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Samsung purposely knives customer's TV to weasel out of repair (www.youtube.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by wildflower to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Wow I would not haha that is a lot of trouble and waste, but I'm glad you got a good deal. I'm hoping to put off 4k for as long as I can, but it seems to be rapidly becoming the new standard

[–] PlantJam 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I got a 4k 65" LG for about $400 a few weeks ago. It isn't a fancy display but it looks great compared to the 55" Hisense it replaced.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I was talking to a friend just yesterday about how a TV isn't really a big purchase anymore, but the houses/rents are crazy expensive. It's kinda fucked.

Anyway my tv was $0 (from brother), about a meter across, and has a permanent green bar on the right side that only guests notice. I'm oddly proud of my shitty TV, which probably isn't healthy, but by plan is to ride this thing until it's unusable lol

[–] Fapper_McFapper 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hit me up if it ever loses power. There’s a few capacitors worth about .50 cents total that will blow up on the power board. I can send you a link for those and explain how to go about identifying bad ones and replacing them. I think there might be some you tube videos out about that now.

[–] elephantium 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

.50 cents

Verizon math? Or do you actually mean half a penny?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

a capacitor probably is about half a penny tbh just probably wouldn't be able to buy 1 at that rate

[–] Fapper_McFapper 1 points 10 months ago

Some are even less than half a penny. But yeah. I screwed up the math. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, McFap, I'll try to remember that.