Traditional CRT television screens have a number of important advantages over the newer technologies, not only in terms of the cost to buy them but in the ongoing costs of ownership as well. For instance, while a replacement light source for a DLP TV can cost as much as $500, an entire traditional tube television can be purchased for far less than the cost of that replacement bulb.

In fact it is the price that is the major selling point, and major advantage, of the traditional CRT TV. The prices of all televisions have been falling, but perhaps none have fallen quite so far and so fast as the prices for these traditional tube televisions. The smallest traditional tube televisions, those of 13