what is the life of a T.V
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Plasmas quote IIRC about 50,000+ hours until they are half as bright. That's 10 years or something of useage
There are two ways to look at this....So would you say the life of a T.V if goes over 10 years is a dam good one ??
a) it's a great TV that also happens to last a long time. That would class as a "dam good one" or even a damned good one
in my bookb) it's a piece of crap with poor picture quality but it refuses to die. By one measure it's good. But would you really enjoy owning it?
The half-life of a screen isn't the same as the service life of a TV or the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) which is another metric of performance. It can all get rather messy and confusing.
I think if you can get 3 to 5 trouble free years from a TV now then you're doing okay. W are getting to the point where TVs are a disposable commodity rather than a consumer durable. The days of owning a TV for 10+ years have gone IMO. The prices of new TVs are so much cheaper than ever before, so the chances of needing to replace it within 5 years are pretty high. The pace of change in technology means that old TVs (3-5ys+) have little value in the used market.
According to Comet 22 months is a respectable enough time when my Sammy 42" LCD blew up 
I obviously told them what they could do with that opinion and hit them with SOGA for a repair. Took quite a few forceful emails and threats with legal action but they eventually agreed to repair it FOC.
When the repair didnt work they then agreed to replace and I ended up getting credited with the full purchase price, bonus!
I obviously told them what they could do with that opinion and hit them with SOGA for a repair. Took quite a few forceful emails and threats with legal action but they eventually agreed to repair it FOC.
When the repair didnt work they then agreed to replace and I ended up getting credited with the full purchase price, bonus!
According to Comet 22 months is a respectable enough time when my Sammy 42" LCD blew up
I obviously told them what they could do with that opinion and hit them with SOGA for a repair. Took quite a few forceful emails and threats with legal action but they eventually agreed to repair it FOC.
When the repair didnt work they then agreed to replace and I ended up getting credited with the full purchase price, bonus!
wow! 22 months is not 10 years ha!
sorry for the bad joke lol but some of these customer support are beyond belief to me ! i sometimes think the customer has done more research on a product than they have ha!
And that's the sad truth for most things. It'll be on it's way to the tip before it develops a fault.
For lifespan it's hard to tell with todays electronics since they're so complex. Excessive heat buildup causes the most damage to components and it only takes a single critical signal pathway to become damaged to ruin your fancy £1000 LED TV.
My Panny plasma is over5 years old and I have no intention of replacing it in the near future. Why? Because I do not think that things have improved enough to warrant another £1000+ outlay for something that is performing perfectly adequately. When this one dies then I will happily invest in the latest and greatest, but I would expect another 5 years minimum.
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Well John Lewis warrant it for 5 years, and after that I'm on my own. I'd say 10 years is fair.
I was going to suggest JL because after 5 years your TV is likely to be fairly old tech, and their warranty is pretty good up until that point.
As a former TV salesman, its this really. Having said that though there is more to go wrong on a telly now than there was 10 years ago when LCD/plasma were still very expensive.
Based on my telly history lifespans were not too bad apart from one & they were:
14" alba, 15 years (11 of those were mum's telly)
28" Phillips (piece of Junk, 2 major repairs after 4 years then packed up eventually after another 4 years)
28" JVC which I gave away after 6 years & is still running to this day (13 years total)
27" Toshiba LCD (which I have now) Almost 7 Years, but its not much cop now that the analogue signal has been turned off & I have sky TV only on that, don't watch much telly these days.
If I bought a new telly now it would be either Sony or Panasonic, I'm old school so I tend to stick to the makes I knew were pretty good when I was in the trade. (and as basic as possible, less to go wrong)
