take a look here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/natalie-pace/leds-light-up-wall-street_b_3527029.html

the led thing is one reason i have not uploaded much here recently, my interest in lighting is declining after a long time being into it a lot.

Aren't Philips actions illegal. They wants to become a monopoly in the lighting fields (The majority of the large manufacturers of light bulbs, don't seems to be able to compete with the LED market [Also Osram, even if they produces LEDs by themselves as well {Osram Opto-Semiconductors}], as almost 100% from the commercial LED activity comes from Philips and their sister companies [Cree, etc...]).
I'm pretty sure that this activity is simply an artifical planned obsolescence of the light bulb of its all forms, to cause Cree and Philips to make money and not for environmental purposes. If the lighting industry will based totally of LEDs, it will create more pollution than it created before Philips light bulb planned obsolescence activity began, and all of the chaos began as well.
Before the lamp/ballast/tube ban was created and before Philips government intervention, the lighting industry made very little pollution. Today, this industry made much more pollution than once.
This is not also planned obsolescence, but also a green washing.
This is way I hardly boycotted Philips and don't buy anything from them (Even not electric shavers)(Indeed, I'm even very sorry about my purchasing of 4 Philips S2 starters for my 2x8W T5 Shacs bug-zapper. Especially after hearing about IU contacts inside Osram ST151 starter, and seeing the /| contacts of my Philips S2 starters (Which aren't different than my OEM generic blink happy Philite starters of my bug-zapper).

max, don't worry. i have always planned to keep my lamps and fixtures but have had less motiavation to post pics lately. there are other factors as well. you have some good points, i should have realized that cree makes things look big to help raise their stock value. philips is the same they tell the public 80% of the lighting market by 2020 will be led and they say it is already at 25%. the only explanation i can come up is that leds make 25% of profits, because obviously leds only make like 1% of all lights here. maybe you are right that conventional lighting will still be around for a while, although i wonder if philips and others will try to get governments to impose bans on them like they did with incandescents.

I think that there is a cartel that takes place behinds this, which Cree and Philips are part of it. There is a scenario, where a commercial entity (Philips), wants to take control on the governments of the worlds countries.
The governments and the EU, needs to understand, that Philips misleaded them to think, that their activity is for environmental purposes, where in fact, their activity is only to planned obsolescence the traditional lighting in favor of LED lighting, and to make revenue, by forcing people to buy household lighting that costs as high as HID lamps (I'm heard that Philips LED lamps in the US, costs as high as an 400W MH lamps [Approx $100]), and lasts less than incandescents.

Hey guys I just wanted to chime in that the more our style of lighting becomes obsolete, the more it fuels the desire to collect a and enjoy for me.  The more rare, the more I covet. We literally may be the last to have seen these run and functioning and recollect that. We all are special!   I still can't believe and accept how they have pulled Sylvania 100 watt incandescents from our shelves already :-/  something so simple, that works so well.  Transport back 13 years and mention that you're no longer able to buy a light bulb and it would be horrifying, insane :-/ In the year 2030 cheeseburgers will be phased out due to health standards. First beginning with quarter pounders, next 2035 double cheeseburgers, and finally in 2040 all hamburgers....(joking/sarcasm intended)

Dave: R U sure that the Philips that stands behinds all of these product placements, is the Royal Philips Lighting of Holland or the North America Philips? Some members (And must to admit that I'm one of them), implying that the Philips that wants to get the light bulb at all of its forms and the traditional electrical lighting obsolete in favor of LED lighting in such an offensive behavior (With Cree) which including explosive eruptions into the media like a volcano, as in the case of the article in this post, is a specific problem in North America, and that in the UK and Israel, Philips don't doing problems at all (In Israel, the DoE and the Standards Institution of Israel, doing the problems in the first place, and in the UK, the credits is given to the EU).

Remind you that Israel is member of the EU as well