{"id":35912,"date":"2011-10-12T13:37:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T11:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=35912"},"modified":"2011-10-13T08:52:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T06:52:40","slug":"sony-recalls-lcd-tvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/35912-sony-recalls-lcd-tvs.html","title":{"rendered":"Sony recalls LCD TVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sony Corp\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359638-Sony-Ericsson\">Sony Corp.<\/a> says it is recalling 1.6 million LCD televisions globally because of a defect that can trigger overheating, smoke and melting parts.<\/p>\n<p>Sony says has received 11 such reports in Japan, though none involved injuries or damage beyond the TVs. The models subject to the recall in Japan are the Bravia KDL-40X5000, KDL-40X5050, KDL-40W5000, KDL-40V5000 and KDL-40V3000.<\/p>\n<p>The defective part &#8211; an inverter transformer used for LCD backlights &#8211; is also used in models sold overseas. But Sony says it has not received reports of similar problems.<\/p>\n<p>The company will release local recall information for customers in each affected market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony says it is recalling 1.6 million LCD televisions globally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":34528,"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":[15],"tags":[36,2310,5630,193,2306],"class_list":["post-35912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-lcd","tag-lcd-tv","tag-sony","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35912"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35914,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35912\/revisions\/35914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}