My 43" sony android tv is finally dying after 5 years of serving our family. Which brand should I go for replacement? Considering budget is quite tight, needs to be android (for kodi setup), size can be smaller.

I tried looking around for a possible fix but seems like its related to the panel itself, which can't be replaced. Suspected tcon first, but right now afraid if buy replacement tcon, ended up doesn't fix the issue. Pic related is the symptom

Edit : add budget - less than 1.5k. Better lower than 1k and support instalment like shopee pay later. Cash need to save for other important stuff. And additional photo of symptom





2nd Edit : TV at times becomes OK. Like in this photo that I just took (10PM 30/9/21), picture is fine and no issue at all. Tv has been on since morning till now (kids and wife watching, now I got back from work continue watching). Starting to feel like a cold solder issue. As long as it can survive until i got my bonus, i'll keep it as it is for now.



This post has been edited by xarmx: Sep 30 2021, 10:49 PM

Budget?

Only 5 years already up car?
My home got normal LED panasonic tv, over 10 years edi

A sony.
Don't smack the tv again ok.

This post has been edited by shirohamada: Sep 30 2021, 06:20 PM

Samseng

Unker pakai One samseng tv for 10 years still strong

Tv macam kena smash

Lol 5 years only ade kong ah! Wht trash brand weh.....

Mine also same. Cheaper to replace the panel. All done for 500 bucks.

consider normal/smart tv then get android box instead
android box can always upgrade for better performance or newer version
if get android tv u are stuck with it

Wheres the TV mana TV guy. Long time haven't see.

Sony quality drop so much. 5 yr gg d....

Buy new 75 inch TV.

naiisee bar code

Don't watch tv

gotta share budget bro

samseng 75" tv

Why not replace the TCON

So fast 5 years going to kaput? My last Samsung lasted 10 years before moving to new area and fried by lightning twice. Bought Sharp, baru kena lightning, now waiting for parts. Also had 2 Phillips tv, one kena kilat also, no parts since bought 14 years ago and another same time beli still ok.

Bought a new Android/Apple 42" Samsung tv for the kids to play Nintendo last year, looks good, less than 1.3k at Jusco, Series 5/6 can't remember. Better screen resolution (4K) since Samsung/LG provides screen to Sony/Sharp/Toshiba so will stick to Samsung from now on.

Want cheap can get hisense

Yeah.. Samsung also upcar after 5 years with low usage.. surprisingly Panasonic led still kicking, usage is like 4pm to 12am everyday for the pass 10+ years..

my LG only tahan 3 years
now electrical appliances all not tahan anymore
consider lucky if can last 5 years

Wtf.
Buy lightning protector power strip.

My home tv turn on about 10 hrs per day
Even still got panasonic crt 21 inch tv that over 20years still working

Should be less than 1k. Preferably can go shopee pay later since need the tv but cash need to save for other important stuff.

Unfortunately I think i got a lemon set. Right now want to consider other cheaper brands as long as quite reliable. 5 years is indeed quite a short lifetime for a tv.


I dont lol. But my twin boys so strong climb over cabinet and reach the tv. Already wall mountef quite high but they always manage somehow. Usually just tepuk tepuk using their baby hands. Is it really because of this? I thought tcon issue so been thinking of getting a replacement. But scared if buy and yet doesn't fix the issue.

Sony > all
😑

Go TCL

Tomyamkung

Forgot to add, got lightning arrestors, all devices connected to arrestor ok, tv connected to Astro NJOI kaput together with dish/astro box/android box. Just ordered from lapsada yesterday, 785 bucks burn...

*Next time install astro dish at porch level not house roof level.

My Panasonic last time last me 8years before my kids throwing water bottle on it.
Yes, it last.

500 already can get new tv if topup a bit

I'm also quite surprised

Thought about this. Will it fix the issue? Afraid if buy later doesn't fix. But read around and some people did mention it's the tcon.


Crap than what brand can tahan for long? All these seems like planned obsolescence if you ask me

LG oled

your case look like a TCON, if you notice the font that is bright will have the bright stripes.

My LG 42' 20 years still strong, LG is the best

oh time to buy new tv lor

Exactly my suspicion. Oh well, i'll bite the bullet and buy one. Hopefully can give good results. Btw replace tcon need special method (ic swap, etc)?

One thing about electronic

The more you use it. The longer it lasts.

My Pany Plasma 20 years still going strong.
Retired it due to the electricity cost.
My Sony LED 5 years already but have dirty screen effect even after many times doing pixel washing.

Anyway, I recommend you to get another Sony.

Wait for 11.11 sale lo

Xiaomi

Not true lol. My tv turn on almost 24/7 everyday for the last 5 years. Even at night after watch sometimes fell asleep become screensaver waterfall forest instead.

