Test Equipment Anonymous

Dam and blast, my 40" 2015 vintage 4K smart Samsung TV today has developed 2 blue areas of the screen, top right and top left areas. Currently, its only really noticeable when the background is something like a pale sky. On normal backgrounds it is not normally noticeable, however it is not going to get better without some intervention, for which I don't have the space to do.

I can currently get a Samsung 2022 model for just £399 which has a reasonable specification https://www.samsung.com/uk/tvs/uhd-4k-t ... u8500kxxu/ and comes with a 6-year warranty. I have never until today had any issues with Samsung TV's, on the other hand I also have a pair of LG monitors which are at least 8-years old and still going strong, but it seems that their TV's only come with a 12-month warranty. Decisions, decisions, what are recommendations your, which makes have you all had experiences with?

Samsung only. Last one I bought dead for a quid and fixed it. New one the ex wife now has so I don't give a shit. Had Sony before that which was a disaster.

I buy the cheapest I can find on the curb. Patch 'em up, use 'em till they blow up, put 'em back on the curb.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

I tried buying a new TV (4K, onn Roku TV) when we first got here; it was big (58") and only $300 so I splurged on a Xmas present to myself. It lasted just shy of a year before it developed shorted traces in the screen. OEM paid off on warranty; I bodged it with "the LCD tape hack" and still using it.

mnem
fuck new TVs.

Found your new TV on the curb yesterday, Spec.

mnem
yes, you may touch it.

Nah, I don't think that is a 4K unit, the bezel of the thing is way to thick, the same as my old one was, still a good TV. As to the 4K, still using today, the patches either we don't notice it now, or they have improved a bit, I'll have to have look at again.

Bet you a dollar this one still works as it should, give or take a bloaty cap, unlike yours. Which one is the better TV again...?

mnem