TV brands which are the most reliable.....
Discussion
I just wanted to know out of curiousity what brand of TV has never let you down? i.e you've owned it for years and only got rid of it because it looked to old or you gave it away or in my case someone broke it? What brand did you give dispose of quicker than expected you would have liked?
Ill start by saying sony TV (trinitron era) lasted for a while before packing up for no reason at all. Took it to be repaired twice before we finally disposed of it. Hitach packed up in less than three years, if that and has a shoddy remote. (that TV baffles me till this day) Didnt even bother trying to repair it due to admittedly low purchasr cost. Philips LCD tv plays up from time and weve had that for less than four years!! To add insult to injury its barely even used although the last year has seen increased usage.
Panasonic i have to say i can't fault. Same goes for Goodman that TV according to my mum was over twenty years old produced a good picture until an aunt proceeded to pour liquid down the back of it..... My mum swears by Grundig...
Ill start by saying sony TV (trinitron era) lasted for a while before packing up for no reason at all. Took it to be repaired twice before we finally disposed of it. Hitach packed up in less than three years, if that and has a shoddy remote. (that TV baffles me till this day) Didnt even bother trying to repair it due to admittedly low purchasr cost. Philips LCD tv plays up from time and weve had that for less than four years!! To add insult to injury its barely even used although the last year has seen increased usage.
Panasonic i have to say i can't fault. Same goes for Goodman that TV according to my mum was over twenty years old produced a good picture until an aunt proceeded to pour liquid down the back of it..... My mum swears by Grundig...
Edited by Driver Rider on Tuesday 10th March 22:24
I just removed a 21" Sanyo TV from a pub, I installed the TV in the pub 18years ago, it has been running 12 hours a day, every day since then and is still working, that's 78,800 hours! Plus it is full of nicotine dust from years of smoke. I wonder how long the 32" LCD Philips, that has replaced it, will last?
Parent have Sony that must be over 25 years old, never missed a beat.
CRT TV just never seem to go wrong or maybe thats just for me?
This is one of the things that puts me off moving to LCD / Plasma, my 32" Sony i bought second hand 8 years ago is still perfect and i'd be somewhat peeved to scrap it to replace it with a screen that fails in less than 5 years.
CRT TV just never seem to go wrong or maybe thats just for me?
This is one of the things that puts me off moving to LCD / Plasma, my 32" Sony i bought second hand 8 years ago is still perfect and i'd be somewhat peeved to scrap it to replace it with a screen that fails in less than 5 years.
I've a 25" Ferguson, which I bought in 1993, so 16 years is not too bad IMO, even if it gave a wobble just before Christmas with my daughter turning it on and off repeatedly, the threat of a widescreen has seen it get back to normal service.
Not sure Ferguson manufacture TV's these days.
Not sure Ferguson manufacture TV's these days.
We had a goppy Matsui telly that we purchased about 25 years ago ...Ist telly after we got married. Lasted 20 years! Had a Sony 28" Wega thingy that only lasted 3 years.
As far as later models go, sell Loewe , Panasonic and Samsung and have done for the past 6 years. Out of over 2000 in total sold, only about 5 have been a problem. No particular brand is worse than any other, but used to sell Hitachi, and they were very unreliable. Especially the 22" LCD
As far as later models go, sell Loewe , Panasonic and Samsung and have done for the past 6 years. Out of over 2000 in total sold, only about 5 have been a problem. No particular brand is worse than any other, but used to sell Hitachi, and they were very unreliable. Especially the 22" LCD
wow thanks for the replies. Funny how people have had problems with sony and hitachi. I feel panasonic are the most reliable from my experience. Hitachi I wont touch! Sony and Philips I'll think twice before getting.
Anyone had any experience with pioneer? I'm intested to know given higher purchase cost relative to similar sets.
