{"id":206370,"date":"2017-04-10T10:54:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T08:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=206370"},"modified":"2017-04-10T15:25:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:25:44","slug":"sinotech-full-hd-tvs-pass-with-full-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/206370-sinotech-full-hd-tvs-pass-with-full-marks.html","title":{"rendered":"Sinotec Full HD TVs pass with full marks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/205426-fake-full-hd-tv-scandal-in-south-africa-exposed.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>our investigation<\/strong><\/a> into\u00a0incorrectly-labelled &#8220;Full HD&#8221; TVs in South Africa, many readers contacted us with information and requests for our testing to be expanded.<\/p>\n<p>EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) testing showed that multiple JVC and Telefunken TVs sold at retailers like Game were marketed as Full HD, but did not contain Full HD &#8211; 1,920 x 1,080 &#8211; panels.<\/p>\n<p>Game&#8217;s parent company Massmart\u00a0quarantined the affected stock after conducting its own investigation, while the distributor Nu-World Industries and the National Consumer Commission will decide the way forward in terms of a potential recall.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More TVs tested<\/h3>\n<p>MyBroadband has continued its investigation and testing of more TV makes and models, with Makro and Sinotec the next store\/brand combination\u00a0on the list.<\/p>\n<p>MyBroadband visited Makro Centurion and conducted EDID tests on five Sinotec TVs &#8211; all of which showed they had the maximum resolutions that they advertised.<\/p>\n<p>The Sinotec TVs which were tested and passed were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>32-inch Full HD &#8211; <strong>STL-32FD30<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>40-inch Full HD &#8211; <strong>STL-40E3000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>40-inch UHD &#8211; <strong>STL-40E6000M<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>40-inch Full HD &#8211; <strong>STL-40W4000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>43-inch Full HD &#8211; <strong>STL-43E390M<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A special mention must go out to the staff working in Makro&#8217;s TV section &#8211; all were very helpful and ready to provide assistance when asked.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/204898-the-complex-world-of-tv-prices-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The complex world of TV prices in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We expanded our Full HD investigation to more stores and more TV brands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":206380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[35,849,7153],"class_list":["post-206370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-headline","tag-makro","tag-sinotec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206382,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206370\/revisions\/206382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}