It still kinda rings true. Looking at CRT TVs the other day at a thrift shop, the picture wasn't nearly as bad as I remembered. Light static/snow was a much better degradation mode than with digital OTA TV, and if I were a heavy channel-surfer I'd probably be willing to trade HD picture quality for near-instant channel switching—delays on the modern digital tuners really suck. Not that you can anymore since the analog broadcasts are gone, but still.
Between all that and stupid pwnable "smart" TVs that take half a minute to boot up while adding no value, things are sort of worse than they used to be, in TV land. Thanks, computers!
