It’s very hard to believe these TVs have got such good pictures and colours from a couple of simple circuit boards.The old CRTs used to go out of alignment and go green as they got older.Our first colour TV was a PYE, on valves, consuming a 1,000 watts.
I had a Panasonic TV come into my local repair cafe recently. I showed the owners it was an LG screen, Sharp tuner, you get the idea. Main board was Panasonic, but backlights were fkd. I was expecting a Vestel inside, was nice to see an old one. Sadly they didn't buy the £10 strips and come back. Labour is free guys... 😢
I worked for Panasonic back in the 80's - what a great company. Their stuff back then was over engineered and as testimony to that I bought a Microwave oven in one of the staff sales in 1986, that's 38 years ago and it's still working in our kitchen today. We use it several times a day and it's never missed a beat - I also have my Technics AA amplifier, tape deck and tuner which is a similar age and guess what, I use that most weeks so it pains me to see this Vestel derived low quality junk.... what happened Panasonic, you had the world at your feet....
My mum also has a Panasonic microwave from around the same time, I didn't start secondary school until Sept 87 and she had it before then. Still going strong to this day without ever having any repairs. And like you, it is used every day. We live in a throwaway society were nothing is built to last. I still have my 14" Sony Trinitron flat screen portable tv, works like a charm. 😃
I assumed that was the case. My parents bought a Panasonic microwave after they married in 1994 and it lasted until it finally gave out in 2022, 28 years of fantastic service. We'll never see the likes of that again that's for sure.
I saw recently a TV that stopped working due to a chip that detects when back lights fail. So, one light could fail rendering the whole TV useless! He disabled the chip and the TV worked fine. We're constantly being conned by so called environmental pressures and yet that tv in most instances would have gone to landfil. Lovely cat by the way.
I also miss Panasonic window A/Cs, which are now sold as Friedrich. The Panasonics were quieter and very reliable until they rusted apart which sometimes were almost 20 years. They are now concentrated in the industrial business with only a few consumer products. Shame because I've always liked their stuff.
I've always had Panasonic TVs right from the 70s, in 2004 I bought a Plazma set it's picture was fantastic. Earlier this year I bought a Panasonic smart TV from John Lewis thinking I should come into the 21 century, but the thing is rubbish. Won't turn on, turns itself off, freezes on UA-cam wish I kept my Plazma set.
Panasonic Viera “LED” 37” from 2010 still going strong. Software was and is complete crap, but it’s been brilliant otherwise and I just use an Apple TV with it. Of course it’s been relegated to bedroom duties. But I’m not buying a Panasonic tele again, based on experience with other newer Panasonic appliances. Cool vid, nice cat. 😊
I have a 42 Finlux led lcd. bought it new must have been a good 20 years ago. A few years ago it developed a fault where the image turned red after a few hours of use. problem could usually be solved by turning off and back on at the wall. eventually was happening so much I called a local TV guy to see about a repair. The guy point blank refused and said it's not worth it to me or him to fix. I was quite shocked by this response. So I decided to do some looking myself. took the back off the tv to get numbers for boards and started my google foo, whilst disconnecting cleaning and reconnecting. put it all back together hung it back on my wall and I have never had a problem with it since. no new boards, nothing! just disconnecting cleaning and reconnecting. that was a few years ago now and it's still working perfectly as the day it came out the box. Love my tv so I do it's a trooper!
I feel sorry for the customers that Panasonic are misleading thinking that they are buying a product that was at least designed in Japan. Only to find that it is only a badge on a mass market one made in Turkey one that is sold at a premium price. Naughty and not very nice.
Thats how it works, I was 'duped' on my fist set, I checked argo, currys, ended up at richer sounds paid 699 for an hitachi, 2 month later psu went, they fixed it and then 3yrs later went again, when i tried to hunt one down I found my hitach was 100% same as an argos bush I could have had for 499..... take any car on the road today, apart from the shell the rest of it is built from the big book of bosch etc, nearly every abs system on a car is bosch, unless toyota who stayed with their own.
