extended warranty is super important when it comes to tv's .. just research a bit more .. TV's are being made slimmer and slimmer day by day and quality deteriorating , and they get real hot inside.. They are engineered in such a way not to last long ..
Average HDTV Today Made to Last Only a Few Years
the problem is why extended warranty super important for TV ? because of the repairing Costs .. if your Panel goes bad , which is what most of the times major problem.. your Tv is over ... Panels are not repairable , the panel replacement cost that can easily go upto 70- 80 % cost of whole TV .. so this is why there is no big repair market for TV's .. average life of Tv is only 3-5 years ... that means a lot of units will also die before 3 years , and you might easily be one of them..
if your laptop,mobile,computer goes bad .. you can get it repaired easily ,by changing the part etc .. and it will also not cost you such a big amount compared to total cost of laptop,mobile, ..( ofcourse not including official service centre repair charges )
Just read The reviews on mouthshut , hifivision forum etc and you will find even big brands like Sony , Samsung TV's dying in their second or third year ..
and not just cheap TV's , even expensive TV's costing 50k-60k+
Samsung TV dead in under 2 years-Beware
if you don't want to go extended warranty just buy imported TV's then you can get samsung , sony tv's for half the price ..