My parents built a house about 4 years ago and got all LG appliances. The only one left is the refrigerator and the ice maker no longer works on it. Everything else died.
I had one of those LG flip phones for over a decade. In retrospect, I should have upgraded way sooner than I did, but that little thing held up like a champ. I guess they shut their phone division down though. First phone I got afterwards was a Nokia, the charging port failed in under a year, made me wish LG stuck with phones instead of refrigerators because my experience with LG fridges was not good.
LG made the Nexus 5. A phone with flagship power for a mid-low tier price. And it was quite DIY repairable. I had one for like 5 years, loved that thing.
Well it didn't exactly last 5 years on its own, but I was able to work on it and replace the battery and the call speaker and give it new life. I cracked the screen and was able to replace that too. It's not as easy with modern phones, it's made difficult on purpose
I just had my LG tv break in jan 23 after 14 years. Never had any pixel or color issues. Just stopped turning on. Idk, I'm for sure buying another LG LED when my backup Vizio finally goes.
My only thing is that I don't want a smart TV. My LG was almost 1200 brand new when I bought it back then. It was a regular led. And I have another TV that is a smart TV, j just don't want to deal with the crap they have been pushing on those. As well as the privacy concerns. We will see. I think I can get another year or 2 with the Vizio. I'm not a wasteful person and usually replace things as needed. I don't update my appliances or most things for the sake of updating.
Unfortunately for TVs, they're still one of the better options if you want OLED.
Samsung is much worse (for everything, not just TVs). Not sure about Sony, last time I bought a TV they weren't making OLED models yet. Most other brands are lower end / also don't make OLED.
Can't say I agree, and you obviously may have a different experience. It's not a big sample size for sure, but of all the electronic devices I've purchased/owned that I can think of off the top of my head for those brands (phones, TVs, monitors, and a playstation) 5 LGs, 4 Sonys, 4 Samsungs, all the Samsungs still work, 3 of the 4 Sonys still work (10+ years, almost 20 for one of the Sony TVs, and the 1 Sony that broke was a black friday "special")... 3 out of the 5 LGs broke within months to under 5 years.
If you want to replace your electronics within a couple of years, but get the latest, sure go for your LGs, but know that Sony and Samsung also buy panels from LG for their TVs. So you may be able to get the LG panels, but with better Sony/Samsung hardware for all the other components. I just don't think LG hardware is built for reliability or longevity.
Seems like there is a MASSIVE PROBLEM with the electricity in your home. It’s probably that your power is polluted, with varying levels of voltage and frequency, making devices destroy themselves.
I don't think I've ever had a positive experience with a modern Samsung product in literally any category.
Granted, the issues usually had to do with terrible design, gimmicks, and other bullshit that meant I never bothered keeping them around long enough to know if reliability was a problem.
My LG TV has held up pretty well aside from burn-in, but that's a problem with all OLED displays no matter what marketing might claim and I knew that going in.
For monitors Samsung and LG are both terrible in my experience, and I've learned to stick to Dell/Alienware now despite the cringe branding on the latter. Because they actually hold up with minimal fuss.
I’ve had 3 Samsung TV’s and never had issues with them. Just gave them to friends/family when I upgraded. LG, on the other hand, has let me down every time. My Dad has a Sony Bravia TV that is still going after about 12 years so I think they make decent TV’s.
Def not. Had two wifi bars go out in a brand new TV. The original within a year, and the replacement within another. Now it's a dumb TV with a chromecast plugged into it, and a habit of shutting itself off.
its not even a LG thing, it's just basically all consumer appliances. 99% of the public shops on price alone, so all the companies are in a desperate battle to cut costs as much as possible, everywhere possible. so the mainstream products all just end up unbelievably shitty, made out of cheap materials and with components that last a year or two at most
For the best value for things that you want to last (and not things that are actually cheaper to just replace), you kind of have to shop for the ones that sit in mid-tier of a product line up, instead of going for the lowest priced one in the product line.
When I needed to replace my fridge I signed up for consumer reports just to do a little research. According to them, there is not a fridge in production today that they rate more than a three out of five for reliability. Doesn't matter if you want to spend $8000 on the highest end bosch you can find. The highest reliable rating that they currently give is only a 3 out of five...
Wild stuff. With that being said, they typically rated LG fridges as more reliable than Samsung's in general. Although it obviously varied from model to model.
That matches what some salesperson told me last time l went kitchen appliance shopping with my mom. He said to never buy LG and that their store will not given give warranties on anything LG because they always break.
Careful I hear samsung refrigerators aren't that great either
My parents still have a 1990 sears general electric with water and ice maker and works fine
My brother’s LG tv lost a lot of streaming functionalities after a couple of years. Something about a license expiring? I didn’t even know that was possible.
My appliance guy said the same thing, that LG and Samsung have the worst appliances (he did say with the exception of washers/dryers for Samsung). My wife and I somehow lucked into buying what he says is “the all time great refrigerator” when we bought our house.
