Picture tubes--rate them...

[rca2000]

Originally Posted by miniman82

If your only criteria is how long they last sure, but being a picture tube I'm sure picture quality and color rendition fit in there SOMEWHERE...

15GP22 FTW.

Well--since most of these sets we seek are now OVER 40 years old and older--life span does INDEED matter to us. Pix quality does matter, but if the tube is dead it does NOT matter then.

And addendum to the Sony 710AB22... They will NOT take rejuv. at ALL. I tried on a number of them some years ago. At FIRST--they would APPEAR to come up...but THEN fade down, often before my EYES !! This actually applies to nearly ALL trinitron tubes--when they die...BURY THEM.