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DTS
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by DTS Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:36 am
Sony stop making Triniton CRTs
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/sony ... -crt-sets/
http://www.slashgear.com/sayonara-and-f ... 310553.php
Sony already ended the production of CRTs in Japan around 2004 but continued to manufacture CRT TVs under the Trinitron brand at plants in Southeast Asia to meet limited demand in Latin America and parts of Asia. Since its introduction in 1968 Sony has shipped 280 million units including TV and Monitor tubes. The history and technology will end by the end of this month and the company will give its full attention on LCD and OLED flat panels.
Good thing OLED is coming along. (If it wasn't for OLED this would be a great shame, cause LCD and plasma are inferior to CRT.)
Fender
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by Fender Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:54 pm
My 19" Trinitron monitor I bought in '96 is still working great.
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Nightshade
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by Nightshade Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:15 pm
I had a 31" Trinitron XBR TV for a while, bloody fantastic picture.
plained
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by plained Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:27 pm
i wont miss them i hope
one thing is theyre tough as ell' !
i have a crt in the garage it stays on in 30 below celseis np and works perfect in the extreme cold
it is about time!
Doombrain
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by Doombrain Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:18 pm
love the two thin lines that run through them...
SOAPboy
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by SOAPboy Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:41 pm
Doombrain wrote: love the two thin lines that run through them...
oh me too. High contrast backgrounds + those lines = sex.
PhoeniX
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by PhoeniX Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:44 pm
Nightshade wrote: I had a 31" Trinitron XBR TV for a while, bloody fantastic picture.
My 32" Trinitron TV blew up just before Christmas, it was a great TV with a better picture than my HD LCD for normal TV. I've still not replaced it thinking about it.
AmIdYfReAk
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by AmIdYfReAk Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:15 pm
i didnt think that they continued to make them.... learned somthing new.
andyman
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by andyman Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:49 pm
They should be cheap then?
nay0k
Posts: 249 Joined: Wed May 17, 2006 4:13 am
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by nay0k Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:16 pm
AmIdYfReAk wrote: i didnt think that they continued to make them.... learned somthing new.
Heh, me too.
Nightshade
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by Nightshade Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:41 pm
andyman wrote: They should be cheap then?
I'm not seeing cheap CRT sets in general. My daughter's TV shit the bed not long ago and I priced new ones...fuck that, she can read more.
YourGrandpa
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by YourGrandpa Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:59 pm
Get a el CheapO LCD. My son's TV died and we picked him up a Black Friday special 19" DVD/LCD combo for $199.00.
Chupacabra
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by Chupacabra Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:19 am
your son has his own dvd/lcd combo? isn't he like 5 years old or something?
Grudge
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by Grudge Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:45 am
I had a 19" Trinitron CRT back in the day, that motherfucker was huge. Then 5 years ago or so I went LCD, and I've never looked back. Good riddance.
