YES HID mercury vapor. Halide and HPS are still being made

[EugeneWilliams-mp]

I'm glad they still make these because I have childhood memories of all 3 of these types of bulbs. at my old house which was a church parsonage there was a Regent residential security light on a telephone pole, and at church Camp the basketball court was lit up by 14 metal halide bulbs + 1 HPS sadly they were all replaced by LEDs😥

[Dr_Mario]

Already knew that, I checked to make sure I'd still have the ceramic metal halide bulbs for a while especially for my modified Cyclops Thor Colossus halogen spotlight (for significantly better electrical efficiency compared to the original H4 Halogen bulb - Sylvania Osram 39 Watts CMH bulb is currently in my spotlight, nothing beats metal halide bulbs for when you need a lot of lights, especially with decent CRI, there's not much good direct LED replacement for them).

Of course, don't build the portable spotlight unless you know what you are doing, as automotive inverter ballasts that apparently works fine with CMH bulbs have rather lethal voltage inside (I used Hylux A2088 ballast as it's a better inverter ballast especially with rather demanding CMH bulbs and AC power is required for them to work correctly, obviously).

[MrTwitty]

I thought I read somewhere on the internet that they have been discontinued from the manufactures everywhere.

[homeguestunton]

Screw-In Spiral CFLs are also still being made although some manufacturers discontinued them. The 13W and 23W ones are usually not discontinued. GE and TCP did discontinued their CFLs,

[coolrobuxgaming]

They are not discontinued. Also what do you think of LED lighting?

[Altamira-Arazz]

most brands does not produce mercury vapor anymore but metal halide and hps is still available

[derekcruz]

I want that make more Mercury vapor bulbs and high pressure sodium bulbs🥺🥺

[rsofficial]

Nice. Did you ever see my comments on your fluorescent video?

[djmk]

I was just in a local Home Depot the other day (early April 2023), they no longer sell any HID lamps, unless they are hiding them somewhere in the store besides the lighting sections. However, the local Lowe’s still sells a limited variety of HID, including some MV. However, they are expensive. Lowe’s had discontinued selling those Cree HID retrofit LEDs in the E-37 size to replace 175-watt metal halide awhile back, but now they have the same size E-37 LED retrofit bulb to replace 175-watt Metal halide made by GE. Go figure!

[brave.]

Why would they discontinue making them? Just like analog radio exists, and just like 2G network is still around, so why not keep older lighting in production as long as people are still buying them?