Television is a household appliance that is already part of any Spanish home. It is one of the best-selling products every year and that more company makes Spanish families every day. When we go to buy a television, due to the great offer that exists in the market, we always look for the latest news and that the product is as new as possible.
When we choose the option of buying a television that is not so new, and that has already been on the market for some years, it is important to know in which year it was manufactured, especially since the newest devices usually have an Internet connection and we must update them from time to time. when.
How to know the age of our television? It is something that, a priori, may seem complicated, but the truth is that it is quite easy to find out.
Reference number
The Organization of Consumers and Users, OCU, warns that all televisions must carry a reference number. So to speak, it is a kind of DNI that each product has marked that will give us all the necessary information to know, not only the age, but also other information of interest about our product.
Depending on each brand, these digits are governed by a different code, which depends on what the manufacturer himself establishes when it comes to marketing it. In this kind of tab, data such as the screen size or the year of manufacture of the television are included.
Your television by brands
Brands have different ways of listing their televisions, and here are some of them:
LG – first indicates the inches of the television and a letter that stands for the panel type. After the year of manufacture: 76U J 870917KD this television would be from the year 2017.
- 2017: J
- 2018: K
- 2019: M
- 2020: N
- 2021: P
Samsung – If it is not QLEd, we must look at the letter just after the inches that appear at the beginning: FA55 N U8354MNNA
- 2017: M
- 2018: N
- 2019: R
- 2020: T
- 2021: A
Sony – It maintains two different numbers because it has changed them in the last year. For more modern televisions the last letter is taken into account: K67X83 H. However, for older televisions, we must look at the letter that precedes the final numbering: 44X F 0865
- 2017: E
- 2018: F
- 2019: G
- 2020: H
- 2021: J
Panasonic – we will find the age just behind the number that indicates the size of the TV: TX-55 H T760B
- 2017: E
- 2018: F
- 2019: G
- 2020: H
- 2021: J
