[opendtv] Re: Koreans Try to Save Cathode-Ray Tube
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:43:36 -0400
In the RPTV sector I think CRT may still be the best bang for the buck
at the low end. And I like CRT's. I like how they look.
But I probably won't get one next time because they all seem to be
interlaced these days and that makes them less suitable for a big screen
computer desktop like I use.
- Tom
Monty Solomon wrote:
> Koreans Try to Save Cathode-Ray Tube
> - Aug 14, 2005 03:24 PM (AP Online)
>
> By ELLIOT SPAGAT AP Business Writer
>
>
> TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) -- Samsung Electronics Co. has an odd sales
> pitch for one of its new televisions. A slide show for dealers
> features a drawing of a TV on a tombstone that reads, "The news of my
> demise is greatly exaggerated!"
>
>
> The South Korean manufacturer is referring to cathode-ray tube, or
> CRT, televisions _ the heavy boxes that have dominated the business
> since television was introduced at the New York World's Fair in 1939.
>
>
> As rival technologies become cheaper, the era of the conventional
> tube TV is ending.
>
>
> Yet Samsung and a South Korean rival, LG Electronics Co., are
> refusing to abandon the old-style tube TVs entirely. They continue
> trying to improve CRTs even as they and other television makers are
> building more and more factories that churn out super-thin LCD and
> plasma televisions.
>
>
> Samsung's "slim" CRT, which began rolling off a Tijuana assembly line
> in April, is an effort to stall the technology's anticipated demise.
>
>
> CRTs _ which some videophiles insist produce the best pictures _ use
> a gun that fires electrons in a heavy, glass tube to light phosphors,
> far different from flat-panel TVs. LCDs affix liquid crystals to thin
> plates of glass, while plasma uses special gases to light the screen.
>
>
> Manufacturers have tried for years to flatten CRTs but failed to
> design an electron beam that's wide enough to light the screen's
> edges, said Paul Semenza, an analyst at market researcher iSuppli
> Corp. Samsung appears to have cracked that riddle, though whether it
> can produce them on a large scale remains to be seen, he said.
>
>
> Measuring 16 inches deep and weighing 120 pounds, Samsung's new
> 30-inch screen slimmer CRT is still far too clunky to hang on a wall.
> But its $1,000 price tag beats many high-definition digital displays.
>
> ...
>
> - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=51141378
>
>
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