@@lezbriddon This is the way the world has gone. Today the brand means nothing in regards of who makes it and how long it will last. There are only a limited number of TV and panel manufacturers left in the world. A lot of the once highly respected Japanese brands have been outsourcing production for years. Vestel now makes TV's for almost every brand you can think of, Sony has closed it's factories in the EU so i suspect that even the top models are probably made in China. TCL and Hisense have taken over from the Korean brands in terms of sales.
@@Barbarapape true about the panels, but the driver and power boards can be made by anyone, and those are the bits that fail. People like the Japanese stuff because they make the highest quality components like capacitors.
@@Dragon_Slayer_Ornstein Not all Japanese capcitors are good, the ones if have found to fail are Panasonic ones. As to the failing underated components, at least they have kept me employed all these years. Everything is made to a price, and they will use the cheapest available even in the higher end models
This will sound mad, but my 65" Panasonic actually turned into a Vestel a few months after I bought it, presumably following a software update. Where it used to start with the Panasonic logo, it now loads as Vestel. I feel deceived.
Panasonic closed their last tv factory in Europe in 2021. I managed to get a clearance deal on one of the last ever TV’s made, the Panasonic Freesat TV 📺 the TX40FS503B. Got 2 actually to back up my existing Panasonic TX-L37DT30B which is 14 years old now and not a hitch bar remote control issues with the sticky glue inside which is resolvable via cleaning the glue off or indeed buying a new replacement remote. Build quality of the 2021 version isn’t as good with a lot more plastic parts and thicker cabinet. The 2010 model was fabulous with a lot of metal used in the cabinet and has a lot higher build quality. Although in 2010 you were looking at towards £1,200 for the then top of the line TV. The 2021 version was on clearance for about £320 so you can see the squeeze on pricing and obviously then a lack of incentive to invest in product quality or innovation.
9 seconds in. As soon as I saw the model number, or more exactly the rectangular box with 1508, I thought VESTEL. I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole. 22 seconds in, 9 years old! Impressive! 3-4 years seems to be the norm, if you are lucky.
Excellently well-behaved cat. I can't trust any of my cats in my work area when I'm not in here to stop them from quickly climbing as high as possible, pulling over entire shelves, getting irretrievably lodged into tiny spaces, damaging thousands of dollars worth of computer and camera gear, and knocking every accessible small object into the floor while they look me right in the eye.
@3:16 You are always get what you pay for, unless it is a scam or a con. Price to performance ratio is key for consumers and even brands with a great reputation can have shitty or at least sub par products in their range. 🤗 Sometimes it makes even more sense to buy commercial products where reliability is even more important.
Doesn’t surprise me at all - cheap components branded with a respected badge to enable the distributors to charge us poor consumers for a well regarded brand. Lovely cat - bravo Misty for supervising!
I have 2 "genuine" Panasonic TVs, a plasma TH-P50V10Z , purchased around 2010 and I also have the TH-65DX900U purchased around 2016. Both are going strong and have had zero issues, I either won the lottery with both these TVs but I choose to believe that genuine Panasonic products are damn near bulletproof - and no, I am not an employee of Panasonic.
Also same here, I have an elderly Panasonic Plasma, keep thinking about changing it but I'd probably regret it. At least it keeps the room warm in the winter with the amount of heat it gives out.
Misty must give you such pleasure. Shame Panasonic have taken this approach. I know it is not the same but with Denon and Marantz now making hi-fi's in Vietnam for cost. I had a look inside a friends Panasonic SC-PMX92EB and was surprised they were still using top components obviously with an eye on robustness.
Wow, your cat is the spitting image of our cat, who was also named Misty! Sadly she died about 15 years ago. Had to show the video to my wife who immediately got choked. I also have an old Panasonic TX42 HDTV which is still going strong and a really sharp picture.
Extra work, but I'd consider cleaning the metal backplate and sticking the LED strip with pieces of thermally conductive tape under each LED. If the ones in this TV have already failed before the user probably has the backlight maxed out, consensus seems to be that many if not most TV's drive their LED's too hard to get good spec numbers.
All the major electronics companies do this. They have their products assembled by other companies who in turn get the parts from other companies. Most OEM electronics are sourced out. Most higher end models do have better quality parts in them. Everything is made to a price point. Made to sell at a price that people can afford to pay and where the retailer can make a buck and the manufacture can make a buck.
