why do we still have/allow regular tv sets to be sold in america?

You are wrong across the board. Conventional CRT TVs are FAR less costly to build than new flat panel TVs -- that is precisely why they are cheaper in the stores. Just because you do not understand basic accounting doesn't mean flat panels are cheaper, jeez. The cost of a TV is not determined by the pound, like lima beans.

CRT TVs are built based largely on 80 year-old technologies and processes that have been refined for decades, using widely available cheap materials. They are cheap. Flat Panel TV construction is a technically elaborate process, using expensive new machinery in VERY expensive new factories and relatively new techniques. The inherent cost of the TVs includes the costs of those modern plants and the expensive capital equipment, labor, utilities, etc. It is NOT based on the costs of the R&D that went into it -- R&D is expensed quarter to quarter as a current business expense and is not a "Cost of goods sold" item.

As to why they're allowed -- because there is still some consumer demand, they are MUCH cheaper (despite your misconceptions), and the government does not have any good reason to force poor people and old people to spend four times as much money just to get a basic TV,

They already have it planned when they will suddenly no longer have the old TVs.

I could never afford a 1k TV set. But I can't afford a 100 dollar TV set. So if anything happens to our Television we are going to have to starve aren't we?

This is what the first thing is from people probably " I don't wanna pay that much". and some people can not afford or cannot position these TVs.

So if you want me to have a specific Television,.. you'd have to buy it for me,.. wouldn't you.

because I am on social security disability and I am poor. I contacted social secuirty and asked them for a raise so I could buy a real fancy tv like you are talking about and for some reason they didn't think that was nearly as important as rent, utilities, food, medical care, clothes, car gas, insurance...go figure...WHAT A RIPOFF.

Tim C. - No, i'm sorry. Christers run the bible belt, and that they love teenager being pregnant. The unplanned underage being pregnant fee right this is fairly, actual data of that. i'm no longer bowled over via something on T.V. anymore.

It is called liberty. Might want to give it a try.

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I think the stuff your smokin has stunted your growth.

because people still buy them, not every one has as much money as you do.