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Originally Posted by Fisherdude
As long as they're used in 99.99% of hotel and motel rooms, I'm guessing they'll still be around for a while.
Not forever, though...like rotary dial phones, their time is passing.
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I forgot about hotels... I think they'll be there for awhile, simply because they're more durable than LCD or plasma. Some hotel sets get rough treatment. I've fixed a few of them over the years for local hotels in the Los Angeles area.
I've stayed in probably 10 hotels/motels in the past year, and all were CRT, including the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, Canada... You'd think at their prices, they'd have had an LCD set if any did. Our room had a Phillips 27" CRT set. That was the only luxury hotel I was in, but others like Days Inn, Motel 6, etc etc., had 19" Zeniths, 20" Phillips, and so forth. Also the cruise ship we were on last summer (Celebrity Infinity) had 20" tube sets, but we were in a mid-priced stateroom. Not sure what was in the higher-priced rooms and suites.
Charles