OMG its mind blowing to see how cheap looking everything is on this telly, that bit of paper thingy you took out that goes around the backlights. Im shocked, it looks like it must have cost them like £30 to make this set.
It's really common. I bought a top end Sony Blu-ray deck, and the hdmi socket failed. It was out of warranty, so I replaced the hdmi socket myself. Video decoder chip was Toshiba, Sound chip was Yamaha, plus other assorted Samsung, Hitachi, etc chips and Elna caps.
@@interstat2222 to be fair, the parts I mentioned are from good manufacturers, but I really was surprised by the lack of Sony hardware on the mobo. In contrast, I've got a Sony Walkman, WMEX 526, really really lovely model, aluminium shell, single AA powered, logic controls, inline remote, auto reverse etc, from the late 90s, early 2000s, and that needed a belt change. Virtually all the chips in that are Sony.
@@mistermatix8241 That was a different era. Sony scaled its electronics division back a lot but still using top quality parts (people even now don't realise why they cost more).
I don't own a television so a bit out of touch with prices. So to hear that an 'entry level' television could cost up to £500 I was staggared to say the least! Nonetheless I do enjoy watching these video's so keep them coming, thank you.
You'll be surprised how many TV brands are using a variety of components from other TV manufacturers i.e. screens etc. the only things they manufacture in house are the mouldings and printed circuit boards....
On 32 -40incc cheapo sets,I don't replace the whole set anymore,I either bridge the dead bulb or change one strip,no one wants to pay full service price for vestel or Chinese sets.
Agreed. The LED strips seem to be the biggest cause of faults on modern TVs so it would be great if they were easily replacable. I guess the manufacturers dont really care though ☹. As a retired electronics engineer, I still dread the LED strips in my TV going faulty because of the faff in changing them.
I've never heard of Vestel, I guess they aren't a thing here in the US. I know for a while before Panasonic stopped selling TV's here they were having them made by Sceptre. Like the Vestel they were OK TV's but definitely not Panasonic quality or longevity.
Back in the 80's I put a MGA on the bench. Something was wrong, it was a CHEAP Sharp ! When the customer found out they were quite pissed of , they paid US$ 100 extra for premium MGA but got the bottom of the line Sharp. Buyer beware ! LFOD !
Sorry Allen but those new backlights won't last as long as they could've. You should always scrape off the old adhesive (where the old strips were), back to bare metal, then fit the new strips with thermally conductive double sided tape. Otherwise you've effectively insulated them against heat transfer, which will affect the lifespan of the new strips.
same as when people say toyota is good ! and i get a toyota in the workshop and its marked citroen peugeot (psa group) allover, not good! must say though nissan is just rebadged renault/dacia but they are somehow more reliable (electrically)
We have a Panasonic dealer up in Inverness Highlands , So is it possible that all their TVs are not genuine internals. If so is this not seriously breaking the law if they tell customers otherwise.
Interestingly, Panasonic Viera Plasma, LCD & LED Televisions have exited the Australian market some time ago as they couldn't complete. So far Sony is the leader. Pioneer, JVC are amongst other brands that have disappeared.
Had a Panasonic 3d blu ray player years back, used it a few times then stopped using it, year later we plugged it back up and nothing, power but nothing working. I pulled it apart to see if it was a simple fix and noticed nothing was Panasonic. So not a new thing
I honestly don't understand why Panasonic did this, they damaged their reputation for short term gain. If they'd been sensible they'd have followed Sony's path and only retailed higher-end TVs. If they wanted the revenues from lower-end sets, they had the Sanyo brand, which was still respected in the budget end in the early 2010s.
For years the Japanese manufacturers thought it more important to have the biggest market share instead of concentrating of making only good products and actually make some profit. Nothing new, been going on since the the early 1990s.
@@Dedubya- Thing is the Koreans, and now the Chinese are doing the same thing. Especially the Chinese - their addiction to market share looks suicidal, it's gain share by any means even if they're causing their state to go trillions in debt.
I agree. Move all of Panasonic's lower end products into a revived Sanyo brand, and have Panasonic reserved for the quality stuff. Maybe even Technics for the top end fancypants models?
