This is why it irritates me when folk say "Samsung are great, I bought one a decade ago and they run forever". Yeah, see your old set was, to all intents and purposes engineered by the Japanese and built by Samsung to established Japanese norms of build quality. The ones now? Samsung farmed out their panels to China (and in fact CSOT are owned by TCL now) and, surprise surprise, the quality went down.
I have the Samsung UE40F6300AK I bought new years ago and use it as my PC monitor because I don't watch TV and it still works and sounds great, touch wood.
Here in the US, I recovered a 12 yr old Samsung from a client upgrade. The owner claimed it never needed service. The Samsung still has a near perfect backlight and picture. After a good cleaning, I ended up with a very nice set, with original remote.
OMG, I have a Philips bought on 2009 with the sharp screen and to this day is still working, it only broke once (broke it) and fix it myself, they were built to last, it has the same T-CON as the one in the video.
Early smart TVs didn't have very well-optimized software. The onboard CPU for running and executing applications was also much slower than what modern smart TVs have. Today, modern smart TVs have multi-core processors that are significantly faster than the old basic CPUs that old TVs had. This is why modern smart TVs run and operate so much more smoothly. Even then, the chips used on old smart TVs were considered quite slow. They were just budget CPUs-the equivalent of what a basic Bare Bones entry-level smartphone would run. Even today, a smart TV uses a bare-bones CPU. It's just that software optimization has been improved. Today, a bare-bones CPU is significantly better than one from 8 or 10 years ago when decoding video and handling advanced color and HDR. Everything is just designed to work together better in terms of raw performance.
This is why it irritates me when folk say "Samsung are great, I bought one a decade ago and they run forever".
Yeah, see your old set was, to all intents and purposes engineered by the Japanese and built by Samsung to established Japanese norms of build quality.
The ones now? Samsung farmed out their panels to China (and in fact CSOT are owned by TCL now) and, surprise surprise, the quality went down.
I have the Samsung UE40F6300AK I bought new years ago and use it as my PC monitor because I don't watch TV and it still works and sounds great, touch wood.
I have the first Samsung led TV
Still perfect after 8 years
I have never updated my Sony bravia tv and it's as good as I had brought day one 4 k 55inch in Australia never had any problems with it
Here in the US, I recovered a 12 yr old Samsung from a client upgrade. The owner claimed it never needed service. The Samsung still has a near perfect backlight and picture. After a good cleaning, I ended up with a very nice set, with original remote.
this tv even had a cat scan
OMG, I have a Philips bought on 2009 with the sharp screen and to this day is still working, it only broke once (broke it) and fix it myself, they were built to last, it has the same T-CON as the one in the video.
It's a shame that Samsung is slipping towards Hisense standards. A race to the bottom.
Early smart TVs didn't have very well-optimized software. The onboard CPU for running and executing applications was also much slower than what modern smart TVs have. Today, modern smart TVs have multi-core processors that are significantly faster than the old basic CPUs that old TVs had. This is why modern smart TVs run and operate so much more smoothly.
Even then, the chips used on old smart TVs were considered quite slow. They were just budget CPUs-the equivalent of what a basic Bare Bones entry-level smartphone would run.
Even today, a smart TV uses a bare-bones CPU. It's just that software optimization has been improved. Today, a bare-bones CPU is significantly better than one from 8 or 10 years ago when decoding video and handling advanced color and HDR. Everything is just designed to work together better in terms of raw performance.