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[jrp001]

Chicken Man, on Jan 10 2011, 12:03 PM, said:

My Panasonic TH-P50Z800A plasma just recently developed a display fault, a column of 1080 pixels one pixel wide forming a vertical line that appears and disappears depending on what is being displayed on screen. The 'green' sub-pixels of this column are latched 'on' and are clearly visible when the surrounding pixels are of reddish or bluish tint.  

I've owned this panel for 26 months now and there's not a fingerprint on it, just an indication of how well I have looked after this unit, still it went faulty. It was to go in for repair tomorrow but with the extreme weather conditions we are experiencing here QLD it'll have to wait another week.

Fortunately I took out an extended 4 year warranty at $429 which covers all costs, and at roughly $2 a week that is not much of an outlay for an ongoing peace of mind. I have sometimes pondered whether there is some degree of 'designed obsolescence' that goes on in this industry in order to generate future repairs and possible sales of new panels by these corporate giants. But then, that's me.

Conspiracy theory or not it is wise to take out an extended warranty on these expensive, fragile displays if only for the sake of covering all possibilities that may or may not happen.

C.M

good idea extended warranty, because this sounds like a panel fault.

panasonic dont bring the panel as a spare part into australia so the unit will get exchanged.

If you had no extended warranty you would get charged for someone to look at it, and it would be dumped.

then you loose $$$$

[Wags]

Samsung 55" series 6 now 18 months old......and I'm still loving it!

Took the first one back after a couple of weeks though as I was not happy with some clouding on the screen.

I bought 2 years extra warranty as well, so I'm half way into that.

Wags

[owg582pdu]

TH-PZ850A Purchased 30/10/2008

7203:15 hours used!!

[stefcep]

Panasonic Panasonic TH-42PA60A, July 2006 running via Panasonic twin tuner DMR 350.

Picture looks fantastic, blacks are superb. DVD's are look great.  Its only SD, but ONEHD looks so much better than SD TV, watching NBA or NFL its almost 3D.

Bought a 42 inch Pana G Full HD for my parents last year and I honestly prefer the pic quality on my old one even though its SD.

Warranty expires in June, hope I don't need it..

been thinking about getting a 55 inch but haven't seen anything that mad go wow, so the Pana will do for a while yet.

[Craig]

Sony 46 inch LCD X Series - 3.5 years old.

Still works perfectly as new, although the blacks aren't as good as the newer TVs of course.

Will probably do me until OLED is available in the next few years, around the 55 inch mark.

[Obba]

8 or 9 year old Hitachi 42"
Made in Japan. No tuner. No speakers.

In fact, was sold without a stand  - optional Extra!

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$10,300 from JB HIFI Parramatta.

Still going strong.

[ajm]

Hey, RBA get your post count up to 5 and then you'll be able to send & receive messages through the boards.

I'm hoping to pass on a couple of tips.

Cheers

[miata]

the joz, on 23 August 2010 - 02:00 PM, said:

I'm just wondering who has the oldest flat panel TV around here and how old is it?



You see at work as people are rapidly buying up to get into digital I often hear that their old CRT tv is about 20 years old.



Which is great for the old tech.



But we are also getting many repeat flat panel buyers because their existing newer tech TV's are kicking the bucket?

As yet I don't know of any that have made it past 7 years,perhaps this was approximately the time that they started to take off.

I mean when they first appeared they were in excess of 20K...ouch!!( about 10 years ago IRRC)

So only the very well healed would contemplate such a purchase back then.

It seems many are carking it nowadays after about 3-4 years because they are just economical to repair

You'd need to be well healed after reading the bill in those days, Those who were well heeled, didn't blink though! To answer your question though, mine is four days old, replacing a smaller five year old HD (not FULL HD) Viera. The old one is working perfectly but I figured that a new FULL HD would be great for the Olympics and as there will be quite a lot of 3D being broadcast, the 3D would be interesting. It's a lot more ineresting than I thought it would be and I may end up getting a 3D Blu-Ray player as well. Should the new one break down (for some strange reason) at least I won't be without a TV.

