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I'm almost 35 and I've never purchased a new TV. I've always been able to find something used that would suit my needs; and, given what's out there, I don't have any plans of buying a new TV. I've got enough CRT sets on hand to make sure of that.
In fact, I don't remember my family buying but two new sets in my life. They bought a 19" varactor tuned RCA ColorTrak around '78. That one got a new CRT in around '82. It was used until '84, when my Dad bought a slightly used 19" Magnavox remote set from our then-TV repairman. The RCA went to my parent's bedroom and stayed around here until the mid '90's. Around '87, my Dad bought a new 13" knob tuned Emerson for $149 to replace an early '70's Truetone 13" Japanese tube color TV that was becomming more trouble than it was worth. The 13" set was used in the motorhome until the motorhome was sold. When my uncle passed away, we ended up with his 25" Zenith System 3 console and that set replaced the 19" Magnavox, that had a really weak CRT. After a year or two, the 9-160 module blew up in the Zenith console and I found my parents a 23" Zenith CCII console and that set stayed around until my Dad passed away and my Mother bought a wall unit.
There's been a lot of TV's that have seen use by me; but, none of them were new.
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