Maybe I'm just unlucky or maybe it's a consequence of being an early adopter but... I've had two LCDs pack up on me in the last few weeks, one being a 26" LCD TV and the other a 19" monitor.
I'm particularly upset about the monitor, a Dell, as it was only about 18 months old and just outside it's warranty period, either way not exactly an old age and I'd barely had my money's worth! I just won't by a Dell again.
The most recent failure, today, was a 26" TV which I'd bought about 4 years ago when they were still pretty expensive. New it was about £750 and I'll probably be able to easily replace it for about £300 with a new TV which will probably much better technically. I really don't mind this failure anything as much as the Dell and realistically I'm quite happy to replace it.
The thing I noticed with both of them is that they are basically impossible to fix from the amateurs point of view. A few years ago if I had a problem with a TV I could just whip the back off, poke and prod around for a while, and nine times out of ten fix the problem. With these sets there is no chance of that. Everything seems to be hidden away behind metal shielding that invariably can't be removed, and even if it could, who knows what would lurk behind?
Oh well, I'll probably give them away to anyone that's interested and has the inclination/skill/determination to do something with them, but not me. I'll take the easy way out and just buy replacements, but then I'm sure that's just what the manufacturers want.
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