Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
I was talking to a tv repairman once who said that manufactures will buy discounted small electronics parts in bulk and use them for Walmart product lines. So if you buy your tv at Walmart and it breaks, it may have different internals than the same part number tv bought some where else. There is no way I could verify if that were true or not, but the explanation seemed to make a little more sense than going out of the way to run a different product under the same name.
Vizio TVs are built this way. They do not offer repair service after the one year warranty is up.