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Can we say goodbye to CRTs?

Originally posted by: Gamer X
Do you think CRTs are dying? if yes when can we expect that and if no why?
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Are CRT's dying? No. CRT's are still superior to LCD's regarding performance and IQ plus they're cheaper. Until that changes which is the unforeseeable future CRT's are here to stay.
 
I had a 17" lcd for a couple years but I went back to CRT recently. I still like the pure blacks, sharp text, and bright colors of crt's. Plus desk space is not an issue for me. Also the choice of any resolution, and with good monitors and high refresh rates make lcd's a poor choice for gamers IMO.
 
Originally posted by: Gamer X
Do you think CRTs are dying? if yes when can we expect that and if no why?
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Yes, CRTs are dying, but very very slowly. Many of my friends had changed to LCDs and many of them had complained. Therefore, I am still keeping my two nice Sony CRTs.
 
i dont think they will every really be dead. they still sell floppy drives and those have been out for a while

i do thik the non-flat CRT's will be completley phased out soon though. All the new crt's i see are flat screens
 
They're slowly dying, in that several manufacturers have stopped producing them. While I still prefer CRTs to LCDs, they don't make 'em like they used to.
 
I think CTRs are here to stay because they are better than the LCDs by a mile and besides for gaming, the CTRs rock so it will be a long time until they start "dying"...
 
Of course, but they won't be officially dead for a good 10 years at the rate things have been going.

I still prefer CRT over LCD. Maybe something new will replace both. Who knows.
 
I love ny CRT but the sad fact is they are dieing, right now most companies have stopped producing highend CRTs or CRTs all together. Within 2 years I suspect it'll be hard to find any decent new CRT, but there is a bright side, OLED (Organic LCDs) are coming and are predicted to be maistream by 2010 at the latest.
 
Originally posted by: Muscles
Originally posted by: Gamer X
Do you think CRTs are dying? if yes when can we expect that and if no why?
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Are CRT's dying? No. CRT's are still superior to LCD's regarding performance and IQ plus they're cheaper. Until that changes which is the unforeseeable future CRT's are here to stay.
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Good CRT's look more expensive to me nowadays.
 
CRT's still have better image quality, contrast and brightness than LCDs. Until LCD's can beat a CRT in every way, CRT's will still be around.

RoD
 
..economics will drive that decision..I've read that the manufactures want to get out of the crt biz due to shipping costs and LCD's are easier to punch out then glass vacum tubes. Joe 6 pak..can't tell the diff between a crt pic and lcd..and the lcd has eye appeal and a small foot print. So I'll bet 5 years out if crt's are still made they will be an expensive novelty.
 
My next monitor will be CRT. I hope to get one of the top-line NEC CRT (19 in., around $500). I don't see any advantages of LCDs over CRTs except for size. However, the disadvantages are numerous.
 
I would say that CRTs are almost dead. The number of companies still producing CRTs can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
There are several advantages to LCDs: low power consumption, sharpness (LCDs are capable of displaying 96 dots per inch, versus 72dpi for CRTs), "flatness", completely automatic image alignment and interferrence-free digital DVI picture.

However, there are three issues that keep LCDs from officially accepting the display crown: response time, color gamut and resolution scaling.

Response time has been fixed (with new 8ms panels).

Color gamut still lags behind, which I think is much more detrimental to the quality of displayed image than the response time. Faithful reproduction of darkest colors is problematic, although Sharp does make several 10-bit LCD models that seem to fix the issue somewhat.

Resolution scaling is another problem with no solution. Decent 19" CRT can run at 1600x1200, which is quite important in our "HDTV, hi-res digital camera" world. However, most 19" LCDs run at 1280x1024. Any other resolution on 19" LCD degrades image quality. We will not see great improvement in this area probably until 120dpi hi-res LCDs arrive (about the time of Windows Longhorn). At that point, display resolution will begin to approach the resolution of ordinary paper (Awesome!).

So, to make a long story short: The next two generations of LCDs will probably finish off the dying CRT technology as part of computer setup (CRT is still useful elsewhere).
 
6ms are not uncommon anymore, and there was recently a 4ms LCD released (by benQ i think).

RoD

EDIT: This thread needs a poll!
 
CRTs as we know them should be gone relatively soon. With TVs there are going to be thinner CRTs, which I believe will end up in computer land also.
 
dunno, i kinda stopped playing games on my pc and gave my 2 nice mitsus (2020u, 900u) to my brother so i'm all for lcd now.
 
I'm a seer-believer. I can't imagine that CRTs can even touch an LCD in terms of style/performance. CRT's color, refresh rates, and pixel precision I can accept, but LCDs are so small and visually gorgeous (getting drastically cheaper now), the former are difficult to favor.
 
Originally posted by: rod
6ms are not uncommon anymore, and there was recently a 4ms LCD released (by benQ i think).

RoD

EDIT: This thread needs a poll!
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Even 4ms may not be enough for some people. Because LCDs need whole milliseconds to change from one color to another while CRTs change virtually instantaniously means that some people are going to stick with CRTs. The fact of the matter is that a CRT spends virtually 100% of the time it's running showing a solid image, whereas a 8ms LCD at 60hz(so refreshing every 16.6ms) would spend nearly half of the time it's on just showing images that are in the middle of changing(since it would be 8ms after the refresh before the pixels finished reaching their new color, on average). CRTs also have the advantage of uniformly changing colors(i.e. all colors change to another at exactly the same rate), while with LCDs the length of the process varies depending on the to and from colors.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing mind you, but it will guarantee that CRTs will continue to be in demand for some applications for quite some time.
 
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