

Hapana si matusi. Just buy a TV-guard plug and you’ll be fine.Without that, the TV may not last more than a year with these KPLC power fluctuations.

[Jimit]

@Nyamgondho

Hapana si matusi. Just buy a TV-guard plug and you’ll be fine.Without that, the TV may not last more than a year with these KPLC power fluctuations.

Na nani amekushw TV guard haiko. From single electronic in the house has a guard on

[Lerionka]

According to kilimall the service center for konka is at KONKA TV Godown 21, Athi 55 Business Park, Mlolongo, Athi River, Machakos

[Nyamgondho]

@Lerionka

According to kilimall the service center for konka is at KONKA TV Godown 21, Athi 55 Business Park, Mlolongo, Athi River, Machakos

Sounds about right. They are trying to save cash. Anisuma service center for Sony iko town, LG iko mombasa road sijui samsung iko wapi. Chances are the service centre maintains a wide variety of brands kama vision, uka, mooka and so on.

It doesn’t make sense to have a full go down if you have sold like 500 TVs.

Ukinunua hii TV u will regret it soon or later

the OP already paid 28K for a TV that will last him for a year. Someone else paid 40K for a TV that will last him 5 years. Who made the better decision?

[Lerionka]

@Nyamgondho

Sounds about right. They are trying to save cash. Anisuma service center for Sony iko town, LG iko mombasa road sijui samsung iko wapi. Chances are the service centre maintains a wide variety of brands kama vision, uka, mooka and so on.

It doesn’t make sense to have a full go down if you have sold like 500 TVs.

Ukinunua hii TV u will regret it soon or later

the OP already paid 28K for a TV that will last him for a year. Someone else paid 40K for a TV that will last him 5 years. Who made the better decision?

Cheap is expensive

[ChifuMbitika]

@Nyamgondho

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 LG too has a power adapter that converts AC to DC. I think this is a good safety device that protects the set from power surges and frequent power rationing. Ama vipi?

[ChifuMbitika]

@Lerionka

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.

TOA za macho Kwa Mzee @Nyamgondho

[ChifuMbitika]

@Master JG

Tables Ladders and Chairs

Tender Love and Care

[CUrtiz]

Mimi nimedumu na hii vitron 43 "yangu for 5 years na haijawai misbehave.I think its time I upgrade too.meanwhile looking for a market for this one

[Bobaa]

Cheap is expensive. I’ve had Samsung series 5 since 2012. No issues since day one. TV iko gangari. My son akichapa screen na kiatu last year but still iko intact.

[Giggz]

@Nyamgondho

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

[ATTACH=full]306455[/ATTACH]

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.

Wacha niketi pale nicheke

[Susskid]

@Lerionka

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.

Your name sounds like a chinese TV brand.Lerionka

[Lerionka]

@Susskid

Your name sounds like a chinese TV brand.Lerionka

It’s a good idea btw.

[ademba]

Ithink these TV brands ziutake Kenyans na africans as bunch of fools and cheap loving people.for example jumia directs its UKA customers to CARLCARE LUTHULI na CAXTON HOUSE. Does it mean syinix has the same service centre na UKA?

[mr_shairman]

@ademba

Ithink these TV brands ziutake Kenyans na africans as bunch of fools and cheap loving people.for example jumia directs its UKA customers to CARLCARE LUTHULI na CAXTON HOUSE. Does it mean syinix has the same service centre na UKA?

Haha yeah right, about a month ago my skyworth 5years old had its backlights burnout en had to take it at luthuli as directed by skyworth help line. Kwenda huko nilipata ma brand zingine mob sana, en I was like how now nikasema haidhuru basi.

[nerveelectron]

@Nyamgondho

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.

Thank you for this kind of information

[hadadoh]

Genuine Konka should be ok. I have used skyworth and it is durable and maybe it also depends on how you handle it.
Someones else skyworth 43 inch screen development audio issues in less than 1 year na ni mimi nilimwekea order.

[BBIsiMuhimu]

@Seer

LED strips zime burn
can be repaired easily

Is that what causes vertical lines on some of them? My aunt has Samsung that is not even 2 years old na it has vertical lines. She asked me for advice.