Well, yeah - I think most of the stuff was overbuilt by modern standards so it should work for a long time, just that often the build quality would be shoddy, o

Well, yeah - I think most of the stuff was overbuilt by modern standards so it should work for a long time, just that often the build quality would be shoddy, or had improvized components. I didn't mean that one TV example to be the definite example, that was just an anecdote to illustrate the general point.