It takes some pretty spectacular deals to pry Americans out of their recliners late every Turkey Day and send them out into blistering cold parking lots to camp for hours, but retailers have it figured it out with Black Friday. And if you’re looking to score a big-screen TV for half of what it normally runs for, get a printer bundled with your camera for free, or pick up an MP3 player for the cost of a cup of coffee, you’ll be out there too. With the economy forcing consumers to pinch their pennies even more this year, and retailers trying even harder to open those cautiously held wallets, the deals are ripe for the picking.
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The CRT TV Fights Back
LG.Philips Displays, the 50-50 joint venture between LG Electronics and Philips Electronics, has started selling the 35 cm thin tube and believes it can slim down the depth of a 32-inch-screen (81.3 cm) TV tube further, to as little as 25 cm in two years.
His firm has cut the depth to 35 cm by squeezing the curve on the back of the glass tube until it is almost flat. The electron gun and deflection coil still protrude, and engineers are working on those, Hesselink said on Monday.
