Completely anecdotal, and mostly unrelated, but my NES from 1990 is still going ...

userbinator · 2025-11-25T06:24:33 1764051873

LCD tvs from 2012 and 2022 just went kaput for no reason.

Most likely bad capacitors. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague may have passed, but electrolytic capacitors are still the major life-limiting component in electronics.

londons_explore · 2025-11-25T07:29:11 1764055751

MLCC's look ready to take over nearly all uses of electrolytics.

They still degrade with time, but in a very predictable way.

That makes it possible to build a version of your design with all capacitors '50 year aged' and check it still works.

Sadly no engineering firm I know does this, despite it being very cheap and easy to do.

DoesntMatter22 · 2025-11-25T20:06:37 1764101197

Looks like that plague stopped in 2007? I have a 8 year old LCD that died out of nowhere as well, So I'm guessing wouldn't be affected by this. Could still be a capacitor issue though

userbinator · 2025-11-27T06:25:29 1764224729

Bad caps are still a common occurrence:

https://www.badcaps.net/forum/troubleshooting-hardware-devic...

dfex · 2025-11-25T05:42:28 1764049348

Specifically old Japanese hardware from the 80s and 90s - this stuff is bulletproof

jacquesm · 2025-11-25T05:59:22 1764050362

I still have a Marantz amp from the 80's that works like new, it hasn't even been recapped.

theragra · 2025-11-25T18:31:40 1764095500

I had an LCD that worked from around 2005 to 2022. It became very yellow closer to 2022 for some reason. It was Samsung PVA, I think it was model 910T.

amiga-workbench · 2025-11-25T18:54:52 1764096892

Its old enough to use a CFL backlight and those turn yellow with age.

theragra · 2025-11-25T21:57:44 1764107864

Thanks ;)

Dylan16807 · 2025-11-25T05:16:42 1764047802

For what it's worth my LCD monitor from 2010 is doing well. I think the power supplied died at one point but I already had a laptop supply to replace it with.