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Is plasma television good for the environmental impact of the materials/chemicals used in them

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Welcome to the promised follow-up to our previous examination of the digital television revolution. This week we finally take an opportunity for tortured reference to the revolution being digitized. I suppose everyone is probably making that joke. You heard it here last.

To recap the situation as seen from television-free floor 2B: there are around 275 million TVs in the U.S. These historically were cathode-ray sets receiving analog signals. All stations are to convert to digital signal by mid-June, hastening the obsolescence of analog-only CRTs, the sale of digital converter sets, and the potential change to LCD, plasma, or rear-projection televisions. Last time we learned that CRT recycling is possible and urgent, that Energy Star certifies digital converter boxes, and that Umbra thinks Jon Stewart is cute. Luckily for me I can watch his digital likeness over the internets.