Craig Birkmaier wrote: > The manufacturing process for LCD displays is considerably more > complex than for CRT displays, and the cost to build the > manufacturing plat is much higher. We are talking about the > difference between manufacturing light bulbs versus large complex > integrated "chips." > > The process for building CRT displays is well evolved: make the bulb, > screen on the phosphors and assemble some cheap metal components > manufactured by the millions. Sounds suspiciously like stuff I used to hear about how hard it is to build a color CRT vs B&W. All of that doesn't matter anymore. But okay, it will take some time. I think we disagree only on how much time. I say very few years before CRT TVs will become unusual on store shelves. (Same goes for price reduction on ATSC front ends.) Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.