After 4 years of service, the family's 55" TV gave up the ghost.

Gotta love the quality of consumer electronics these days.

The backlight itself is just dead.

Correction: six years. Not as bad, but still not great.

@rl_dane If/when any of my existing TVs die I will be replacing with large monitors and some kind of a STB. I just can't imagine the crap that new TVs ship with given the anecdotes I've seen the last few years.

@RootMoose

Dude, a 55" monitor would break the bank. I'm ok with buying a 55" TV every four years at the price difference. XD

@rl_dane Yeah, downsize is likely. Ha.