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Emotional-Wrangler75 t1_j9ym30x wrote

Reply to comment by Surur in A platform for products with no planned obsolescence by shanoshamanizum

My grandmother's floor model television lasting 45 years, versus flat screen television built at the height of human technological development, lasts 5.

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Surur t1_j9ymcyt wrote

> versus flat screen television built at the height of human technological development, lasts 5.

I wish it lasted 5 years, since then I would have a reason to replace it, but we know that is not really the case, is it. Flat screen TVs last ages.

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robotatomica t1_ja2ejf9 wrote

yeah, I was considering a second tv for a workout space and measured my model, it was an odd size for Samsung - turns out my tv’s almost 10 years old. Still looks great!

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PublicFurryAccount t1_j9zy4io wrote

Televisions were way more expensive back then, though, and advances in CRTs was really slow. So you needed it to last a long time to justify the purchase, even for a middle class family, and you could expect that it wouldn't really be behind newer televisions for many years because it took a long time for any significant changes to arrive.

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mhornberger t1_ja3pzyu wrote

> Televisions were way more expensive back then, though, and advances in CRTs was really slow

Reddit generally has trouble accepting that a) prices have gone down, and 2) products have improved. We want stuff for dirt cheap but also think that if it wasn't for "greed" then things would last basically forever, like the survivorship-bias outlier examples of our relative's washing machine, refrigerator, or television.

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