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I don't know, I have one of these TV's and it certainly wasn't cheap, it was $2500, it wasn't $250. Trouble is you could pay twice as much for a better brand tv, but it doesn't guarantee long life, it's just the luck of the draw.

Ive always bought Sony tvs and none of them failed. I bought my mum an LG tv and the sound was always out of sync so I avoided them. Yes it had a setting to adjust the sound but I had to adjust it every 5 minutes. Imagine watching a film having to adjust the sound every 5 minutes.

Many thanks Allen, good info.

I bought a TCL ....1.5 years later screen went black with my extended warranty the store replaced it with a "better" JVC. Less than 1 year the JVC screen went black. I then was given an LG and 3 years on and so far so good. I will only buy LG and SONY from now on. Thank you for this very good video......Mike, Regina Saskatchewan Canada.

Great video!

I Have (had) a Sony KD-65XG8196 which I bought in 2019 from Richer Sounds. Last Sunday it just turned off while I was watching it and when I tried to turn it back on there was just a red light blinking at me six times. I remembered it had a six year warranty so I emailed Richer Sounds and they gave me a phone number for Sony and said you still have two weeks left on your Manufacturer warranty, so call them and if you have any problems call us straight back. I called Sony and no messing about they diagnosed my TV over the phone as unrepairable and immediately said we will replace it with a new TV. The new TV is arriving tomorrow and it's going to be a newer (2023) model than mine which needless to say I'm over the moon about. It was such a smooth process that I am now a Sony and Richer Sounds customer for life, I'll never switch to another brand after this excellent customer service from both companies.

Disappointing Hisense want to compete with apple for least repairable products. Does this go up the product stack U7N U8N? Is TCL equally built as bad?

i have a sony for 3 years and after spending £1200 0n this pile of crap that turns off regully i think they are shite.i have looked into getting it fixed but having to sort it online is too much hassle. Currys are not interested so stuff sony

Great vid first time watching thanks for your advice

While not a real technician, I got out of the business back in the late 1990s. It was obvious even then that repairing consumer electronic items was going the way of the dodo bird. Increasing integration of functions in large flat pack chips that were different only on the outside pinouts and the burned in micro-code that was changed every year insured that. No diagrams or service literature, complete module replacement if available made repair jobs increasingly more expensive than buying a new set. These LCD TVs are only a fixer if it's a switching power supply problem or LED backlights. Even then the number of inferior counterfeit parts out in the wild today makes even that something of a crapshoot.

I have a 2016 LG OLED bought from Richer Sounds. I wouldn't buy from anywhere else. Unfortunately it is now suffering badly from image retention. I blame the wife as she often leaves Netflix on and now there is a horrible circle in the bottom left and corner and a line going across. It has done well though for 8 years

I just bought a Sony after years of Samsung. Best move I ever made tv wise. It’s a standard led 4k to but boy the picture is just so good. I’ll be interested to see how things go. Your video has relaxed my mind a wee bit though.

Straight taking my family and i have been Sony and Panasonic t v viewers for twenty years plus brilliant equipment and you get what you pay for .

When people ask me , I say only buy Panasonic caps or Lipos for projects , as we are 100% get what you pay for world.

I changed a keyboard in an old Acer laptop that was worth almost nothing - everything had to be removed to get at the thing, some connectors part failing along the way, but I was not going to be beaten by it. Job done... then there was a software problem as it had reset itself and demanded a Windows bootdrive rather than lInux which needed hours on Google to find a way around it. I would not have bothered except I got the keyboard for a tenner from Aliexpress before looking into how much work was involved and felt it was bad luck not to use it. So u did well not to delve too deeply into a TV that was not worth much.

It's definitely not blue, though a poor black (5:30 to 11:13). Do these TVs include a colour bar test?

My 40 inch Blaupunkt LED HD TV is getting on for ten years old, £160 from Sainsbury's, one very faint line on start up that disappears and sometimes switches itself off. I was thinking a 50-55 inch Sharp from Richer Sounds but only the bigger one has the option of the extra warranty. New Sharp TV's seem to be made by Sharp again after a few years of branding by another company who did not do a good job but will look at LG following this video. HiSense had a bad rep when I bought the Blaupunkt which was basically the same inside as the Technika sold by Tesco (the remotes were interchangeable) and made in Eastern Europe by UMG and rumoured to use Samsung screens, I think. As mentioned, lots of the lower end brands are now built in Turkey and to be avoided. Four to five hours a day from the Blaupunkt, BTW and the brand is still around in some of the smaller shops, don't know if they are just new old stock or recent builds.

