Quote Originally Posted by Ed Oscuro View Post
Already said that. CRTs don't last forever and not everybody has them, so a scaler can be a very flexible piece of equipment to have. For example, if you were taking games on the road to a meet. I assume there may still be new scalers made in years to come but there are some pretty good ones out right now. I expect they will only get better as time goes on though.
Where I live you can get a CRT TV for under $20 bucks if not free. As people upgrade to flat screens their old picture tube TVs sit in storage. For many people they are big and bulky and take up space so they give them away.

CRT TVs won't last forever just as a scaler won't last forever either.