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Originally Posted by jr_tech
After all, it is a well reported "fact" here that these things can't possibly operate past the end of the waranty, or two years, which ever comes first.
jr
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My Insignia 19" FP has been working extremely well for five years. As I said in a previous post, the very first flat screens may have lasted just two years or less, but the technology has improved greatly since then. The only sets that will work for just two years (!), if that long, would be the under $100 no-name (Craig, et al.) sets available at CVS or Rite Aid. Those TVs, as another poster mentioned, are
very cheaply made, with bargain-basement capacitors and such, and cannot be expected to last very long. I don't use my flat screen that much, anyway (perhaps three hours a day), unlike sets that are on all the time or are used a lot, so I am expecting mine to last somewhat beyond its current five years (the TV was manufactured in May 2011, according to the sticker on the back which also has the model number and software revision code). When it quits, I will replace it with my 20-year-old 19-inch Zenith Sentry 2 CRT set, so I am not concerned about the FP's eventual failure in the least.