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I don’t understand what you mean. Both of our LCD TVs have failed or degenerated and I was looking to OLED for something that would last longer.

>Furthermore, LCD screens have a finite lifespan, typically around 30,000 to 60,000 hours, after which the quality of the display can start to degrade. In contrast, OLED screens can potentially last up to 100,000 hours

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Maybe I don't use tvs the way most people do. But the most pessimistic lifetime estimates for my use case on a 30,000 hour panel is 41 years. I don't really see a television as something to pass on to my heirs so that seems like a solved problem for non-commercial use.

I've had televisions fail but it has always been a connector or capacitor that I could replace with a sautering iron and about 46 minutes of disassembly/re-assembly

A lot of us watch more tv than two hours a day. I have over 1000 hours in the game Elden Ring alone! :)

I also consider life estimates as very fluid. My gf’s Hisense 75 inch can’t be more than a few years old and it has already gone to pot with weird circles visible on any scene with a white or light background. 8 hours a day for a few years is only ~6,000 hours, far less than 30k.

~45000 / 7 hours per day = 17 years.

17 years ago was 2007 - I can’t remember every TV our family had since 2007, but it was more than one or two, for sure.

The failure points for LCDs are usually not the panel itself (the most expensive part), unlike with OLEDs.

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