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Originally Posted by pmb1010
Bill, I did the same analysis a couple years ago. Everything pointed back to a tube type set for HD as having the best picture.
So I ended up with 34" Sony HD tube set. This thing is HEAVY.
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That "HEAVY" thing is part of the reason why I can't convince my wife to go for the CRT. We now have 4 TVs, 2 of which, are OLD, mechanical tuning types, but are still working fine, but our main TV is a Sony. This Sony, like you say, is HEAVY, but it replaced a Sony that died, that was even heavier, which replaced a Sony that died. My last Sony was so heavy that I needed to use the front end loader on my tractor to move the darn thing. I wanted to replace my current Sony, which has been showing signs of dying, with a Sony HD, and my wife just can't understand why I keep buying Sony TVs when they keep dying, but I really don't think there is anything else with the features of the Sonys, particularly with respect to multiple inputs, etc. When we bought our Sonys, there were also a brand called Proton or something that looked good, but that was years ago, so I don't know if they are still around or not.
But one problem with the CRTs, which will probabably be the case with other type displays once they figure it out, is that at least where we live, you can't get rid of the old ones. Ie we aren't allowed to just put them in the trash. You have to call some special hazardous waste company and pay something like $25 per TV to dispose of it. This goes for both TVs and computer monitors. This went into effect a year or two ago, at a time when I had 2 old TVs, and about 7 old computer monitors in my garage. At that time, I found that a trash transfer station about an hour's drive from me was taking them for a fee of $90/ton, but only for a couple weeks until the prohibition hit them too, so I put my HUGE HEAVY SONY, plus an old Toshiba, and about 6 old computer monitors into my Jeep Cherokee, and drove up to the transfer station, and got rid of them. Kind of neat getting in line behind big trash trucks to get on the scales. I think it cost me about $22, plus the gas to drive there and back. So there are reasons to avoid CRTs now, however by the time a plasma or LCD goes bad, they will probably prohibit those in trash too. I think they were concerned about the lead and
mercury and other heavy metals in them, which is probably the same for any electronics, but the prohibition was only for monitors at this time.