About two years ago, I bought a home theater system — and was boned about $6,000 for it. One of the components was a Panasonic TH-42PHW5 42″ Plasma screen. The whole system is garbage — but especially the Panasonic monitor.

Anyway — a little less than two years later the monitor would immediately turn off after turned on. After hassling with the installer (since out of business) and getting him to finally call the place he got the monitor from — I was told to call All Brite Electronics — the “Authorized Panasonic Repair Center”.

I did, and knew right away from the evasiveness of the person I spoke with, that I was going to need to grease up and bend over. Long story short, these clowns gave me some mumble-jumble that they typically give old ladies (I’ve repaired electronic boards since the late 70s) about a board repair and gouged me $880.74 (Claim Number BJ65382 9) to no doubt solder in a 15 cent regulator.

6 months later — the TV is dead again. Their warranty for their repairs was only 90 days.

When you pay this much for a Plasma Monitor — you don’t expect to have throw another $880 at them every 18 months. So my advice to all of those who will listen is to stay away from any Panasonic junk, and have just about anyone in the world beside All Brite Electronics repair your stuff. If they were air conditioner repair people — they’d be the type to be pissing on your outside unit and charge you $300 for the clean job.

I’ve not repaired the TV and leave it as a testament for virtually who comes to my house — to convince them to not buy anything from Panasonic — and to not have All Brite repair anything of theirs

All Brite Electronics

3115 Fondren Rd

Houston, TX 77063

713-780-3615

STAY AWAY!!!!!