TV repair?

bazzabear

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Our venerable old Panasonic Plasma TV (TX-P42G10B) has just started with a noisy fan when I turned it on this evening.

It's only a low noise, but is going to be annoying.

Repairable do you think? Or time for a replacement? Funny, when I was a kid, the TV repairman seemed to be at our house every other week - but you don't really hear of them even existing these days.


Can't pretend I haven't been tempted by a 4k TV anyway in recent months. But to get one that's genuinely good seems to mean OLED, which seems to mean astonishing cost.
 
I've tried switching it off and giving the fans a baslt of air in a can. Threw out a decent amount of crud, but hasn't stopped the noise.

Good thought though, thanks. :)
 
I was about to ask for recommendations, you've beaten me to the punch. :D

That said, not sure I want to increase size by quite so much. I was thinking 55 inch probably. I will have a sneaky look at that recommendation though. Rude not to.
 
That is a very good question. I suspect going far past £1000 will start giving me palpitations and stern looks from the missus.

I'm looking at the LG 55C9 price and thinking I might just be able to swing that if I can get a good deal on it somewhere.
 
Well I succumbed to all the advice, and just got back from Costco (which was like armageddon by the way!) with an LG 55C9.

Just watching Avengers Endgame (as it happened to be on Sky) and it looks incredible - and I haven't even done any set-up yet.

Confirmed though that the stand is too low profile to have the Sonos Playbar just sat in front of the TV - it covers the bottom inch of the screen!

On my last TV, I attached the playbar via mounts to the VESA fittings and had it above the screen. But in that fitting the TV frame itself took a little of the weight, and there's no way that's happening with this - it's only about 3mm deep.

So - anyone got recommendations for a table top TV stand which will carry the TV with a Playbar slung beneath it?

I'm thinking something like this:
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/produ...&pf_rd_p=f20e70b1-67f9-48d1-8c78-ba616030b420

I already have arms to attach the bar itself to the mount.
 
Obviously only the first day, but I am immensely impressed and pleased with it.

Watching Godzilla: King of Monsters currently - just because I looked for some UHD content. Terrible film, but looks amazing!

And the other big benefit is the new TV passing through audio signals correctly. I had to do all sorts of crap with engineer settings and using an HDMI splitter to get the sound to the Playbar properly before - this TV passes through the Dolby Digital signal seamlessly and it sounds great.
 
As an aside - I can't decide whether the film makers getting Ken Watanabe to say 'Godzilla' constantly throughout the film because he 'says it right' is a bit racist. ;)
 
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