so if you had say a higher end $2,000 TV that was say 4 years old, rather than spend $25 for parts and an hour or so to try to fix it, you wouldn't even bother, but just toss it out?

So based on that, I assume when you have a power supply board go bad in one of your machines, you just toss that board and buy a new one vs replacing caps and bridge rectifiers or even sending it out for repair.

I guess we all choose how to spend our time and money.

I have troubleshot and fixed dishwashers, washing machines, clothes dryers and TVs based on youtube videos. More often than not, it has been a $10 to $25 part and an hour of time to save two, three or even four hundred dollars. While there are some things I won't attempt, it has been surprising how easy it has been to troubleshoot and fix some of these issues.

Have this right now, frequent rebooting when first turning on. Common issue with bad power supplies, ordered the caps and FETS needed to fix it, but will live with the issues until after expo. For kicks I called the place I bought it, they offered me a deal, only $200 plus parts to come out and fix it. Considering parts would be a new board, since not like they would actuall fix the board (which they acknowledged), actual cost would likely be over $400. Even if I was just swapping in a new one, and not going to try to fix the board, $200 to open it up and swap a board with a few cables, no fracking way

to me it is always worth the shot, if you are going to throw it out, might as well at least try. Had a TV crap out, and it was 10 years old at that point, so decided to just ditch it and buy new. Was talking to a buddy and describing the issue and he said it is 'likely just x, try doing y it will take two minutes and see if that fixes it', tried it that night and it fixed it. Still got he new TV, but now that the old one was working was able to sell it for a few bucks.

No doubt we live in a world of disposal stuff. Hard to believe there used to be repair shops on the corner that would fix toasters, blenders and vacuums. Of course that stuff was made to last for years and years. I still have a blender that belonged to my mom and it is probably close to 50 years old, and it still works great.