So my bedroom tv started to die last week. It got Pixelated lines running through the screen vertically and static moving through the screen horizontally. I am a bit sad as I have had this TV forever. It was a 42" 1080P Sharp Aquos that I bought for myself when I got off probation at my State job in the spring of 2007. At that time you could get a 52" Sharp Aquos, but that was the only thing better on the market. I had this tv so long that they don't make them anymore and the store that I bought it from doesn't even exist anymore! RIP HHGregg. It remained my main Livingroom TV from 2007 all the way until 2015 when I got a 55" Vizio 4K TV for my livingroom, and moved my Sharp Aquos into the bedroom, and with a Roku Soundbar, served heavy duty as the TV that I watched the most since my family was usually using the Living room tv.
I was going to go buy a new TV, however, my mom just recently upgraded her Livingroom TV to a 65" 4K HDR UHDTV, and had a 55" 1080p Vizio HDTV just sitting on her spare bedroom bed. So when I was down there yesterday and told her about my TV, she let me have her old Vizio. One long harrowing trip later, with my middle child holding the TV in the back the whole way, we cleaned off the old Sharp and moved its 78lbs of LCD goodness off of the dresser, and put the "new" light weight 55 LCD in its place. It is such a better screen, even though they're both 1080p, the newer one stats are that much better and the extra screen size is great too. I still have to figure out how to get it to work with just the Roku Speaker Bar remote like my Sharp did, but I am pretty happy with this upgrade despite losing my old TV.