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

Question

we live in a country that mandate what emmissions are allowed to power producers and scrap yard and sewage treatment plants and such. Yet we still buy tv's that take far more material to build, cost the manufacturer more, and create a larger amount of waste at both the manufacturing and post consumer stages. Why do we not outlaw the manufacture and importation of any further models of these. The smoke from all the poor idiots still smoking cigs will dissapate, but that giant landfill of crap you find your new house built on will create problem now and well into the future.

just an afterthought, the cost of the lcd, plasma and other newer tech tv's has nothing to do with production cost but more to do with supposedly recouping r&d costs the fastest, not a very honest way to do bussiness when you realize that long term sales and smart innovations would make you a more stable, sustainable income. Look at the airline business, selling cheap fares on practically empty planes to a rabid consumer public that thinks it a right to fly where and when they want regardless of the actual cost financially and societally

yeesh, the sarcasm dripping off of some of the answers to my question ! lcd screens are 55 plus year old tech, not very new, someone, somewhere, has had a production facility and the machines and material available to make them for the gov. and business for a lot of years now. Also, it is not a strict matter of freedom, if it were, you could smoke a cigarette anywhere you wished, fill your old style lp. cylinder for you grill, burn your garbage in a barrel in your back yard or any number of other things that are now regulated by law. The computer industry is probably the fastest growing contributor to toxic waste in the world, right above consumer use of batteries to run every little convenience people want. I just thought that just as the computer industry is coming up with programs and the means to deal with thier machines, the consumer electronics market could reasonably be asked what they intend to do about one of thier problems, the crt tv and or the crt television set

Answer 1

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,

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

It is called liberty. Might want to give it a try.
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Answer 6

I think the stuff your smokin has stunted your growth.

Answer 7

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