The sets that are even more than about 10 years old will soon wear
out, and also including the wearing out of their CRT's. Replacement
tubes for any TV that is more than about 5 years old is hard to find
these days. And, if you do find a replacement tube (CRT), it will
generaly cost more than the equivelent new set to replace.

There are a few sets around that are 20 years and more, but it is
impossible to have many of the parts, except for the standard generic
type parts. You will not be able to find replacement CRT's, flyback
transformers, tuner modules, or especialy any of the dedicated IC's.

In a number of years the broadcast system will be changing to digital
only. Then it will go on to HDTV type broadcasting. A converter box
will be required to see the pictures on the older sets. There will be
a point where the older sets will soon die off, and then the users
will be forced to replace them with newer sets, if they want to be
able to watch TV.

(My mother would say... "Read A Book!").


Jerry G.

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Roderick Stewart wrote in message . com...
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.