My Zenith Sentry 2 (1995) in my bedroom doesn't get much use except as a backup to the RCA CTC185 (1999 vintage) in the living room. I do fire up the Zenith every now and again just to see if it still works, which it did the last time I checked. The set has a beautiful picture on its original CRT--I'll probably move it to the living room if and when anything happens to the RCA, since the latter is out of warranty and may not be worth repairing again--it depends on what goes wrong with it next. (If the CRT goes, I'll junk the set without thinking twice.) I say "if and when" because the RCA still makes a wonderful picture on cable, my VCR and DVD player, and still has its original CRT. The set has almost six years on it now; the way it's going, I may still be watching it in 2009 when all TV is set to go digital.
I've only had one problem with the RCA in all the (nearly) six years I've had it: the RF port on the tuner PCB snapped off the board shortly after I bought the set, and I think the jungle IC has something amiss as the tech who fixed the RF port problem (the set went to a repair shop in the next town south of here for the repair) informed me that his lab tests showed some minor problem with the chip. However, the TV still works well on cable as I mentioned, so I guess the jungle IC can't be too badly damaged.