Are Hisense TVs any good?

[MoonC A T]

My old 720p TV is dying. It's over 10 years old, at least.

There is a 50" 4K Hisense TV on Amazon at around $250 with very high ratings which seems like an insane deal

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WQJPWWY/?coliid=IJ0PJC8ACNU5O&colid=14RIXU8URSPQW&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Opinions on the brand from those that own one?

I do NOT game on my TVs if that matters...

[_I_]

on some of the older roku tvs, off would only pause the vid and turn off backlight
which is why they could not get the energy star rating, still drawing ~5-10w in standby

they never really turn off or fully reboot unless you pull power from them

[emoticorpse]

I'll take any Hisense from 2019 onwards over any plasma. I might even take an older Hisense but I'd have to think about it.

[_I_]

yea, plasmas is pretty old and its time to retire it
its only 720p
they do make for a nice tabletop tho
https://www.instructables.com/LCD-Coffee-Table-1/
a little woodworking, just make sure the base can hold the ~50lb panel

[MoonC A T]

_I_ lähetti viestin:

yea, plasmas is pretty old and its time to retire it
its only 720p
they do make for a nice tabletop tho
https://www.instructables.com/LCD-Coffee-Table-1/
a little woodworking, just make sure the base can hold the ~50lb panel

So I ended up taking the back metal cover off. Found 2 bulging/erupted bad caps which are most likely the cause.

https://imgur.com/a/Kj8iU3v

Ordered the Hisense after reading rtings agreed that it was their best budget model.

Thanks again for the help and the table idea!

[_I_]

yea, lifted/bulging/leaking caps are bad

that was a nice tv tho for its time
2 hdmi, 2 component, composite, svid, vga inputs, and optical output

i can tell the power board has been overworked from the bad caps
pretty dark around the mosfets/diodes on its heatsinks

and the burnt area left side between hot/cold
did it take lightning?

[MoonC A T]

_I_ lähetti viestin:

yea, lifted/bulging/leaking caps are bad

that was a nice tv tho for its time
2 hdmi, 2 component, composite, svid, vga inputs, and optical output

i can tell the power board has been overworked from the bad caps
pretty dark around the mosfets/diodes on its heatsinks

and the burnt area left side between hot/cold
did it take lightning?

Not that I know of (we rarely have lightning) and the breaker it has been plugged into has never been tripped for any reason. Also, we really aren't heavy TV watchers, probably 8 hours/wk.

I think the area you are referring to is just a big dust area that I didn't bother to clean when taking the photo. I didn't notice any burnt areas.

A guy I worked for closed his business and he just gave me the TV free back in 2011 or so. It's been working fine since then but started with the greying/greening skin about a month ago and now the power issue.

[emoticorpse]

_I_ lähetti viestin:

yea, lifted/bulging/leaking caps are bad

that was a nice tv tho for its time
2 hdmi, 2 component, composite, svid, vga inputs, and optical output

i can tell the power board has been overworked from the bad caps
pretty dark around the mosfets/diodes on its heatsinks

and the burnt area left side between hot/cold
did it take lightning?

It could be totally random right? about six months ago my I went to my mother's house and she happened to have a big heavy (maybe 10 year old) plasma tv and they wanted me to set it up for her. First thing I did was try to power it on and it couldn't power on. I asked her where she got it and she said my sister gave it to her (because they got a new one).

I know my sister isn't the type to dump a bad tv on someone for no reason. I believe it was working but all of a sudden apparently somehow during the move it got screwed.

Not too surprising, since they must have done some weird transfer of that tv since she has a small car and they might have strapped it on the roof of put it in sideways or whatever.

The thing is I would see any other type of tv surviving that even if roughly handled. That experience just further solidifies my concern for lifespan and delicacy of plasma tvs. That's actually the main reason I never even considered one. I knew at one point they had the best colors but all the negatives about them weren't worth it.

[Illusion of Progress]

Replacing those capacitors may or may not fix the issue, if you want to. It's a cheap fix. If you can't do it yourself, then paying someone to do it would largely entail paying for their time/labor more than parts I think.

It's possible those aren't even the cause, though, so you might fix it for nothing, even if it's cheap.

I had issues with my TV a while back and it would have been nice if I opened it to find obviously bad capacitors, but I didn't. I had to make guesses as to what may be bad and hunt down a replacement main board, which was neither easy, nor the exact match (so my remote/button panel didn't natively fit and I had to go without the former and make modifications to get the latter to connect). It did get it working again, though.

[MoonC A T]

emoticorpse lähetti viestin:

_I_ lähetti viestin:

yea, lifted/bulging/leaking caps are bad

that was a nice tv tho for its time
2 hdmi, 2 component, composite, svid, vga inputs, and optical output

i can tell the power board has been overworked from the bad caps
pretty dark around the mosfets/diodes on its heatsinks

and the burnt area left side between hot/cold
did it take lightning?

It could be totally random right? about six months ago my I went to my mother's house and she happened to have a big heavy (maybe 10 year old) plasma tv

I just about died a few minutes ago taking this thing downstairs.

