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do they even make CRT's anymore?

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went to best buy the other day and noticed they don't even have them on display anymore.
i would say in the TV section, 70% lcd's, 28% plasma's, 2% DLP's, 0% CRT's.
in computers, 100% LCD's, 0% CRT's.

funny thing is, they still have VHS players for sale.
 
They still have a few CRT TVs at Best Buy. At our Best Buy, they are in the same row as the DVD players at the back of the store. Not very many choices though.
 
walmart..bestbuy wherever ...the crts are scarce🙂

i'm not sure they really bother making much anymore, i'm guessing they are selling back stock at this point. anything still being made is for super low end..3rd world factory suppliers😛
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
walmart..bestbuy wherever ...the crts are scarce🙂

i'm not sure they really bother making much anymore,
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not everyone cares about LCD/plasma TVs and many dont want to spend that much on a new TV
 
What do you mean fast? CRT has been around forever... Shit I remember Braun Tubes packed in wooden crate and straw bale. Them be heavy black and white glass tubes 🙂 DivX was fast, So was DVD-A and SACD. Not CRT.
 
Originally posted by: SillyOReilly
Originally posted by: NightDarker
Faster than dial up modems?
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Still used extensively for faxing.
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there are still a lot of people on dialup... and most probably still have pc's with crt's...

(typed as i look into my aged, flickering old friend, the viewsonic pt813 21 inch crt...)

 
Originally posted by: sdifox
What do you mean fast? CRT has been around forever... Shit I remember Braun Tubes packed in wooden crate and straw bale. Them be heavy black and white glass tubes 🙂 DivX was fast, So was DVD-A and SACD. Not CRT.
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i meant the transition away from them. they were mainstream as recently as 2004? 2005? and in just a couple of years, they're all but extinct.

divx, dvd-a, sacd were never mainstream.
 
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: potato28
Originally posted by: BlackTigers
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/ol...oduct&id=1194052042561

Spending $400 for a $27" TV is too much. I remember four years ago when I bought a nicer 27" Sony CRT for close to $200. We don't have any flat panel TV's in the house (7 CRT's) and might buy one for Christmas if there's a deal.

The damn things are expensive, lol.
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Yea, but they're THIN!!!
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point?
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Everyone wants thin things now, like phones, mp3 players, TV's, computers and such and so on. I'd rather have a CRT, better colour reproduction and much quicker response times.
 
7crts?
2-3 flat screens woulda been better😉

and the price is rapidly dropping, its why the major companies dumped their crt factories.
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

and the price is rapidly dropping, its why the major companies dumped their crt factories.
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not dropping fast enough

still cant get a 27in LCD for 200$

same reason i used CRT comp mons for so long, it took forever to get to the point where you could get a 19in or larger LCD that would do 1600x1200 for 250$
 
Yes they do.
Newegg has the Nec 21" which is a sony trinitron display.
I use all crt for work. I tried lcd and unless I spend serious cash I can't get the same color and blacks that I can get with crt.
 
Originally posted by: potato28
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: potato28
Originally posted by: BlackTigers
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/ol...oduct&id=1194052042561

Spending $400 for a $27" TV is too much. I remember four years ago when I bought a nicer 27" Sony CRT for close to $200. We don't have any flat panel TV's in the house (7 CRT's) and might buy one for Christmas if there's a deal.

The damn things are expensive, lol.
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Yea, but they're THIN!!!
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point?
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Everyone wants thin things now, like phones, mp3 players, TV's, computers and such and so on. I'd rather have a CRT, better colour reproduction and much quicker response times.
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That's not what she said....

CRT's have been around forever dude. I still have 2 20" CRT Samsung flatscreen monitors and a CRT TV(will be replacing soon)
 
my 2.5 yr old 26" CRT panasonic HDTV just died 🙁
came home one day to find out it wont turn on

it's out of warranty so Im not even gonna bother getting it fixed. Thing's so damn bulky that lugging it to a panasonic authorized repair center would be a pain, not to mention the costs involved with fixing it.
Hate just throwing it away though. Maybe i'll try selling it on CL for real cheap so that someone who can diagnose it, can fix it up for himself
 
yea well, you be happy with your 200 dollar telly.

whatever the response rate it is .3 megapixels is nothing vs the 1-2 million pixels that you can get for just a bit more. as for having 7 tv's...that guy have 7 kids or something?

i do remember not that long ago that a sony 27" crt cost atleast 350 dollars. the new price is the stock dumping price. its nothing to base a argument on value on.

Sony to stop making old-style cathode ray tube TVs
By MarketWatch
Last update: 4:58 a.m. EST March 3, 2008
said Monday that it will end all production of its traditional-style cathode ray tube televisions by the end of the month, four decades after their launch, as consumers switch to flat-screen TVs.
Sony Corp. ended production of cathode-ray tubes in Japan in 2004, but continued to produce the old-style TVs under the "Trinitron" brand at plants in Singapore and Malaysia to meet limited demand in Latin America and parts of Asia.
Now it has decided to pull the plug on the remaining operations.
"We are going to end production of cathode ray tubes at the end of March," a Sony spokesman said. http://www.marketwatch.com/new...thode/story.aspx?guid={097C2A31-1395-41BC-A8B7-6A3A65B27F97}
 
Originally posted by: Aharami
my 2.5 yr old 26" CRT panasonic HDTV just died 🙁
came home one day to find out it wont turn on

it's out of warranty so Im not even gonna bother getting it fixed. Thing's so damn bulky that lugging it to a panasonic authorized repair center would be a pain, not to mention the costs involved with fixing it.
Hate just throwing it away though. Maybe i'll try selling it on CL for real cheap so that someone who can diagnose it, can fix it up for himself
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you can't "just" throw it away... in my town u have to take it to an approved recycling center...
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: NightDarker
Faster than dial up modems?
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Alas, I know several people who still use dial-up. Worse still, one uses AOL.
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A lot of people are dumping broadband and going back to dial up as they keep raising prices on broadband.
 
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