[Nowhere Man]

I don't know who's feeding you this, but most new HDTV's have life expectancies of 60 to 80 thousand or more hours. (Life expectancy is defined as a 50% decrease in brightnes)

Are you talking about plasma and/or LCD?

If you buy a DLP set, you will have to change out bulbs between 5 and 10 thousand hours at a cost of 100-200 each time, but I would not recommend buying a DLP in the first place.

I also heard that DLP sets are not good for homes with smokers, the smoke I heard can get on the mirrors unless they somehow corrected that.

I did not buy any NDTV's this year although I do have three "G.I. Issue" converter boxes, but I did buy a DVD player with upconversion.

I still have and use a 1982 Zenith 25 inch System 3 console we got in early 1983.

[WackySam]

Are you talking about plasma and/or LCD?

Yes, all major brand Plasma's and LCD's are now rated for at least 60,000 hours. Some are rated at up to 100,000 hours.

For comparison, the average CRT TV's are rated at 25,000 hours.