In all cases, turn off the TV-or even unplug it-prior to cleaning, says Claudio Ciacci, who heads Consumer Reports’ TV testing program.

Plasma TVs also have glass screens, but manufacturers often applied a sensitive anti-glare coating, so they should be treated like an LCD or OLED TV rather than a CRTV set.įor all these TVs, the advice is the same, and it’s simple: Clean with a soft, dry cloth to avoid scratching the screen. More modern TVs are far more sensitive and need to be cleaned carefully to keep the screens from getting scratched or damaged. In this-and only this-instance, it’s okay to use a window cleaner, such as Windex. If you’re cleaning an older tube TV, you have a bit more flexibility because its screen is made of glass and can be cleaned like other glass items in your household. However, many of us still have older sets, including plasma TVs, which companies stopped manufacturing in 2014, and even CRTVs-also called tube TVs-which started disappearing around 2008. When it comes to TVs, the current market is dominated by superbright, big-screen LCD (LED) and OLED TVs.

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