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New TV Longevity

p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
edited January 2017 in General Discussion
Another sign of the times that we are a disposable society.
Don't expect new TV's to last fifteen or twenty years like the Motorolas and Philcos we grew up with.
My Sharpe flatscreen with built-in DVD died last night. The tuner went kaput, but the DVD works just fine. It was made in 2009 and just a simple TV and DVD.

It has been replaced with a Samsung LCD32 Smart TV. It's got more s#it than a Christmas goose and I've only scratched the surface. It's WiFi so I can go online with it. My laptop can work through it, and it's already intergrated into my home network.
I was leery of Samsung since they incorporate cutting edge technology that is not always perfected yet. I've also read they can spy on your household and you not even know about it. I got a good deal on it and that made up my mind. It is unbelievably light! Two pieces of kite string could hold it up on the wall.

Another thing concerning the Smart programming, any nefarious snooping it may do will cause my computer in the shop to alert me. The TV knows about the laptop, but it doesn't know about the other computer on the network since it's always been powered down when the TV is on. Windows will tell me to load drivers if it senses the TV on the network and I'll know the TV came on.

Anyway it's a super picture and sound and I'm stoked!
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  • WranglerWrangler Member Posts: 5,788 ✭
    edited November -1
    I've got two Samsung TVs. Love them. No issues.
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,132 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Considering the much lower cost of current TV's, I'm not nearly as concerned about them lasting 25 years. The TV we bought 5 months ago cost 1/3 of the one it replaced (and is bigger and lighter to boot).
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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The old TVs with tubes did NOT last 15 or 20 years.
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  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_network_watcher.html
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  • dakotashooter2dakotashooter2 Member Posts: 6,186
    edited November -1
    Ive got a 12" tv I won back in about 1987..... Still going strong.
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  • chiefrchiefr Member Posts: 14,108 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Samsung & LG TV and electronics are great. Avoid their appliances like frigs at all cost. Ask an honest appliance repair person if you doubt me. If parts are needed, expect a long wait. Many are warehoused overseas.
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  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998 ✭
    edited November -1
    I built a Heathkit 21-inch Color TV, in 1968. It was still working in 1992, when I gave it to my Brother.

    Our Mitsubishi 40-inch Big Screen went from 1985 to 2003.
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  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,426 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    so you have to have a computer to spy on your TV?????????[xx(] whats it gonna do see you sitting in your skivvies eating cheetos??
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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,771 ******
    edited November -1
    The problem with TV sets when they give up the ghost is how to dispose of the old carcass!

    I have a very heavy Sony early flat screen that has been sitting out in my garage for the last couple of years.
    It was a great TV up until it fell off the dresser in our bedroom. (that's another story worthy of its own thread[:I])

    Our garbage guy will not touch it and the landfill also does not take old TV's![:(!]

    I was thinking about burying it out in the family "pet cemetery".
    It would be like digging a hole for a great dane or mini pony![:0][xx(]
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  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,426 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    our local county has two or three turn ins a year for tv's, paint, tires ect. stuff the landfill normally won't take. you may watch for one of these in your area......
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  • mjrfd99mjrfd99 Member Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by gruntled
    The old TVs with tubes did NOT last 15 or 20 years.


    I had an old 1980's RCA tube console [huge wood cabinet] in the yard for 10 years[15 y/o when we got it]. Under the open porch roof but it saw blowing rain and snow on it often. Way too heavy to bring in for the winter, I was like-If I move it again -it's to the trash only. Replaced it with a newer 32 4 yrs ago.
    The old RCA still worked but SO wanted a better/bigger picture. We took the 32 in every fall. 32 Only lasted 3 yrs. Then again it was maybe $200- definitely throw away stuff anymore. TV is not that important here anyway. NEVER a $4k TV [:)]
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  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290 ✭
    edited November -1
    The huge, heavy, hard to balance Philips/Magnavox 26" tube type TV that I watched the Steelers on last night is officially 29 years old this week.
    I bought it to replace a 19" Admiral that suffered from Braille vision in the last 5 years of its' useful life; it was a Graduation present from the Godparents about 42 years ago.
    Tube TVs will last much longer than the newer crap, even if you need to sit really close to them in order to watch anything.
    You just have to remember to take it out of the back of the pickup when it snows.
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