Anyone had any experience with pioneer? I'm intested to know given higher purchase cost relative to similar sets.
statistically TV's are the most unreliable area of electronics, most manufacturing plants archive sixth sigma (3.7 defects per million opportunities for failure) All are about the same, the figures are published somewhere, TV's suffer from a high level of dead on arrivals and infant mortality, basically if it lasts for a year it probably will last for a long time.
Driver Rider said:
wow thanks for the replies. Funny how people have had problems with sony and hitachi. I feel panasonic are the most reliable from my experience. Hitachi I wont touch! Sony and Philips I'll think twice before getting.
Anyone had any experience with pioneer? I'm intested to know given higher purchase cost relative to similar sets.
Can only speak for the last three or so years, but mine has never missed a beat. Hurry up though, as they are ceasing production, and I am not the only one to be mourning the loss of a high quality, genuinely worth it premium product.Anyone had any experience with pioneer? I'm intested to know given higher purchase cost relative to similar sets.
another vote for panasonic - bought a 29" in 1996 it then spent around five years in a damp garage and is now back in the family and working perfectly as I type in the bedroom...!
however once did spill a whole bottle of windowlene into the back of a portable hitachi tv as a kid - the picture was bright orange after i turned it on a few days later after drying it out - so left it another few days and it was back to normal - the only reason I chucked it in the end as a big boy was that it would not hold he programmes
however once did spill a whole bottle of windowlene into the back of a portable hitachi tv as a kid - the picture was bright orange after i turned it on a few days later after drying it out - so left it another few days and it was back to normal - the only reason I chucked it in the end as a big boy was that it would not hold he programmes
randlemarcus said:
Driver Rider said:
wow thanks for the replies. Funny how people have had problems with sony and hitachi. I feel panasonic are the most reliable from my experience. Hitachi I wont touch! Sony and Philips I'll think twice before getting.
Anyone had any experience with pioneer? I'm intested to know given higher purchase cost relative to similar sets.
Can only speak for the last three or so years, but mine has never missed a beat. Hurry up though, as they are ceasing production, and I am not the only one to be mourning the loss of a high quality, genuinely worth it premium product.Anyone had any experience with pioneer? I'm intested to know given higher purchase cost relative to similar sets.
Driver Rider said:
what makes their sets worth it? im curious to know.
Chassis constructionFilm quality
Backlight quality
Image and motion processing engine superiority
Tuner performance
Input board performance - especially for HDMI, nothing comes close to understanding HDMI signals the way the Pioneer does it
Physical appearance
Image tuneability
The list goes on and on and on.
They are so far ahead of the game its not even funny that they're ceasing production. Biggest tradgedy in AV for years and years and years.
I heard yesterday that the stocks are going quickly, there isnt long left at all to secure the best television ever made.
Plotloss said:
Driver Rider said:
what makes their sets worth it? im curious to know.
Chassis constructionFilm quality
Backlight quality
Image and motion processing engine superiority
Tuner performance
Input board performance - especially for HDMI, nothing comes close to understanding HDMI signals the way the Pioneer does it
Physical appearance
Image tuneability
The list goes on and on and on.
They are so far ahead of the game its not even funny that they're ceasing production. Biggest tradgedy in AV for years and years and years.
I heard yesterday that the stocks are going quickly, there isnt long left at all to secure the best television ever made.
I've bought two LX5090 sets since I heard the news of their market withdrawal a few weeks ago. £1749 a pop with a 5-yr warranty too (from Sevenoaks, if anyone is interested) which seems exceptional value. I paid far, far more than that for my previous 50" Pioneer model and it's still a wonderful set. In fact my Dad has three Pioneer sets that must be six or seven years old (they're actually 43" rather than 42"...that's how old they are) and each is performing fantastically...he has some newer sets now and, features aside, he is no more impressed with them.
I think im sold on panasonic. Would love to get a pioneer set but ive got a few months till i graduate. So not possible at this moment in time. Got to find a Job first! I doubt they'll all be sold by 2010 though! Given the present climate! Are pioneer lcd's as critically acclaimed as the plasma sets? If memory serves me correct they only recently moved into LCD.
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