I think I found a tube that's worse than '90's era Zenith's

[zenith2134]

Radiotvnut.... I mentioned this story once before but maybe this will help answer your question. A buddy of mine has a 2001 RCA truflat with built in dvd. 20 inch flat faced crt. He asked me to make it look good for him once... This thing bled so badly on the highlights that I had to turn the contrast and color down to almost nothing. Of course by then it looked washed out and lifeless. My recommendation was to use it as-is for as long as it kept going, and then to just toss it. It was by far the worst I'd seen in a while.