In article , Bob Myers wrote:
I just returned from a display industry conference at
which the TV market was forecast to still be at least 80%
CRT-based by 2008.

There are some TV sets still in use that are 20 or more years old, so
unless some alternative technology not only offers an overwhelming
advantage, but is also cheap enough to justify discarding existing
technology that is still in working order, there will be CRTs in use
for a very long time indeed.

Rod.