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 That's so sad. My Westinghouse LVM-42w2 from 2006 (!!!) is still alive and kicking, somehow. Though I know of three others of the same model which didn't make it, so mine might be an outlier.