I wouldn't want a TV that can last 20 years.
5 to 7 years KO will be fine.
Can upgrade.

Picture wise sony image processing quite gooding. Which is why i bought it in the first place. But the lifespan. God.

I think i can manage watching the tv at its current state for another month.

my old Sony got diff problem; keeps rebooting when got input signal from hdmi/rca

When the TV comes, damaged.

Sighs, My 3 years old 65" got problem too. last week the the bottom tv got horizontal white line.

This one for sure mainboard issue.

tcl je la

Mfk

Still watchable until become fully dead. But yeah, 3 years already got issue really makes you question the reliability and build quality

its strange, cos it wont reboot after getting very cold from aircond

Must be sentimental. Kiss goodbye to Sony TV.

How's the quality? Been seeing lots of shop in shopee selling megra and samview

yeah.. i'm suspecting the caps.. but too many big one and SMD one.. very hard to diagnose.. better just buy a new one.

Actually if you want buy TV during sales like 11.11 sometimes risky.
If physical shops got offer then consider buy from shops.
Or through Lazada, LEX sometimes no issue. If Shopee deliver via J&T then bye bye already as they will throw there and there.

I bought monitor from Lazada and it arrived safely.
Cause 11.11 is the biggest sales in the year itself.
Confirm many people will order stuffs and the courier have to handle too many parcels.

dunno, but at least tcl is well known brand that sell their tv for cheap.

if you have no surge protection at home , your electronic devices could have failed prematurely due to power surge .

Always plan and make sure your have Surge protection in your house power distribution .
1. SPD surge device/ type 2 at the DB box . total cost 200 rm
2. surge power strips at the plug points. . 100 rm .

Msia have very high count for Lightning strikes hence more power surge into your home power circuit.
you need to suppress this power surge before it zaps your devices.

Dont blame the TV reliability if you have done nothing to suppress power and lightning surges.


This post has been edited by Momo33: Sep 30 2021, 07:50 PM

My Sony Bravia 49" only last 3 years.
Now when switch on only come out black screen. No picture at all but got sound.

Wondering how much to repair it ?

Happened to my sony also once in a while last time. They it becoming too frequent I end up buying a new sony. Gave the old one to my sister in law, and the problem stopped

I guess my TV just hate me

Mi tv

Sony X900H gooding for PS5, but it's last year model this year is X900J which is more expensive

My Panasonic plasma already more than 10years old. Now add another new Hisense 65" last year after another 43" Panasonic lcd tv has the polarizer gone bad after 13 years.

However my parents house already had a 4-5 years old Panasonic lcd tv broken down. Not sure why...I damn lazy wanna take it apart.

You might as well get a lightning arrestor. So many lightnings, got so lucky?

I would have erect a lightning pole and route with copper flat bar to earth if really kena lightning that often.

This post has been edited by andrekua2: Sep 30 2021, 07:42 PM

wtf sony wor

5 years only kaput edi?

unker pakai samseng 8-9 years edi still ok until unker bought a bigger semak tv samsung and that old one give to my bro in law edi

ayam tot sony > all

Buy Samseng and never look back

my samsung LED TV 5 series over 10 years start to have water marks on the TV ....but still watchable

Mana bulih ini machiem

If last forlever nobadi buy new tv, which mean less incum then boss cannot buy new car, staff no yearly bonus becoz tv sales very low

Sony timer aka kill switch… very famous. You dunno?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_timer

But below 1.5k for android tv, I think difficult to find la…

Cannot take picture now, as i on quarantine center

Awwww get well soon ma nigga, no worry the death rate is 1% nia

If you know how to build electronic, maybe you can build one control board with a pre-programmed timer that starts counting down after one year warranty expired, which the board will send instructions to let extra current flow to the certain part of the board which overdriving the electronics, to make the device fail earlier so customer forced to buy a new tv. Maybe you will becum rich if you managed to supply this shit to all the big brand

6 to 10 years ago one i feel still ok, my in law pana plasma also last very long, more than 7 or 8 years already
my LG bought in 2017, 2020 kaput already, now bought sharp android see how long can last

Actually can open up and see if can do cheap repair. Like office monitors, I also lazy wanna go buy new ones. So just open up and found most of them only had a bad capacitor. Replaced that and still using until now. Got one print server, dual parallel, Google also cannot find liao. Cousin bought singles one that attach to the lpt port but not stable. One day, very sienz office clerks kept annoying me with unstable printer connection. Open up the print server and viola, just a bad capacitor. Replaced that and it's up and running without any more complaints from clerks.

I hope your print server 3 years warranty is already pass.

3 years? I think it's probably more than 15 years already.

Netgear PS110....

So easy to replace?

