weight of 37" LCD vs 50" LEd tv?

longwalks1

our 6 year old Samsung LCD 37" tv is about to die on us, and looking ot replace it with a 50" LED tv, at present the Samsung is mounted on a swivel arm so it sits 45 degrees across the corner of the room, high up. Would a 50" LED weigh more, or the same roughly as the older LCD tv?
Ive googled the weights but not found anything, just wondered how the 2 compare

RobTang

Samsung and pretty much every manufacturer lists the weights of their TVs on their website.... I picked an random 55" tv and it says the weight is 16.6kg without stand.


It varies at bit you just have to lookup the TV you want to buy

Nilrem

Also the weight difference between an LED backlit LCD and a more traditional flouscent backlight LCD is going to be minimal (a 50" LED backlit screen will probably be within a few hundred grams of a 50" non LED backlit LCD).

chrisw

Nilrem wrote: »

Also the weight difference between an LED backlit LCD and a more traditional flouscent backlight LCD is going to be minimal (a 50" LED backlit screen will probably be within a few hundred grams of a 50" non LED backlit LCD).

You'd be surprised. I replaced our 6 year old 32" Toshiba LCD in our bedroom with a new 32" Panasonic fluorescent backlit LCD. It took two of us to lift the Toshiba down but I managed to lift the Panasonic in place by myself and attach it to the stand whilst holding it in place with one hand.

Nilrem

That's probably more a difference in the general age of the tech than the lighting though
I've actually got some of the same sort of lights as used in older LCD's here, you can buy variants for decoration/modelling, and they're sort of very thin glass tubes, about 50 grams for a 30cm for the sort that you buy as kits (which are likely thicker than the versions used in screens, as they have to withstand handling).

The backlights on an LCD TV (even a big one) only weigh a very small amount compared to things like the screen, or even casing and structural points in the casing.
Things like the changing of the circuits over time to integrate more things onto a single chip rather than discrete separate boards* tends to make a much bigger difference in weight

I noticed a fairly hefty decrease in weight for my current 20" monitor over the previous version that died at about 4 years old, despite them being very similar specs in terms of display tech.

*For example I think it used to be the case that things like your HDMI input was often dealt with by a separate chip/board to the rest of the inputs (it allowed them to add HDMI to existing designs by putting in basically a conversion board), now it's as standard to the basic input chip to have 3-5 HDMI connections as it is to have the VGA/Compposite/Scart inputs, and from memory they changed from using fairly thick glass to thinner glass or even specialist plastics for the front of the display.

BuntyB

Bit of a worry that it's only a 6yr old TV and it's about to die. Sounds like a bad apple

martinthebandit

BuntyB wrote: »

Bit of a worry that it's only a 6yr old TV and it's about to die. Sounds like a bad apple

I suspect it's about to die because the OP wants a bigger tele