I think the answer can be found in Australia. Panasonic was a top tier brand in the past but today doesn't sell TV's in Australia at all, they've left the market completely. They still sell other products but apart from air-conditioning and possibly microwave ovens, they nowhere near as big as they used to be. Just my perception but they look to be going down the same track Philips did. Used to be huge and well regarded but gradually shrunk until there's not much left.
@@OperationNorthwoods It’s a lens cap that’s fallen off the led strip. Just needs gluing back on. It’s a bit of work and the screen needs to come off. Not for the faint hearted.
One round this is to buy a set like me at reasonable price ( not expensive ) with 6 years guarantee The guarantee will expire the same time as I do hopefully. Only way to cheat today's world
Makes you wonder about the legality of obviously trying to trick someone into thinking a product is what it isn't. Clear case of misrepresentation of a product. Of course it's nothing new and has been going on for a century, but that's maybe because we've been complacent and did nothing about it.
Hello allan Hello everyone can anyone help me please medion 65 inch tv model 31369 I can't find any backlights for this model anyone help me with this please anyhelp would be great thankyou as I'm thinking of buying the tv thankyou
@@childofthe60s100 Now you are avoiding....is the fix or a new 32 inch the cheaper way to go? Please answer or as another poster suggested you ARE avoiding the question. Transparancy please!!!!
No offence, but with tvs so cheap and disposable why why why would you get a technician to fix it. I’m going to ask a question you will never see on here. Q. What was your fee to fix the said TV, Something is going to tell me…no reply.
What a smug comment!!! YOU obviously have a massive disposable income???? Some people cannot afford a new TV (despite them being so cheap and disposable to YOU!) - it is down to finance. That is why why why people elect to have their TV fixed. No offence.
Your first step of diagnosing a set is to give it a CAT scan!
Very cute supervisor you got there.
Another great upload Allen
Regards,
Brian👍👏🏴👍👏🏴
It’s very hard to believe these TVs have got such good pictures and colours from a couple of simple circuit boards.The old CRTs used to go out of alignment and go green as they got older.Our first colour TV was a PYE, on valves, consuming a 1,000 watts.
I had a Panasonic TV come into my local repair cafe recently. I showed the owners it was an LG screen, Sharp tuner, you get the idea. Main board was Panasonic, but backlights were fkd. I was expecting a Vestel inside, was nice to see an old one.
Sadly they didn't buy the £10 strips and come back. Labour is free guys... 😢
I love it when cats steal the show 😼 😂😂😂😂
I worked for Panasonic back in the 80's - what a great company. Their stuff back then was over engineered and as testimony to that I bought a Microwave oven in one of the staff sales in 1986, that's 38 years ago and it's still working in our kitchen today. We use it several times a day and it's never missed a beat - I also have my Technics AA amplifier, tape deck and tuner which is a similar age and guess what, I use that most weeks so it pains me to see this Vestel derived low quality junk.... what happened Panasonic, you had the world at your feet....
The world wouls rather buy cheap from China.
My mum also has a Panasonic microwave from around the same time, I didn't start secondary school until Sept 87 and she had it before then. Still going strong to this day without ever having any repairs. And like you, it is used every day. We live in a throwaway society were nothing is built to last. I still have my 14" Sony Trinitron flat screen portable tv, works like a charm. 😃
I assumed that was the case. My parents bought a Panasonic microwave after they married in 1994 and it lasted until it finally gave out in 2022, 28 years of fantastic service. We'll never see the likes of that again that's for sure.
Thanks to Misty that set is now a Catnasonic.
cat seems to approve.
Shame Panasonic went to vestel haven’t done themselves any favours, saved from the landfill thanks Allen 😊
I saw recently a TV that stopped working due to a chip that detects when back lights fail. So, one light could fail rendering the whole TV useless! He disabled the chip and the TV worked fine. We're constantly being conned by so called environmental pressures and yet that tv in most instances would have gone to landfil. Lovely cat by the way.
I also miss Panasonic window A/Cs, which are now sold as Friedrich. The Panasonics were quieter and very reliable until they rusted apart which sometimes were almost 20 years.