Sony Bravia 9...tv done right....

10 months for an MOT, they did, of course, provide a loan? You will have to increase your prices, if you want to entertain Margot.

What a good video, not the usual rubbish on YT, thank you very much.

You’re going to see a massive number of Samsung TV’s because of their market share, that’s just common sense, the same for Sony being the fewest as it’s also the most expensive so yes better components but also much fewer numbers to fail

Most people buy a TV. With a view to it being a disposable product. I did t even think TV repair was an actual profession anymore. All the repair shops within 20 miles of my location have closed.

Why don't manufactures add additional heat sink and fan to aid with cooling rather just relaying on the metal cover as a heat spreader ??

Thanks - your independent advice is appreciated. 👍

I bought a 40" Sony Bravia LCD in 2007. It's been going flawlessly for 17 years. I took a 2-year extended warranty that obviously I didn't need, but no regrets. No HDR, no 4K, no OLED, and no complaints. What it does have is a component input. Who remembers that? Those were the glory days! This was very useful information. I will keep in mind to prefer Sony, or LG if money is an object, and to pay for the extended warranty on TVs. We should remember to account for sales figures in judging the reliability of a brand. I've not done actual research but my gut is telling me that Samsung is the most popular TV brand, so it wouldn't be a surprise that you see many on the bench. If it can't then be fixed, that's the main issue. I always figured that LG and Samsung were basically the same, with some rebadging going on similar to Hyundai and Kia. Evidently that is not the case. Who knew?

My £800+ Samsung screen went just after the 3 year guarantee expired, the second in a row and Samsung said, throw it away! I went to buy an LG from Costco but they didn’t have the size in stock, so I paid under £300 for a Hisense with a 5 year guarantee. At least, I haven’t spent a fortune when it dies.

Yes, an LED conversion would be interesting to watch👍

SO helpful, thank you

I like watchin these ive repaired a few for m8s an i have a sony bravia 55inch needing yet another new main board seems to be an ongoing thing every 5 years or so ive done one when it came here 3 years ago its already sluggish to change channel or turn on the android logo takes ages to sod off usually that means its going again gotta love sony i dont suppose yu have one do you lolo

Great video mate. Cheers Rob

Sony are shite as a company, the tv operating systems are shocking! Sony are no longer a premium company!

I’ve had my LG 49” 3D TV for got to be nearly 10 years and it’s still going strong

Ive had three expensive TV sets in the last ten years a JVC a Samsung and a Hitachi all bought from the leading seller of Electrical equipment on the high street and they have all stopped working within 2 to 3 years, usually power issues or motherboard issues, I still have an old style Grundig glass screen TV I bought in 2008 its the one I use now because all the rest broke and to repair them would have cost hundreds, I feel all modern smart TVs are designed to fail, the picture on the Grundig is nowhere near the quality of a smart TV but its reliable and I am not made of money so I wont be buying them again, modern TV's are a rip off and I will always avoid this seller for anything electrical because they don't care their customer service is non existent. I have a cheapo Luxor TV 20 inch in the bedroom that I bought from ASDA in 2011 and it still works perfectly fine,its a basic TV I think that is the secret

I am still using my 24 years old Sony Bravia and waiting for it to die on me so I can buy one of the new Sony models maybe I will die first than my TV 😂

Still using my 50" plasma from years ago, I get a lot of compliments on the picture.

Bin it

I can tell you now, all HiSense electronic products possess terrible build quality - their quality control is a joke - be they TV's, DVD/Blu ray players, Refrigeration units, Washing machines; frankly, I just don't know how they're still in business. Bottom line: It's crap. Anyone reading this - avoid at all cost !

Well done on avoiding the rabbit hole. I fixed a PS5 yesterday that was supposed to be just a simple HDMI port swap. It had 5 different faults that took it to a three hour repair.

That tv is a dinosaur chuck it in the bin or better a recycling centre

Couldn't agree more regarding Sony TVs. I bought my first about 35 years ago, and my second in 2009. I will be buying my third fairly soon because at my age (71) I find I need a larger screen.

Our Sony TV's last 10 years. Last one was a 70"

How about the laser projectors? They are the only ones still capable of 3D.

My 10 year old Panasonic viera is still going strong no need for a smart TV. Just have a firestick

One for All, 2 minutes later a working tv.

I have 5 of these brand TVs.... never had any problems with any over a period of 4+ years..................... love the BS.

Nice to know that the only brands we buy are your top 2, I think we had 10 years from our Sony before a vertical line went out , i call that cheap viewing .

F**king hypocrite

F**king hypocrite

F**king hypocrite

F**king hypocrite