>samsung
there you go, samsung was great in the crt era, but not anymore.
good brands are LG (overall the best price/quality ratio), Sony (if you don't care about $), AOC (cheap and reliable tv's) and JVC (I haven't tried one yet, but seem to be pretty good looking at the specs and the brand history).

 

My samsung lcd monitor still running after 15+ years and I won samsung led tv couple years ago.

 

Now this is straight up funny.

LG Oleds have the worst price/quality ratio - simply because they are the 'expensive tech' on the market. If you not scale quality into infinity..

On LCDs LG still is one of the main proponents of using IPS panels which is generally seen as "worse quality" in the TV field, simply because of inferior black level. (Compaired to VA, it has better side view color stability though.)

Sony "being better" than other LCDs is almost entirely wrong nowadays, except for two of their flagships each year. On the rest they tried to coast by with "image processing" as their stand out feature. Sony doesnt produce their own LCD screens anymore. They buy them from korean or chinese manufacturers (to be fair, everyone is). In the past years their market performance was cringeworthy, they've outperformed no one on most of the characteristics - then tried to win it with "image processing". Now they are at least trying to deliver great products in the high price segment again. You'll pay a premium is correct - in most cases you'll dont know why. But at least they dont give you crap. Sony.

AOC - is a taiwanese panel manufacturer. One of the biggest in fact. And you are sure to find its panels in many more well known brands TV sets. But it doesnt sell under its own brand in the west. (?)

JVC is basically bankrupt. Or whatever the japanese equivalent of that is (getting bought out by other japanese companies.. ). They've liquidated most of their TV manufacturing, have sold their entire business in europe to be taken over by a OEM, and manufacture their US market products out of one remaining plant in Thailand.

Here is the fallacy with "going with brands". Its the fashion victims way to decide what to buy.

Reasoning:

- SKUs: Have flaship products, but also produce cheap crap.
- Cycles: Tick/tock - innovate for a year, cash out for two years. Repeat.
- Getting your entire manufacturing sector moved from Japan, to Korea, to China/Taiwan. In the end, chances are - that "quality brand" from 10 years ago is in an entirely different market situation today.


I dont want to help you to get a TV that you cant ruin by screwing in the mounting bracket in the back "too much" - all I want is for people to remember one thing.

Marketing doesnt like tech geeks. Because they don't buy brands. They buy good products.

If you are still advising people to buy high price items based on brands. Get out of the advising business. Now. You are officially a victim and helping no one.

 

If a capacitor exploded inside your tv, it may have enough force to break your screen, this may very well be what happened.

 

Okay I was at my local store and I'm kinda triggered. I'd like to have a direct led TV or a oled but both start at about 1.1k. Definetly to much. It's so hard to decide on some the motion interpolation sucks and many edge lit ones have some sort of vignette around the corners. The best thing is probably to go for a full HD one about 300 bucks.

 

looks like the way it hangs made it break. maybe bad VESA mount ?

 

Using bad VESA mount is bad. For me it looks like it hold the rare structure but the tv in center went down and pull the top left/right side with it. Same like you would hold someone hands while pushing his back with your leg. First thing that came out in my mind when he wrote that he did not hit it with anything.

Edit, him is you. Sorry.

Edit2: yes, but look the 'points' on screen. They are in places where the screws should be for VESA mount. But without looking at it closely I can just shoot blindly

 

Thats because they are another chinese OEM using that brand (recently bought) to sell into western (this time usually european) markets.

They usually use MediaTek SoCs and Android as a platform.

And yes, in europe they are currently one of the cheap goto brands, while in the US they are TCL and Vizio.

TCL still refuses to bring FOLD to europe so their products are less interesting here.

All those three brands are chinese manufacturers trying to enter western markets (Vizio being a house brand).

 

I agree, it is not.

To clarify -

I use

- japanese
- korean
- chinese/taiwanese

as almost "price groupings" caused by globalisation.

The entire production of panels moved from Japan to Korea to China/Taiwan - and TVs became cheaper with every move.

Today - most manufacturers are buying chinese panels. Notable exceptions are Samsung (korean) of course (scale, so still good prices), or LG (korean) ('best' tech with WOLED, so they can produce at higher prices); But I'm sure they are building factories in china as well.

Sony (japanese), Panasonic (japanese) and others in the TV world only exist as customers of other manufacturers panels who add their electronics package to them ("better image processing"). Thats it. Otherwise they arent price competitive.

So when you are looking for best value - look at chinese manufacturers. Everyone else is. If you are Sony and others (even Samsung, ...) you are buying chinese panels, then "upbranding" them with your own electronics package - and then reselling them. Generally speaking.

What I wanted to lay out is, that it make no sense to say "LG is so price competitive" (the are 'not' (comparatively)), when in todays market the chinese brands are. Because manufacturing already went from Korea to China - to become cheaper. So LG cant have the price advantage here. Neither can Sony.

Even Samsung (big Volume, scale - also korean) is loosing it to chinese manufacturers.

The best value currently lies with chinese Manufacturers that try to get a footing in western markets themselves. They are willing to undercut the competition, no one else is. Some (not all) of them are using known brands (Philips) they have bought. So going by "brands you know" - is especially silly here (same brand different company )

Especially in the small screensize category I'm very much a proponent of "buy chinese LCDs" these days. Best value. And since no one tests a good subset of cheap TVs anyhow... (You are buying blind...)