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Originally Posted by Trance88
I just feel they lack the quality that was put into so many old tube sets.
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Thank you, sorry if I've been a little cranky today, I just get a little weary of the "New stuff is crap" threads that pop up every few weeks.
I grew up with tubes sets and they were anything but reliable or even well built, granted they were cheap 19" B&W portables but as a whole they used the same tubes, caps and controls as the more expensive sets.
As a whole the average TV built today is light years more reliable than most tube sets, they are also much less repairable and I think that is what bugs people.
As for how a set looks in the store, you can't put much stock in it, many of them are badly misadjusted or being fed a poor signal, or people have fussed with them.
I know that a lot of cheap modern LCD & Plasma sets don't look as good as a decent CRT set but that doesn't mean that everything Digital or 16:9 sucks, and I speak from several years of hands on experience with them and I wouldn't go back to CRT for anything unless they can build one 50", 16:9 and less than 100 pounds.
