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My mother-in-law inherited a mid-90s Trinitron TV when her father died in 2005. It's been the TV in their guest room since.

Their flat panel TV died a couple weeks ago and they put that TV in their living room as a stopgap.

The picture tube on that TV is still so good after all this time, they now don't want to bother buying a new TV.

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Do they only watch broadcast TV? Even DVD's look far better on my LCD flatscreen (though the TV or player may be upscaling to 720 or 1080) than on the old CRT in my parents house (admittedly not a Trinitron)

I don't know what kind of nostalgic glasses people wear, but CRT TV quality degraded over time, became noticeably blurry. Had Panasonics, Sony, JVC, all looked like shit. Monitors with degaussing were fixable for a short time.

Most modern enthusiasts replace dried-up capacitors and retune the bias/constrast and focus voltages, which brings them back to stock condition as long as the tube isn't too heavily worn (a rejuve will sometimes fix that as well)

Often it's just a case of tweaking the focus knob on the flyback.

Damn... I can't believe I didn't consider that. A thing to remember, thank you!

Every CRT TV I've come across still looks fine. They still use them for Smash Bros tournaments.

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