R.L. Dane    🍵 

After 4 years of service, the family's 55" TV gave up the ghost.

Gotta love the quality of consumer electronics these days.

The backlight itself is just dead.

Correction: six years. Not as bad, but still not great.

May 26 at 3:02pmWeb
Show threadDumber than necessaryMay 26
@rl_dane My family's TV is from like 2013, and still working just as well as the day it was made. Musta been one of the last good years
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 May 26

@OpenComputeDesign

Probably.

Show threadbplMay 26
There are some chances that it might be a capacitor or two.
Show threadRoot MooseMay 26
@rl_dane If/when any of my existing TVs die I will be replacing with large monitors and some kind of a STB. I just can't imagine the crap that new TVs ship with given the anecdotes I've seen the last few years.
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 May 26

@RootMoose

Dude, a 55" monitor would break the bank. I'm ok with buying a 55" TV every four years at the price difference. XD

Show threadRoot MooseMay 26
@rl_dane Yeah, downsize is likely. Ha.
Show threadtbspMay 26
@rl_dane That's so sad. My Westinghouse LVM-42w2 from 2006 (!!!) is still alive and kicking, somehow. Though I know of three others of the same model which didn't make it, so mine might be an outlier.
Show threadDendrobatus AzureusMay 26

The hardware of my children's time is

  • a TV lived fourty four years
  • a radio lived Fifty Six years

The TV flyback in fourty+ years only got changed twice

We're talking about the period when TVs we're almost as heavy as a child at the weight of 20 kg

Naturally all circuits were driven by tubes.

@rl_dane

#Tube #TV #flyback #Retro #Technology #radio #heavy #sturdy #quality

Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 May 26

@dendrobatus_azureus

I still remember taking VCRs to be repaired (having the read heads resurfaced) at an actual repair shop with my dad circa 1990. :o