LG Plasma TV broken

No it isn't.
Your only option is to buy a new TV.

Any money spent on a clapped out old plasma effort will be 100% wasted.
Even if a miracle occurred and you managed to fix it, the cost of the vast amount of electricity it uses compared to a modern one would buy you a new TV in less than a year.
Even a pensioner can afford £1 a day.

Is a plasma TV expensive to run?

However, if you have a plasma TV, which averages around 350 watts, it consumes 0.35 kWh per hour. Therefore, if it's turned on for 8 hours a day, it will cost about 62.6p per day or about 7.8p per hour.
 
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Even if a miracle occurred and you managed to fix it, the cost of the vast amount of electricity it uses compared to a modern one would buy you a new TV in less than a year.

Precisely the reason, I replaced my plasma set almost a decade ago - the power consumption.
so iff you want one just for tv then go for last years model and do NOT set up internet functions as these will increase the power consumption in normal use and instead off sub 1w on standby will often go up to say 10w looking for content

That maybe depends upon the set, my LG's have two off modes, the full one, and one which just shuts the screen and audio off, everything else stays on, so it doesn't have to boot up from scratch. It's an option, in the settings.
 
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Therefore, if it's turned on for 8 hours a day, it will cost about 62.6p per day or about 7.8p per hour.

Which is £228.49 per annum. A modern set of similar size could reduce that cost by 75%, plus all the other benefits, plus that of not wasting time trying to fix an old set, with old technology. Even a pensioner could afford that.

I kept my old, fully working plasma as a back up set for a few years, then simply gave it away. They are worthless, except to the desperate. It went to guy, who watches little TV, but who was in hard times.
 
Which is £228.49 per annum.
Worth it for the full cinema experience, though. I have never found LCD picture quality satisfactory - motion blurs, move head slightly and poor view angle issues show up. Also, a pensioner needs more warmth. So, nothing is going to waste. The max savings that could be accomplished with a new TV is a couple of peak summer months when heating isn't needed. Taking into account the cost of replacements for unreliable newer TVs, keeping the old one is better. It's a 20 year old unit. Once I fix it, it will go another 20. Best of all, it can never be hacked and used for tracking for the purpose uninvited entry.
 
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Precisely the reason, I replaced my plasma set almost a decade ago - the power consumption.


That maybe depends upon the set, my LG's have two off modes, the full one, and one which just shuts the screen and audio off, everything else stays on, so it doesn't have to boot up from scratch. It's an option, in the settings.
yes there are all different settings and when you think you have cracked it the energy monitor jumps to over 20w lol
a factory reset and unplug when not in use seems the only safe way to avoid unwanted power use
and just for clarity my only connections is to freeview recorders on my 3 tvs with zero tv functions needed or used other than to watch what i have recorded
 
Worth it for the full cinema experience, though.
If you believe that a 15 year old plasma TV is a 'cinema experience' then you have never been to a cinema.

I have never found LCD picture quality satisfactory - motion blurs, move head slightly and poor view angle issues show up
In other words you looked at a crappy TN LCD effort 25 years ago and decided that they are all junk.

, keeping the old one is better
As usual you created this thread for the purposes of trolling, and had no intention of doing anything else.
 

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