HISENSE ROKU TVs are BUILT TO FAIL!!! ...𝙈𝙐𝙎𝙏 𝙎𝙀𝙀!!! ...𝘿𝙊 𝙉𝙊𝙏 𝘽𝙐𝙔!!!

I work in LED lighting & it's all about the lasting power of LED's. When they started pumping LED TV's, I don't remember any TV being advertised as lasting longer than it's fluorescent counterpart!!!!

Despite the tragic demise of the screen, after all that work, this video was still delivered some very valuable insight on the nefarious ways manufacturers sabotage our right to repair. Thanks for all you do to show us, what we can do.

I called Hisense for assistance with constant turning on and back off. They told me to throw it out and buy a new one. That pissed me off enough to research to issue and found two capacitors in the power supply. $10.00 later it now works. It is the last Hisense for me.

Electronics really need to have some kind of repairability score as part of their environmental rating. (Because all that stuff that can't be fixed usually ends up in the landfill.)

I repaired two of the LED flat screen TV’s that were going to be junked, so I took the chance/challenge of repairing them. Tore them apart, made my own LED strip tester, located the bad LED’s and ordered them. Popped them in and BAM, two working flat screen TV’s. I made sure to set them on mid brightness, because, apparently, if you have it set on full brightness, it shortens the life of the LED’s. I’m using one and my daughter has the other. Spent under $100. To me it was worth it. A word of advice for those who want to try this, take plenty of pictures of all connections. You’ll be glad you did. Trust me. 😂

They put more innovation into making things break than making them work.

I am just old enough to remember the very tail end of the mobile tv repair man (up till roughly 72-ish). My parents had them out a few times when I was a young kid as did several neighbors. I would also see them driving around town. A uniformed guy carrying a small tool box in one hand and a tube caddie in the other would pull into our driveway in a company branded van and fix your ONE television on the spot... something cool about that...

I remember t.v. repair guys coming to the house replacing tubes and biasing the set in the 1970s . When Brad said "they are Messing with the wrong guy". The first thing that came to mind was Steve Martin in " Planes, trains , & automobiles in the parking lot and things went bad from there .😂

The comment on suction cups to lift the screen was certainly foreshadowing.

Hi to Fixologist, i work in the trade and Hisense are a nightmare, frustrating when everything is glued/ taped down , also same with other brands, with backlight problems we order the full backlight array strips brand new, there not that expensive but it ensures a bit more reliabilty and not being returned again for the same problem, but so easy to damage in the process, really stressful work and time consuming, but great video that shows people whats involved when working on these modern sets

I'm an electronic technician, and 80% of this was new to me, both techniques and screen details. Great video! Thank You.

Well it was a waste of your time for the tv but take solace knowing you taught me a ton and helped reinforce my views on planned obsolescence. God bless.

The plot twist I wasn't expecting. At least you've come away with greater knowledge and done the consumer a good service.

The glue and double sided tape are annoying but during assembly the whole assembly is lowered on to the screen so the diffusers would fall out if the glue and tape wasn't there. It is done that way to reduce cracked screens in asssembly.

Must be a lot of old timers close to my age, who watched this, Mom and dad had a color console in the living room and a black and white in the den, those TV's lasted at least 20 years or more, and the mobile TV guy lived a few houses down, would come and fix them every time a tube blew, never new what they charged, but that was a different life, and time, which I really prefer compared to now. Cheers to all those who also remember the mobile TV repairman, dial telephones, and shag carpeting, the good ole days. 😎

It was a TV repair guy who used to come around to fix our TV that gave me the bug for electronics he also repaired my electronics kit at one time by replacing a faulty transistor that had shorted out. It altered the direction of what I did since then 👍

Hisense technical R&D department - Dam we need to find a stronger glue, apply more of it and add some heat resistant extra strength double sided tape strips and twice as many strips....this guy defeated our repair defense mechanisms! 😮😊 Edit - ah we got him with the backup repair defense system, the incredibly fragile display panel, one wrong move or apply any pressure and CRACK!😁🤔

After the 90's everything created is designed on purpose to break even faster,build good = no profit,is that simple.

I took the backlight and hung it upside down from the ceiling. Makes a great WORKLIGHT !!!!!! Gonna put two more in the office !

Just a tip that I feel has allowed me to enjoy the same backlit flat screen TV for nearly ten years: My unboxing and setup includes taking the TV out of factory/store mode as soon as I have a picture up on it. 1. Change "Picture Mode" from "Vivid" or Dynamic to Movie or Custom. 2. Set the Backlight as low as you can comfortably view in a room with your typical lighting setting. *Most sets with a Backlight setting have it by default to Max, which alone shortens the life of the display* 3. In the Advanced Picture menus, turn off/disable every enhancement you see listed: Auto Motion, Dynamic Contrast, Dynamic Brightness, Dynamic this, Dynamic my-ass, etc. Flesh Tone enhancer, digital noise reduction, turn it all OFF. 4. All you need are the five basic settings: Contrast, Brightness, Color, Hue/Tint, Sharpness, and a sixth: Color temperature(set to warm).