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Repair or replace the TV
A TV that's developed a fault can often be repaired — this page does the arithmetic on what that repair would cost per year of viewing it buys, against a replacement counted the same way over its own life. Both sides land on a cost per year; no winner is declared, and every estimate is yours to set.
Your estimate, not the page's
Not counted while this is $0
Your estimate, not the page's
Not counted while this is $0
Comes off the replacement
Put in what the fix would cost and what a replacement would cost. Nothing here is read from your accounts, and nothing is saved.
| Repairing | Replacing | |
|---|---|---|
| Up front | — | — |
| Running costs over its life | — | — |
| Total over its life | — | — |
| How long that covers | — | — |
| Cost a year | — | — |
| Cost a month | — | — |
This is one of the tools built into Keep Above
Keep Above is a budgeting app where you enter your bills and income and it works out the balance you need to keep — so you can see what's safe to spend. No bank connection, no ads on your data.
About this calculator
What counts as the repair cost for a TV?
What a repair shop would charge in full to have this TV working — the assessment where it's charged, the board or panel, and labour. The cost per year spreads that whole amount over the extra years you think the repair would buy.
What goes into running costs a year here?
For most TVs there's little to put here — the yearly power cost of the old set and a replacement usually lands close together. The boxes exist for the cases where the two sides would genuinely differ; at $0 they're simply not counted.
What is the matching time?
The number of years the repair would have to carry the TV for its cost per year to match the replacement's — a position in the arithmetic, nothing more. When running the old one already costs more each year than the whole replacement does all-up, no length of time would match, and the page says so.
What about selling the old one?
Whatever the old TV would fetch — a sale, or a trade-in where a retailer offers one — comes off the replacement's cost. The up-front figure can't go below zero, but the lifetime total can: an old set worth more than the replacement genuinely pulls it down.