This could be the end of consumer electronic repair

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Originally Posted by merrylander

There is the answer to your question, given the hourly rate of a good tech and what the assembly line people in China get paid it is cheaper to replace the whole set and probably not even worth the shipping charge to ship the old one back to China for repairs. What all this does to the landfills is another story.

Speaking of landfills, there is a warning on the back of this set stating that the product contains mercury and that the TV should be recycled properly. It seems to me like there would be a lot less electronic waste if they would build stuff to last longer and to be easily repairable when it does fail.