damn. my TCL 43s405 just died after 14 months. Backlight failing.

[Kdawg]

Half of the backlight went dim. It was fine last night just before going to sleep. I wake up and turn it on, and half the screen is dim.

I've used this as a pc monitor for about 16-18 hours per day, so 8000 hours at most. I read that lcd backlights should last 80k-100k hours.
So this is just 1/10 of what it should have been.

I haven't seen any other reports of TCL backlight complaints like this, so maybe just bad luck.

I wonder if it might be a bad cap, perhaps easily fixable.

LCDs shouldn't have this short of a lifespan.


Thankfully I have credit card extended warranty.