Anyone else have a Samsung TV quit on them?

[shamrock]

Last night flipped on my old 40 inch Samsung, it came on and quickly black screen without the exit chimes or red light that is generally on when the television is off. Since I bought that Samsung, I have a 55, and 65 and never had a problem. Still use the 40 inch everyday in my computer room. The first HDTV I really spent some money on, it's crazy I think it was 1300 bucks twice what the bigger screen 4K ones I bought more recently. Did a quick search and saw something about bad capacitors in these TVs. No one even fixes TVs anymore LOL. It seems worth fixing, but to replace it with a 4K is now like $300. Seven years is the life expectancy I suppose? Curious if anyone had invested the time fixing one of these, gets a great picture. I know as soon as I go down that road, I'm going to wish I just bought a new one.

 

[T]

Last night flipped on my old 40 inch Samsung, it came on and quickly black screen without the exit chimes or red light that is generally on when the television is off. Since I bought that Samsung, I have a 55, and 65 and never had a problem. Still use the 40 inch everyday in my computer room. The first HDTV I really spent some money on, it's crazy I think it was 1300 bucks twice what the bigger screen 4K ones I bought more recently. Did a quick search and saw something about bad capacitors in these TVs. No one even fixes TVs anymore LOL. It seems worth fixing, but to replace it with a 4K is now like $300. Seven years is the life expectancy I suppose? Curious if anyone had invested the time fixing one of these, gets a great picture. I know as soon as I go down that road, I'm going to wish I just bought a new one.

Toss it! I had a Samsung 60 about the same age as yours. I got a local Samsung repair to replace the main capacitor board. It lasted 3 month and down the drain went $250. Buy a new one at costco or with a credit card that doubles manufacturers warranty. Good luck.

 

[Snafu]

i had samsung hard drive and printer, both just stopped working without reason.

samsung printer had copy counter and after certain amount of copies it had to be taken to repair shop to be reset... so, if you replace samsungs original cartridge with any other label = printer wont work

https://hackaday.com/2012/03/05/resetting-the-page-count-on-a-laser-printer/

yeah, cartridge $50, new printer with cartridge $69

same with drive, can't remember exact reason but it was about copyright of some samsung related program that expired and locked whole drive. sending drive to repair shop would have been more than drive itself... and drive in itself had nothing wrong with it, just software

samsung is known to built in counters/system that freezes your device just to fuck with you:

https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/TVs/Dead-TV-You-Won-t-Believe-This/td-p/3696


will never buy anything from companies even related to scumsung

 

[Dead Money]

Planned obsolescence

Planned obsolescence

Anymore it seems like the life expectancy of appliances is way down.

Recently I had a toaster quit, it was 20+ years old, American made.

I replaced it with a Chinese POS that lasted 2 years.

If everything was built to last, nobody would buy anything. Bad for the economy.

Our first color TV in my family was a tube monstrosity.
It was several hundred dollars in the mid-60's, new cars were $2500.

No remote, manual tuner....nothing but head aches...my dad was always running tubes to the store to test them. (In those days, you could work on them to a degree).

One time after several attempts to fix it, he called a TV repairman.

Believe it was a $60-$70 charge....he went behind TV and hit the unknown to my dad "reset" button.
Dad was seriously pissed.....nobody messed with him for a week.

Yeh, I know, I am a dinosaur....:0006

 

[Blitz]

Most appliances are throw away's now if they break, unless you can fix it yourself with the help of a Youtube video. I have repaired my washer a few times, my fridge, snow thrower, lawn tractor etc thanks to Youtube videos. Otherwise it is not worth the cost of having a repairman come in.

TV's especially are not worth trying to fix they are so cheap now.

I have a Samsung 52" that I got at Circuit City, so that tells you how long I've had it. Love their TV's, but I have heard bad things about their appliances. :shrug: