This piece of information is for people who have bought or planning to buy Sony Bravia television.

Have you ever wondered what Showrooms usually do with their display pieces of their high cost television’s? Well they either sell it to people who buy display products willingly (with huge discount) or try to cheat unsuspecting common man by making them believe that it’s a brand new box piece.

Here is a little story that I experienced few months ago, I bought my brand new Sony Bravia 42 Inches W700B smart TV from a reputed showroom(E-zone). Within a week of purchase, I visited the showroom to get few things clarified about the television set. While getting things clarified, I noticed that the TV which was demonstrated to me was not displayed anymore in the showroom. When I asked one of the showroom folks, he said it was sold out. I was convinced somehow, but while returning home I remembered that showroom folks had told me that they do not sell display pieces to anyone. For a second, I thought they could have sold that display piece to me and might be lying now. I did some research to find out if there is a way to we can check the usage hours of the TV. 

Here are the steps you can also follow too when your product gets delivered.

The following steps are applicable for most of the Sony Bravia televisions irrespective of the button placement on the remote, different versions of Sony TV remote can have button placed in a different order.

1. Take the remote in your hand

                           

2. 
   Switch off your television if its already ON.

                                                                      

3. 
   
   
   Now Click the following sequence of Button with less than 2 seconds gap. Make sure your television is on Stand-by Mode[Your TV enters Stand By mode as soon as you switch it off].

 

4. Following Self Check Screen will be displayed when you follow sequence mentioned in above step:  

       

                  


In the above Screen, Bottom-left of the screen contains set of three numbers as highlighted. Now let’s look at what these three numbers actually mean.

The first 5 character’s(00296) indicates TV Operation Hours, the Center 5 character’s (00168) indicate Boot count and the last 5 characters (00310) indicate LCD Panel Hours

Definition of each component

TV Operation Hours: The total number of hours the TV has operated.

Boot count: The total number of times the television was rebooted/restarted.

LCD Panel Hours: The total number of hours the television LCD panel has operated.

Hope the information provided above was quite useful. Please do share the information with your friends and family to make sure they do not get cheated by showroom sales men.