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Sony stop making Triniton CRTs
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:36 am
by DTS
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.)
Re: Sony stop making Triniton CRTs
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:26 am
by +JuggerNaut+
rip good 'ole trinitron
Re: Sony stop making Triniton CRTs
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:54 pm
by Fender
My 19" Trinitron monitor I bought in '96 is still working great.
Re: Sony stop making Triniton CRTs
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:15 pm
by Nightshade
I had a 31" Trinitron XBR TV for a while, bloody fantastic picture.
Re: Sony stop making Triniton CRTs
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:27 pm
by plained
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
Re: Sony stop making Triniton CRTs
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:18 pm
by Doombrain
love the two thin lines that run through them...
Re: Sony stop making Triniton CRTs
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:41 pm
by SOAPboy
Doombrain wrote:love the two thin lines that run through them...
oh me too. High contrast backgrounds + those lines = sex.
Re: Sony stop making Triniton CRTs
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:44 pm
by PhoeniX
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.
Re: Sony stop making Triniton CRTs
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:15 pm
by AmIdYfReAk
i didnt think that they continued to make them.... learned somthing new.
Re: Sony stop making Triniton CRTs
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:49 pm
by andyman
They should be cheap then?
Re: Sony stop making Triniton CRTs
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:16 pm
by nay0k
AmIdYfReAk wrote:i didnt think that they continued to make them.... learned somthing new.
Heh, me too.
Re: Sony stop making Triniton CRTs
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:41 pm
by Nightshade
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.
Re: Sony stop making Triniton CRTs
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:59 pm
by YourGrandpa
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.
Re: Sony stop making Triniton CRTs
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:19 am
by Chupacabra
your son has his own dvd/lcd combo? isn't he like 5 years old or something?
Re: Sony stop making Triniton CRTs
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:45 am
by Grudge
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.