Why are there no tube televisions anymore?

Unlike audio, TVs are super-commoditized to the point that most are extremely comparable to each other - the panels likely came from the same source in Asia and the processing isn’t nearly as differentiated as with earlier generations like DLP’s spinning color wheel and plasmas, for instance, that came after the monstrous rear projection TVs. Tvs have become like cell phones largely because the demand is so massive. When it comes to audio most people are given just good enough (I.e no crackling or very noticeable distortion with bass thrown in) without even knowing it with their Bose car stereo and EarPods. So much about audio in our Audiogon world is more art than commodity. For this reason, I for one am glad the mainstream hasn’t taking the art out of audio.

I remember my Dad blessing the console TV, tearing it apart and hauling down a handful of tubes to the local Hoyle's drugstore wher they had a tube tester and hundreds of replacements.  Seems like we did that every 6 or 8 months.  Ah, the good ol` days.

My dad would take several tubes out of the TV when us kids were "bad".
Funny that it made me angry/sad back then.  Now I couldn't care less about TV.

Was visiting my son in Denver last week, he had very recently purchased a Sony 85 incher.  Have no clue as to the refresh rate or latency, but I can tell you that the new Sony Playstation 5 looks amazing. There is no smearing whatsoever.  We watched "The Martian" on blu-ray and that was actually astounding.

Regards,
barts

CRT are like big gun battleships: state of the art in their day and obsolete today. So the few that remain are in museums or recycled. Why? Size limitations: Today, people want big tv's. 55-65-75 are the most popular sizes. CRT tubes maxed out at 40" 4x3 ratio at 300 pounds: A 65 4k weighs in at 60 pounds or less with 4 million pixels & 600 to 1000 nits of brightness. Another reason is the broadcast standard is 16x9 not 4:3 which results in black bars top and bottom for all modern shows. We should not forget the environmental hazard because CRT contain lead. 

I remember our town of 1000 had two TV repair guys.  They charged $5 to come to our place to put new tubes in the TV.  Today there are no repairman in that town.  That explains a lot