We just replaced our old school TV yesterday!
wow a topic just for me
All we have are CRT TVs because the new ones are too expensive. I’ve got in my room two from the 80s and one from the early 2000s all around 13-15" iunno. Also I’ve got another one that is 13" and has a VCR built in. Also we have 2 like 20" also from the 2000s. And the best one is the 27" that is several years old. Also the 19" one I never use because there is something wrong with the picture. It is not bright enough or something. I can barely see anything if the sun is out or a light is on or something.
I wish I could get a cool new LCD or whatever the new thing is but it’ll have to wait until I have more money. Also, I’m not gonna buy an HDTV until I have HD media, but I’m not gonna buy any HD media because I don’t have an HDTV. I don’t wanna have to re-buy my entire movie collection on Blu-Ray. I would also like to watch football in HD
I not only still have old TVs, but when my son went out and got himself one of those big-screen thingies, I snapped up his perfectly good 25" Sony and put it in the basement.
Damn fool kid, wasting his money on a new TV while the old one still works. . .
We have a 32" Sanyo (I think is the brand) the wife and I bought back in 2003. It has served us well, despite only having one Coaxial out in the back.
We may be upgrading, if not this year then probably next.
Santa just brought us a 40" LCD to replace our 27" CRT in the living room, but we still have two smaller CRTs in the bedrooms.
Santa knew we needed a bigger TV because my 43 year old eyes were getting my butt kicked in Call of Duty on the old one 
We have an enormous old Magnavox down in the basement that is as old as the house, over 20 years old. I really don’t know how or why it still works. There’s a VCR on top of it that must be engaged in order to see any shows. And it has to be physically plugged in to turn it on and unplugged when we’re done watching. Other than those little details, it works fine! But if we break or lose the remote control, we will be out of luck. And if the thing finally dies, I fear it will stay down there in the basement forever, because it weighs a TON and I don’t know what we’d do with it anyway. We also have a big older model TV in the living room, and a little older model TV in the kitchen. There is a smallish flatscreen TV upstairs for watching DVDs only.
I only replaced my CRT (a Magnavox that I would have loved forever if not for the fact that 2/3 of the RCA jacks didn’t work so I had to switch the cables around when I wanted to move from DVD player to 360 and back) because my parents upgraded their flat screen with something bigger.
Fallout looks really cool on it. Other than that, I don’t much care. I don’t watch TV or anything. Movies sometimes and the XBox.
I still have my 19" JVC. Also we actually have one of those old old ones that’s made of wood and looks like a piece of furniture, 30 years old and going strong.
DVDs look fine on an HDTV with an upscaling DVD player. But no, you don’t want to watch VHS tapes on a bigscreen.
I have a 13" TV from, um … 1995? It is the only TV in the house, and it is currently sitting in storage in the basement. The VHS player stopped working a couple of years ago, so we put the TV away.
why does everyone say “VHS player”
has everyone forgotten the word “VCR”
did anyone say “VHS player” back when VHS was still around
How about laserdiscs?
I did watch laserdiscs on the HDTV in the dorm and I was impressed. I assumed it would look bad but it was about as good as a normal TV as long as you don’t look at it from really close.
Our only TV is an “old school” model. The best part is that we even still watch everything with the rabbit ears antenna, because we can’t be bothered to have a cable bill.
My friends have a 36" CRT. It’s huge and very heavy. Apparently it can display some sort of HD signal. It’s around 12 or 15 years old.
I have no TV. I get my video jollies from a 27" iMac.
The bedroom TV is a 22 inch CRT type that has a DVD player with it. Normally I dont like combined appliances but it was on sale for $200, and the only TV that was anything close in size was over $400 when we were shopping. Cheap wins 
We have it hung in the corner of the bedroom on one of those bolt to the ceiling sort of industrial TV hangers, it is out of the way and convenient. Works for me.
I don’t understand why everyone rushed to “upgrade” to LCD and plasma screens that have a much worse picture than standard CRTs. (Yes, HD flatscreens nowadays do give a better picture, but I’m talking pre-HD LCDs, which frankly suck.)
Until six years ago we were still using a Sony Trinitron with a wooden cabinet that my parents got in the mid-1970s and handed down to me. When that packed up we switched to a second-hand CRT which we got for nothing from a friend who “upgraded”, and then we got an LCD purely so we could have a larger screen size (the TV fits in an alcove, and the bulk of a CRT meant that we were limited by the depth rather than the width). The picture is not very good compared to a decent CRT though, and if I play the Wii on it for more than a few hours it tends to overheat and scramble the picture, making it unusable until it cools down.
I suppose eventually I’ll upgrade to HD…
I have a 32" Panasonic circa 2001. It works for me. It has 2 sets of RCA inputs, so my cable box is plugged directly in it with a set of component cables instead of the coax. It also has stereo audio pass through jacks so the sound goes into a 5.1 set of home audio speakers. I also have an Xbox which I primarily use as my main DVD player and a PS3 plugged into it. I plan to keep it as long as it works with no immediate plans to go HD.
I tried that with our 5-year old 28 inch JVC CRT TV. Unfortunate two charity (thrift) shops wouldn’t take it because it had a black case. If it had been silver, they would have accepted it. I can’t see the logic behind that at all.
We have one of the bulky old ones at home too, there’s nothing wrong with it and therefore no real need to replace it. My partner has a flat screen TV in his computer room upstairs but that was a sensible decision because his old TV died and he has very little space up there so a flat-screen actually makes more sense for him. Other than that, we have no need to buy a large flat-screen telly for the sake of it, the old one works just fine.