Interesting excerpt from crt technical book from 1985. CRT reigning speculation..

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Interesting excerpt from crt technical book from 1985. CRT reigning speculation..

Taken from "flat panel displays and crts" 1985 Lawrence E. Tannas

The CRT is so entrenched in the industrial and commercial world that it may never be replaced. This brash-sounding statement is meant to emphasize that its replacement is not easily predictable. The cost of the CRT display is a key factor guaranteeing its longevity. The Trend toward use of more and more high-resolution color displays is another.

Replacement of the CRT, however, is no longer the question. In the 1950s, flat-panel enthusiast predicted that the CRTs would be "out-technologed". In the 1960s, these same enthusiasts predicted that the CRTs would be replaced but it was going to take a little longer. The CRT was not replaced by the 1970s, and the credibility of flat-panel enthusiasts was greatly eroded. By the 1980s, it was clear that the CRT may never be replaced, but this fact does not bother flat-panel enthusiasts anymore; they have found applications of their own. Now the question is, "What new products are possible with the flat-panel technologies?' This book is intended to lay the foundation and show the way..
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i like how they say "never be placed"..

and we all know it happend overnight for the consumer tv market.

remember when you could come home with 10 crts from the curb if you wanted to just by driving around for a bit?
I am glad i have about 20 19" and 10 27" comsumer tvs mothballed all new...

great for classic console gaming + light guns wont work on the flat stuff.
 
i like how they say "never be placed"..

and we all know it happend overnight for the consumer tv market.

remember when you could come home with 10 crts from the curb if you wanted to just by driving around for a bit?
I am glad i have about 20 19" and 10 27" comsumer tvs mothballed all new...

great for classic console gaming + light guns wont work on the flat stuff.


Are you talking about flat panel CRTs?

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
 
I wouldn't say happen overnight...

I got my gameboy in 1988.

Never got a non crt TV until 2007.
 
Are you talking about flat panel CRTs?

I've never heard of a flat screen CRT referred to as a panel. I was also totally unaware that anything else in the 80's was even available unless he referring to monochrome LCD's.

That would be pretty cool to read.
 
shouldn't ever be totaly gone, just like with vinyl record brand new players are still made from them..
we will be ok for the most part.. however actually seeing a factory making CRTs in the USA again may not happen. so what we end up with either won't be for our application or it will be of low quality.

In some way, I pray and hope that the CRT won't ever be totally gone....like vinyl records....but I fear they will go the way of Polaroid pictures...
 
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I've never heard of a flat screen CRT referred to as a panel. I was also totally unaware that anything else in the 80's was even available unless he referring to monochrome LCD's.

That would be pretty cool to read.

Well, to this day the only advantage I see of LCDs over CRTs is the their weight and foot-print. So I guess that was enough for them to take over the market.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
 
shouldn't ever be totaly gone, just like with vinyl record brand new players are still made from them..
we will be ok for the most part.. however actually seeing a factory making CRTs in the USA again may not happen. so what we end up with either won't be for our application or it will be of low quality.

Chung-Wha has been producing excellent tubes for decades...not everything from China is Rubbish.
 
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Well, to this day the only advantage I see of LCDs over CRTs is the their weight and foot-print. So I guess that was enough for them to take over the market.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

Plus cheaper to manufacture, hi def, contrast, etc..
 
Plus cheaper to manufacture, hi def, contrast, etc..
I'll give you most of those, but I've gotta disagree on the contrast. No LCD I've ever seen gets close to a CRT's contrast abilities. And don't even get me started on black. On an LCD "black" is more like medium-dark-gray. As always, I really WANT someone to show me a counterexample. Really, I do. They just haven't been able to yet.
 
I'll give you most of those, but I've gotta disagree on the contrast. No LCD I've ever seen gets close to a CRT's contrast abilities. And don't even get me started on black. On an LCD "black" is more like medium-dark-gray. As always, I really WANT someone to show me a counterexample. Really, I do. They just haven't been able to yet.

The blacks look pretty good on my Samsung, but I may not be a good judge of it. Another thing, the color seems to 'pop' a lot more, if it's good quality HD content - Discovery channel/nature type stuff.. I also wouldn't want to go back to the SD aspect ratio. The widescreen content is nice.
 
one of the reasons I will keep my sony kv-32hS510 and wide screen big brother as long as I can. ya 1080i max but thats good enough for me. the picture is absolutely breath taking. it's too bad that when the consumer TV market started pumping out HD crts the lcds were already rolling in.. so the production time on them was not for many years plus the ratio when lcds hit was favored towards lcd / plasma.. some great hd crts floating around just on the rare side..

I'll give you most of those, but I've gotta disagree on the contrast. No LCD I've ever seen gets close to a CRT's contrast abilities. And don't even get me started on black. On an LCD "black" is more like medium-dark-gray. As always, I really WANT someone to show me a counterexample. Really, I do. They just haven't been able to yet.
 
one of the reasons I will keep my sony kv-32hS510 and wide screen big brother as long as I can. ya 1080i max but thats good enough for me. the picture is absolutely breath taking. it's too bad that when the consumer TV market started pumping out HD crts the lcds were already rolling in.. so the production time on them was not for many years plus the ratio when lcds hit was favored towards lcd / plasma.. some great hd crts floating around just on the rare side..

A guy I know bought a HD 'capable' big CRT tv, before LCD and plasma were everywhere and affordable. I think it was a 35" tube tv, but it was definitely the heaviest tv I've ever moved. Picking it up was like trying to pull a fence post out of the ground.
 
A guy I know bought a HD 'capable' big CRT tv, before LCD and plasma were everywhere and affordable. I think it was a 35" tube tv, but it was definitely the heaviest tv I've ever moved. Picking it up was like trying to pull a fence post out of the ground.

That's what my dad bought. I remember trying to move it when he bought his flat screen. JEEEEEEEZE that thing is heavy.
 
Plus cheaper to manufacture, hi def, contrast, etc..


They were making high definition CRTs when the LCD market started taking over. And if LCDs are cheaper to manufacture, then it just happened over the last year. When I last heard they still cost 50% more to make. But either way CRTs are still cheaper for the consumer. And I don't think that LCD contrast is better than on CRTs. CRTs have more accurate color replication. CRTs have better resolution. A CRT's picture looks good from different distances and angles. A CRT's "black" is actually "black".

And a big thing no one likes to talk about is that you'd probably have to buy several LCDs over the life of a single CRT TV. (At least that's been my experience).

Anyway, I prefer the picture of a brand new CRT over an LCD any day.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
 
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