Why? If it’s working why change it? It only costs money and you will buy something that is more complex and breaks more easily. If you don’t particularly care a

Why? If it’s working why change it? It only costs money and you will buy something that is more complex and breaks more easily. If you don’t particularly care about TV or the image quality, why wouldn’t you? (During the last thirty years of their marriage my parents had two TVs, both CRTs. Just now they bought a new plasma TV. They never buy the cheap stuff, but they always try to use everything for as long as possible, a philosophy I’m also quite fond of. Nevertheless I’m not holding my breath for this new TV also lasting 15 years. The guy my parents bought it from – a nice gumpy old fellow, excellent electrician but no longer really fitting into this world – was pretty pessimistic about the prospects of this TV lasting any more than four, five years. Oh, and this thing is a computer. You can access the internet and install apps and all that crap. Nothing my parents will ever use, but if you buy a good panel that’s what you get. If you want it or not. At least it works perfectly fine as a dumb monitor for the cable box. Another of these unpleasant things of the modern age. However, I wonder what happens when Panasonic stops updating this TV, should it last that long, which it probably will. Suddenly having an old TV is no longer harmless.)