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Dec 28, 2010 spike spinelli     Bought shop NBC, no help with problems. Replaced color wheel twice, bulb once a...

Oct 28, 2010 B Bryant     Purchased a few years back form NBC Shop Network. Never received remote on orig...

Oct 27, 2010 qstine     Bought my Vivitek from a discount store in 2009.I will never buy this brand agai...

Feb 18, 2010 Carol     I too bought this from Shop NBC and it's been just sitting most of the time as I...

Dec 3, 2009 leroy stanton     I had to buy extra gadgets to get hd signal. Other universal controls won't cont...

Nov 19, 2009 dirtydan8457     the biggest piece of garbage u could waste 2k on ....have tv about 2 1/2 yrs and...

Jun 26, 2009 Deal Tent     Horrible, Horrible, Horrible, Horrible, Horrible, Horrible, Horrible, Horrible, ...

Mar 30, 2009 ChrisInMaine     I purchased this set from ShopNBC back in December of 2005.Initially I was disma...

Mar 11, 2009 Mike B     Color wheel went out at 6 mo. Out again! Can't hardly find anyone to repair it!...

Feb 3, 2009 John     I bought my vivitek in 2006 and it`s been great. When I first bought it I hooked...

Jan 3, 2009 vito resciniti

Dec 14, 2008 Jennifer Lynch     Absolutely horrible! My husband had never purchased anything online before and ...

Oct 2, 2008 chief     LAMP FAILURE 2 TIMES,COLOR WHEEL. BEARING GOING BAD NOW,NO PLACE TO GET PARTS,NO...

Aug 6, 2008 cage     had nothing but trouble with since the day i bought it the bulb went out in 13 m...

Mar 2, 2008 Carol     My colors all bleed together and the TV is only 1 year old. I can not find a TV...

Mar 1, 2008 michael b.     just like every i have the same problem with the tv go green and then cut itself...

Jan 19, 2008 LisaCrow2     I bought this television in 2006 for my husband, as a Father Day's gift. It has...

Jan 13, 2008 JOE KLING     Vivitek and Shop NBC is a Rip Off. ...

Jan 9, 2008 ripped off also

Dec 6, 2007 Lewis Cox     Bought from Shop NBC and the color wheel bearing burned out in 11 months. Took ...

Dec 5, 2007 nikki     Flashes green. I was told it was the bulb also, so I paid 200.00 to fix it and d...

Nov 11, 2007 Dumber     In Dec. 3, 2006 I call and purchased a 51" Vivitek from ShopNBC. I believed that...

Oct 17, 2007 carldodd     Just like everyone else on the internet, I got ripped off. I bought mine new an...

Sep 12, 2007 stupid consumer lol     MY HUBBY AND I BOUGHT THIS "HEADACHE" FOR EACH OTHER IN DEC. 05.1(YEP ONE MONTH ...

Aug 11, 2007 Merserve     It only lasted 10 Months. I might as well burned the $2,000 dollars! I will n...

Jul 24, 2007 connie mcintyre     Bought this tv in december of 2005 from a shopping channel thought it would be a...

Jul 12, 2007 paccstroop     Ordered in Dec '05, for Superbowl. TV arrived in February after the Superbowl. P...

Jul 11, 2007 Jules     My TV was supposed to arrive before the SuperBowl 2006 and it came almost 6 week...

Jan 6, 2007 cdlang     i ordered this xmas 2005 suppose to be delivered before xmas.never came til midd...

Jan 6, 2007 vivtek sucks     horrible this company should be put out of business first tv had to be sent back...

Jan 5, 2007 Juanita Chapa     From day 1 in Oct 06 purchased poor image, reported repair parts 3wks later 3wks...

Oct 31, 2006 cindyred     You will never get it fixed or Help... To all of you trying to contact this...

Oct 31, 2006 dalmik     It has been a great tv. I have not had any problems. I love all of the the hook ...

Oct 28, 2006 catfamily607     Just got it...love it..easy set up..came with great sound system(free with set)h...

Sep 8, 2006 Morgan     Nothing but problems and no help from Vivitek. Keep getting the run around!! T...

May 28, 2006 Not Happy     Loud Humming noise TV - Service from Vivitek and Shop TV terrible - Rebate a jok...

May 18, 2006 laurie     I have had nothing but problems with this unit. Trying to get help from the cust...

May 17, 2006 dalmik     It really has a great picture with hd channels and dvd also great video game pic...

May 15, 2006 Tommy     This tv is not worth the money spent. If you like throwing away $2k this tv is f...

Apr 14, 2006 Kurt     It took almost a month to receive the unit. Once I got it up and running, I am v...

Feb 27, 2006 Keith     I bought this tv from an TV shopping network thinking I was getting a great deal...

Feb 12, 2006 beachchick     Since I have received the 51" Vivitek HDTV, I have had a lot of problems with th...

My Experience: I purchased this set from ShopNBC back in December of 2005.Initially I was dismayed by the blurriness of the picture and thought something was wrong so after weeks of phone-work and emails and internet-searches,I was able to actually get some response--not from ShopNBC or Vivitek,but from Delta Electronics,a sister company--and I exchanged it.The 2nd one looked as bad and had a buzzing noise going through the speakers.So,I gave it one more chance.I mean by all means with the technology this set has,it should be really good.While waiting for the 3rd set,I researched HD and gained a better understanding.I just had to wait for media-technology to catch up with the tv's.When I got the 3rd set,I ordered a digital HD satellite package and got an HD DVD player and the right cords and VOILLA!The picture is great and it has performed well ever since.

Problems: Recently, I changed the lamp because I noticed a humming noise coming from the back of the set while I was watching it and it was really annoying especially during quiet moments in movies.Of course, I knew it wasn't the lamp and was probably the color wheel but I didn't want to admit that to myself.I thought it was going to be an expensive repair.I did some research on-line and found www.vancebaldwin.com. They have many parts for many brands including Vivitek.You will be redirected to encompassparts.com. Do a "Guest"login and then type in your model# such as: RP51HD41A and they give you a whole list of parts for Vivitek.$90 bucks and I had a new color wheel.Now, how to go about doing this myself... After I got the back of the tv off and looked around, it was actually very obvious to see where I was going and how I had to get there.Within an hour I had it all done and I got an HD DVD ready in the player and turned the tv on and...it worked!The picture looks great.I couldn't even hear the tv start up and no humming noise!I'd be happy to help anyone else who has questions.I might not have all the answers,but maybe I can help.I have been through a lot with my tv and have done a lot to it and learned a lot about it.
I know Vivitek is not the most customer-service oriented company to deal with--that's why we need to help each other.I paid a lot for this thing and I never wanted to give up on it.