panel life

Similar. Unless you're vanman.

Probably about 50,000+ hours for a plasma to dim to half-brightness, which is well over 25 years of normal use.

LCDs about the same, and when they do fail it's most likely to be the backlight tubes, which can be replaced.
 
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Similar. Unless you're vanman.

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So it'll be ok taking the back off a new lcd to clean it then?? Handy now the hosepipe ban as been lifted
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Seriouslly that must have been a wind up ?
 
LOL! Did vanman really try to clean the insides of his TV?

Anyway, I don't think many people will keep their TV sets until the 25 year end of life . . . we'll all be watching 3D projected images by then as in "Minority Report".
 
I'm blind in one eye so it will look 2d to me
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Unless of course we have perfected stem cell treatment or nano technology and grown / built me a new eyeball...Ah the future, how I long for thee...
 
[quote user="Andrew Everard"]

Similar. Unless you're vanman.

Probably about 50,000+ hours for a plasma to dim to half-brightness, which is well over 25 years of normal use.

LCDs about the same, and when they do fail it's most likely to be the backlight tubes, which can be replaced.
[/quote]I thought the latest panasonics were rated at 100,000 hours to half-brightness?
 
Yeh Pany quotes 100,000 hours to half brightness. I wouldn't mind betting that in 5-10 years the technology from today will be old hat. Even a few years back all that was available for sensible money was a decent crt tv. I paid almost £1200 for my 32" Pany quintrix with pro logic 7 ish years ago. Back then it was top of the range. Mind you it was a huge improvement from my exrental 20" wood panel tv with teletext. I did get £150 knocked off the price by trading in the barely working 20".

Today I have a 42" PZ85 Pany plasma with 1080P resolution, digital tuner and sound, hdmi connections etc etc. For similar money as my crt.

So I wouldn't worry about screen life, in most case's todays sets have a longer life span than yesteryears crt's. And you will no doubt be replacing it well before then with somthing "decent".
 
[quote user="rewerb"]I thought the latest panasonics were rated at 100,000 hours to half-brightness?[/quote]

And you thought correctly. So that's even better. Make it 50 years then...
 
JUST DONT TAKE ANY ADVICE ON HERE ABOUT TAKING THINGS APART TO CLEAN THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I have found that nothing beats the cleaning power of Cillit Bang.....
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Quick poll... who is more annoying, Vanman or Barry Scott? Answers to be written on the back of a Pioneer with a sandblaster and sent to your local recycle centre.
 
I liked the pish take that Peter Stefanowicz did of the Cillit Bang Ad - Kitchen Gun, for all your cleaning needs. I think the sketch is up on you tube or the BBC home page somewhere.
 
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JUST DONT TAKE ANY ADVICE ON HERE ABOUT TAKING THINGS APART TO CLEAN THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Or if you do, make sure you have read and understood it first.
 
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JUST DONT TAKE ANY ADVICE ON HERE ABOUT TAKING THINGS APART TO CLEAN THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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errr..i thought this was going to ber your last post?
http://whathifi.com/forums/p/11196/81621.aspx#81621
 

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