Want to buy a good quality TV? Dump says get an LG

Hyfi said:
I dropped an old Fisher 700 off at a local repair shop that had piles of flat screens getting repaired. But yeah, we live in a Disposable World for most things.
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Repair shops are a dying breed :) You're so lucky to have someone in your area that offers these services.
 
I know I won't be buying another Visio. I have two. A 65" and a 30 something inch for my computer. Both have OS problems. Sound no picture, brain farts switching between inputs, app glitches, etc. Unpluging them and plugging them back in cures the problems until they happen again. None of the other brands I've had ever did these things. I understand not spending a whole lot of time programming for these since a new model is right around the corner, but some real world testing first would be nice.
None of the factory updates have resolved the errors.
 
I have a Sharp and 3 Vizio's
all are 3-6 years old and I have not
had a problem with any of them.
none of them were purchased at walmart.
I stay away from the walmart specific model number
electronics. sometimes they have a model that can
be purchased at other stores but rarely.
 
am in the middle of changing a gamma chip as15-g to be exact on an LG tv .so they do go wrong . waiting on a new chip then hopefully soldering it back successfully
 
CoogarXR said:
So just pick something in the middle. Not bleeding edge money, but not $99 special either.
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years ago I rolled the dice on a 32 inch LED Emerson TV for a little over $100. It has been very reliable and has all the features I wanted.
70's Rockfan said:
I have a Sharp and 3 Vizio's
all are 3-6 years old and I have not
had a problem with any of them.
none of them were purchased at walmart.
I stay away from the walmart specific model number
electronics. sometimes they have a model that can
be purchased at other stores but rarely.
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Vizio was purchased in 2016 by LeEco in China. No idea how this may have affected their quality.
 
CoogarXR said:
I spent from 2009 to 2015 fixing TVs for a living at a store-return processing center. EVERY manufacturer has dud models. Some more than others, of course. But when people ask me what to buy, I just tell them to go look at the displays, figure out what looks good and is priced right, and cross your fingers. You might get a dud, you might get a winner.

That being said, I did see some eye-rollingly low quality TVs from Westinghouse, Hisense, and other low-end brands. So just pick something in the middle. Not bleeding edge money, but not $99 special either.

I personally bought a Sharp TV for my latest TV. Since it was the brand that I saw the least of in my repair business. It was not too expensive and had all the features I wanted.

I ran Pioneer plasmas before that. I still have one of those too.
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Honestly, my initial post was a bit tongue in cheek. A dump survey is not exactly what you'd call scientific!

So yeah, I have to agree with the sentiment that you buy something in the middle. You pays your money and you takes your chances.
 
70's Rockfan said:
I have a Sharp and 3 Vizio's
all are 3-6 years old and I have not
had a problem with any of them.
none of them were purchased at walmart.
I stay away from the walmart specific model number
electronics. sometimes they have a model that can
be purchased at other stores but rarely.
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Both Vizio's I bought were from Target. I rarely buy anything at Walmart.
I had an LG and a Samsung. The Samsung 8 had been using for a computer monitor for some time. The desk it sat on got bumped hard and down it went on its face. The display broke. The LG didn't survive the move.
As.czrefull as I was something fell on the screen. So I bought the Vizio's.
I just wish they wouldn't get lost trying to switch inputs.
 
I have a 55" LG led tv that's about 10yrs old. It still gets a great picture, and works ok. The only problem with it is if I turn it off, I have to smack the crap out of it until the picture comes back to normal. According to a YouTube video, it's just a bad connection on a ribbon cable. Too lazy to fix it, so it's been on for almost 2 years constantly. Sometimes it mutes itself when changing inputs, but I'm not sure if that's a feature or a glitch.

My mom has a sharp 60" with the extra yellow pixels, over 5yrs old. I love the picture, nice color. It does have some stupid glitches where the direct tv box doesn't recognize it. Like most computerized garbage, turn it off, and back on again. It also takes forever to power up, and there's no indication it's on until it displays a picture. So, half the time you sit there wondering if it got the signal from the remote.
 
