I think we&#x27;re confusing &quot;lifetime&quot; in the reliability sense with &quot;lifetime&quot; meaning how long this particular LCD part will be available from the supplier.<p>I&#x27;ve been working with these types of LCDs for a long time, and when it comes to these WVGA&#x2F;SVGA 7&quot; units you can get a ton from Asia at great prices but the factory will literally disappear in a few months.  The LCD fabs constantly get bought&#x2F;sold&#x2F;churned as the major players like Sharp and LG shed off their last-generation fabs and the other smaller fish scoop them up.<p>Ideally a group like RPi will want to have the same part available for a long time so that they don&#x27;t need to create new revisions of the interface cables, power supplies, or software drivers to handle the change.  It&#x27;s nearly impossible to autodetect one 7&quot; LCD from another via software so you need to configure it entirely in a bootloader or kernel configuration line.  And then that becomes a massive support issue.