There is something to be said about old tech vs new. The older technology lasts. I still have a couple of old CRT TV's in my closet that still work fine, assuming you have a digital to analog TV converter box, you could still use them. The TV's are several decades old. Newer TV's are fragile, designed with a "Mean time between failure" or "Planned obsolescence" design. In other words designed to only last for a short time. Everything is made that way now days. Washers and dryers, dish washers, TV's, phones, everything. They are designed to fail so you purchase a new one, and they make them too expensive to repair. My parents had a frige and freezer that was a generation old, and still worked when they got rid of them. They simply wanted something modern, an ice maker, water dispenser. Nothing was wrong with the old units except they were older legacy looking.

When I retired in 2015, I bought a home my wife and I wanted to retire in, and I replaced all my appliances with brand new. Ten years later, I have already replaced the dish washer twice, the mounted microwave twice, the stove/oven once. And before replacing them, we attempted to get them repaired. For those interested, they were "LG" appliances. I am so soured on LG that I will never purchase that brand ever again.

Phone's are crazy. Many people voluntarily replace their phones every year even though they cost thousands of dollars, just to keep up with the Jones's. I have only replaced mine because I was forced to. Technology was being retired, or breakage. Keep in mind I hate cell phones, and don't carry mine. It sits on my home office desk 24 hours a day, and I almost never take it with me. I've had to replace it three times because the technology has either changed, or the manufacturer forces a replacement by discontinuing updates to your phone because it's "too old".

I listen to a lot of "talk radio", and still have an old Zenith tube type table radio that I used when I was a teen. Keep in mind I retired in 2015, and yes, the table tube radio still functions perfectly. I use to go to sleep listening to the radio in my school days, and that radio still works. Crazy? Not really when you consider American products use to be built to last. Now days, we purchase crap from China, Vietnam, Korea, and it's all garbage.

When I was younger, TV sets were part of your furniture. They lasted a generation, had a stereo and even a record player included. You used pledge furniture polish to clean them.

Since America doesn't make anything anymore, places like China, Korea, or Vietnam, have us by the balls, and no one even realizes it. Except for us old farts that remember when American products use to last generations.