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What sucks is that the cycle of falling prices and models being replaced is so fast that they become not worth repairing -- or impossible to repair -- within a
by tbyehl 7y ago
What sucks is that the cycle of falling prices and models being replaced is so fast that they become not worth repairing -- or impossible to repair -- within a few years.
I trashed an otherwise perfectly good 4-5 y/o 49" television last year because something on the IR receiver board failed. What leads I could find for a replacement board (a) had them listed around 50% of what a comparable replacement television cost and (b) didn't actually have any to sell me.
Upside, now even my rarely-used guest bedroom rates a fairly cheap 55" 4K smart TV. This holiday season the same money buys their 65-inch model, next year it'll probably buy a 70.
- jquery 7y agoTVs keep getting so much cheaper so fast, I keep putting off purchasing a new one. I still have a 9-years-old 640p(ish) 42-inch TV mainly used to rotate through my photo collection. It's still "good enough" and I don't watch that much TV on the big screen anyway, although once my daughter gets older I'll probably finally bite the bullet and get a modern, high end TV. If I want to watch something with high resolution and good color accuracy, my iPad has been fulfilling my needs just fine. Feels surprising to say that, considering a few years ago I was poo-pooing the iPad and people who watched tv/movies on them.
- saiya-jin 7y agoDepending on the technology used in the TV (ie plasma vs LCD) it might have quite a big power draw when running for long times. Newer TVs have usually much lower consumption, so it might take financial sense to upgrade from this perspective as well
- ReptileMan 7y agoThat would not be such a big issue if we had closed recycling loop.
- lonelappde 7y agoRecycling is fundamentally impractical because the costs of doing the recycling a part at a time overwhelm the cost of mass production of new goods.
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