I'm not getting rid of them, any LEDs I have used don't last. I can't stand the awful color rendering of them either, I frankly believe that they fudge the CRI numbers on most of them because I have some old 60 CRI High Output flourescent fixtures that provide better quality of light than many LEDs. There is a massive difference between the living room which still is illuminated with 100 watt incandescent lamps and the kitchen which has LEDs. They are supposed to be the warmer color temperature, too but it doesn't matter, they still make everything look awful, even compared to an old CFL, let alone an incandescent.
I often head people say that this unreliability and color rendering is all a problem of Edison base retrofit lamps, and proper LED fixtures are the answer. In my garage we have four LED utility lights and one already failed, they aren't that bright either, only equivalent to one F40T12/HO flourescent tube, and there are two per fixture. They weren't cheap either, costing nearly $60 a piece. 1.75 years later, outside the warranty, of course one failed. Not to be out done, I tore it apart and found a bad solder connection on the 24v switch mode power supply. They potted one side of board to make it hard to service, strangely the component side so all the electrolytic capacitors would get hot and dry out. This failure rate will most definitely cost more than the electricity savings over flourescent, even the venerable old T12 type.
To summarize, I'm still not impressed with LEDs. I'm not opposed to CFLs though, they seem to produce better light quality, but they don't seem to hold up anything like the old incandescent bulbs do.
*The second picture is powering the LED strips directly off of my Sencore VA-48 video analyst, using its DC power supply function. As can be seen in the fourth picture after resoldering the bad connection, I depotted most of the board.
-These are some of my fave "vintage"LEDs from back when LED bulbs were a specialty item and not cheapened up consumer commodity item like most LEDs of the last few years.
