Replace screen on this TV?

[Ichinisan]

Near the mailboxes at my apartment complex, someone threw out a Samsung 60" LED Smart TV. Still in the box. It's brand-new and unused (still has the smudge film and stickers all over), but the screen is smashed. Does anyone have a clue how much a replacement screen would cost? Would it be worthwhile to salvage?

Have any of you ever replaced the screen in one of those ultra-slim side-lit LED TVs?

 

[Soundmanred]

Unlike laptop screens, it's difficult to source parts for flat screen TV's. They are made to be disposable, not fixed. The cost to do so would most likely be prohibitive as the previous owner probably found out.

 

[manimal]

no but you can sell the board probably and some of the internals for some beer money

 

[Soundmanred]

Just saw this:
http://tulsa.craigslist.org/ele/4566504026.html
That pretty much says it all.

 

[Markbnj]

I'm betting the cost of the panel is some very large proportion of the original manufacturing cost for the display.

 

[chimaxi83]

Your only option is to take the box, load it into a plain, unmarked van, and sell it to some unsuspecting buffoon.

You can make additional dollars if you include a premium surround sound speaker set.

 

[rsutoratosu]

not for ultra slim, mine still works but for Samsung lcd, when mine was defected , 52" lcd , they wanted 1200 Samsung factory replacement. Pretty pricy.

 

[BUTCH1]

I just replaced a 2yr old Toshiba "40 LCD because it developed a huge "1.5 streak of dead pixels, I got the part# but the best price for the screen was $950, not doable as the TV only cost $399. As others have mentioned you could salvage the power board, video processing boards and sell them on Ebay or if you have space you could store it and look on CL and hope to find one with a good screen but got zapped with a power surge. Also if you get the part# that screen may have been used in a number of Samsung models over a few-year's period so you might get lucky but you would need patience to wait till one pops up on CL.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Unlike laptop screens, it's difficult to source parts for flat screen TV's. They are made to be disposable, not fixed. The cost to do so would most likely be prohibitive as the previous owner probably found out.

Shopjimmy.com

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

The boards/modules can be valuable (Tcon, PSU, etc.)

 

[ViRGE]

The boards/modules can be valuable (Tcon, PSU, etc.)

They can be valuable in as much as they can have a value greater than 0. Otherwise as solid state electronics they're rarely the part that fails, they aren't very expensive to build, and they're really only useful with the model of TV they're pulled from (or its family).

 

[BUTCH1]

They can be valuable in as much as they can have a value greater than 0. Otherwise as solid state electronics they're rarely the part that fails, they aren't very expensive to build, and they're really only useful with the model of TV they're pulled from (or its family).

The power supply boards can and do fail on occasion, usually the problem is our old friend, the shitty capacitor's used in making it, of course this varies greatly from mfgr. to mfgr. Also lightning can zap a set and kill the power module or several other ones as well, I do see them listed on Ebay quite a bit.

 

[PottedMeat]

i'd salvage the LED backlight strips, power supply, and logic board. i don't know what kind of diffuser panel it has behind the lcd but if it's a 60" wide piece of clear acrylic i'd find a use for that too.

 

[sa7an1]

the panel is a large portion of the tv, if anything you could grab it and there are usually ppl on craigslist that will pay $1-2 per inch screen size to resell the internal boards.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

They can be valuable in as much as they can have a value greater than 0. Otherwise as solid state electronics they're rarely the part that fails, they aren't very expensive to build, and they're really only useful with the model of TV they're pulled from (or its family).

Fair enough. Was just stating my opinion as someone who's revived several older TVs with bad Tcons is all.

 

[Scarpozzi]

A friend of mine just dropped his tv off to have it evaluated by a repair shop for a lot of interference, etc. I really don't believe they can be *fixed because they aren't solid state. These days, the parts and labor are typically more expensive than last year's model.

 

[who?]

If it isn't solid state it has vacuum tubes. Just how old IS this TV?

 

[lxskllr]

If it isn't solid state it has vacuum tubes. Just how old IS this TV?

 

[BUTCH1]

A friend of mine just dropped his tv off to have it evaluated by a repair shop for a lot of interference, etc. I really don't believe they can be *fixed because they aren't solid state. These days, the parts and labor are typically more expensive than last year's model.

Wow, did you just crawl out from a cave, TV's were all solid state by the mid-80's, we even have these things called "flat screen TV's" now that can be bought with really big screens!..

 

[Ichinisan]

Wow, did you just crawl out from a cave, TV's were all solid state by the mid-80's, we even have these things called "flat screen TV's" now that can be bought with really big screens!..

I wouldn't really call a DLP component "solid state."

 

[wabbitslayer]

Your only option is to take the box, load it into a plain, unmarked van, and sell it to some unsuspecting buffoon.

if you're going to be an asshole and rip somebody off, at least do it to a large shipping company and not some individual. Ship it to a friend and insure it for $1000.

OTOH, a company is much more likely to prosecute you for insurance fraud.

 

[sdifox]

I wouldn't really call a DLP component "solid state."

Err, DLP is a bunch of mirrors mounted on a microchip...

 

[slag]

I picked up a nice panny 60 inch 3d plasma a few weeks ago with the same problem. It was free on craigslist. Its a TC-60ST50 made in March 2012. Came with stand, remote, manual, etc. Just no 3d glasses and there is a crack on the screen.

 

[NutBucket]

I wouldn't really call a DLP component "solid state."

By definition it's solid state.

Solid State just means transistors. It's not as if vacuum tubes have moving parts....

 

[Ichinisan]

Err, DLP is a bunch of mirrors mounted on a microchip...

Yes. And the microscopic mirrors vibrate mechanically.

Moving parts = mechanical != "solid state"

Unless you're going by the strict vacuum tubes versus transistors definition.

Think about what makes an SSD "solid state." It's because there are no moving parts.