What is your CRT to LCD ratio?

[dead0man]

(feel free to include plasmas and other weird displays with the LCDs)

How many of each do you have, in use, in your home?

I have 1 LCD TV, 3 LCD monitors and 2 on laptops. (one of the laptops is almost never used so I won't count that one)

On the CRT side I've got 4 TVs and 1 monitor.  (and several monitors collecting dust in various places around the house)

So I got 5 of each in regular use.....how about you?

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I have one CRT TV (doesn't work anymore since the switch except for video gaming) & one CRT monitor.

[Sensei]

Two LCD's, a TV and a computer. One CRT TV.

[Mechaman]

Let me see here:

3 LCD tvs, 1 LCD computer monitor, 1 on laptop (5 LCD)

3 tvs, 2 on laptops.

5:5, same as dead0man, do we live in the same house?

[phk]

1 to 0.

[paul718]

I have a 50-inch plasma, 1080p.

[RIP Robert H Bork]

In use?

0 to 4.

[King]

I got a plasma TV, an LCD TV, an LCD monitor, and a notebook computer.

My last CRT broke about two years ago.

[Ban my account ffs!]

We're in the stone age.

4 CRT TVs.. mine is about 15 years old.. but I hardly ever watch TV so it doesn't matter to me. 
No LCD TVs.

3 LCD Computer monitors.  No CRT computer monitors.

[Jake]

What is the difference?

[Person Man]

I have just one laptop. Mommy and Daddy have 2 CRTs, 2 desktops, 1 laptop and 1 plasma TV. That's doesn't count, though.

[dead0man]

What is the difference?

CRTs are the big, deep, heavy things.  LCDs are the flat, big, heavy things.
CRT monitor

CRT TV

LCD monitor


CRTs (Cathode Ray Tube) have a big tube in the back that shoots beams of light at the glass you look at when you watch tv.  LCDs (Liquid Crystal Display) changes the color and brightness of the pixels by varying a small electrical charge.

[Ban my account ffs!]

My family has a history of keeping appliances for a very long time.  For example, we had the same microwave from the mid 1980s until 2002 or so, when it finally burnt out.  Then we inherited another very old mid 1980s model that only had a dial setting and an actual bell inside that dinged when it was done.  If you didn't set the dial back to zero after you took the food out, the microwave would keep going once you shut the door.

The same goes for TVs.  We had the same TV from about 1987-1998 which isn't all that long.. but then my mom used the same TV bought in 1991 for our resort until early 2008, when my sister's fiance gave her his old TV which she expects to use until she absolutely must get an HDTV ready TV.

It's just kind of a funny thing in my family (and extended family)... why fix it or replace it if it ain't broke?

Of course with computers it's different... you need to stay up to date with those, but even then we've more often than not just upgraded the existing machine.  My step dad hasn't bought a new computer since the mid '90s, but has instead upgraded various parts of it over time, so that at no time have all of the parts been replaced.  Of course it now has a new processor, a new shell, a new power source, motherboard, etc... but still.. it was a gradual evolution, not a series of new computers.

Buy quality appliances and treat them well.. and use them forever.

My grandparents have their TV from the early '80s and it still serves them just fine.  They also have a fridge from the 1950s that they still use.