It's true! You can't give them away!

[Beachboy]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

I know the feeling of trying to give away a nice working TV and can't. When I was a kid, I was happy with the 9" GE B&W, with no cable, that my parents let me use. Kids today think they are entitled to the latest HD TV and it's their parents who made them that way. Even when the cable company goes digital, they will provide a converter and you'll need that same converter, regardless of how new your TV is.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who is frustrated at selling or giving away perfectly good CRT TV's. I'd like to join flat panel HD community, but I have perfectly good 10 year old CRT TV's that may outlive me!

When I was a kid, my first working TV was my grandparent's old Zenith B&W 21" table model from the mid 50's. They bought a newer TV and rather than trade in the old TV (yeah back eons ago, TV dealers actually accepted trade-ins!), they gave it to me as a Christmas gift when I was in junior high school. The picture tube was almost gone, but I watched it for a couple of years, before saving up enough to buy a brand new 12" B&W set.

And I completely agree with you about the sense of entitlement that kids nowadays all seem to have!