They are now concentrated in the industrial business with only a few consumer products. Shame because I've always liked their stuff.
I've always had Panasonic TVs right from the 70s, in 2004 I bought a Plazma set it's picture was fantastic. Earlier this year I bought a Panasonic smart TV from John Lewis thinking I should come into the 21 century, but the thing is rubbish. Won't turn on, turns itself off, freezes on UA-cam wish I kept my Plazma set.
Panasonic Viera “LED” 37” from 2010 still going strong. Software was and is complete crap, but it’s been brilliant otherwise and I just use an Apple TV with it. Of course it’s been relegated to bedroom duties. But I’m not buying a Panasonic tele again, based on experience with other newer Panasonic appliances.
Cool vid, nice cat. 😊
I have a 42 Finlux led lcd. bought it new must have been a good 20 years ago. A few years ago it developed a fault where the image turned red after a few hours of use. problem could usually be solved by turning off and back on at the wall. eventually was happening so much I called a local TV guy to see about a repair. The guy point blank refused and said it's not worth it to me or him to fix. I was quite shocked by this response. So I decided to do some looking myself. took the back off the tv to get numbers for boards and started my google foo, whilst disconnecting cleaning and reconnecting. put it all back together hung it back on my wall and I have never had a problem with it since. no new boards, nothing! just disconnecting cleaning and reconnecting. that was a few years ago now and it's still working perfectly as the day it came out the box. Love my tv so I do it's a trooper!
I feel sorry for the customers that Panasonic are misleading thinking that they are buying a product that was
at least designed in Japan.
Only to find that it is only a badge on a mass market one made in Turkey one that is sold at a premium price.
Naughty and not very nice.
Thats how it works, I was 'duped' on my fist set, I checked argo, currys, ended up at richer sounds paid 699 for an hitachi, 2 month later psu went, they fixed it and then 3yrs later went again, when i tried to hunt one down I found my hitach was 100% same as an argos bush I could have had for 499.....
take any car on the road today, apart from the shell the rest of it is built from the big book of bosch etc, nearly every abs system on a car is bosch, unless toyota who stayed with their own.
@@lezbriddon This is the way the world has gone.
Today the brand means nothing in regards of who makes it and how long it will last.
There are only a limited number of TV and panel manufacturers left in the world.
A lot of the once highly respected Japanese brands have been outsourcing production
for years.
Vestel now makes TV's for almost every brand you can think of, Sony has closed it's
factories in the EU so i suspect that even the top models are probably made in China.
TCL and Hisense have taken over from the Korean brands in terms of sales.
@@Barbarapape true about the panels, but the driver and power boards can be made by anyone, and those are the bits that fail. People like the Japanese stuff because they make the highest quality components like capacitors.
@@Dragon_Slayer_Ornstein Not all Japanese capcitors are good, the ones if have found to fail are Panasonic ones.
As to the failing underated components, at least they have kept me employed all these years.
Everything is made to a price, and they will use the cheapest available even in the higher end models
This will sound mad, but my 65" Panasonic actually turned into a Vestel a few months after I bought it, presumably following a software update. Where it used to start with the Panasonic logo, it now loads as Vestel. I feel deceived.
If you go into the service meno there maybe an option to change the startup logo.
I've owned a Vestel Toshiba 55 inches since 2021. Very nice TV and still has android updates. Very happy with it.
I bought a Pioneer Kuro 60 HD " Plasma in 2008. Still as good today as when I bought it.
Panasonic closed their last tv factory in Europe in 2021. I managed to get a clearance deal on one of the last ever TV’s made, the Panasonic Freesat TV 📺 the TX40FS503B. Got 2 actually to back up my existing Panasonic TX-L37DT30B which is 14 years old now and not a hitch bar remote control issues with the sticky glue inside which is resolvable via cleaning the glue off or indeed buying a new replacement remote.
Build quality of the 2021 version isn’t as good with a lot more plastic parts and thicker cabinet. The 2010 model was fabulous with a lot of metal used in the cabinet and has a lot higher build quality. Although in 2010 you were looking at towards £1,200 for the then top of the line TV. The 2021 version was on clearance for about £320 so you can see the squeeze on pricing and obviously then a lack of incentive to invest in product quality or innovation.
