In the 34 years I have been more or less on my own I had 4 television sets.
The first set was working fine but when I was able to afford a color TV in 1985 I purchased the 2nd set for $250 and dumped the first set after there were no takers for it.
That 2nd set lasted pretty long, other than the fact in its final days it displayed things kind of darkly, didn't noticed it that much as watching Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Voyager the backgrounds were dark to being with. It is only when I played the movie Top Gun I sort of remembered at the beginning the movie took place in daylight and not really in dusk like conditions (expect when the Tomcats landed).
Set #3 belonged to Albert and I was holding it (and using it) until he got back on his feet (which he did), at that point I purchased set #4, which kind of stopped working about a month ago (June 2016). Managed to give the set to a TV repair place to dump since I was thinking of getting a bigger TV set for my place anyway.
I haven't gotten a new TV set yet, but I kind of thinking that 7 years is kind of long for electronics to last now a days? I don't expect things to last forever.
This thread is about comparing other peoples experiences with the lifetime of their television sets. How many years have your current television set being operating?
- 1981 to 1985 - 9 inch black & white set from JC Pennys
- 1985 to 1998 - Sears 13 inch color TV
- 1998 to 2009 - 19 inch color TV set
- 2009 to 2016 - 19 inch Magnavox
The first set was working fine but when I was able to afford a color TV in 1985 I purchased the 2nd set for $250 and dumped the first set after there were no takers for it.
That 2nd set lasted pretty long, other than the fact in its final days it displayed things kind of darkly, didn't noticed it that much as watching Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Voyager the backgrounds were dark to being with. It is only when I played the movie Top Gun I sort of remembered at the beginning the movie took place in daylight and not really in dusk like conditions (expect when the Tomcats landed).
Set #3 belonged to Albert and I was holding it (and using it) until he got back on his feet (which he did), at that point I purchased set #4, which kind of stopped working about a month ago (June 2016). Managed to give the set to a TV repair place to dump since I was thinking of getting a bigger TV set for my place anyway.
I haven't gotten a new TV set yet, but I kind of thinking that 7 years is kind of long for electronics to last now a days? I don't expect things to last forever.
This thread is about comparing other peoples experiences with the lifetime of their television sets. How many years have your current television set being operating?
Originally posted by helen
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