[the-austrian]

I've had my NEC for nearly 9 years.  It's 42 inch and was $5k back in the day lol
It has no speakers, no tuner, and has a 1024 x 768 resolution.  It accepts any non-PC input to 1080i, and will also display many PC resolutions with direct input.  It's basically a 42" PC screen that accepts PVR/DVD etc input.
Looks as great as the day I bought it.  Oh yeah, it's made in Japan.

Edited by the-austrian, 04 September 2012 - 10:13 PM.

[davep]

My 5 or 6 year old 42" TEAC is still going with daily use, although its basically been donated to a family member now.

[mackie]

Brought a 50 inch nec in 2004 on ebay starting bid $8k, harvey norman price $14k.still working. no turner, no speakers, no stand.The price of extras in August 2004 was hd turner$700.Speakers$600.Stand$600.

[mrol]

Purchased a Panasonic Plasma TH-42P500 in October 2005 for $4,000. Same model was purchased by two friends.

All are still working!

Just checked the Service Hours on mine and it has 32,400 hours on it.

That works out at 12 cents an hour (plus electricity).

I can't believe that works out that it has been on more than it has been off!

[perceive]

Panasonic TH-50P800A December 2008.  Still going fine but I hardly use it compared to some of you people!  (Maybe I need to watch more TV/play more console games to get better value out of it)

[deniall]

Got my Samsung in August 2008. Still going strong.

[Quark]

Our Pioneer 434 purchased in July 2004 is still going strong at our friends' place!

[jliang70]

Samsung D8000 59 inch plasma.  I had it since December 2011 so 10.5 months old.  The TV is only used as a screen rather than a TV. For DTV viewing I am using a Panasonic bluray recorder DTR800 ( top of range bluray recorder with two hdmi out and 3D support and 1TB HDD), I am also using a sony bluray player and satelite receiver all these going through a HDMI switch, a sound system and lumagen Mini.  The video was calibrated using Lumagen mini and chromapure software/colorimeter.  Absolutely beautiful picture with natural colour, clairty and pop even with SD viewing material and needless to say it was also great with bluray playback.

[wheelz]

wheelz, on 26 November 2010 - 02:54 PM, said:

Had my 42"SD(480) fuji ($5000) for about 6 yrs and its done 36,226 hrs of actually watching time still looks as good as the day i got it,with the prices of panels at the moment half of me wishes it would die but its going strong.

Its in the bedroom now so not as much use but up to 52,663 hrs now.

[mrdenn1s]

No idea, but I bought my Pioneer XDA507 the day they launched at HN for $5999

RRP was $6499.....got a bargain!!!

[Storm AV]

wheelz, on 10 October 2012 - 04:11 PM, said:

Its in the bedroom now so not as much use but up to 52,663 hrs now.

Man, you must watch some tv, to put 16 odd thousand hours on in 2 yrs it mustve been on non stop!

[wheelz]

Magnum72, on 10 October 2012 - 10:22 PM, said:

Man, you must watch some tv, to put 16 odd thousand hours on in 2 yrs it mustve been on non stop!

Does seem alot tho do fall asleep with it on.

[Storm AV]

I'm guessing wheels the hour meter keeps ticking over in stand by, quick calculation says its done 690 odd days running in last 2 years-maybe age is catching up with your tv

[pc9]

wheelz, on 11 October 2012 - 12:45 AM, said:

Does seem alot tho do fall asleep with it on.

you must have a foxtel sub Wheelz.  The poor old doggies get bugger all FTA coverage these days.

[Geforce]

Samsung PS63C7000 plasma since July, 2010.  Still love it.

Is on 6 - 7 hrs per day, more on the weekends.

[Mr C]

Pioneer 608 LX purchased in a group buy in November 2007 .... so nearly 5 years old and going beautifully well.
Used for TV watching in general.  Then for BD movies or FoxTel HD live sport I use my JVC X3 projector !

[unclewhimsy]

6 year old Sharp Aquos 37" with no tuner or HDMI (is in the kids room for VHS viewing!) 5 year old Sony Bravia LCD 46" in the loungerom is our daily view. Still delivers a stunning piccie!