Thanks for your input friends but the streaming media device route lies in the future for me at present. I was able to correct my problem currently but was looking for additional options.
I've had a LG OLED55EPUA TV since last summer that has been pretty good most of the time. However, I've gotten rather interested in streaming content from my Amazon Prime account and the app is proving to be a real problem recently with error messages which don't say anything. The image freezes...