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Originally Posted by ken0042
I think the question is somewhat valid. A decent quality 32" can be bought for around $300. If you had a faulty TV would you pay somebody $100 to come into your house to look at it? Or even a minimum fee of $75 if you dropped it off at a shop?
Whereas 15 years ago when a 32" TV was over $1000, and somebody could come look at it for $50.
Then how integrated the parts are. I don't know as much about TVs, but with computers so much is attached to the motherboard. So a bad network card can be a MB replacement. Maybe the same with a lot of TVs.
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Yeah, fair points, I guess my confusion at his assertion is that I used to work for a company who worked with TV repair companies, and it seems to be business as usual for most of those guys.
I'm not sure if agree with your theory that TV's used to be really expensive and now they're cheap (part of that could be ignorance as I was a young lad when CRT TV's were still common.
As I remember in the late 90's, the most common TV you saw at everyone's house were the 27 - 32" JVC/Toshiba's etc. Which as I recall were anywhere from $250 - $800.
Now a days, the most common TV's you see are the 42-55" LG/Samsung's etc. Which are anywhere from $450 - $1500.