9 seconds in. As soon as I saw the model number, or more exactly the rectangular box with 1508, I thought VESTEL. I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole. 22 seconds in, 9 years old! Impressive! 3-4 years seems to be the norm, if you are lucky.
Better buy Vestel directly. At least you get what you pay for.
Excellently well-behaved cat. I can't trust any of my cats in my work area when I'm not in here to stop them from quickly climbing as high as possible, pulling over entire shelves, getting irretrievably lodged into tiny spaces, damaging thousands of dollars worth of computer and camera gear, and knocking every accessible small object into the floor while they look me right in the eye.
@3:16 You are always get what you pay for, unless it is a scam or a con. Price to performance ratio is key for consumers and even brands with a great reputation can have shitty or at least sub par products in their range. 🤗 Sometimes it makes even more sense to buy commercial products where reliability is even more important.
Doesn’t surprise me at all - cheap components branded with a respected badge to enable the distributors to charge us poor consumers for a well regarded brand. Lovely cat - bravo Misty for supervising!
I have 2 "genuine" Panasonic TVs, a plasma TH-P50V10Z , purchased around 2010 and I also have the TH-65DX900U purchased around 2016.
Both are going strong and have had zero issues, I either won the lottery with both these TVs but I choose to believe that genuine Panasonic products are damn near bulletproof - and no, I am not an employee of Panasonic.
Same here. I have an elderly Panasonic plasma TV. Never had a single problem with it. I could upgrade, but I suspect I'd regret it.
Also same here, I have an elderly Panasonic Plasma, keep thinking about changing it but I'd probably regret it. At least it keeps the room warm in the winter with the amount of heat it gives out.
@@pjweds 🤣
I'd be pleased if my broken television was getting a cat scan! 🙂(Around four year old 55 inch JVC but internet usage agreement is with Vestel)
Whole TV is by Vestel.
Misty,can supply a original cats whisker if needed. Lovely cat
Misty must give you such pleasure. Shame Panasonic have taken this approach. I know it is not the same but with Denon and Marantz now making hi-fi's in Vietnam for cost. I had a look inside a friends Panasonic SC-PMX92EB and was surprised they were still using top components obviously with an eye on robustness.
I always turn the backlight to 50 percent or lower.
Just wondering Allen, which tv would you recommend these days? Keep up the excellent channel 👍
I have a 2014 Vestel Panasonic tv and i'm from Cornwall, huge snooker fan too!! 👍
You"ve got a really good cat there .
Wow, your cat is the spitting image of our cat, who was also named Misty! Sadly she died about 15 years ago. Had to show the video to my wife who immediately got choked. I also have an old Panasonic TX42 HDTV which is still going strong and a really sharp picture.
Misty is giving a cat scan
Extra work, but I'd consider cleaning the metal backplate and sticking the LED strip with pieces of thermally conductive tape under each LED. If the ones in this TV have already failed before the user probably has the backlight maxed out, consensus seems to be that many if not most TV's drive their LED's too hard to get good spec numbers.
All the major electronics companies do this. They have their products assembled by other companies who in turn get the parts from other companies. Most OEM electronics are sourced out. Most higher end models do have better quality parts in them. Everything is made to a price point. Made to sell at a price that people can afford to pay and where the retailer can make a buck and the manufacture can make a buck.
OMG its mind blowing to see how cheap looking everything is on this telly, that bit of paper thingy you took out that goes around the backlights. Im shocked, it looks like it must have cost them like £30 to make this set.
It's really common. I bought a top end Sony Blu-ray deck, and the hdmi socket failed. It was out of warranty, so I replaced the hdmi socket myself. Video decoder chip was Toshiba, Sound chip was Yamaha, plus other assorted Samsung, Hitachi, etc chips and Elna caps.
Chips, caps and screens coming from other suppliers is almost universal as for mainboard and chassis that is not on imo.
This is different. What you have is normal and those are all good quality parts. No company could ever make all their own parts.
