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Sinlock
Title: Savior of the Camelot Outpost
Posts: 376
Registered: 2000-5-14 16:20:01
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$400 to fix a four year old TV, or a $1000 for a kick butt new one...
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....VOTE.
The old one is a 52" Samsung. Needs a new motherboard.
I'm thinking of getting a 47" LG that's 3G and a 'Smart TV' and all that.
Or fix the old one.
I CAN'T DECIDE.
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Date Posted:
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your old samy got the white spots disease?
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NuEM
Posts: 1,007
Registered: 2004-3-2 09:08:11
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1/1/00 12:00am
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People still watch TV?
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Jorrdan
Posts: 293
Registered: 2001-10-19 07:31:24
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I recently had to make this very decision on my 42" Plasma. Luckily, it was not my motherboard and only the capacitors. Cost me $150 to fix.
However, that said, I had investigated the newer TVs, seen my father's new TV he got at Christmas, (smart TV, 3D, etc.), as compared to mine before the repairman got to my house. Their pictures are remarkably better than my 4 year old TV so I set a price in my head that was my cut off. I would purchase a newer TV with all the new technology and better pictures if the repair got to that price.
As it happens it was $400.  There is some really nice stuff out there in the 800 to 1k range that is a significant upgrade (for me). My reasoning was I'm not gonna spend half the cost of those upgrades on a 4 year old TV to repair when I can get that significant upgrade.
Since it didn't take that much, I repaired. That is my last time repairing that TV though (it was second time).
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Eh.
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Sinlock
Title: Savior of the Camelot Outpost
Posts: 376
Registered: 2000-5-14 16:20:01
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$400 to fix a four year old TV, or a $1000 for a kick butt new one...
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No - turns off and on in an endless cycle. Samsung will come out and change some capacitors for free (a token effort) - but the tech said it was the motherboard.
Apparently Samsung TVs are having an epidemic of problems. Don't know if I'll be buying them again.
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Date Posted:
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$400 to fix a four year old TV, or a $1000 for a kick butt new one...
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the light engine on mine is dieing.
it was a known issue with the series i bought when they were new. according to the articles ive been reading about it, im suprised mine has lasted as long as it has.
tax returns are coming though.
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Sinlock
Title: Savior of the Camelot Outpost
Posts: 376
Registered: 2000-5-14 16:20:01
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$400 to fix a four year old TV, or a $1000 for a kick butt new one...
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It's a tough call. Four hundred for the four year old, or 1000 for this:
http://www.amazon.com/LG-Infinia-47LW5600-47-Inch-LED-LCD/dp/B004OOTRPC
It is tempting.
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cobane
Posts: 473
Registered: 2001-9-6 18:42:56
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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$400 to fix a four year old TV, or a $1000 for a kick butt new one...
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I just had to pay $445 to replace the main board in my refrigerator. I didn't even know refrigerators had motherboards. Woke up this morning with water all over the floor. It took me years to amass all those condiments! Now I'm back to square one. A brand new fridge would've cost ~$800.
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Groucho48
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Registered: 2003-10-22 03:00:14
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Do you really think you'll be using the 3D features a lot? They are probably adding several hundred bucks to the cost of the TV.
I got my first flat screen a few months ago. A 50" Panasonic plasma. I've been quite happy with it. It's not quite a smart TV but it has a menu to access some of the popular online functions such as Netflix, Amazon, Pandora and a couple others. I've only done Netlix on it and it works weel. as long as you use your computer to make your queue.
Picture quality is great though I had to fiddle with the colors a bit. Sound is decent. Got it on sale at Sears for $700. The 46" size is currently 770 on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-VIERA-TC-P50S30-50-Inch-Plasma/dp/B004M8SCJM/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1327965145&sr=1-3
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Elkad
Title: aka Ebenezer
Posts: 407
Registered: 2003-9-11 22:20:55
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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cobane posted:
I just had to pay $445 to replace the main board in my refrigerator. I didn't even know refrigerators had motherboards. Woke up this morning with water all over the floor. It took me years to amass all those condiments! Now I'm back to square one. A brand new fridge would've cost ~$800.
Lol. My fridge was made in 1977. It's that nasty yellow/green color. Works like a champ, and if something ever breaks, parts are probably $5.
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