Electronic Circuits and Projects Forum



View Poll Results: Is TV Repair a dead Trade?

Voters
17. You may not vote on this poll

  • Yes, deader than dead

    14 82.35%

  • Almost, but some day it'll rise from the ashes

    3 17.65%

  • No, it's more alive than ever

    0 0%

Is TV repair a dead trade?

« First 12
  1. 16th April 2005 07:01 PM #11
    ThermalRunaway ThermalRunaway is offline
    GEEK
    Most items under £100 are deemed "throw away" items by manufacturers now anyway so they wont even supply parts for them. Under guarantee the items are simply exhanged, outside of that they're binned and the customer simply buys a new one.

    Unfortunately, that £100 boundary is covering more and more items every day! You can even get a 32" Widescreen TV for around the £200 mark now so it's extremely difficult to make money on repair for those.

    I wonder how it'll all turn out. Something's got to give somewhere, eventually. And how is the country disposing of all these throw away items? I bet that's becoming a major issue.

    Brian
    0
  2. 16th April 2005 07:34 PM #12
    Nigel Goodwin Nigel Goodwin is offline
    Super Moderator
    Quote Originally Posted by ThermalRunaway
    I wonder how it'll all turn out. Something's got to give somewhere, eventually. And how is the country disposing of all these throw away items? I bet that's becoming a major issue.
    It's about to become a VERY BIG issue, CRT's are in the process of being listed as 'hazardous waste' - if it happens they will have to be disposed of in some as yet unspecified manner - which will no doubt be expensive!.
    0
    PIC programmer software, and PIC Tutorials at:
    http://www.winpicprog.co.uk
  3. 16th April 2005 07:55 PM #13
    ThermalRunaway ThermalRunaway is offline
    GEEK
    CRTs are hazardous whichever way you look at them. The phosphor coating is extremely bad news, especially if you cut yourself with it! Phosphor poisoning is not very nice at all.

    And what about all the PCBs they're going to be disposing of?

    Brian
    0
  4. 16th April 2005 07:58 PM #14
    ThermalRunaway ThermalRunaway is offline
    GEEK
    Do you get trouble with those Philips 28" CRTs down with you? The type with the 1X14 gun in them?

    We've disposed of HUNDREDS of those.

    Brian
    0
  5. 16th April 2005 08:31 PM #15
    zevon8 zevon8 is offline
    I believe that the hazardous waste issue will be what starts to bring prices back up again. At the least we may start seeing a " disposal fee" tacked on similar to what we in Canada now have for old car tires and batteries.

    Most manufactureres of components are shipping strictly controlled lead levels in their parts, some labeled as "lead friendly" or reduced.

    The people we use at work for disposal have special containers now for flourescent tubes, they are collecting them as hazardous waste, soon to become mandatory.
    0
  6. 16th April 2005 09:28 PM #16
    Exo Exo is offline
    We already have that here, a tax that has to be payed on all new products to pay for the disposal of old ones.

    But it really doesn't push the price enough to suddenly make repair cheaper then throwing something away.
    0
  7. 17th April 2005 08:28 AM #17
    Nigel Goodwin Nigel Goodwin is offline
    Super Moderator
    Quote Originally Posted by ThermalRunaway
    Do you get trouble with those Philips 28" CRTs down with you? The type with the 1X14 gun in them?
    We are mostly a Sony dealer, we've had a few duff Philips tubes, but nothing like you have - but we haven't sold many sets using them (luckily!).
    0
    PIC programmer software, and PIC Tutorials at:
    http://www.winpicprog.co.uk
« First 12
Tags
« How to power my GPS receiver | Need to detect momentary switch and switch 12V, simply »
Electronic Circuits  |  Learning Electronics

Join our community with over 100,000 Members! It's free, easy and when you're logged in you have many more features! Click to register.
Page Time: 0.04086 seconds      Memory: 7,147 KB      Queries: 16      Templates: 0