Here in England the advantage of flat screen TV's over CTR ones is the lack of flicker, the 50 hertz frame flicker is very noticeable when I see the odd CRT sets running (getting vary rare nowadays) of course no flicker with flat with flat screens. I don't remember the 60 hertz CRT TV's flickering like they do/did here when I was in the USA & Bahama's. My Canadian cousin moaned about the 50 hertz flicker every time he came to visit..

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I hope someday they make an OLED TV under 50" diag. 46" wound be perfect for the size of my living room. Eventually my Sony 40" LCD 2008 mfg with nearly 50,000 hours on it is going to bite the dust. I'd like to replace it with OLED.
Maybe they will someday, when the manufacturing costs come down like LCDs have done.

I do have a 25" Sony CRT set in the bedroom I use nightly, and to remember the "olden" days. 1995 mfg. Get far enough away from it so the scan lines aren't visible and it looks great!

My pioneer elite plasma absolutely blows any crt out of the water. Sure CRT's are nice and all, deeper colors and better reliability, but I've never seen anything more clear, crisp and colorful than my pioneer elite. These were about $10,000 back when they were new, plasma TV was a luxury then. I've just recently had to replace a board (due to a power surge 6 years after it was bought. Most LED sets last at least 2 years and aren't as colorful, clear and reliable as my roundie sets.

Plasma is as close to a thin CRT functionality wise as you can get so it makes sense that it can rival it.

I guess us Plasma users can now be considered Luddites.:D

When are people going to get off this "LCD TVs only last two years or until the warranty runs out, whichever comes first" thing? :scratch2: The first LED/LCD flat screens may have had that short a lifespan, but the technology has improved a great deal since then. I know someone who has had her LCD flat screens (she has two in her house) for much longer than two years; both sets still work well. My own 19" FP is now five years old and works every bit as well as the day I purchased it.

Certainly, there are always going to be instances in which FP TVs fail within 2 years or less due to design flaws, faulty components, etc. but as a rule, if a FP TV lasts through the warranty without problems, the set will probably work for years. VK member EdinTX has an LCD FP with at least 50000 hours on it (as I just read in a post on VK from him this morning); the set apparently still works well.

To drudge up this old thread, my Samsung LCd monitor died last year, and it was purchased new in 2007. so I got 10 years out of it.

Then I have a Chimei monitor I purchased 6 months later and its still going right now. so 11 years so far, and going.

I picked up a Sony super-fine-pitch HD CRT so I've got the best of both worlds in picture quality...And the worst of both in physical packaging specks.