I had a customer call about the touch screen monitor that went dead and it turned out that the plastic case was pushing on the buttons at the side. Pretty cool way to make $150 (she paid more than I asked).

I refer and take bad TVs to a local shop for service- they have been at it for a long time and are in sales, too. If they ever go out, it'll come down to providing shipping/receiving services for people, or just replacing. I usually let people get the TV or they choose and I pick up (with a charge) if the place won't do free delivery.

I recently pulled an OLD 50" Pioneer plasma that had a bad IR board. I suspect it had been like that for years since the Crestron file was last updated in about 2003 and there was no power off command for the display (just in case I suspect). Display had been on non stop for over a decade. Image still looked halfway decent too. Client's son took it home with him and called me to say it wouldn't power back on after it sat for a few days.

Only TVs I repair are Samsungs from the toxic capacitor era. Only for myself, I will not do it for paying customers (I don't want to own the reliability issues and logistics of re-repair should something go wrong.

I do have a repair place that I work with for displays that are not practical to replace (custom frames, weird built ins, etc).

About to possibly go down that road with an 85in Panasonic plasma that has custom built and finished speakers around it and well, frankly the entire wall was designed to match the look of the tv. It should prove to be a fun (and cheap) endeavor. Yikes. Client also has a 103 that I am hoping doesn't ever die. I think they delivered it before the house was finished being built. I don't see any real way to get the display back out of the house without involving a sawzall.