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If you were to look around a major consumer electronics retailer today, you might think CRT televisions had already gone the way of the dinosaur, with most sellers offering only one or two models amid a throng of wider, thinner, and (of course) younger flat-panel models. And you'd be right: consumers today are increasingly fixated on flat-panel televisions, so much so that market research firm iSuppli is forecasting that 2007 will… Read More

“The new CRT makes it possible to build a CRT TV only 38cm deep (see Fig). The 32-inch CRT TVs available on the market today are normally 50 to 60cm deep. While this new CRT would still be significantly thicker than the 10cm or so of plasma display panel (PDP) and LCD TVs, it would be on a par with the 40cm depth of most rear-projection units using digital micromirror devices (DMD) or similar technologies. Samsung SDI plans to begin… Read More

” The new CRT display, dubbed 'Vixlim' for 32-inch (81-centimeter) digital TVs, is only 35 centimeters thick, nearly halving the 50 to 60 centimeters seen on traditional CRTs. “The new product is as slim as LCD (liquid crystal display) TVs but better quality, making itself a good fit for digital TV,” the company said. “ Samsung plans to start product in early 2005 and hopes to make these new televisions… Read More

Quote from the article: “IDC IS PREDICTING manufacturers will ship more LCD screens than traditional CRT displays this year. That feat is especially remarkable given the fact LCDs have notoriously poor pixel response times, resolution scaling, and contrast ratios when compared with traditional CRT displays. Don't forget that, inch-for-inch, LCD screens typically cost twice as much as traditional CRT monitors, too. Why, with… Read More

Quote from the review: “The rise in popularity of the flat screen CRT monitor has fully come to fruition. No longer are flat face CRT's significantly more expensive than their curved-tube counterparts, making them quite affordable, and quite worth getting. Flat face CRT's have a few advantages over their older counterparts which are not simply cosmetic. For starters, they offer better readability and resolution at the… Read More