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[BenoitRen]

Maybe not 5 years, but it's a fact that CRT TVs manufactured after 1995 don't last as long as the ones before. A friend of mine has a CRT TV from the 80s (that he uses for gaming, if I may add) that still works great to this day.

But you can bet that your LCD and plasma TVs won't last longer than five years.

• Assuming normal use of 4 hours a day, the plasma TV's gas will have been used up after 3-4 years, showing the first discolourations.
  
• Often, when you buy an LCD TV, it'll already have one or two dead pixels, which are barely noticeable. In either case, the first dead pixels will appear after two years. After 5 years you'll have about 100 dead pixels, and the electronics will cease functioning.
  

The TV manufacturers are finding new ways to keep selling TVs to us.
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LCD: It all depends on how often you use it, but what I said is true. If you think it's bollocks, why don't you go research LCD technology and prove that what I say is wrong.

CRT: Say what you want, but it's a fact that CRTs aren't what they used to be. They used to last for 10 to 20 years! My grandparents' worked for 20 years, and like I said my friend's 80s TV still works great.
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The quality control varies greatly from manufacturer to manufacturer.

Modern LCD displays have millions of liquid crystals. The chance for 1 of them to break before even having unpacked the LCD display is big. Over the years many more break. In the beginning you can't see it, but when 25 of them that are near each other are broken you see a spot.

And then you have lazy pixels and dead pixels.

As for plasma TVs: Not gas leakage. Gas that has burned up.

You may have experiences of your own, but my friends also have their experiences, which back up my argument.
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Panoptic, this