The worst solid state color TVs ever made

[Alex KL-1]

For me, for servicing, is not a maker individually, but bad decisions about mixing techs at time (examples will be mentioned below). Since one of best TV I serviced was a Philco, and the worst also...
But for owners here... maybe Cineral and CCE, since these make a bad fame itselfs... makes these early Samsung and Goldstar seemed a tank machine and a breeze to fix.

Based on my relatively little time I worked with TV sets, used and new (early 2000's):
80's Philips: blue cap disease, some with circuits difficult to diagnostic for a newbie technician (on this include some Telefunkens).
Early 2000's Philips: bad solder joints, very small solder area for non-SMD parts
CCE, Cineral: local makers know to cut costs at any costs... so a miryad of problems
Philco (then Itautec, former Hitachi and Ford): like local makers, cutting costs using some SMD on very large common phenolic ordinary PCB without chassis metal clamp, prone to flexing and making various SMD parts fail.
Early 480p TV: terrible to diagnose processing boards.
And too many makers to mention...

BUT when LCD TV started to appear, I furtunately found another job! those SMD in these is a PITA to fix, and makers love to sell modules only, if any.