Any one here will still use the C.R.T tv's for every day wathcing tv?

[andy]

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[etype2]

We have 3 flat screens, but I use a Sony KD 34XBR960 in my office. Very deep blacks that no flat screen can match, including the now defunct Pioneer Kuro.

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by josephdaniel

I watch my zenith from 1983 anywhere from 6 hours everyday and more in the summer since that's where I do most of my projects. I also use allot of aa5 am radios from the 30's and 40's when the TV is off ( I love talk radio and have an AM transmitter)

Our 1999 Sony bit the dust so we are back to using the 1982 Zenith 25 inch System 3 as a daily watcher.

[truetone36]

I use a '62 G.E. "Escort" portable set regularly in the mancave.

[Jeffhs]

I have two CRT TVs in storage, a Zenith "Sentry 2" 19" and an RCA CTC185 -- both table sets. The RCA was my daily watcher from 1999 until I got a flat screen almost two years ago. The Zenith was my daily watcher for four years at my former home, then when I moved in late '99 I bought the RCA and put the Zenith set in the bedroom, where it has been ever since. It isn't used much these days, so it has four years of actual usage hours on it. That set, incidentally, was made during the period in the '90s when Zenith TVs had bad CRTs; however, my set still has its original tube, which is still going strong after almost 18 years.


For NowhereMan1966: What finally happened to your Sony TV?

BTW, I am impressed by the years and years of good service your Zenith System 3 TV has given you since it was new in the early '80s. (What does your set look like? Is it the console model or the one shaped to fit in a corner of a room? Just curious.) Those sets were made when Zenith was still an American company with headquarters in Chicago, so they were built to last. I had two 13" Zenith color portables that lasted many years, and a small Zenith b&w portable that lasted over twenty years and was still working very well (only thing wrong with it was the detent mechanism on the UHF tuner broke) when I got rid of it 13 years ago, due to space limitations in my apartment.

[dieseljeep]

That set, incidentally, was made during the period in the '90s when Zenith TVs had bad CRTs; however, my set still has its original tube, which is still going strong after almost 18 years.

I think the problems were with the 25 & 27" CRT's. It seems like the smaller CRT's lasted as long as the earlier issue tubes.

[Geoff Bourquin]

4 CRTs and 2 LCDs in our house...13" Sony CRT for the kitchen, 24" Toshiba branded, Orion built TV/DVD/VCR for the bedroom, Daughters room a 20" Toshiba TV/DVD, and 5" B&W on my desk. Symphonic 37" LCD for my office TV and the main set is a 52" Sony/Mitsubishi hybrid built up from 3 sets in the junkpile

[Firebird]

The ultimate crt, a 40 inch Sony.

I still use a 12 inch Sylvania I got at Sams Club in 2000 as my bedroom set. It's the tv I first saw the 9-11 reports on. I'm really old fashioned as I still use a crt on my home computer.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by egrand

I still use a 12 inch Sylvania I got at Sams Club in 2000 as my bedroom set. It's the tv I first saw the 9-11 reports on. I'm really old fashioned as I still use a crt on my home computer.

Your Sylvania is probably a 13", made by Funai. They stood up really well, for a Funai product.
I finally retired my old CRT display for my computer.
I really like my new H/P LED 21.5" flat panel.

Right you are on all counts. It is model number sst413. It's been a trooper.

I really need a new computer and monitor, but I feel guilty replacing something that still works great. I was brought up by Depression era parents who tought us to never throw anything out if it still works. Actually, it was more like never throw anything out, period!

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by egrand

Right you are on all counts. It is model number sst413. It's been a trooper.

I really need a new computer and monitor, but I feel guilty replacing something that still works great. I was brought up by Depression era parents who tought us to never throw anything out if it still works. Actually, it was more like never throw anything out, period!

You must be around my age. 68, last December.
My old CRT display had an intermittant in it and was changing colors all too often. Plus it took up my whole computer desk.

I'm 45. My parents were older when they had me.

[AdamAnt316]

We have a 27" Sony Trinitron Wega set in our living room (one of the later models; actually has a "SDTV" logo on the front), and a Samsung 19" TV/VCR combo in the kitchen. I'm soon going to be replacing a 19" Panasonic TV/VCR combo in my 'media room' with a 27" JVC set. It's not a TV, but the computer my upstairs office is hooked up to a 21" Hitachi SuperScan monitor.
-Adam

[twbranch]

I just picked up a JVC Video Sphere at a yard sale for 5 bux. I plan to clean it up and use in my shop for local news and tv. So yea I still use a CRT. Does that count?