TV's Frink said:

CatBus said:

Hey as long as this pissing match is going on, I can't believe nobody's challenged the idea that a 4:3 CRT SDTV was "current technology" in 2006 just because some people still had them.

I mean, sure, I had one then, but that's because I'm a cheap bastard and always a bit behind the times as a result.

I had one then because I couldn't move it. We had to move to a different house just to be rid of it.

Even the replacements weren't necessarily better. There was this whole uncomfortable period around the turn of the millennium with EDTV and HDTV CRT's, which were just behemoths, and Plasmas that weren't exactly slim either. But upscaling DVD players had been the hot thing for years by 2006, precisely because people had already moved on from SDTV's, or were actively looking to get rid of them.