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22 Feb 2019, 3:57 pm

There was a horrific bang and glass was everywhere and the tv on the floor

apparently that's a thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneo ... s_breakage



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22 Feb 2019, 4:05 pm

Any idea on what caused it to explode?

The outer screens of most large flat screen televisions today is actually a sheet of plastic. So was your television an old cathode ray tube type?


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22 Feb 2019, 4:11 pm

It was the tempered glass base of the tv not the tv itself

There could of been a small crack while manufacturing



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22 Feb 2019, 4:25 pm

Well I figured I made a smart choice by not getting a glass T.V stand/base....guess I was right. Is your T.V ok? Might be better to look into a wooden T.V stand like so: the one thing guaranteed is it won't shatter no matter what.
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22 Feb 2019, 5:07 pm

Yep it still works