Regarding: the death of the CRT in the developed world and its relative retention in the developing/3rd world.....wikipedia has some interesting details...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode...CRT_technology
Demise
Although a mainstay of display technology for decades, CRT-based computer monitors and televisions constitute a dead technology. The demand for CRT screens has dropped precipitously since 2000, and this falloff has been accelerating in the latter half of that decade.......The demise of CRT, however, has been happening more slowly in the developing world. According to iSupply, production in units of CRTs was not surpassed by LCDs production until 4Q 2007, owing largely to CRT production at factories in China.
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I guess this all means it's not wise to sit on the low end IC chips for long....eventually the transition will migrate to the developing world.
The US automobile fleet is something like 250 million vehicles, and I read that given a median car lifetime of 8 years, a full-scale transition from gasoline to electric vehicles would take something like 20-40 years to accomplish. Given that several hundred million of CRT TVs must still be in use and a median CRT lifespan of 5 years, I'd imagine that it will take another decade or so until the current purge is more or less complete (not counting the tail of the distribution) . Of course the rate of CRT purging will certainly slow with time.
For the pros here who've been at this for a while....is the CRT purge accelerating or slowing? I know your individual observations are anecdotal, but this forum could give us access to a nation-wide perspective on this trend.
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