What is the longest TV you owned before it died??

[icyteddy]

What is the longest TV you owned? And do you still watch it to this day? And if it died, how long have you had it before you need to replace it?

Not because you want to upgrade. It has to be unwatchable. List the year you purchased it and make of model.

My dad purchase a CRT Sony back in 1980, it did not died until the year 2000. I still have my LCD from Sony 2008 and Samsung 2009. Still going strong here. I'm sure its at the end of its life, just waiting for it to died so I can upgrade to newer model.

[albertbj]

I had a 20-in RCA for over 20 years. I gave it to my best friend when I moved in 2014. He died the following year, and I don't know what happened to it after that. For all I know, it still works.

My current TV is a 42-in LG that I've had since 2009. I would love to upgrade to 4K, but I don't want to get rid of this one and I don't have any other place to put it. Not to mention I can't fit anything much bigger in my current space, so I've been content to wait until my current TV dies or I have room for something larger.

[D00mM4r1n3]

42" Panasonic Plasma TV = 8 or 9 years (I forget and can't find the order email.) Technically, one of the capacitors was going out on it but it was still working, it would just flash off and on every few hours. My current 4K LED TV is 5 years old and working fine. Other TV's I sold after a few years. I don't expect anything electronic that's made in China to last more than 10 years. Even less if it's the cheapest product in it's market.

[shinobipopcorn]

I still have the 2008 24 inch 720p in my gallery. It works, just the built in DVD player died. Put it away because I wanted a 4KTV. My 1980s RCA floor crusher console TV is in the storage shed, it worked when it went in; it's schrodinger's TV now because of the spiders that probably make it inoperable but I refuse to believe it doesn't work.

[canucksam]

I had a 20" Magnasonic TV that travelled half-way across the country with me. After 20 years I put it on the curb for "free day" because we wanted to buy our first flatscreen. I like to believe someone is still running their Atari on that old TV.

[blugremlin]

I have a 40+(?) SONY, still playing, but gray "fingers", shading along the screen borders..my father had the same TV, his died...from 2011....I am actually looking into buying a new TV before mine dies...

[teddyballgame]

Probably the NEC MultiSync 20WMGX2 one of the first glossy IPS displays for desktop. Sublime picture quality for back in the day. It had a built in TV tuner eventually I just used it as a dedicated little TV in the office. Had it for over a decade before a board died inside

[PoLskA]

my old 40" Sony Bravia from 2008 is our bedroom tv now and going strong...
Had a 60" Sharp for about 6 years that i had to replace due to a ton of dead pixels... and thats why I always buy Sony

[steel_breeze]

Not quite on topic, but still lovin' my 1080p Panasonic PT-AE4000 Projector from 2010 as my main Blu-ray/UHD/DVD (and very occasional Criterion Channel streaming) delivery device in the home theater, onto a 92-inch 2.35:1 Carada screen. Still going strong! On my third bulb with a fourth waiting in the wings, which'll be due for replacement around May or June, I think. This projector's literally improved with age; used to have a slight magenta side and a slight green side (only noticeable on B&W material) that I had to correct with colored gels over portions of the lens, but for the last four years I've been "gel free" with absolute old-school 16-foot-lambert cinema perfection.

Our only other TV is a 32-inch 1080p Sony Bravia from 2009 in the living room, which is also still performing perfectly. We watch all our TV and any non-bulb-worthy movies on that little guy.

We like to make things last, my wife and I. If it ain't broke...

[MrHT]

In my experience, it's very very very rare for a TV to die. The only TV that ever has failed on me was my very first HDTV- Samsung LN32A450, which I bought back in 2009. After only 5 years of use, it just struggled to turn on. But the Samsung UN32EH5000 HDTV I replaced it with never died and I gave it to my parents when I eventually upgraded to a bigger size. It's over 8 years old already and still working great & my parents love it.

Before the HDTV era, my parents and I had FOUR tube TVs, none of which died. The oldest one was a Sony 27" Trinitron, which was over 20 years old and weighed 1,000 lbs, lol. It was so big and heavy that my parents just got sick of it and threw it out. The other two tube TVs they had were over 10 years old and they threw them out when analog OTA went away because that's all they ever used it for and they didn't want to be bothered buying so many converter boxes. So they just kept the one Samsung 20" tube TV they currently have. And they still have that TV till this day, but they never use anymore. And I think they are debating about whether to finally throw it out.

