Comments on: Honeywell HDTV Licensee “Soyo” Files For Bankruptcy

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:49:25 +0000

Wow,I’m lucky my Honeywell TV worked OK for a year, but now acting strange! Just discovered Soyo bankruptcy. Doesn’t Honeywell have any responsibility or support?

By: Stephen Gray

Stephen Gray — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:50:15 +0000

Several years ago I bought a 32″ Soyo HDTV from Shop at Home TV (who have gone out of business).
I had a host of issues with this TV and Soyo was not giving me any help with my warranty since Shop at Home had gone out of business. Finally my states (CT) Attourney General got Soyo to send me a replacement TV. Soyo even gave me a 37″ HDTV instead of a 32″. I liked what the 32″ was advertised to offer in features but it didn’t. The 37″ TV was good for over a year but now has serious issues and Soyo is out of business. I guess I should have known that if it seems to good to be true it probably is!
It seems as though there were a lot of people ripped off by SOYO!

By: AnotherPoorSucker

AnotherPoorSucker — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:46:34 +0000

I too was suckered into buying the Soyo Honeywell Arius 22″ monitor. It did work flawlessly for 1.5 years, but now it’s toast. Just like the poster above, my monitor will show me a brief glimpse of image, then just goes to a black screen.

What a complete disappointment!! I also bought this monitor because of the warranty and previous positive dealings with J&R. Now I am looking at a paperweight. I’ll try to get something out of J&R, but based on what I’ve read elsewhere it’s not looking good.

BEWARE of J&R!!! They’ll happily take your money, but then they’ll happily screw you too.

By: megastoresmustdie

megastoresmustdie — Mon, 24 May 2010 10:33:57 +0000

Bought a 22 inch Soyo Honeywell Arius in Nov 08. Took it out of the box March 09. Worked fine until a month or so ago when the screen started going black without ever recovering for more than a split second or two after coming out of standby mode or after an automatic restart of the PC or after turning the monitor on and off to try to get the damned screen to stay up. My two-faced megastore vendor J&R Music World said they “wouldn’t leave me hanging” and began talking about giving me a comparable monitor to replace it. But in the final inning, after 10 days of leaving me in the dark, the liars said that the best they would do is sell me another brand at cost. They wouldn’t even offer to repair it. They said Honeywell is responsible for repairs and solutions for 7 years post Soyo bankruptcy. They said all of us should go to Honeywell for SOLUTIONS. I say STAY AWAY FROM J&R MUSIC WORLD (sheister liars) and STAY AWAY FROM HONEYHELL. Megastores are in the business of buying distressed goods from distressed companies while keeping the public in the dark. I am sure the sheisters at J&R knew Soyo was in trouble and bought their junk at a secret cost far below any “at cost” price they might show to the public. Impose criminal penalties on corporate officers who injure the public while hiding the financial realities of their businesses from the public and relevant state and federal authorities. Deny such duplicitous scoundrels the protection of corporate bankruptcy. Let them pay out of their own pockets for the replacement or repair of the crap they sold. DIE MEGASTORES DIE!

By: wendy

wendy — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:21:01 +0000

I have a Prive lcd tv made by soyo and they won,t honour the warranties and live in canada can anyone help me get my problem solved??????

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:18:39 +0000

I have a soyo tv and for the most part it is ok but the remote quit and I cannot get the code given to work it with a universal remote. I was going to contact the company but from the sounds of this I will not likely have any luck? Any suggestions?

By: James

James — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:41:18 +0000

I bought a 42″ Honeywell (soyo licensed the name) LCD tv off HSN in Feb ’09. I have never had a problem with it, for the most part its a good tv.
I use it to play all my videos games as well as watching tv and HD movies. I would buy another one, but I guess not anymore unless some place is going to clearance the remaining inventory.

By: Nice Guy

Nice Guy — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:58:51 +0000

I worked for SOYO back in the mid 00s and resigned after a short time working there. I knew about SOYO because of their good PC Motherboards back in the days. I was quite disappointed to learn about their new low quality products and their lack of human touch that I felt I was working in a concentration camp.

I guess they were already under heavy economic pressure.

The most important thing is to make your products and services grow in quality, innovation, durability, reliability, value, etc. instead of growing in size.

We all should learn to make a better use of the earths resources by not making junk. If the world could only learn from Japan.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:26:36 +0000

Soyo used to make some pretty good motherboards back in the day, before getting out of the market. They switched over to monitors and TVs around 2004. It’s such a shame that a company that once made halfway decent motherboards went out with a fizzle (literally), leaving consumers high and dry with junk HDTVs.

This is much like the story of ABIT, who made some of the greatest motherboards back around the turn of the century. I think they went out of business while making photo picture frames or something stupid like that. Lesson learned, keep making motherboards, don’t switch over to LCDs when times get tough.

By: Ja Blackson

Ja Blackson — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:25:02 +0000

Hello Folks, I am sure, like myself, you must be dissapointed in your purchase of Soyo groups product(s). Lesson learned -> These new and cheap brands are not the best; should stick with Pioneer, Sanyo, Hitachi or Sony!
Anyways, here is a contact number for you. Patricia Zimmerman is the acting trustee for Soyo Group and can be reached @ 951-244-8544. The case number you can reference is 09-193-55-RN.
All the best.