Author Topic: Salesman Look How Strong This Tv Is....... (Read 2869 times)

tom66 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 04, 2012, 12:00:53 am »

The salesman as usual is talking complete bull when he claims the TV screen is tougher.

It is not necessarily true that either technology is tougher. When the Wii controller hits the screen no LCD or plasma will survive. Unless it's one of the Panasonics with the front glass plate. That will break, but usually the plasma display inside will survive. Still an expensive glass plate to find and replace...

I guess they're scared of the guy getting electrocuted when he cracks the screen as it is off when they do that. However, there is limited shock hazard. When the screen cracks, the electrodes in the panel short, and the TV makes a rather horrid buzzing sound :/. You lose gases and typically picture goes immediately, but sometimes it fades slowly over about 30 seconds.

HackedFridgeMagnet · « **Reply #2 on:** October 04, 2012, 02:22:02 am »

Breaking TVs must be genetic then.

G7PSK · « **Reply #3 on:** October 04, 2012, 07:40:39 am »

My wife got annoyed with our Sony Bravia and beat the shit out of the screen with the remote control.
She did not break it, a few scratches on the screen is all. Also when the bottom fell out of the hot water tank recently which brought the ceiling down on top of it, it survived without a scratch.