# POLL: How old is your main flat panel TV? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 8, 2021, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630 "2021-05-08T03:52:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/1 "2021-05-08T03:52:44Z")
Main = the best one you own and watch TV or movies on to relax. Not that screen in the study you put up with because. Age in years: _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/1))_ I have a Sharp 52" LC-52d64u panel I bought 12 or 13 years ago according to [Best Buy reviews I’ve uncovered](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/reviews/sharp-aquos-52-1080p-flat-panel-lcd-hdtv/8511318). Works great, no issues. It’s not 4k but whatever. I do drool over HDR, but there’s little content in that format so HD is fine. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/2 "2021-05-08T03:57:38Z")
Don’t own a TV ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/3 "2021-05-08T03:59:21Z")
About 10 and a half. LG 42" Plasma; we’ll keep it until it dies, and then get a new one. Since it’s made it this far, I don’t expect it to die anytime soon; electronics like this seem to die quickly, or very slowly. Good colour and blacks, but I honestly would like to change to a 4k / HDR TV, and maybe a bit bigger. Ah, well. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/4 "2021-05-08T04:08:11Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Don’t own a TV Crud, shoulda had a “my computer is my TV” option 😕 ETA: and “my _phone_ is my TV” option!!! 🤦‍♂️ I guess I made a “OK Boomer” thread 😕 ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/5 "2021-05-08T04:17:25Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > guess I made a “OK Boomer” thread 😕 Actually I was born in 1950, so not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/6 "2021-05-08T04:22:31Z")
I selected 1 year in the poll, but we just bought it 3 months ago. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/7 "2021-05-08T04:29:32Z")
I voted 1 as well, but we bought our current one at the beginning of this year. The previous flat screen I “purchased” with Holiday Inn priority club points about 12 or 13 years ago. It now sits in the basement for the kids to play video games on. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/8 "2021-05-08T05:29:48Z")
I have a Sony Internet TV I bought in 2010 or so. It was one of the early smart TVs, with Google TV built in. Now that Google no longer supports the Google TV platform, Netflix is the only app it came with that still kind of works. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/9 "2021-05-08T05:53:10Z")
Looks like 10 years for mine. It’s a 42" Sony. I keep it hooked up to a computer which functions as my entertainment server, and occasionally tune in to terrestrial TV. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/10 "2021-05-08T06:13:43Z")
I do own a TV (about 8 years old), which I would gladly use if my circumstances allowed for it, but until then it’s in storage. I use my PC as my TV right now. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/11 "2021-05-08T07:22:52Z")
We bought ours just before the world cup in 2006. But we didn’t watch the world cup. It just happened to be when we decided that Blu-ray was the way forward, as HD DVD was in decline, and bought a Blu-ray player, so we needed a new television. We just bought a new receiver this year, because one of the HDMI connectors (the old one started with 3) had been destroyed during a lightning storm. The new receiver has 8 HDMI connectors. Hubby wants a new television, I’m not in hurry. ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/12 "2021-05-08T08:30:36Z")
Bought mine in 2009 and have no incentive to replace it. It’s only 32" but that fits perfectly in my small apartment. It doesn’t have the deepest blacks but in my opinion I have never seen a more modern screen which comes close to its naturalistic color rendition. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/13 "2021-05-08T08:39:04Z")
Funnily enough I’m going TV shopping today. Have a 10yo 32" TV which is too small in my new pad so that’ll go out to stud in the bedroom and a 43"+ will take its place. All of them are advertising the apps they have but I don’t care about that nonsense as I have a Roku box and satellite TV so just give me some HDMI ports and a decent audio output. The apps are the first things that go out of date and a few try to serve you ads when you use them. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/14 "2021-05-08T08:52:20Z")
My 55" is coming up on ten years. The firmware sucks (it always sucks on TVs) so I connected a desktop to it to do my TV watching. Then I found out browsers don’t support surround sound so now I have my son’s old PS4 hooked up to it so I can watch TV with surround sound. I hope it never goes out. I think I got the last of the “heavy” TVs. Which is what I need to keep the cats from knocking it over. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/15 "2021-05-08T10:46:32Z")
I don’t own a “flat panel TV.” I do have a couple CRT TVs, but they’ve not been tested in ages. Yes, I do in fact just use my computer screen and phone screen. My phone is less than a year old for me, but I bought it used. My (flat panel) computer screen is around 9-10 years old, I think. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/16 "2021-05-08T12:00:21Z")
I think ours is about 2 years old - we wanted a bigger one so we donated the older one to my daughter’s school. Come to think of it, it may only be 1-ish year old - purchased at the start of the plague when her school was gearing up to go virtual (it’s a small private military school and our daughter is a teacher, not a student.) ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/17 "2021-05-08T12:12:32Z")
I have 2 or 3 main ones depending on what home I’m at. One is a 42 in plasma from a long long time ago from a galaxy far far away when folk cared about black being black. The other main one is a 3-4 yr old 55 in 4k, which replaced a 17 yr old 36 in HDTV that is still used in a secondary\* area of the home. - Secondary area, a separate living space that I generally use for private time but my son also has used it or sometimes we do computer gaming there. It has good sound insulation, so noise from the rest of the house or in this section doesn’t get to the other area. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/18 "2021-05-08T12:37:06Z")
We have two Panasonic plasma flat screen TV’s we got one for my wife in 2008 when her tube TV crapped out and it’s a 50". In 2009 I bought the same TV except a 54" for the basement man cave. Both are “dumb” TV’s and so far, working just fine (although they weight a ton). I expect one or the other will crap out and then we’ll upgrade. In both cases we can likely go a little bigger. Although from my oldest son’s experiences with TV’s they sure don’t seem to have the lifespan quality they once had. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/19 "2021-05-08T13:21:13Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > > [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > > > Don’t own a TV > > Crud, shoulda had a “my computer is my TV” option 😕 > > ETA: and “my _phone_ is my TV” option!!! 🤦‍♂️ > > I guess I made a “OK Boomer” thread 😕 my laptop is my TV but I really try not to brag about not owning a TV 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630/20 "2021-05-08T15:03:04Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > > [@squeegee](#): > > > > guess I made a “OK Boomer” thread 😕 > > Actually I was born in 1950, so not so much. as a 1952 boomer what is an “OK Boomer thread”?? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-old-is-your-main-flat-panel-tv/941630.md?page=2)