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My old (about 8 years old) LG TV
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Is now a Radio !!!
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I’d tuned to Fahreed Zakaria’s GPS today, and about 30 seconds later the screen went black. Still have sound. Fooled around with it, but not even the internal menus come on. I can see a faint backlight.

The TV sits in a turn-of-the-millenium entertainment cabinent in the living room, where I can close the damn doors on it and not see a screen. :phone: The same large cabinet also holds my main hi-fi, including the turntable, TEAC DAC, Wired4Sound integrated amp, two power conditioners, etc. I have 38.5 inches of horizontal clearance, which will fit a modern 43 inch TV. The current one is a 42 because they used to use wider plastic framing.

Pretty much any decent TV these days is a “Smart” one, you can’t find a higher quality display without the mass-market doodads. I browsed in the local BestBuy, but they didn’t have exactly the one I liked in-stock, and the employees there are no longer on commission, so I don’t help them out by buying local. I have a pretty good older soundbar that I use with TOSLINK, so I need optical out, most models have that. Few have an audio out, now they use Bluetooth.

Looked at BandH online, and settled on this new model, to be delivered Wednesday.
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LG QNED75 43" 4K HDR Smart Quantum Dot NanoCell TV
LG43QNED75
In Stock QTY: 1 Price: $496.99 $496.99

I did see one TV at Best Buy with the LG QuantumDot and it looked pretty good, even though they can’t kick them out of demo mode which makes them all bright and contrasty.


:phone: I’m well aware that some wag out there probably @generic will point out that I don’t need the cabinet doors to close if the screen stays black anyway.

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