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I recently pulled my 2008 46" Samsung LCD from my storage unit and started using it again. It lasted a few weeks until the capacitors gave out. Then I dug aroun
by TaylorAlexander 4y ago
I recently pulled my 2008 46" Samsung LCD from my storage unit and started using it again. It lasted a few weeks until the capacitors gave out. Then I dug around some forums (literally "badcaps.net") located the right values, rode my bike to the local hackerspace, dug through some bins to get the parts I needed, swapped them out at home, and now its going strong again.
I could have bought a 4k TV for $300 but it would be full of surveillance hardware, and I hate that. This TV doesn't even have a network connection, it's just a big monitor. Works great!
8k seems amusing, but definitely seems like a point of diminishing returns.
- jurmous 4y agoGreat that you fixed your old TV!! About those new TVs. You always have a choice to not connect your smart TV with the internet and connect something you trust more with internet access to watch what you want to watch. At least that is what we do at our home. I never see or even update the software on the TV itself. What I like about the new 4K OLED TV we have is not the 4K but the HDR, deep blacks and the colors. It was a definite very big upgrade over our old 2010 HD TV.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoYeah I have always liked OLED tech for the blacks and colors. It's good to hear that you haven't had to connect your TV to the internet. I have some vague memories of news stories about TVs connecting to nearby open networks and stuff like that, so I don't like the idea of network hardware in my TV at all. Maybe if I get a well known brand it would be okay. Something to think about for when my TV dies. Just before moving I had been playing Xbox on a monitor I found by the side of the road, and somehow my 2008 TV feels like it has WAY better blacks and colors than that old monitor, so I feel like I've upgraded anyway!