Sony Bravia TV repairability

[Wu Ming]

I am asking for your wisdom about our 2012 TV. Soon Netflix, the last
functioning internet service, will stop working.

I can casually buy a streaming box that will become electronic waste as
soon as we will need to replace the TV with a newer one. Integrating the
same functionality.

Or I can judiciously buy a streaming box to last. When the TV will finally
experience a hardware issue what is the likelihood of a long lasting
repair? I don’t know what may fail first. We have been using it for few
hours a day on average.

Thanks for sharing.

[Jeroni Paul]

Wu Ming wrote:
> Or I can judiciously buy a streaming box to last. When the TV will finally
> experience a hardware issue what is the likelihood of a long lasting
> repair? I don’t know what may fail first. We have been using it for few
> hours a day on average.
>
> Thanks for sharing.

The advantage of a box is that you can replace your TV with a dumb one, you can probably find one cheap new or used. And when the box becomes obsolete because the latest app will requiere a newer OS version you only have to replace the box. Also in my experience apps in webOS or other propietary OS become obsolete very fast, either the TV has Android or you end up with an Android box anyway.

[Wu Ming]

Jeroni Paul <JERON...@terra.es> wrote:
>
> The advantage of a box is that you can replace your TV with a dumb one,
> you can probably find one cheap new or used. And when the box becomes
> obsolete because the latest app will requiere a newer OS version you only
> have to replace the box.

I am not familiar with current TVs designed without internet provided
services. A brief search returned some obscure Chinese brands, computer
displays and commercial displays.

> Also in my experience apps in webOS or other propietary OS become
> obsolete very fast, either the TV has Android or you end up with an Android box anyway.
>

If reference is to the TVs own OS my experience with Sony is that although
updates stopped some years ago services didn’t. Netflix kept and keeps
working. For now.

OT: I don’t understand the difference between Release date and End date in
the termination of sw updates notice from Sony. The seven years between
them are puzzling.

[Wu Ming]

I think Netflix will keep going. Despite showing a message two weeks ago
declaring otherwise.

Just in case discovered Apple TV HD sold in the 2017-2022 period are still
supported. And presumably will continue to receive updates for four more
years at least. Should be cheap to find second hand.