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Same with cars…
BORING GRAPH. it’s part of a genre called “don’t you hate it when that happens” graphs. predictable, not original, and not funny.
but it is SO TRUE!!!
I KNO!!! thatz called “irony”.
No, it’s call engineering. They do it so well it become a art form. It true with just about everything, not just TV.
No, it’s not.
18 month rule: the battery in your cell phone will break 6 months after the warrenty expires, with 6 months to go until you get that new phone. the phone will die with one month left to go.
newsflash: “that’s so true” DOES NOT equal original nor funny. i hate it when i lose my keys. i hate it when someone cuts me off on the road. i hate it when my favorite team loses… these are boring truths, not insightful observations that make for good graphs.
Shut up
U r so annoying
I have had a bad day and will take it out here…
OMG this graph is so true! So TRUE! OMG! And other things break too! Right after warranty on them, in fact! It’s like the manufacturer has studied the product and can tell when certain parts will fail within a certain time period with relative accuracy! It is so TRUE! .
I, in fact, have never had a TV break while owning one, but I am sure it is just like my car that needed a new alternator just a bit after the warranty on that was up. How is that for TRUE?!?
I was called ‘snarky’ today, so just add that tone of voice to the above to get the full effect.
Actually, your first data point should be higher:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve
Infant mortality is just as common as wear-out.
Also, manufacturers purposely set the warranty period at the end of the “useful life” phase so most devices *should* statistically start failing at the end of the warranty. That’s the point: the warranty is supposed to be a guarantee your device will work during the provided time period. After the warranty expires, there is no more guarantee.
you forgot ‘when you need to watch something for an assignment – 75%’
Meh. How unoriginal.
Maybe you should invest in a better TV next time…
How the F do you break a TV, you ‘tard.
Have you ever owned anything with moving parts before?
Well there’s your problem. You think there are moving parts in a TV. Noting in you TV should be moving. Either that or you have the old televisions with the “Barrel Tuner” knobs. Time to upgrade to wunna them there Aitch Dee Tee Vees.
WII ^_^
seriously, a TV is a freaking TV! yea, stuff breaks… but yes, this graph is pretty unoriginal because there are too many graphs that say “chances something will…” blah blah blah.
typo..
and this graph equals about 150%
fail.
not a pie chart, doesn’t need to be 100, and I think everyone who is commenting already knows how to spell warranty.
Any chart that represents percentages of a total should add to 100%. I reckon that math wasn’t your best subject.
no you’re wrong. Do you know how bar graphs work? The X axis represents independent events and the Y axis (in this particular graph) represents the % chance that the TV will break while the person creating the graph is doing each independent event. You would think that people who comment on graphjam would know the different applications of different types of graphs.
For example here:
there is a 18% chance that the TV will break the day after you buy it
a 39% chance that the TV will break a couple months after you buy it
and a 95% chance that the TV will break the day after the warranty expires.
Separate events. They’re not dependent upon each other so they don’t need to add up to 100%
Yes, they are dependent events. If the TV breaks a few months after you buy it, it cannot break when the warranty expires. It’s already broke. So these three choices need to add up to something less than 100%.
This is why they need to stop lowering standards in public schools. It’s not a graph of what time a specific TV will break, but rather the odds that any given TV, unbroken at the designated time, will THEN break (for him). If he were graphing what point in its lifetime a specific TV will break, yes it would need to add up to 100% as a single TV can only break once, but he is instead graphing the odds that any given TV at said time will break vs continue working. Honestly, I don’t get how anyone could fail to make that distinction.
Ummm… When THE television breaks. Definite article. Public schools failed you. Go back and learn 6th grade grammar.
the other guy is right. in this particular set of data, the percentages are independant.
also, its not just public schools.i am in senior year at a private high-school and most of my class mates can’t read more that 1 word per second or with any emotion.
“a single TV can only break once”
False.
So true. Many appliances do this in addition to televisions lol
These kinds of graphs are boring and unoriginal.
Mega boring…
Let me guess, your tv just broke and the warranty expired?
Congrtatulations! You are grapher #1,000,000 to make a bar graph of Murphy’s Law! Now go make an original one!
TV’s break? I seriously never had a TV stop working.
nor me
spelling FAIL! it’s warranty, genius.
A couple minutes after unboxing your new Wii.
Dude, maybe it’s something you’re doing? I mean seriously, 1 in 5 chance your TV will break the day after you buy it?
Just curious… i’ve made a few lolz and am wondering how to get folks to vote on them.. or how to get them to the actual pages… who do i have to pay off?
actually, it is true… after you take something out of its box, like a new wii system, the TV has a good chance of breaking. or (in my case) the TV will break just before the Super Bowl or any other type of show that a lot of people like to watch.
YOUR DOING SOMETHING WRONG IF THE TV BREAKS!
yea that is true too. unless someone drops the tv and nobody notices it until its taken out of its box and partially assembled.
This exact thing happened to me a couple weeks ago. >_>
STILL need to get it fixed
Ah, they forgot the 100% option: the day after the warranty expires, right when the new episode of House comes on.
If House is on, I would want my TV to break. Or I would just change the channel or turn it off.
That’s so funny, because that’s exactly what House would say.
Gee Tee Eff Oh.
Ours broke three days after the warranty expired…
Meh… another “obvious and annoyed me enough to make a graph”. And where’s the funny? Bring on the funny!
Or the date after circuit city (where you bought it) craters
wasn’t this a led zeppelin song?
Mama, you got to go.
Exactly what I was thinkin’!
Spell check.
@ original caption: That’s what you get for buying a plasma T.V.
sooo true we had 2 similar tv’s from the same store and after 3 years they both quit within 2 weeks of eachother.
A friend once said that before you used to be praised for inventing something useful to society, now you are praised for making something useful to society that breaks when you want it to.
You misspelled “woruntee”.