Analog is not dead

[Robert Grant]

I notice that each post in thread implies that TV sets with CRTs are analog TVs, and that flat panel sets are digital. That is not true. The type of tuner a set has is independent of the display technology (with only the loose co-relation of manufacture date assuring that many existing CRT sets, are, of course, analog-only).
A very few mid-decade CRT sets are HDTV sets (these were the first CRT sets to be discontinued under competition from flat panels).
CRT sets currently offered for sale in the US (unless they are really old stock) have digital tuners. They are not HD, but they receive ATSC digital broadcasts (whether HD or SD) and convert them to 480i (not to NTSC composite as a converter box does, rather comparable to a DVD player with component connection).
Conversely, there are used flat panel sets (from before roughly 2007) that have only an analog tuner. The label "HD ready" is a warning that the set lacks a digital tuner. Still other flat panels, technically called "monitors", but mistakenly labeled "TV", have no tuner at all.

I say this because I have heard so many stories of people throwing out perfectly good CRT sets because they are presumed to be obsolete. People are spending money on new sets they do not really need, and spending yet more money to run the new sets (which use more electricity than CRTs), as they fill the landfills with sets that work.