To answer many people saying tcon problem, NOPE thats a panel failure. Sony famous for panel failure. Saw many cases already.

One capacitor how hard to replace... Desolder and solder a new one.

Buy 70 ich

Woah you seem to know electronic, I just pull that idea straight outta my ass anyway, I wouldn't know if they have gone bad except if it were blackened or look toasted. Having to live through the late 80s the build quality of things start going down the drain in the beginning of early 2000s, even the light mainly fluorescent lamps and incandescent lamps wouldn't last longer than a year, unlike the old fluorescent lamp fabricated during the 80-90s will need to be replaced once every 7 years. I don't know who started it, maybe Philips starts it by letting caina touch their stuff so other players forced to follow just to compete with their selling price. Thats just one example of lighting alone, the Nintendo gameboy brick (large) one will not die no matter how many times you slammed it to the floor, then they introduce the slim one that wouldn't survive a single fall as I was seeing a few lines on the lcd from that first drop, no idea what it call, dead pixels?

My dad's house 20 years old Samsung LCD TV still OK. Eat electricity but since it got plastic screen and only used when grandkids visits it stayed.

Not really, but a bad capacitor is just an easy fix. Last time Kemahiran Hidup sure got learn simple soldering ma. When I had nothing to lose, I'll open up things to see what's wrong with it. Even opening up my Galaxy S8 last year when the touch screen stopped working and a new screen cost as much as the phone itself. WTF, just yank the whole thing open and do own discovery channel.

Time for a xiaomi TV

My broken 43 inch is also plastic. The polarizer still intact ah? The polarizer on my TV has gone bad and can see a huge white patch when viewing off center. I just replaced it out of fear for my kids eyes.

Still functioning 100%. Earlier this year got astro ultra now 1080p seems not enough. Maybe when cartoon channel have 4k will upgrade. The TV has receive many abuse from projectiles from tantrums and survive. It is so heavy that a kid slamming body first didn't topple it. Current batch of grandkids still in kindergarten age so if it breaks we buy a new one. 😜

Luck la... My Panasonic Plasma tv also bought that time because my son started to watch tv. My dad had this old any projection tv, so fucking blur, scare affect his eyes. After he watched then it's my dad's turn. Almost 24/7 since my dad watch tv until fall asleep. Surprisingly can last until now even though my parents moved to their new home 6 years ago. Bought when son 1 years old, now he twelve years old liao. Untung liao... 2.5k for 11 years and counting.

This post has been edited by andrekua2: Sep 30 2021, 10:14 PM

Hmmm, maybe watch on a tablet?

my smart sony tv bought 5yrs+ divide itself into 2 horizontal halves.

bottom half is goner.

based on this thread, I won't be buying another sony tv ever again.

IDK how but I'm guessing it's related to operating temperature. At times it becomes okay like this. I just took this picture and the tv has been on since morning till now (10PM 30/9/21)

I'm eyeing that xiaomi mi tv 32" in shopee. Less than 1k. But like one of /k here said, shopee courier very unreliable. Sure tv died of crack first before i actually get to use it.

I don't mind if it's just me but my kids. They don't have gadgets so the only screen related stuff they had is the tv. Plus me and wife wants to watch stuff also don't want to use handheld devices.

Tv so pandan nowadays. My family Sharp 52" TV 6 months already got problem. Lucky got warranty send to repair ended up they sent new unit instead.

This post has been edited by nazrul90: Sep 30 2021, 11:07 PM

Get haier

That because sharp is sold to china company now. The only real japan tv now is Sony.

Play 75” Samsung Neo QLED liao…

Sony CRT 29“ TV my family bought since 2006 lasted like 6 years. Send to repair few times already. Meanwhile the 11“ Panasonic CRT my family use when I was kindergarten till form 4 still working today. Too bad analog TV signal was phased out.

It's no matter what country producing them. It seem like they purposely make shorter lifespan for electronics products. Washing machine, fridge, TV seem to have shorter lifespan. If they can survive for even 10 years feel like miracle already.

Back in older days, those National brand is the champion. My family fridge lasted like 19 years.

This post has been edited by nazrul90: Sep 30 2021, 11:59 PM

Samseng technician says smart TV's life longer if you turn it off completely (when you call it a day). Leaving TV on standby mode will cut down life span wor.

Donno it its true or not, becoz ayam virgin still.

Perhaps TS should try install those mini fan mcm those used for cooling router onto the TV to cool it?

dont get android tv since it will be more expensive. Get a standard 4k + bigger size tv and it will be around your budget. U can get android box for less than rm200 for kodi.

I'm considering this as well since android tv spec all capalang yet price premium as hell. To get one with 4gb ram is pretty much impossible, much less something that has more than 32gb storage.

Toshiba aku beli 2010. Till now clear