Even when Tv repairmen were common, they never repaired broken screens. TV repairmen used to swap out components but not the screen.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I haven’t owned a tv since 2002. A friend’s kid thew a remote at their’s and cracked the screen. I asked if they could get it repaired and everyone looked at me like I had two heads. “You just get a new one…!”
IWW4@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Not least because CRT screens were nigh on bulletproof (and heavy as fuck, containing vacuum reliably needs mass).
IWW4@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
OMFG they were so insanely heavy!
Ledivin@lemmy.world 3 days ago
In college (early 2000s), we had a 50-something inch CRT. I think that thing weighed upwards of 500 lbs, was positively massive (maybe 3 feet deep?) and it took 4-6 people to move it in and out of our on-campus apartments every year. It was fucking baller for the time, though
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 4 days ago
CRT “screens” are non-repairable for different reasons, but yeah
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 4 days ago
there are impossible to repair and extremely strong. they have to be, they have vacuum inside, if it cracks it can implode.
elephantium@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I had a CRT monitor back in the day that tipped off the edge of the desk while I was hooking it up.
CLUNK! - hiss
Welp.
I learned a valuable lesson about leverage that day.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 days ago
If the glass of the screen is broken the TV is gone. You cannot fix that. If there are other things it could be. Mine had the back lights out and for like 20$ I bought them online and changed them myself.
qupada@fedia.io 4 days ago
Really the most you can hope for these days is to encounter two broken TVs of the same model, with different faults.
Luck holding, this lets you wind up with a single working unit.
Anivia@feddit.org 3 days ago
Sadly even if the model number is exactly identical that doesn’t guarantee they have the same internals. Ask me how I know :/
jqubed@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah, most of the cost of the TV is the panel. If you’re buying a replacement panel the part would cost basically the same as a new TV (or maybe even more).
By contrast, my parents had a TV that started boot looping the morning after a thunderstorm and they’d had at least one lightning strike very close by. They got a local TV repairman out and he was able to get a replacement mainboard and the TV worked perfectly after that. I think the board was $100 or $150 and his time and labor was $100, coming to their house to do the work. If I remember correctly we could see scorch marks on the bad board near the Ethernet port.
Getting the new board was a bit of a hassle; that manufacturer didn’t sell parts directly and I think it took him 3 tries to get the right board. It seems like they have the same board in a lot of models but they flash them for different screens, so even though they were labeled as being for my parents’ TV it took a few tries to get the right one in. I feel like that’s a problem that would’ve been easier if the manufacturer supported repairs better.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
You may not own a tv but do you own a computer monitor? No one fixes those either and a tv is essentially a monitor with an extra control board. The screen is the device.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Just bring it to carglass, they inject their special resin, and Bob’s your uncle! Good as new!
BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 4 days ago
Replacing the LED panel of a common 65in flat-screen TV costs almost the same amount as a brand new TV and months of time, and money to ship between the repair center and your home due to the weight; lol of course they looked at you like that, you sounded silly, innocently ignorant and ridiculous.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 days ago
That’s true for pretty much any size panel. Especially in 2002, when the TV had barely a processor inside.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Gone are they days were people get things repaired, especially the “simple things” like getting a good leather shoes sole replaced, or getting a couch redone. Though planned obsolescence plays a role in this as well.
It also means these services are more expensive as a result.
tdawg@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I was lucky enough to find a shoe shop that does really good resoles in my city. Not impossible to repair stuff, just hard
roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You also have to be able to afford shoes worthy of the considerable repair expense.
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
And even then it seems like the boots theory is dead for most stuff. Even when you buy the “premium” products they fall apart and are made of crap materials or are designed to be irreparable
tdawg@lemmy.world 4 days ago
For me it was more about how much longer they would last. The soles they gave me were better than the originals. The rest is just small stiches and patchwork I can do at home
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 4 days ago
when I lived in the UK there were shoe repairmen everywhere, they were great, and if the repair was easy they wouldn’t even charge me.
in the States I haven’t seen a single one
Ledivin@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Fast fashion ain’t just for fabrics baybeeeee
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sad, ain’t it? I repair all kinds of stuff. Have a 50" TV that only needs a new board when I can afford it. The 55" on my wall needed 2 new capacitors, $8 on eBay.
laranis@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Shout out to Bosch… I have a 10-year old dishwasher from them and the drain pump stopped working. It was so easy to replace and readily available. I was actually happy to have it break, all told.
A lot of enshitification has happened in the last decade so no idea if their products are still like that, but when the time comes to get a new one I’ll certainly be giving them my first look.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
There’s a shoe repair shop in my town. People absolutely do get simple things repaired what you can’t get repaired are things like TVs anymore.
But things don’t break like they used to, it used to be that a component would fail and you could just replace that broken component but everything’s integrated these days so if one thing goes down the whole thing is dead.