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Samsung flat screen TV’s

I have purchased 3 large flat screens since 2012 and all of them have died after 3 to 5 years. The last one yesterday, a curved 52inch HD 4K.
The first one began to have serious color aberrations, the second one was strange and turned off and on non-stop. The third (curved) went black, unable to bring up menu, cable fine, sound fine.

Anyone else experience this? Is there a better brand? Bought a Vizio a few years ago which had a beautiful picture but was as fragile as crystal.
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fiesta75
1,378 posts
 
urbie - Did you mean LCD?
I like my Panasonic, still have a 2007 Samsung that works great.
chilli42
111 posts
 
We have 5 Samsung TV’s at home.  They run all the time.   The oldest is 8 years the newest 2 years. Honestly, I wish that one of them would die so I can mount a serious effort to convince my wife we must have an 8k TV.
jwillox
188 posts
 
Fingers crossed: I just replaced a very old LG Commercial monitor (straight monitor) with an LG OLED TV. Then I had to replace a perfectly good but older Denon AVR due to the (too frigging smart) eARC crap. 
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lowrider57
5,417 posts
 
I think we need to be more specific. I read on a forum that it's the Samsung LED screens that go black. 
Not sure about LCD.


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asvjerry
4,732 posts
 
Had decent luck with LG's....

Have one nearly 20ish years old that still works...

One the other hand, had one go 'foom' when a cat decided to attack a bug on the screen....resisted sending cat into exile.

Replaced with a new one, slightly larger, somewhat 'smarter'...so far, so good.

I always check the reviews...if 80+% give it 4 and above, it's in contention.

Place your bets...and good luck.
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