R.L. Dane 
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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.
Dendrobatus AzureusThe hardware of my children's time is
- a TV lived fourty four years
- a radio lived Fifty Six years
The TV flyback in fourty+ years only got changed twice
We're talking about the period when TVs we're almost as heavy as a child at the weight of 20 kg
Naturally all circuits were driven by tubes.
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I still remember taking VCRs to be repaired (having the read heads resurfaced) at an actual repair shop with my dad circa 1990. :o