What brand of TV did you purchase when you embraced 4K UHD? (1 Viewer)

[Scott Merryfield]

I attended my grandfather's funeral yesterday. He was 91 and his heart just suddenly stopped working; prior to that, he was of full sound mind, living independently (with a little support from friends and family) and I honestly thought that he had at least another five years left in him. I'm a month shy of my 38th birthday and I know how fortunate I am to have only just lost all four grandparents.

As mentioned earlier in the thread, I owe my first widescreen, LCD television to his hand-me-down and I can't even begin to describe how much of a loss he's going to be.

I am very sorry for your loss, Simon. Losing a grandparent can be tough, especially if you were close.

I lost my maternal grandfather over 20 years ago, and I still miss him. We were quite close, and used to do many things together. I must have inherited his technical aptitude, as no one else in the family has those skills. He used to repair televisions as a hobby, and would get old broken sets for free, fix them, and then give them to the grandkids. I was the only kid I knew who had a TV in his bedroom growing up in the early 1970's. The sets were all black & white models that only received the VHF band channels (that's channels 2-13 for you youngsters ). That's actually how I became a Montreal Canadiens hockey fan growing up in southeastern Michigan. The local Detroit Red Wings were on Channel 20, which I couldn't get on my set. Instead, I grew up watching the Canadiens on Hockey Night in Canada via Channel 9 out of Windsor, Ontario.