I can sympathise with you for sure. Seems as if everything made these days is made with planned obsolesce in mind. I've had countless products fail on me shortly after the warranty runs out. In Europe they use to have law where manufacturers had to provide parts for at least 5 years not sure if that's still the case now. Most of the stuff that people buy and then die's ends up in landfills which is a very sad situation.
Before buying this new TV I had a BPL 55" which died after 1 year 8 months. It's only after I bought it that I realised that I'd unwittingly bought a re-badged TCL TV. BPL Tel's no longer working so I assume they've gone bankrupt.
My previous experience with Samsung and Sony TV's has been good they lasted many years but that was a while back. Have to wait and see how this new one fares, fingers crossed

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