I wanted to make sure it was not a power breaker issue before my new TV arrives on Saturday. It also died when plugged into a different plug after about 5 minutes, even without a source plugged into it.

Illusion of Progress lähetti viestin:

Replacing those capacitors may or may not fix the issue, if you want to. It's a cheap fix. If you can't do it yourself, then paying someone to do it would largely entail paying for their time/labor more than parts I think.

It's possible those aren't even the cause, though, so you might fix it for nothing, even if it's cheap.
acitors, but I didn't. I had to make guesses as to what may be bad and hunt down a replacement main board, which was neither easy, nor the exact match (so my remote/button panel didn't natively fit and I had to go without the former and make modifications to get the latter to connect). It did get it working again, though.

Yeah. Given today's TV prices I just bought the Hisense. Arriving Saturday.

I was looking up this TV and it was $1500 back in the day. Tech has really changed.

[_I_]

the plasma screen is almost indestructible, its about an inch or so of glass
supported by the steel frame
which is why they make nice tabletops

but yea they are heavy because if it
moving should not be a problem for them unless dropped from a few feet

[emoticorpse]

MoonC A T lähetti viestin:

emoticorpse lähetti viestin:

It could be totally random right? about six months ago my I went to my mother's house and she happened to have a big heavy (maybe 10 year old) plasma tv

I just about died a few minutes ago taking this thing downstairs.

I wanted to make sure it was not a power breaker issue before my new TV arrives on Saturday. It also died when plugged into a different plug after about 5 minutes, even without a source plugged into it.

Illusion of Progress lähetti viestin:

Replacing those capacitors may or may not fix the issue, if you want to. It's a cheap fix. If you can't do it yourself, then paying someone to do it would largely entail paying for their time/labor more than parts I think.

It's possible those aren't even the cause, though, so you might fix it for nothing, even if it's cheap.
acitors, but I didn't. I had to make guesses as to what may be bad and hunt down a replacement main board, which was neither easy, nor the exact match (so my remote/button panel didn't natively fit and I had to go without the former and make modifications to get the latter to connect). It did get it working again, though.

Yeah. Given today's TV prices I just bought the Hisense. Arriving Saturday.

I was looking up this TV and it was $1500 back in the day. Tech has really changed.

Yeah, them things are heavy. She actually also had a second one in her living room (downstairs) that she was intending to replace with my sister's because it had SEVERE burn in. I could read the tv channel logo on it lol. I told her why it was like that and she ended up moving it upstairs (well I did and yeah it was heavy too, but I did it myself) and we ended up getting her a 55 inch LG one for like $500. She specifically wanted one of the more reputable brand name ones. She was asking me which one was better between Samsung and LG and I was just telling her for the price they're probably a toss up so she just chose LG.

But I have an understanding that between any tv of any size/any brand they all have an equal chance of going completely out randomly. This is one reason why I just gamble with cheaper ones. I can understand if a $350 one goes out and am impressed if it lasts a long time but I'd be pretty upset if I paid $500+ for a tv and it went out sooner than I expected.

[_I_]

reminds me of the one tv, its led strip started a fire and burned the reflective paper inside it
lucky it did not burn a house down

[Crawl]

emoticorpse lähetti viestin:

But I have an understanding that between any tv of any size/any brand they all have an equal chance of going completely out randomly. This is one reason why I just gamble with cheaper ones. I can understand if a $350 one goes out and am impressed if it lasts a long time but I'd be pretty upset if I paid $500+ for a tv and it went out sooner than I expected.

Electronics in general have a "bath tub" shaped failure curve. If they are going to fail they usually fail early and should be under warranty. If they don't fail early they are usually good for many years. That's why extended warranties are pretty much never worth buying.

[MonkehMaster]

hisense are good brands for the money, but they arent anything special, tho some of their newer ones have had good ratings/reviews.

i own a H5 50in 1080p (bought in 2016) and a H6 55in 4k (bought in 2017), only issues i have had was replacing leds and t-con board on the 55in (t-con went bad and the leds were turning purple) and leds on the 50in (random leds in a few strips were dead), was very easy fix on both, though replacing leds on flatscreens are a bit annoying to say the least and the plastic spacers/balancers (w/e they are called) between the led area and screen/diffuser break pretty easy.

other than that they run pretty good and work well as pc monitors.

sure some already know and its usually easy to tell, but if you want to check your leds without opening the tv, you can set the tv on an all white background (on pc) and see if any leds are dead (would see black areas) and in some cases depending on the silicone or w/e it is they use on led strips, sometimes you get silicone turning your leds purple which you can easily see while using your tv and even easier on an all white background.

when a t-con board goes out, you will get pixilated patchy squares on specific colors (one example being grey colors) and at randoms times green patchy squares, you may also get vertical moving lines in certain places, well there may be other signs but those are the things i noticed when mine was going bad before i replaced it.

[MoonC A T]

As others have pointed out, any modern TV is probably going to be better than a 720p Plasma TV from 2010.

The Hisense arrives tomorrow.