If you're using a 12 year old LCD panel, you're probably hobbling yourself with terrible resolution, response time, refresh rate, color gamut, viewing angle, backlight evenness, black level/contrast, etc.
It's absolutely bizarre how luddite HNers can be when it comes to keeping even remotely current on hardware.
If it meets the poster’s needs, what’s the problem? Better that old electronics continue to get used than for them to be junked.
Though my primary monitors are newer, I have monitors that are coming up on a decade old that get used as secondary monitors because I don’t need anything fancy for that use case… it just needs to be a functional screen. Some people have similarly undemanding needs for TVs.
It's absolutely bizarre how luddite HNers can be when it comes to keeping even remotely current on hardware.