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The "death" of my 37" Viewsonic would have been three years ago if I wasn't determined to find a backlight tube for it. That is when it "would have" hit the trash if I was just some regular consumer. This is an LCD from like six years ago (so yeah....it lasted like three years). I replaced it with a Samsung 55" LED backlit set, one of those REAL thin ones...and THAT one has been doing okay so far (I hear often these will have power supply capacitor problems).
My 37" Viewsonic still lives....but only because I DID find a junked set (shattered LCD)..and I R&R'd one of the two backlight tubes (REAL scary job by-the-way). It lives a VERY easy life now as a 37" HDMI computer monitor for a Microsoft FlightSim setup I have in a computer room. I remember paying around $1700 for that set, and getting only three years out of it, and was PISSED. At least I have so far rescued THAT set from hitting the wheelie bin in the alley so far.
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My current "holy grail" is trying to get enough parts together to get a Singer TV6U going. Been kicking my ass for nearly a year now :-P
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