A cinematographer's take on the LED takeover. Found this video through a Tom Scott newsletter.

https://youtu.be/y51VUsotZe4

This is really cool movie! Impressed by in-depth technical knowledge of the author. But a cinematigrapher *has* to know everything about light!

Hope neon is not endangered in USA. Here in Astana almost all outdoor neon signs are gone now, except the letters at the entrance of Khan-Shatyr mall. Still some real neon tubes inside here and there. Some pockets of HPS streetlights remain too.



 

This is an awesome movie (though it makes me sad) - thanks for sharing the link!

Neon lighting is still very popular around here. I haven't yet seen an LED neon replacement in an outdoor application. As for HPS, it's still seen sometimes in rural areas and parts of Hillsboro, but most of it has been replaced with LED. Many parking lots still use MH and sometimes HPS, though.

I am at the point now to where I am happy to see HPS being phased out.  To me the Orange light is not very useful.  I would have rather they kept things MV but when HPS is replaced with 3000-4000K LED, it looks great. 

Neon lighting is still very popular around here. I haven't yet seen an LED neon replacement in an outdoor application. As for HPS, it's still seen sometimes in rural areas and parts of Hillsboro, but most of it has been replaced with LED. Many parking lots still use MH and sometimes HPS, though.

Still quite a bit of HPS on Bethany Boulevard and other places in Hillsboro I drive through regularly. I'd agree that neon is still common here, and probably will always be around in certain applications. It did slightly irritate me that they converted the old Burlingame Fred Meyer sign to LED when they restored it, but at least they did a good job of it.

In the gentrified parts of the Netherlands, you occasionally come across spectacular new neon installations. For instance the Vegan Junk Food Bar in Amsterdam has brand new signs made.

I know not all of their stores have the actual neon stuff, but the one at the Reguliersdwarsstraat has an identical one to this one. It's cool to see actual authentic true handmade glass stuff popping up here and there, because it's so much nicer than the LED "neon" tubes that i hate being called "neon". Nothing beats the glossy shiny look of actual glass tube.