They aren’t that delicate in general. I reckon yours must’ve been under stress of some kind – maybe the mount wans’t straight or the TV has been assembled out of alignment or something.

It wouldn’t have happened if I had a Works Component fitted

Ours was broken by our son too… He did throw a PS3 controller at it though (it ‘slipped’ out of his hand!) Home insurance paid up no probs, and it won’t affect the premium, etc. as we haven’t claimed before…
That’s what it is there for…

Surrounded By Zulus – Member
LED tvs dont crack quite as easily.

Various People – Members
Erm.. LED TVs are LCD TVs

Surrounded By Zulus – Member
Speaking from experience with regards LED TVs. Our LED tv has had way more punishment than what caused the LCD tv to crack.

Singletrack – where you are always right, even when demonstrably wrong. 😀

GrahamS – Think about the construction of the whole TV before being a muppet.

hora – Member

Isn’t this what home contents insurance is for?

Is that a knee-jerk reaction that you’d apply or would you chase down every avenue first? My home insurance is super-low and I’d like to keep it that way. I’m chasing this down to see if theres a satisfactory resolution first.
You mean who can I blame rather than take responsibility for what happened?
I dont see how there can be any other resolutions other than pay up or claim on contents insurance?

Raid his sons savings account?

That’ll teach him.

Raid his sons savings account?

That’ll teach him.

Partly my fault.. earlier that morning we’d been outside throwing snowballs at each other 😆

Well, knee-jerk or not (it bloody hurts to knee-jerk at the moment actually), you’ve asked the shop and they said it was too expensive to repair.
Oh, you mean you thought there would be a STWer more expert than the employee at the shop?

I suspect hora’s going down the ‘it’s a manufacturing/design flaw so can I have a new one for nowt’ route.

GrahamS – Think about the construction of the whole TV before being a muppet.

Right. Thought about it. Still a muppet.

Can’t think of any reason that the glass would be necessarily be tougher on an LCD TV with LED backlights than it would on an LCD TV with compact fluorescent backlights.

Care to expand on your point?

Ah, here we have an early morning moshpit

sounds like shit parenting to me

For your noo telly – http://www.thescreenprotector.co.uk/acatalog/index.html

🙂

GrahamS – how many layers to each screen, how compact are they, what are they made of and how do they effect the strength of the scree?

Don’t feed the Troll.

GrahamS – how many layers to each screen, how compact are they, what are they made of and how do they effect the strength of the scree?

Isn’t it basically the same LCD panel, but with different backlighting?
So from the LCDs to the front glass should be exactly the same construction, no? Same amount of protection from flying LEGO.

Behind that most designs just use LEDs around the edge instead of CCFLs, which lets them make the back unit a bit thinner, but I can’t see how that alters the strength of the front screen?

Don’t feed the Troll.

I don’t normally but I’m genuinely interested.

Ha, not you the RichC young boy from Milton Keynes.

Think of the whole screen.

Think of the whole screen.

Are you The Riddler? 😕

My first is in LCD, but not in LED.
My second in glass, but not in crack…

A straight answer is fine. Why is the LCD better protected in LED backlit tellies?

Why is it not? You’re the one that’s saying they’re the same – prove it. Surely it’s easier to prove than disprove. Fill your boots.

🙄 Never mind. I naively thought you had an actual point to make.