@@interstat2222 to be fair, the parts I mentioned are from good manufacturers, but I really was surprised by the lack of Sony hardware on the mobo. In contrast, I've got a Sony Walkman, WMEX 526, really really lovely model, aluminium shell, single AA powered, logic controls, inline remote, auto reverse etc, from the late 90s, early 2000s, and that needed a belt change. Virtually all the chips in that are Sony.
@@mistermatix8241 That was a different era. Sony scaled its electronics division back a lot but still using top quality parts (people even now don't realise why they cost more).
Reminds me of my cat getting on my work bench she likes being close to you.
I picked up a working panasonic th-42pz800 the speakers are really powerful on it as well.
Do you ever get in the workshop those British-designed and made TVs using the old Ferguson/Cello names?
Surprised to see a Scart socket on a nine year old TV
Ahh badge engineering at its finest lol, There will be an Austin, Morris, MG, Wolsely, Riley and Vanden Plas version of the same TV next .
Yes with a Ghia X motherboard .👌🐾
I don't own a television so a bit out of touch with prices. So to hear that an 'entry level' television could cost up to £500 I was staggared to say the least! Nonetheless I do enjoy watching these video's so keep them coming, thank you.
You'll be surprised how many TV brands are using a variety of components from other TV manufacturers i.e. screens etc. the only things they manufacture in house are the mouldings and printed circuit boards....
On 32 -40incc cheapo sets,I don't replace the whole set anymore,I either bridge the dead bulb or change one strip,no one wants to pay full service price for vestel or Chinese sets.
I still have a Panasonic plasma tv must now be 20+ years ols and works fine.
I am jealous my studio cat is intelligent but he can't fix TV's! Animals, making us human caretakers look dumb 😸
The baseline Panasonics have been Vestels for some time now.
Since 2012. Initially just small models, more every year. Must be reliable enough.
I was thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the LED strips could be removed and replaced from the rear of the set.
Agreed. The LED strips seem to be the biggest cause of faults on modern TVs so it would be great if they were easily replacable. I guess the manufacturers dont really care though ☹. As a retired electronics engineer, I still dread the LED strips in my TV going faulty because of the faff in changing them.
I've never heard of Vestel, I guess they aren't a thing here in the US. I know for a while before Panasonic stopped selling TV's here they were having them made by Sceptre. Like the Vestel they were OK TV's but definitely not Panasonic quality or longevity.
European only company from Turkey (UK no.1 seller). Chinese brands do better in the US.
Nice 1 you make it look so easy to fix
Hi mate I watch you regularly what would you say this problem is. Samsung tv 2013 there is a few horizontal lines along the bottom.
B&O never contained anything but Philips parts!!!!
Back in the 80's I put a MGA on the bench. Something was wrong, it was a CHEAP Sharp !
When the customer found out they were quite pissed of , they paid US$ 100 extra for
premium MGA but got the bottom of the line Sharp. Buyer beware !
LFOD !
Sorry Allen but those new backlights won't last as long as they could've. You should always scrape off the old adhesive (where the old strips were), back to bare metal, then fit the new strips with thermally conductive double sided tape. Otherwise you've effectively insulated them against heat transfer, which will affect the lifespan of the new strips.
Interesting Panasonic info.
There was some interference on the sound with this footage.
same as when people say toyota is good ! and i get a toyota in the workshop and its marked citroen peugeot (psa group) allover, not good!
must say though nissan is just rebadged renault/dacia but they are somehow more reliable (electrically)
Only the aygo
Panasonic,Jvc,Toshiba and other fancy japanese brands of the past ...And the salesperson advertises them as reliable japanese brands....
May I ask, how you know that replacement LED back light are genuine and so high quality.
We have a Panasonic dealer up in Inverness Highlands , So is it possible that all their TVs are not genuine internals. If so is this not seriously breaking the law if they tell customers otherwise.
Interestingly, Panasonic Viera Plasma, LCD & LED Televisions have exited the Australian market some time ago as they couldn't complete. So far Sony is the leader. Pioneer, JVC are amongst other brands that have disappeared.
Had a Panasonic 3d blu ray player years back, used it a few times then stopped using it, year later we plugged it back up and nothing, power but nothing working. I pulled it apart to see if it was a simple fix and noticed nothing was Panasonic. So not a new thing
I honestly don't understand why Panasonic did this, they damaged their reputation for short term gain.
