[madaxe_again]

Good luck. I learned an enormous amount about hardware design from a Philips plasma display I got for free some 20 years ago as it wouldn’t show an image for more than a few seconds and multiple repair people had said “buy a new one” to the business that gave it to me. £10,000 piece of kit, working.

Philips were actually enormously helpful. I just called them up (well, after going to a TV repair shop, picking the guy’s brains, and getting the number from him), got through to their technical service dept, got them to send me the full service engineer manual, schematics and all, and they were happy for me to quiz them on likely root causes - like, the guy I spoke to a few times seemed genuinely excited that someone was actually trying to repair a TV, and correctly pointed me in the direction of a group of oscillators, one of which had a blown cap. Fixed the thing.

Lived on the wall of our office for a decade until it fell off one day. On me. There’s karma.

[tetris11]

I guess it's the kind of excitement one gets when someone else actively reads the documentation you painstakingly put together.

[Scoundreller]

Must’ve been really nice for those cold days.

Plasmas are great on someone else’s power connection.

[bombcar]

We had a great one that almost fully negated the need for a heater in the winter. Blackest blacks!

Still miss it, but probably miss the $5k I shelled out for it.

[bookofjoe]

My 50" 2007 Pioneer Kuro Elite ($5,000 in 2007) still has the best picture I've ever seen. Almost 3D. No repairs/service ever.