anyone here care about modern projection sets?

[radiotvnut]

I still have people offering me these things and I turn them down every time. Heck, I still have people asking me to fix them. Just a little while ago, someone on FB asked me to fix a 6-7 year old Hitachi with bad light engine symptoms. I declined the job and told her that she'd be better off investing in another TV.

A lot of people get PO'ed when you tell them their $2K-$3K TV that's less than ten years old is not worth fixing; but, the fact is that a newer TV's that's much lighter in weight and can produce a better picture can be bought for less than the repair cost of the old TV.

My friend at the flea market said that someone brought him a later RPTV and tried to sell it to him for $300. My friend pretty much told him that he didn't want it, even if it was free, because no one would buy it. The guy came back with the usual line, "I paid $3K for it". Some people don't get the fact that, no matter how much they paid for the TV when new, it is considered an obsolete dinosaur that no one wants.

[Geoff Bourquin]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

A lot of people get PO'ed when you tell them their $2K-$3K TV that's less than ten years old is not worth fixing

I run into that a lot. I tell them I would rather have them get angry with me because I didn't take their money than because I did, knowing they would not get their moneys worth out of the repair. I like to try to make them feel better about all that money they paid for the set going down the drain, explaining that it wasn't that they did something stupid, but the manufacturers cut corners everywhere they could and crossed their fingers that the thing would last through the warranty.

As for CRT projection, I don't see many anymore. They abruptly dropped off to a trickle just before Christmas 2010. I screen them pretty carefully now days before I work on them. Most of the Mitsubishi sets seem to be worth a try, as long as they are not too old and the CRT coolant hasn't leaked. Not many projection sets from before 1998 that I'll work on now. I don't consider the Philips sets worth messing with anymore. Late model RCA might be worth it, since most of them only seem to have bad soldering on the fly and those ribbon cable connectors. Older RCA sets aren't usually worth it anymore. Late Hitachi models are OK, but I think I have put new STK chips in almost every one of them around here already, so there aren't many of those left to do. Not seeing Toshiba projo anymore.

Still doing DLP sets, mostly fans and color wheels ( and lamps of course), and occasionally a DLP chip with stuck pixels.
Been about 1 1/2 years since I did a Sony optical block. See lots of them but people don't want to spend the money.
More than anything these days I'm swapping electrolytic caps. I have a shoebox full of dead ones.
Oh yeah..I won't do those first generation Mits DLP sets either. Even gave up on my own about a year ago....A guy gave me $20 bucks for it and I took the money and ran!