Low energy lightbulbs are being imposed by Govt using cack handed authoritarian methods. There's no prestige or need to have them to show off, and people resent being told to switch to something that appears more expensive, even if they know the maths makes things the other way.
In addition, lightbulbs need replacing a lot.
TVs, on the other hand, can last for years, decades even. Manufacturers have a built in desire to get you to change your TV more often than you actually need to, something that isn't true of lightbulbs.
Plus, no one is telling you to get a flatscreen plasma/LCD. Instead, they're simply being presented as 'cool', or a nifty new gadget, or 'better'. It's in the manufacturers interest to present this as true, as it incentivises replacing the older, smaller, less cool CRTs.
Personally, I didn't notice much difference between my parents widescreen plasma mounted on the wall and a normal CRT, and I prefer LCD monitors to CRTs as they take less space and are more easily portable (we're a bit cramped here, as you know).
But there's a clear economic incentive for everyone in the industry to promote non CRT tellies, as it give an extra reason to get a new one before the old one actually goes pop.
Combine that with stuff like easy wall mounting, not really possible with a CRT, and you have a consumer pressure to improve their quality and similar.
Wheareas lightbulbs are just lightbulbs, and the meddling Govt/EU bureacrats are telling me I can't buy the bulbs I'm quite happy with, etc etc.
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Low energy lightbulbs are being imposed by Govt using cack handed authoritarian methods. There's no prestige or need to have them to show off, and people resent being told to switch to something that appears more expensive, even if they know the maths makes things the other way.
In addition, lightbulbs need replacing a lot.
TVs, on the other hand, can last for years, decades even. Manufacturers have a built in desire to get you to change your TV more often than you actually need to, something that isn't true of lightbulbs.
Plus, no one is telling you to get a flatscreen plasma/LCD. Instead, they're simply being presented as 'cool', or a nifty new gadget, or 'better'. It's in the manufacturers interest to present this as true, as it incentivises replacing the older, smaller, less cool CRTs.
Personally, I didn't notice much difference between my parents widescreen plasma mounted on the wall and a normal CRT, and I prefer LCD monitors to CRTs as they take less space and are more easily portable (we're a bit cramped here, as you know).
But there's a clear economic incentive for everyone in the industry to promote non CRT tellies, as it give an extra reason to get a new one before the old one actually goes pop.
Combine that with stuff like easy wall mounting, not really possible with a CRT, and you have a consumer pressure to improve their quality and similar.
Wheareas lightbulbs are just lightbulbs, and the meddling Govt/EU bureacrats are telling me I can't buy the bulbs I'm quite happy with, etc etc.