Article RTINGS.com 10,000 hour test results for thin TVs -- not good!

[Steltek]

https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/longevity-burn-in-test-updates-and-results

Investigatory results: "Edge-lit TVs are inherently prone to significant durability issues, including warped reflector sheets, cracked light guide plates, and burnt-out LEDs due to concentrated heat."

Disturbing information, especially given that 10,000 hours isn't that long a usage period for some individuals.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Investigatory results: "Edge-lit TVs are inherently prone to significant durability issues, including warped reflector sheets, cracked light guide plates, and burnt-out LEDs due to concentrated heat."

Ah. That explains why my first ever 55 inch 4K HDR LG TV was so well built. It weighed almost 20 KG and the brightness was crazy high. It was edge lit and I wondered why it was still thick as only a proper FALD (full array local dimming) TV should've been that thick. Guess the earlier TVs were over-engineered which was made possible due to the high prices of that time.

 

[mindless1]

Yeah my oldest LCD TV is a 46" Samsung, thick and very heavy for its size, and it's been going over 10 years now, but recently the backlight has started flickering in high brightness scenes, but doesn't look like only one array of LEDs in series.

It's the oddest thing, that if I turn up the brightness on one day, the flickering goes away. Next time, might have to turn the brightness down instead, and flickering goes away again. Every week or two, just change the brightness single-digit %, and the flickering goes away. It doesn't have auto-dimming or any other ambient light feature interfering, at least not that can be disabled in the menu. One of these days I'll maybe do an autopsy.

Anyway this Rtings testing is great. I'm not as picky about picture quality as I am about good lifespan, have had a couple TVs fail within a couple years each.

I never felt the need for a super thin edge lit TV and their results so far, make me want to stay away from them.

 

[Steltek]

Yeah my oldest LCD TV is a 46" Samsung, thick and very heavy for its size, and it's been going over 10 years now, but recently the backlight has started flickering in high brightness scenes, but doesn't look like only one array of LEDs in series.

It's the oddest thing, that if I turn up the brightness on one day, the flickering goes away. Next time, might have to turn the brightness down instead, and flickering goes away again. Every week or two, just change the brightness single-digit %, and the flickering goes away. It doesn't have auto-dimming or any other ambient light feature interfering, at least not that can be disabled in the menu. One of these days I'll maybe do an autopsy.

Anyway this Rtings testing is great. I'm not as picky about picture quality as I am about good lifespan, have had a couple TVs fail within a couple years each.

I never felt the need for a super thin edge lit TV and their results so far, make me want to stay away from them.

I couldn't agree more - if I'm paying $1k+ for a TV, I don't care how thick it is so long as it lasts a decade.

It was also very timely testing, too - my mother's 7 year old 65" 4k Samsung edge lit (of course) LED ironically developed internal damage within the last 5 days which added a nice foot long discolored vertical slash in the lower middle portion of the screen. Definitely not fixable. And, my brother's 75" edge-lit Samsung has started having random black lines in the screen as well. I don't think his is over 5 1/2 years old, and probably wasn't used more than 2-3 hours a day.

At least I know what to look for now for the new ones.

My main issue at this point is finding a non-thin one that is affordable with a good wide viewing angle. The viewing angles on a lot of the direct lit and FLAD TVs I've looked at so far seem to greatly suck as opposed to her old one (which was 171 degrees). And a lot of the newer ones weigh 10-15 pounds less than her old one (I looked at one yesterday that weighed 38 lbs -- hers was 54 lbs for the same size).

Guess I'll be taking a trip to Best Buy this weekend to look at some more.

The things I do so she can keep up with her Fox News propaganda network addiction....

 

[igor_kavinski]

Never thought I would get the desire for a new TV after having two OLEDs but dang, 3300 nits takes HDR to a whole new level!

 

[Steltek]

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Never thought I would get the desire for a new TV after having two OLEDs but dang, 3300 nits takes HDR to a whole new level!

I can do you one better - HDR 5000 nits:

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85 and 90 inches, with a 115 inch version supposedly coming out....

 

[igor_kavinski]

Way out of my price range. The 65C855 is about $1500 so "kinda" in my price range. Need to get rid of the existing 65 inch Hisense OLED first, though.