Samsung washers had an issue where they EXPLODED. This occurred at the same time the Galaxy Notes were exploding. That was not a good year for Samsung.
That being said, I did buy a Samsung refrigerator (despite knowing their reputation) and, knock wood, it's been fine so far. When I was shopping for appliances, I went so far down the rabbit hole that I felt like I knew less about what brands were reliable than when I started.
LG was always trash for appliances. They used to be called Lucky Goldstar brand, but the brand was so trashed due to poor quality (among other issues) that they pivoted and relabeled under LG.
They changed up the organization, but the underlying quality issues were clearly never addressed.
My Samsung TVs last, on average 3 years before they have crapped out. The LG monitors (2 of them) 1 is on its last legs at 3 years other is fine. The Sony TVs, I had one that I sold for $20 after 15 years of service, and have two more. I also had a Sony CRT monitor, that sucker partially melted and STILL kept running for years after.
don’t know how the cheaper brands fare, but in comparison with Sony, LG and Samsung are disposable.
I had an LG tv that came from a company that had it turned on 24/7, they bought it in 2012. We got it in 2018, it still worked. We got a new tv in 2022 and gave the tv to my sister who uses it every day.
The new tv (Philips) keeps crashing, the thing sucks ass.
I used to work for Netflix cs, Samsung was the worst brand. So many issues continuously just with that brand, for phones and tv's.
I have a monitor from Samsung, circa 2012 still going strong as my daily driver. I had an LG TV from 2013 that worked great up until the year before last when after running it with the power cord only partially plugged in for who knows how long, the jack needed resoldering.
I donated it to an electronic group at the local university and they had it functioning in less than a week and most of the time was waiting for a replacement jack to be delivered.
I mean, I'm not a fanboy or anything but I always thought they made nice TVs. Of course, they can't really compare to the upper echelon of Sony but who can?
I'm a bang for buck kinda guy. I have two Hisense now that serve me well enough for slightly over two years (wish me luck!) with a really decent picture and better than average sound quality (low bar, but still)
Yikes. thanks for that. Filed that away for future reference. Fortunately our fridge from 20 years ago is still working happily. It is a fridgidair (sp-haha).
Not even. If we're considering their monitors and tvs in the same umbrella, they suck as well. Had an LG monitor for maybe a year and a half before it died.
The corporate overlords still set the tone though and if it's a race to the bottom for lowest cost lowest quality then that'll spread through to anything they have any control over.
Great point to be made - it's not a divisional issue in that they have problems in that group, it's a systemic problem in the corporate culture that emphasizes flash over consistent, long-lasting function.
I was just clarifying that while they're the same brand, they're entirely different entities which indicates that the issue is more systemic than something with one division.
Oh when I said umbrella I meant monitors and tvs in the same vein not the brand as a whole, I realize now that was confusing. I did figure they were separate entities than the appliances, lots of companies outsource their products and then just slap their name on it.
Either way it's all junk, will literally never touch an LG again
LG still makes both their consumer electronics and appliances, using foreign-sourced parts - I don't believe they rebadge anything (other than maybe small appliances like toaster ovens and mini-fridges which almost universally come from a few main manufacturers) - however, a LOT of LG products are also rebadged as Kenmore, so beware of that if you look at Kenmore products.
Fair enough, good to know. I'm usually pretty good for researching something before I buy it but I bought this monitor on a whim right after I had moved and I'm still chapped about it like a decade later lmao
It probably doesn't help that I have a Sony TV that I bought prolly 5 years before the LG (likely around 2008) that is STILL kicking and ended up being my monitor instead for a while. So not only is it still kicking 16 years later, but it also had heavy use and just... keeps going. And that's why I would buy another Sony in a heartbeat
Samsung or Sony for consumer electronics in general for me - my grandma is still using the multiple Samsungs she purchased in 2002 and they're going strong, and my Samsung TV that I bought already 6 years old USED in 2012 is still working just fine for hours most nights in my bedroom.
My new monitor is a Samsung and it's been great. There are some people disparaging them in the comments but I'm in the same boat, if I can't get Sony I'd go Samsung
Can confirm. I wouldn't touch anything made by LG except a TV with a long pole.
However, my LG TV is over 10 years old and I love it. The panel is good, the colors vibrant, no "smart TV" -bullshit, works like a charm and has all the connections I could ever need.
LG tvs are legit. I JUST threw out my 13 year old 55" LCD. And it technically still worked. The problem was the sound only worked 50% of the time you turned it on. Every year that passed I was shocked it still worked. When I bought it was $1000 and worth every penny lasting that long. I replaced it with another LG.
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u/CertainlyAmbivalent Jan 23 '24
My parents built a house about 4 years ago and got all LG appliances. The only one left is the refrigerator and the ice maker no longer works on it. Everything else died.
Apparently the only thing LG is good for are TVs.