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Probably because there was no practical way of getting rid of them.
That, plus TVs used to be expensive, and a working TV wasn't something most people would just get rid of.
More than that, working electronics, they all were EXPENSIVE just until 2005-2010 when cheap Chinese tech flooded market and prices of domestic daily usage tech plummeted