Has my Samsung LCD tv gone bang?

[Simon Bags]

Morning everyone. So, I switched on my Samsung LCD tv (32") last night, poor old thing is now 10 years old, and after a few seconds, the screen got slowly lighter and lighter until it was just pure white. Sound was fine.

Turned it off, back on again, same thing. I had noticed over the past few weeks that I'd started to get some shadows down the right hand side so not surprised it's gone completely now.

Anyone confirm that this is typical of a screen that's old and needs replacing?

Cheers, Simon.

[Rick Cutler]

I think you have done well to make a 10 year old LCD last, My Plasma that is about 10 years old gets little use but I I know it will pop a power supply or something soon.

[R6VED]

Google it, we had an issue with our 40' Samsung TV at about 7 years old, well out of warranty.

Common issue of blown resistors, they sent out two techs within a few days who replaced the affected parts and a few others that were susceptible to failure - all at 0 cost to us.

We were very impressed and will buy Samsung for our next TV.

Worth a try :-)

[Milli94]

We had flickering issues on a 47 Samsung - well out of warranty but they came out on three occasions and changed the screen, PSU and a board on different occasions. Would def buy another (and have actually bought 2 other Samsung LEDs for other parts of the house).

[Simon Bags]

R6VED said:

Google it, we had an issue with our 40' Samsung TV at about 7 years old, well out of warranty.

Common issue of blown resistors, they sent out two techs within a few days who replaced the affected parts and a few others that were susceptible to failure - all at 0 cost to us.

We were very impressed and will buy Samsung for our next TV.

Worth a try :-)

Blimey, I've just googled it, seems like I've done very well to get 10 years out of it.

Cheers for the info everyone.

Simon,