Rudolf said:
You will be surprised how bad service can be with big brands and how good it
can be with cheap ones. I am doing warranty repairs for a bunch of smaller
brands and I do not want to touch big ones! Way too much hassle and mess.
Of course, there are exclusions from the rules. (I am not going to mention
names).
BTW, many cheaper LCDs use LG panels, so you may as well get a cheaper one
and effectively get same TV as LG.
The panel is not the whole story. The design and quality of the
electronics and the circuitry that drives the panel is just as
important. And not to mention reliability. There's no way I'd buy an
el-cheapo panel. The few extra dollars for a brand name are well
justified, especially when the major retailers are offering up to two
years interest free terms.
Dead pixels. When panel is made, some dead pixels do occur sometime. Panel
has to be thrown away. Hence the price tag, especially on the larger panels.
Each bad panel adds to the cost of good ones.
Except that the larger manufacturers achieve economies of scale that
minimise any impact of that. Cheaper/smaller manufacturers can only
achieve lower costs by making a crappier product.
Some manufacturers pick up those bad panels and sell them in cheap TVs.
Nothing wrong with that, as long as you know what you are buying. For some
applications (security monitors for example), couple of dead pixels won't
matter.
In the end -- you get what you paid for, although, I believe, this is not so
true when talking about expensive big names.
Rudolf
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