This is great on so many levels. It will allow me to affort a flatter TV. It will improve competition with LCDs and Plasma's, hopefully lowering the prices. It's also good because CRT's have much longer life-spans than either LCD or Plasma TV's.
It would be ironic if these flat CRT's became the norm and the LCDs and Plasmas faded away as a fad until the next (better) flat technology came out.
It's about time! Those flat panel tv's on the market right are outrageously priced. I'm ready to buy as soon as they come out. That is if the prices are really that much lower.
..for now. I think eventually LCD will take over, because they don't suffer from burn in like Plasma. Plus the plasma's lifespan is slightly shorter. This is good for users who need higher resolutions to use this as a PC monitor also. EDTV doesn't provide sharp enough as it stands now.
What I want to know is, who are the lunatics or blind people (apologies to real blind people!) who continue to buy those gawdawful projection tv's that fill up the retail showrooms? Do people really buy those after looking at a roomful of other tv technologies that all have massively superior pictures and color, or are the retailers just keeping unsellable floor models around to fill up the space?
It would be ironic if these flat CRT's became the norm and the LCDs and Plasmas faded away as a fad until the next (better) flat technology came out.
- Flat TV Screens
- by kbut November 19, 2004 9:49 AM PST
- I remember a Popular Electronics agazine article, circa 1961 that showed flat, thin color television tubes with right/angle guns....
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