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Most monitors have a 40,000 hour lifespan I think. Pretty much should last 4 years at least unless u abuse them.
It depends what fails - there are three main components - the panel itself - with its drive electronics, the backlight and the backlight drive electronics.
I have an Elonex (It is an OEM Mitac) that failed - in fact it was the backlight invertor that had failed. I could have bought a replacement, but in fact it was one component on the board and replacing that fixed the problem. It is on pretty much 24/7 and is over two years old. I have another Elonex that is over 5 years old, and still going strong.
There are sources for replacement backlights, although I suspect fitting them might be tricky. But you can buy a 17" flatscreen for around £100 now - in a couple of years they will be cheaper still.
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on a vaguely related note-we have a Hitachi television that was bought in 1975, it has had no repairs and the image is still as crisp as always. it was used by a family of 7 for about 25 years.
on the front it says Hitachi-solid state television
Last edited by prehensile; 10-11-2006 at 01:57 PM.
i had a HP Pavillion f1723...lasted just under 2 years...iffy power connection...though nothing really to do with the fact that its TFT
My first TFT monitor which was a monitor/tv combo is still going strong after 6.5 years. Its been used nearly every day for quite a bit of time as well.
Laptop LCDs are probably the ones that have lasted the longest tho ... Even the oldest laptops have TFTs and that should give you an estimation of lifespan before taking into account technological advances in current screen technology.
TFT life is usually quite high. its the backlight that loses brightness and ultimately renders it useless.
yer...my 7 year old laptop is still going strong... the only problem with it is the numorous grease marks on it due to giving it to my 3 year old sisterOriginally Posted by Sinizter
Hehe mines got some screen burn now from WoW
my WoW action bars are slight visable on the screen now
my 3rd 2407wfp showed up with 2 dead pixels
Ive had some generic type 15" LCD for about 3 years now, fairly heavy useage and theres nothing wrong with it at all
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