James Sweet wrote:
Well it's not as if anyone gets the CRT monitors repaired anymore
anyway, everything is so cheap and disposable and I suspect it will
continue that way unless disposal costs rise significantly.


The lifespan of the tubes in CRT monitors has gotten so short, too. A
few years ago, I used to work at a place where we still ran Windows NT.
NT has no concept of power saving modes so the monitors generally were
just run 24/7. They'd last about two or three years before the contrast
got too bad to use them anymore. Some factory in China has figured out
how to make a filament that will cook off all its high-energy electrons
during the warranty period.