[icyteddy]

One of my friends told me his LG Led died after about only 4 years I'm not sure what model, but it was not an OLED. He told me he was watching it and he heard a pop and saw a spark, then it turned off. It could possible be a power supply, but I told him it wasn't worth it to fix. Just buy another one.

Looks like any TV that dies under 10 years is like an anomaly. 10 years and above seems to be the norm for TV to last for most people.

[TripleHBK]

I have a 60 Samsung PN60E7000 Plasma TV from 2012 currently that has "died" on 2 occassions. The first was after barely 3 years... just months outside the warranty period. The 2nd time it "died" was in 2021. During the first death the capacitor's went bad and I had to send it off to a repair service I found on ebay to have it fixed as the issue was so prevalent that there were multiple people offering repair kits and repair services. The 2nd time it died it blew the power supply itself. I fixed it myself this time by ordering a replacement power board. I have sworn to never purchase another Samsung tv ever again as a result of the incompetency that went into that set. It was rated as the 2nd best tv the year it was released, behind only a Panasonic Plasma VT model but the quality was apparently atrocious. I wouldn't have bothered repairing it as much as I have if it wasn't for the fact that it's a 3D set, generally speaking has great picture quality, and finding another 3D television at this point is quite difficult. At the moment it sits in my basement as my secondary set and is used frequently still.

With that set being 10.5 years old it's my second oldest however as I still have an older Dynex LCD tv which I picked up from Best Buy in 2008 or 2009 thats going strong in my movie room. It has always been used sparingly however and so I'm not all that surprised it still works as it really only gets used to play trailers whenever I'm organizing things in the room.

Besides those 2 sets, my primary display is a 2021 Sony A8H OLED, my kitchen tv is a 4.5 year old 40" Element LCD that I picked up for $100 on sale from Wal-mart that is used almost daily. I also have a 55" Vizio V series 4k tv as my primary work monitor that's about almost 4 years old as well as a cheap LCD which I currently have in an unfinished room for my daughter to play Wii on that is right around 2.5 years old as well. I picked up a 2008 47" tv from a garage sale this summer for $4 also that works fine though isn't currently being used as I have plans to eventually mount it in my garage but wanted to clean, paint, and organize the space first.

Ideally I like to get at least 10 years of solid use out of my televisions but thus far none are even close to that benchmark.

[Socko]

Hmmmm I think our good ol' late 70's Philips with curved screen died somewhere in the early 90's.
Not sure what came after.
In 2001 I bought a 32" Sony Trinitron with 5.1 speakers. That one was dropped during moving to my new house and always worked.
It did have PiP and that option seemed like it made the screen into a higher res which didn't work very well after the fall. Lotsa green artifacts.
I gave it to my brother when I bought my 42" Sony LCD screen (pre-smart TV) in 2009.
In 2021 I sold this 42" TV because it wasn't dying AT ALL and I wanted something else

I think that Sony 32" CRT was still good when my brother bought his flat screen. Maybe it's still working somewhere in a house

I just realized my last 3 TVs are all Sony.

[Derb]

I’m thinking the 2007 Sony 1080p LCD tv I had was personally my longest set owned & used. I bought a Sony 4K back in 2014.

So... 7 years max ownership. Then I changed my 2014 in 2020.

Come to think of it... I haven’t had a TV long enough for failure.

My Parents on the other hand are still rocking a 2008 Sony LCD. 0 issue.

[Lozin]

I have a 720P Samsung 32" from 2012 still going strong and a 46" Sony Bravia from 2013 in the bedroom. I've got a 20" crt toshiba from 2003 in another bedroom running my Gen 1 XBOX. My parents are still using my old Sony 60" SXRD set from 2005(my first HD set), its big heavy and comes as two pieces(TV & Stand) but my dad can still buy replacement lamps for it off Amazon for cheap so he won't get rid of it no matter how hard I try. I'm trying to convince him to take my old 2016 65" Panasonic DX900 since I just upgraded my main H/T TV two weeks ago.

[TyTimp]

Still rocking a 2005 42" 720p Panasonic Plasma PX50U. It's still my main TV as I use a projector for movies. I've been eyeing a 65" OLED for a while but just can't replace the Panny. The picture quality is still so good after all these years. The PQ still destroys any on my friends current LED TV. Plus, I paid way more for it back in the day than I could get a 65" OLED for now. It may soon move to the bedroom though.

[d3nt0n]

I still have a Sony CRT sitting in a storage unit.
I also had an insignia brand LCD for about a decade before I got a second OLED and eventually sold it.