Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Good Morning,
My name is Scott Almond and I live in Virginia Beach. I'm joining this forum because I'm tired of $400 TVs dying after less than 3 years of use. I know little about electronics although I'm handy with my Fluke. I switched out enough parts/boards in my 2017 Vizio 55 to fix it. Finally ended up being the cheapest part: $6 infrared sensor board the size of your thumb... ridiculous.

My age: well, my first computer was a Commodore Vic 20 with 3.5K of RAM. We had the cassette interface so we could...