To be fair, a well-made flat panel can last. Once again, the general lack of reliability is the result of quality going down.
The frame rate is a low frequency, but the flyback transformer runs at the horizontal refresh rate (the number of lines scanned in a given time) which is much higher than the frame rate. So they are not necessarily "low frequency".
Regarding the analogy I made, I think OTOH that a good HDD would last longer than a CRT running non-stop. But then again, no sensible person leaves their monitor on 24/7.
EDIT: What I cut out before was that LCD monitors were around before RoHS, but were not then popular on desktops due to the cost, and that CRTs are exempt from RoHS but have fallen out of fashion due to other considerations (not least of which is the amount of space they take up).
The frame rate is a low frequency, but the flyback transformer runs at the horizontal refresh rate (the number of lines scanned in a given time) which is much higher than the frame rate. So they are not necessarily "low frequency".
Regarding the analogy I made, I think OTOH that a good HDD would last longer than a CRT running non-stop. But then again, no sensible person leaves their monitor on 24/7.
EDIT: What I cut out before was that LCD monitors were around before RoHS, but were not then popular on desktops due to the cost, and that CRTs are exempt from RoHS but have fallen out of fashion due to other considerations (not least of which is the amount of space they take up).