Ok, some ageism BS. Good to know.
I’m a little surprised that 10-12 years is the top answer right now- I thought modern flat-screens were manufactured to be cheap and not last for a very long time. So both meanings of ‘cheap’: inexpensive and of poor quality. I have a plasma that developed a vertical green line while it was still under warranty. They sent over a guy who replaced the entire insides of the tv with a new one- the only part that remained of the old tv was the outer plastic frame. Don’t know why he even bothered swapping out the frame instead of just replacing the entire tv.
What do you imagine is going to wear out on an LCD TV? The obvious answer is the CCFL backlight, but all the newer ones are LED backlit. I don’t see why they wouldn’t last practically forever.
Plasma was a crappy tech, LCD & LED are a very good tech. No reason for solid state to not last a long time.
2012, 50 inch plasma. Probably won’t be replaced unless I move out of the area
Yeah, I kind of wish my 2012 panel would crap out. I could see replacing it with an OLED one a foot or so larger. But I can’t justify that if the set I have works fine, so I’m stuck apparently forever. Or until I ditch all my possessions and retire overseas.
Bought my 55" TV about a year and a half ago when our old 49" crapped out. Did a little troubleshooting on the old TV and found the power supply had failed. Bought a used PS on Ebay for $20 and the TV works again. My daughter is now using it without any issues.
If it makes you feel better, you’re about 18 months late in getting offended. No one says it now except ironically.
My television is five years old and was from LeEco during their short-lived attempt to aggressively expand and push into the US market. They were even in talks once to purchase Visio. The TV was super cheap at the time (like $400 for a 46" 4K) and has held up okay. Even the Android TV functions hold up pretty well: the Netflix still flicks nets and the YouTube still tubes yous. We do have a Firestick plugged into it because Prime wasn’t on Google Play. It’s starting to get a little creaky and show its tech age but we’re in no hurry to replace it as it still performs well.
Alas for LeEco, they overextended and suffered a dramatic collapse and I think the company is now either defunct or a shadow of its former self, hanging on in China.
I also ticked 1 year but the new unit is in reality just 3 weeks old.
The first flat panel ever purchased for this home was a Sharp Aquos… 46"? It developed a faint vertical red line in the upper right hand corner about 5 years in and was thus relegated to the master bedroom, where it adequate until 3 weeks ago.
To take its place in the family room, I got a 48" Samsung in 2013. Great TV. That unit just moved to the master bedroom and the old Aquos was recycled.
The brand new unit is a 55" Samsung with lots of bells and whistles, many of which I hope to finally be able to use when I can upgrade my internet service in the next few months. I hope it lasts as long as the old Sharp.
The power supplies in LCD TVs don’t last very long.
Also, I have repaired my Vizio twice for heat damage - the video processor chip runs very hot, and they didn’t provide adequate heat spreading. I had to fashion my own heatspreader to increase the reliability.
But, in general - there are a LOT of things that can fail in a modern LCD TV, including things as simple as the non-volatile memory failing.
But clearly you are willing to brag about not bragging about not owning a TV.
A lot of things can fail, true, but are they likely to? My oldest flat panel is a Sony Bravia LCD that is nearly 13 years old and still doing fine. The newer one is about 4 years old. I agree that in general the power supply is likely a weak point, just like in computers, but it’s not like failure should normally be expected after some short number of years.
I had to replace my previous tv due to damage incurred by my stupidy dog who saw something buglike on the screen, thought it was a bee and attacket it, making several dark streaks on the screen. Bear hates bees. So I replaced it with a somewhat bigger Samsung, 42" I think, and now it’s on a higher stand so stupidy dogs can’t get at it. It’s around six years old I think, bought it when I moved into my shed house. Even then it was a struggle to find a non-smart tv, since it’s basically a monitor for a desktop any and all smart tech folderols are supernumerary at best and just failure points waiting to happen.
We replaced our plasma 50" Panasonic in 2016 (Crap, I’ll have to change my poll answer), and gave it to my son when he moved out. It still works beautifully despite being 16 years old.
We now have a 55" LG 4k OLED that is less than half the weight, and has an amazing picture and takes up the same amount of real estate because of the narrow bezel.
Disagree. Back then plasma was the way to go with a better refresh rate iMHO. However, they are wayyy to heavy by today’s standards.
Plasma still has better contrast ratio than most LCDs.
The only flat-panel visual displays in my home are computer monitors. There are some tube TVs and a rear projection one that are very very rarely used. I did not answer the poll, because the only reasonable answer was rather degrading.
Our main viewing is done with an Epson 8100 projector, projecting 1080p onto a homemade theater screen 102" in diagonal. We’ve had it since 2010, and it’s still good enough that I have never bothered upgrading.
We have a cheap 32" flat panel in the bedroom, and a small one in the kitchen that never gets used. 90% of all TV watching is with the projector, and we love it. If you have complete light control in your viewing room, consider a projector.
I didn’t realize that was an accomplishment.
Now that I know, same here [and also not bragging].