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I suspect there are plenty of motels, especially the low end ones, that still use CRT based TV's. Back around '93, there was a guy from India who owned a bunch of low end motels here in town and they wanted me to fix their TV's for almost nothing. I went out there to see what they had and they had an assortment of knob tuned RCA XL100 "mural TV's" that ranged in years from the early '70's to the early '80's. Those sets are probably still at those motels if they are still in operation as the owners didn't want to turn loose of any money and I can't imagine them replacing a TV unless they had no other choice.
In '97, our local motel 6 was getting new TV's and I bought 20 knob tuned "PC" chassis GE sets for $5/each.
I've stayed in a few motels over the last ten years and most had either Magnavox or Zenith 25" sets. I've only stayed in one motel that had a flat panel TV and it was a Panasonic, looked like about a 42".
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