Originally Posted by htismaqe:
All screens are dropping. Shit, Walmart is selling 55" sets for $138.
Yeah, it's crazy. I've been watching OLED prices for a while now, waiting for 75-85 inch models to drop to a price I don't mind paying. They're getting close. [Reply]
TV's are literally the one item in our society that has dropped in price, you can go look at all the graphs and it's literally the one product that has become more affordable. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mecca:
TV's are literally the one item in our society that has dropped in price, you can go look at all the graphs and it's literally the one product that has become more affordable.
I'm sure there's an eggheaded economic reason for that, but it's interesting. [Reply]
I wasn’t even aware that Samsung made OLEDs. I thought they had their QLED which was supposed to be close to an OLED. $1000 for that TV is not a bad price at all. [Reply]
I bought the top of the line 83" LG OLED at best buy for $3000 about 2 years ago for my mancave. It was the best one they had in the store (I already had a Samsung QLED in my family room). About 6 months ago I was working from home in my basement and had the TV on in the background. For the first time ever living in this house, the basement family room breaker flipped (and it's never flipped since). I flipped it back and everything but the TV came back on. Sure enough, the "warranty" ran out ONE WEEK prior to this happening. I had a geek squad guy come by to fix it and he was cool. He told me, "look man, it's either the power board or the full on logic board. If it's the power board, it will be about $300 to fix. If it's the latter, $1500." He then told me if it were him, he'd try swapping out the powerboard first by following a youtube video. I bought a board off of ebay for $90. Had a buddy help me tip the TV over. We swapped it out in about 30 min and it worked like a charm. That being said, I'm still done with LG. I had always been a samsung guy but figured I'd try the LG because all of my techy buddies recommended it. All that being said, those cheap TV's they sell on black friday are specially built with cheap/inferior parts specifically for Black Friday. They get the job done. I bought a 55 inch one 5 years ago and have been using it as my computer monitor ever since. [Reply]
Went to Best Buy to see on the off chance if they still had one of these on the floor. They did not. However, they had one 55" S95C tucked in between a bunch of current model S90/95D models with a tag on it for $760. I nearly pulled the trigger on that because that is an absolute STUPID deal. Ultimately I didn't end up doing it because of the connection issues that have been reported with the oneconnect box. If you are looking for a TV, might want to closely look at the boxes in the Samsung aisle. [Reply]
Originally Posted by arrowheadnation:
I bought the top of the line 83" LG OLED at best buy for $3000 about 2 years ago for my mancave. It was the best one they had in the store (I already had a Samsung QLED in my family room). About 6 months ago I was working from home in my basement and had the TV on in the background. For the first time ever living in this house, the basement family room breaker flipped (and it's never flipped since). I flipped it back and everything but the TV came back on. Sure enough, the "warranty" ran out ONE WEEK prior to this happening. I had a geek squad guy come by to fix it and he was cool. He told me, "look man, it's either the power board or the full on logic board. If it's the power board, it will be about $300 to fix. If it's the latter, $1500." He then told me if it were him, he'd try swapping out the powerboard first by following a youtube video. I bought a board off of ebay for $90. Had a buddy help me tip the TV over. We swapped it out in about 30 min and it worked like a charm. That being said, I'm still done with LG. I had always been a samsung guy but figured I'd try the LG because all of my techy buddies recommended it. All that being said, those cheap TV's they sell on black friday are specially built with cheap/inferior parts specifically for Black Friday. They get the job done. I bought a 55 inch one 5 years ago and have been using it as my computer monitor ever since.
I was going to say - given what happened I would have bet money it was the power board. Depending on the size of the TV and the power draw, they can be pretty cheap to replace. Just replaced on on TCL 75" for $169. [Reply]