Why can't they make slim CRT monitors?

[thescreensavers]

basicly its a projector behind the monitor and need that space to project on the whole screen

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Lucent
So what if the TV is thick? I don't care. Computer Displays, maybe depending on desk size, but TVs are no problem.

You may not care, but the legion of home design tv show watchers would... Look, it's a sexy flat tv on the wall, never mind it's a fire hazard.

 

[Thraxen]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Lucent
So what if the TV is thick? I don't care. Computer Displays, maybe depending on desk size, but TVs are no problem.

You may not care, but the legion of home design tv show watchers would... Look, it's a sexy flat tv on the wall, never mind it's a fire hazard.

Heh... TVs on the wall do look cool, but then what do you do if you have home theater speakers and components? If you happen to be wealthy or in the process of building a home you can create mounts in the walls for the speakers and have an A/V closet for the components, but everyone else is screwed. So, IMO, mounting on a wall is just looks corny if you still have shelves for for components and speakers in front of the TV.

IMO, the advantage of the thinner TV is room for wiring behind the display. You can place a plasma on a TV stand and if you ever need to wire/rewire anything it's easy to reach behind and do the work. With CRT the back of the display is often shoved to within an inch or two of the wall and there isn't much room to work.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Thraxen

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Lucent
So what if the TV is thick? I don't care. Computer Displays, maybe depending on desk size, but TVs are no problem.

You may not care, but the legion of home design tv show watchers would... Look, it's a sexy flat tv on the wall, never mind it's a fire hazard.

Heh... TVs on the wall do look cool, but then what do you do if you have home theater speakers and components? If you happen to be wealthy or in the process of building a home you can create mounts in the walls for the speakers and have an A/V closet for the components, but everyone else is screwed. So, IMO, mounting on a wall is just looks corny if you still have shelves for for components and speakers in front of the TV.

IMO, the advantage of the thinner TV is room for wiring behind the display. You can place a plasma on a TV stand and if you ever need to wire/rewire anything it's easy to reach behind and do the work. With CRT the back of the display is often shoved to within an inch or two of the wall and there isn't much room to work.

They like to build them into walls. So everything gets recessed. And they'll go buy some crappy sound system like B&O and Bose. Or some cheap in-wall speakers.

Why would you need to mess with wiring once they are done?

 

[Thraxen]

Originally posted by: sdifox
Why would you need to mess with wiring once they are done?

Usually if you buy something new either to replace an existing component or just a new component altogether. For example, say I buy a Blu-Ray player... I'll need to wire that in and possibly remove my existing DVD player. Or say I buy a new console. Lots of reasons why I might need to access the wiring behind my TV.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Thraxen

Originally posted by: sdifox
Why would you need to mess with wiring once they are done?

Usually if you buy something new either to replace an existing component or just a new component altogether. For example, say I buy a Blu-Ray player... I'll need to wire that in and possibly remove my existing DVD player. Or say I buy a new console. Lots of reasons why I might need to access the wiring behind my TV.

well, that is where the receiver/pre-pro comes in but I see what you are saying.

 

[BionicSniper]

Dont forget about lCoS (liquid Crystal On Silicon).

Im looking forward to that in a projector.

One problem that i see with SED is that it will most likely have a analog data transmission system for computer use. That is if it uses the voltages to activate the various guns (current CRT's method)

 

[Eeezee]

Theoretically it would be possible to make a thinner CRT, but the strength of the magnet would have to be enormous. The monitor would cost 20x more just to save an inch of space, and it would likely burn out faster.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: BionicSniper
Dont forget about lCoS (liquid Crystal On Silicon).

Im looking forward to that in a projector.

One problem that i see with SED is that it will most likely have a analog data transmission system for computer use. That is if it uses the voltages to activate the various guns (current CRT's method)

Why would you presume it would be analogue input? SED is a fixed resolution display like lcd and pdp, so it would make more sense to have digital input.