My best friend is a neighbor on my cul de sac. We are both kind of techies, and light up our whole cul de sac with computerized Christmas lighting every year entertaining literally tens of thousands. I am basically a Samsung guy. I have a 65” QLED set that is nearly perfect to me. My friend is diehard LG when it comes to TV’s. His fireplace room, where they do most of their watching, has a 55” LG. He recently got an 82” LG for his larger family room. Both are 4K, both look great, and he’s never had one break down. Why does he like LG better? The remote! It’s point and shoot, which he loves and I hate. Most name brand TV’s look great today, and the difference in $700 TV’s and $2500 TV’s is less noticeable than ever. That’s a good thing for all of us.
 
While working in my last office setting I was pals with the building maintenance guy and he let me have second pick of any client who vacated their office

I got three TV's
60" Visio
50" LG LCD
50" LG Plasma

None of them worked
After watching some videos I fixed all three for pittance and they are in my home and work perfectly

About $100 in LED strips and a .80 cent IC

To work on them you need a LOT of space to lay all the screens
Since had the 1000 ft office to myself with 4 desks it worked out perfect


I bought some special tools and those suction glass grippers
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too bad 99% of whats on the TVs is worthless drivel
 
infullview said:
I firmly agree with your “recycling” philosophy. Too many items like flat screen TVs are designed to fail and be so cheap people have no motivation to fix them. They are landfill fodder and the longer they are in use the better. I have an early Dynex TV that I have repaired twice, I will keep it running as long as possible, and if I decide to upgrade it will go to the local goodwill in working order.
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Personally, I don't buy into the "designed to fail" thing as typically used in pejorative context meaning exceptionally short life. There is no logical point to do that. Customers who feel shorted will not be repeat customers.

That said, it's certainly true lots of stuff these days is not econmically practical to repair given purchase price vs. parts and repair labor. When shop rate may be $100 there isn't much time to spend working on a $399 TV if you have to pay someone else to do it, before you are better off just buying a different one.

These days with all the forums and such it's real easy to find/hear/read bad news because people tend to be vocal about problems. But, what is usually missing are the voices of the countless others who haven't any bad news to report/solution to find.
 
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I bought a 65" OLED LG to replace my 50" Pioneer Elite Plasma which didn't make the move. I was afraid of the day the Pioneer would need replacing as it had the best picture compared to anything else I'd seen so with the move I just abandoned the idea of comparing picture quality and resigned to the fact what ever replaced it would be okay. I ended up taking the advertising seriously about the OLED technology and decided to pay the price... it's only been a couple years so can't speak to long term reliability but it has a better picture than the Pioneer... the damned thing works good, upscales good too, I have a VHS in the stack which sees occasional use and the LG produces a good picture with it as the source. I had the Pioneer since 2006 and never had a problem, sold it working with no issues.
 
Won’t own another Samsung product after my last tv fiasco. Bang for the buck, vizio or hisense. My hisense portable ac has outlasted my lg, Samsung, and Honeywell Units twice over. .
 
When you think about it, this race to the bottom with quality and keeping the prices low is inexorably tied to the 30 years of stagnant wages.

But....this skates up to political, so I'll shut my gob.

My 1998 era Sony Wega 27'' just keeps on going.
 
Still getting over the bereavement:( of my 51" rear gun Hitachi of 18 years vintage.


But, hey...no takers as to direction as to a new 65"er ?

Don't want to pay the sky prices for the "flagships"...mid level is my budget.

Just read on the mLED TV approach taking place in CA...and with great expectations after some glitches are out of the way. Any POV on these?


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onwardjames said:
@Quadman2 first I've heard of mLED. Interested to hear about it.
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Me too! Interested.

They may be the successor of the other two camps of thought.

Seems like a kinda hybrid take on the above two...but not having the shortcomings of either.

Still in research/testing stages, and still not there...but getting closer.

Q
 
Quadman2 said:
Me too! Interested.

They may be the successor of the other two camps of thought.

Seems like a kinda hybrid take on the above two...but not having the shortcomings of either.

Still in research/testing stages, and still not there...but getting closer.

Q
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With this sort of thing, my opinion is if you want/need might just as well jump into the pool today. At some point realization comes that no matter how long you wait, odds are tomorrow there will be something better at less cost.
 
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