[flipper35]

Ron, the LCD screens do not fade, they are very easy on your electric bill and produce little heat. Plasma still degrades over time, costs twelve times as much to operate and are a fair bit more expensive to purchase but the initial picture quality is outstanding.

If you are talking front or rear projection LCD screens then you can have loss of brightness over the years, and much more so in a front projector.

Those cats remind me of what happened to a friends cat. It used to drink out of the toilet all the time and she caught it drinking there and tried to scare it by flushing. When she flushed the cat got scared, lost it's footing and fell in, butt first, and got stuck. The suction was so bad she could not get the cat out by herself and had her dad help her. The cat never drank out of the toilet after that.