If they'd been sensible they'd have followed Sony's path and only retailed higher-end TVs. If they wanted the revenues from lower-end sets, they had the Sanyo brand, which was still respected in the budget end in the early 2010s.
For years the Japanese manufacturers thought it more important to have the biggest market share instead of concentrating of making only good products and actually make some profit. Nothing new, been going on since the the early 1990s.
@@Dedubya- Thing is the Koreans, and now the Chinese are doing the same thing.
Especially the Chinese - their addiction to market share looks suicidal, it's gain share by any means even if they're causing their state to go trillions in debt.
I agree. Move all of Panasonic's lower end products into a revived Sanyo brand, and have Panasonic reserved for the quality stuff. Maybe even Technics for the top end fancypants models?
I think the answer can be found in Australia.
Panasonic was a top tier brand in the past but today doesn't sell TV's in Australia at all, they've left the market completely. They still sell other products but apart from air-conditioning and possibly microwave ovens, they nowhere near as big as they used to be.
Just my perception but they look to be going down the same track Philips did. Used to be huge and well regarded but gradually shrunk until there's not much left.
How much does the cat scan cost ?😀
Lol. That isn't a Zenith bro! Shady sellers must think people are dumb.
They didn't cheap out on the screws, they could have just glued it all together and make you buy a new one
Where are you based i have a monitor i need sorting
That screen was really grubby in one spot in the middle on the bottom edge as we see it, about 8:40.
There is a very loud mains hum on your microphone. Any chance of fixing the microphone for future videos?
@@zaprodk it was coming from the plasma tv not microphone
@allenfleckney5969 OK :)
This block is full of it
Nice
USA viewer here. My Samsung 65" model UN65H6300AF, purchased July 2014, has suddenly developed a single bright spot. Is that an easy repair?
@@OperationNorthwoods It’s a lens cap that’s fallen off the led strip. Just needs gluing back on. It’s a bit of work and the screen needs to come off. Not for the faint hearted.
@@allenfleckney5969Ugh. I'll give it a try because I can't afford a new TV. Thanks!
It's a shame cats can't live on parts from busted cheap Turkish TVs - then the channel would be self supporting. Still, you can't have everything.
Good ol vestel
Cat scan!
Not another LED lights
One round this is to buy a set like me at reasonable price ( not expensive ) with 6 years guarantee The guarantee will expire the same time as I do hopefully. Only way to cheat today's world
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Why bother repairing a piece of junk like that
The cat makes me feel ill.
Makes you wonder about the legality of obviously trying to trick someone into thinking a product is what it isn't. Clear case of misrepresentation of a product. Of course it's nothing new and has been going on for a century, but that's maybe because we've been complacent and did nothing about it.
Hello allan Hello everyone can anyone help me please medion 65 inch tv model 31369 I can't find any backlights for this model anyone help me with this please anyhelp would be great thankyou as I'm thinking of buying the tv thankyou
Price of fix vs a new tv? A new 32 would be cheap...your fix is quite labour intensive. Is this just YT revenue or a genuine economical fix?
WHY would you even need to ask that question?
"Cheap" to YOU is not cheap to others.
@@childofthe60s100 Now you are avoiding....is the fix or a new 32 inch the cheaper way to go? Please answer or as another poster suggested you ARE avoiding the question. Transparancy please!!!!
Some of us like working with our hands..repairing and building things.
@@BrianG-x4u NOT my point directed at the poster though is it?...he made the repair for profit.....I ask is it worth it as a customer?
@@ekspatriat when I worked in a repair shop min labor charge was $45 plus parts. Universal back lights can be around $30.
I don't care about the cat!
No offence, but with tvs so cheap and disposable why why why would you get a technician to fix it.
I’m going to ask a question you will never see on here.
Q. What was your fee to fix the said TV,
Something is going to tell me…no reply.
What a smug comment!!!
YOU obviously have a massive disposable income????
Some people cannot afford a new TV (despite them being so cheap and disposable to YOU!) - it is down to finance.
That is why why why people elect to have their TV fixed.
No offence.
Plenty of offence! Lack of finance and not putting more stuff into landfills are just two reasons.