I installed two 70" Sharp TVs last year and recently received a call to say that the picture on one looks bad, so I went to check it out. I sent a video to a local Sharp warranty repair center and they told me the panel is bad, but Sharp doesn't sell replacement parts. I called Sharp and they told me it's repairable, but they don't sell the parts. How that makes it 'repairable', I don't know. I called Beast Buy, which sold the TVs and was told that they don't take walk-in service, it requires their techs to make a trip to the TV, at the low, low price of $100 and they'll make a determination at that time. If they can source the required parts to repair it, there's another trip that will again cost $100 plus the parts and labor and there's no guarantee that it will work, nor do they have more than 30 days warranty on their service.
When the eff did this become 'acceptable'. to customers? Close to four grand in TVs and they puke in a little more than a year? That's bullshine!
This makes me glad I decided a few years ago that I don't want to sell TVs.