ahhh... Philips...
the monitor of my first PC was a Philips one.. decided about 2
weeks after the warranty that i can read everything in a 2mm
line...
my friend's Philips 29" tv blew up.. literally.. smoke, sparks,
fire, kablooey! a few days after warranty expired... took out the
fuseboxes of his flat and about a few apartments around him!
a Philips VCR which we got free because we bought something..
decided to become haunted about 3 months after the warranty
expired.. we don't record stuff using the timer but it decided a
few times to just turn on and record stuff... wiped out a few
things in the tapes we left inside... then one day, after being
haunted for a while, decided it was hungry and ate up a tape and
melted some of it...
a Philips Stand Fan (again, some kinda free gift from things
bought).. brilliant engineering... metal blades, metal axle for the
blades, plastic screw to hold the blades to the axle! plastic screw
disintergrated after a few year and blades went flying against the
metal grilles, sparks, noise destroyed grille and blades!
nothing in the house from Philips.. ever!
don't trust it 
