Can CRT televisions make a comeback in the future?

[Jeffhs]

I have a flat screen and two CRT TVs. I intend to keep the CRT sets so that I will have a TV if or when my flat screen goes bad next year (I've had it for a year already; it has a 2-year factory warranty, which is just about when most flat screens bite the dust -- just after the warranty expires). I just read, online, several pages of complaints concerning Sanyo flat screens going bad within a year, and am so glad I did not purchase that brand when I bought my FS TV in August 2011.

My flat screen is an Insignia (house brand of Best Buy) 19" set that has worked (and continues to work) very well over the past year. Insignia says in its advertisements that, in paraphrase, they don't manufacture junk. I'll find out if there is anything to that claim when the warranty on my set expires next year. These TVs are made in China, mostly or entirely of LG parts; LG, which also owns the rights to the Zenith name and crest logo, appears to be a much better brand of HDTV and other video gear (I have an LG Blu-ray player) than many other flat screens on the market today, so I'll just wait and see if the company's claims are credible.

I probably won't like going back to a CRT TV, but knowing that my RCA CTC185, bought new almost 13 years ago and now in storage, still works well I'll just live with it if I have to. I'll just have the cable company (Time Warner in my area near Cleveland) put a cable box on the old set; hopefully, by then, they will have reduced or eliminated the rental fee for these boxes (I read online that these fees may be reduced or even dropped eventually). It won't be HD but I'll at least have a TV, and I will be watching a set that has outlasted, by many years, most of today's offshore-manufactured flat screens.

I've never (yet) heard of any brand of flat screen television lasting anywhere near a decade. I think the manufacturers planned it this way so they will sell more sets, but I do believe it is ridiculous to have to buy a new TV every couple of years -- and for most people that is a strain on their budget they cannot afford. Whenever I read in the blog posts on FS TV makers' websites of people having to do without TV when their flat screen goes, I wonder why they didn't keep the old CRT set (if it still works) as a backup, knowing that the flat set would likely go bad within a year or shortly after the warranty expires, whichever comes first.