> Opening up a laptop and replacing a part available from the Dell online store is an entirely different scenario to fixing a burnt out TV... Mainly because th

> Opening up a laptop and replacing a part available from the Dell online store is an entirely different scenario to fixing a burnt out TV... Mainly because there isn't a Samsung online store that sells TV parts directly to users (admittedly I'm guessing here), nor did they design the TV to be fixable by semi-competent users, nor did they use interchangeable industry-standard parts, nor do they provide service manuals -- all contrary to the situations with many computers. If you want to argue that it should be this way, go ahead, but you can't merely say "computers and TVs are different", because the TV companies have made it that way by operating differently than the computer companies. A user is just as likely to zap himself on a PC as on a TV, but that didn't stop computers from being a lot more user-serviceable than TVs.