Help pricing something

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by PIMking

1) Most often the only reason for a LCD's limited lifespan is that the manufacture put in capacitors that are not rated to last very long. They don't want people to keep tv's for 20 years anymore.

That's quite the theory.

[PIMking]

Originally Posted by sclitheroe

That's quite the theory.

I work at a hotel that is two years old, we have 59 rooms, and 3 tvs in the lobby. I've done over 16 tv's capacitors in that time period. You be the judge

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by PIMking

I work at a hotel that is two years old, we have 59 rooms, and 3 tvs in the lobby. I've done over 16 tv's capacitors in that time period. You be the judge

That's a bad run or a manufacturing defect for the model you chose. There's no way there industry as a whole is running a 25% failure rate like you are experiencing.

From what I've been able to find online, places like Consumers Reports peg LCD TV failure rates at the 3 year mark:

Consumer Reports in the December 2010 issue published this list of reliability ratings based on surveys regarding 198,049 LCD TVs purchased between 2007 and mid-1010. At 4 years out, there is little change.

Panasonic 2%
Sanyo 2%
Sylvania 2%
Sony 3%
JVC 3%
Vizio 3%
Sharp 3%
Emerson 3%
LG 3%
Insignia 4%
Toshiba 4%
Magnavox 4%
Philips 4%
Viewsonic 4%
Samsung 4%
Westinghouse 8%
Polaroid 10 %
Mitsubishi 12%

So obviously I can't argue with your first hand experience, but I highly doubt any manufacturer could afford to use cheap components in the hopes of fostering obsolescence. It doesn't even make sense to do this - there's little to no brand loyalty in the consumer electronics space (at least until Apple makes TV's), so if a customer buys Brand X and it only lasts 1 year past the warranty, it's unlikely they will go out and get a replacement by Brand X the next time.

[PIMking]

Originally Posted by sclitheroe

That's a bad run or a manufacturing defect for the model you chose. There's no way there industry as a whole is running a 25% failure rate like you are experiencing.

From what I've been able to find online, places like Consumers Reports peg LCD TV failure rates at the 3 year mark:




So obviously I can't argue with your first hand experience, but I highly doubt any manufacturer could afford to use cheap components in the hopes of fostering obsolescence. It doesn't even make sense to do this - there's little to no brand loyalty in the consumer electronics space (at least until Apple makes TV's), so if a customer buys Brand X and it only lasts 1 year past the warranty, it's unlikely they will go out and get a replacement by Brand X the next time.

The build date I believe was 2008, but most of the LCD's that I've encountered that have the black screen of death were the cap issue. I believe they're only rated at 2000 hours.

[gargamel]

Originally Posted by PIMking

I work at a hotel that is two years old, we have 59 rooms, and 3 tvs in the lobby. I've done over 16 tv's capacitors in that time period. You be the judge

I'm going to guess that you've done 17.