Ducks4brkfast said:

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Sea Speed said:

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My wife and I often mock our younger selves for spending almost a whole day tv shopping prior to our marriage and eventually settling on a 15000 lb 50" or 60" plasma that cost something like $1500 and now we buy disposable 60"+ TVs for $300 or so.

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I remember coming home from work in like 2008 and noticing a burned-in shadow across the top 2 inches of our Panasonic Plasma. I was furious cause I was convinced my wife had been watching some channel with a banner across the top of the screen and she had ruined out TV. It was back in the day people were saying you would ruin a plasma if you watched Fox News or CNN, etc.Turns out it was an actual shadow caused by the can lights in the living room that were hardly every on. Good grief I was an idiot.

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Lol I remember being absolutely paranoid about accidentally leaving the tv on and getting one of those burnt in shadows.

Ag_07 said:

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$2,600 for a TV???

Da fuq??

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I paid about $2600 for a 52" Samsung LCD in 2008. Considered top of the line at the time. About 18 months after purchasing, I started having a problem where the power would cycle on and off. I called a repair guy who said he'd charge $600 but wouldn't guarantee he could fix it. Some research told me the capacitors were undersized. I went down to Fry's, spent $30 on some capacitors and a soldering iron. Watched a couple videos and practiced soldering on some old electronics. The total repair took me less than an hour and the TV has worked flawlessly since then.

I wanted something larger and thinner to mount on a wall, so I finally bought a Samsung QLED about a year ago and relegated the 2008 TV to a spare bedroom. The picture is much crisper and more lifelike on the new TV, but the overall picture quality seems so much better on the 2008 TV. I can't exactly place what it is, but the tone, color, refresh rate...something just allows for a more enjoyable viewing experience on the older TV.

Sea Speed said:

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My wife and I often mock our younger selves for spending almost a whole day tv shopping prior to our marriage and eventually settling on a 15000 lb 50" or 60" plasma that cost something like $1500 and now we buy disposable 60"+ TVs for $300 or so.

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I still rememver the 60" DLP tv I bought ~20 years ago. Great picture, weight approximately 3 tons. Made 2 moves before it wasnt worth messing with anymore. I think i changed the projector bulb/color wheel 2 or 3 times on that beast.

Now i still watch my 10+ year old Samsung non smart TV that was something like $1500 when i bought it. Still has a grest pucture so until it dies....its the reigning OG in the casa.

So you unplugged your tv, and then plugged it back in again?

Just remembered Catch spent $5,000 on a TV in the late 90s for his apartment.

Dude was making $30K a year. Walked into Circuit City and said if you can get me the credit, I'm buying the baddest TV you got in this place.

Credit was approved and he's probably still making payments on it.

It was a bad ass TV though so much respect.

htxag09 said:

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AggieT said:

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So you unplugged your tv, and then plugged it back in again?

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Know how annoying it is when you need IT and they ask "did you try to reboot?" Yeah, dip****, I did.

OP is why they ask.

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I laughed at this probably a bit harder than I should've.

To answer the peanut gallery, yes, I had already unplugged it (for a while) at the wall before ever making post.

It was only when I decided to mess with the TV connection end it worked. There's a janky connection in there that will one day rear its head again.

Ironically, my dad has a Sony Bravia plasma from 2008ish that he paid a pretty penny for. He's waiting for it to die so he can use the services of a tv repairmen replace it with some 85" 1k tv.

Scruffy said:

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Reminds me of the time my electrician got a call about an office microwave with no power.

He checks it, checks the power rating, checks the breaker and is about to go get a heep of diagnostic tools from his truck when I look behind the end table.... hold up the end of the cord and ask if this could be the problem....

That was fun.

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My dad was an ME at Dow growing up and he told me about a meeting they had after a shutdown one time where one piece of equipment wouldn't start up.

This was in the mid 80's and there was probably $100k/hr of people in the room going over all kinds of scenarios as to why this compressor or pump or whatever wouldn't start. Finally after about 30 or 45 mins Dad piped up and asked "do we even know if it's turned on?".

He said a few of the guys looked like they crapped themselves and it was crickets for about 10 or 15 seconds before somebody finally said "well...no, we don't". Yeah, turns out the freaking breaker in the control room hadn't been flipped back to on yet. Oops.

CDUB98 said:

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To answer the peanut gallery, yes, I had already unplugged it (for a while) at the wall before ever making post.

It was only when I decided to mess with the TV connection end it worked. There's a janky connection in there that will one day rear its head again.

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A lot of times if you ram it in the hole too hard or put too much strain on it over time it can become loose.

Thankfully you should just be able to go in through the back and make sure everything tightens back up.

Flower Child said:

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CDUB98 said:

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To answer the peanut gallery, yes, I had already unplugged it (for a while) at the wall before ever making post.

It was only when I decided to mess with the TV connection end it worked. There's a janky connection in there that will one day rear its head again.

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A lot of times if you ram it in the hole too hard or put too much strain on it over time it can become loose.

Thankfully you should just be able to go in through the back and make sure everything tightens back up.

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Are we still talking about power cords here.......?

these would cost years salary and if you wanted a remote control with it you had to have a kid

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if you wanted a remote control with it you had to have a kid

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Which costs way more than a year's salary.

Sea Speed said:

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My wife and I often mock our younger selves for spending almost a whole day tv shopping prior to our marriage and eventually settling on a 15000 lb 50" or 60" plasma that cost something like $1500 and now we buy disposable 60"+ TVs for $300 or so.

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I still remember a weekend-long adventure with my dad going to various electronics stores searching for the perfect rear-projection big screen tv before the Super-Bowl in 2001. Funny how BIG a purchase it seemed at the time.

A few years later, that same tv probably saved my sister (class of 08') from a much worse injury when she fell through a soft spot in the attic and landed directly on top of it. Fractured her tailbone, but was fine otherwise. The TV had some scratches from the blow but kept working like a champ.

It's crazy how cheap tvs are these days. We got a 70 inch tv from a neighbor for free because they were getting a 85 inch tv. Its up in our game room.

Our tv downstairs went out on Super Bowl sunday 2 years ago and we got a 65 inch Samsung open box for $350. They tried to sell us on the OLED and i told the sales guy my vision isn't good enough to tell the difference.

BQ_90 said:

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these would cost years salary and if you wanted a remote control with it you had to have a kid

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holy crap. How did you get a pic of my grandparent's living room?

This picture smells like Shara Fryer's perfume (Opium by Yves St Laurent) and Ed Brandon's cocaine.

Still want to know what TV the OP bought that was $2,600.

agracer said:

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Still want to know what TV the OP bought that was $2,600.

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I stated it on the first page. An OLED.