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In Reply to: plasma "life" posted by Joe Murphy Jr on February 24, 2005 at 20:39:47:
I don't know where this "7-year" average comes from but the vast majority of people only replace displays of any type when their current display breaks down and is too expensive to bother fixing. My Sony KV-27 series TV set is 8 years old and does need to be replaced because the CRT tube is going bad (one electron gun went weak). If the tube was OK, I'd run this baby into the ground as long as possible; it may not be HD in picture quality but it is damn good when fed a signal from DirecTV. I'm still going to try and run this set a bit longer because the new digital sets are not nearly as reliable as the old analog sets (yet). Further price drops is another incentive to wait on HD sets too.As for the other displays, here is how long I've had them:
NEC 13" VGA Monitor - still going strong since 1989 (~ 16 years)
Mag Innovision 17" Monitor - 12 years old but is starting to show signs that the power supply is on shaky ground.
Hitachi 13" color TV - this is at least 25 years old and going strong.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Mr. Spindlelegs
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Follow Ups
- Who keeps displays for 20 years? I try to! - mrspindlelegs 05:39:49 02/25/05 (9)
- That makes you either... - Joe Murphy Jr 18:05:41 02/25/05 (5)
- Nah! I'm more like... - mrspindlelegs 10:19:37 02/26/05 (0)
- Hey my last "big" TV - DavidLD 07:19:42 02/26/05 (3)
- My eyes! My eyes! - Joe Murphy Jr 17:52:02 02/26/05 (0)
- Very nice! - AbeCollins 11:05:37 02/26/05 (1)
- As Junior Samples said to Lulu Roman.. - DavidLD 04:16:38 02/27/05 (0)
- it's worth replacing CRTs that are more than about 10 years old... - Sam M 08:41:38 02/25/05 (2)
- There are a lot worse things to worry about than CRT radiation emission. (nt) - mrspindlelegs 12:18:53 02/25/05 (1)
- Like blindness, brain tumors, and sterility - AbeCollins 11:09:19 02/26/05 (0)
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