Steve
10-24-2006, 02:39 PM
Have you recently bought a monitor for your computer or television?
Was it a CRT or a flat screen?
It seems you can still get some good deals on CRTs but the flat screen prices have fallen dramatically.
Flat-panels rule, old boob tube all but dead (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/10/23/tube.tv.decline.ap/index.html) - The lone conventional television set at Anderson's TV store sat along a side wall like a castoff. Its screen was dark as dozens of other gleaming flat-panel and big-screen models flashed nearby with vivid color images.
The staff at the Redwood City store hadn't even bothered to turn on the cathode-ray tube TV until a reporter asked to see it on a recent afternoon.
The obvious neglect reflected the wallflower status of today's CRT TVs, as well as the mature technology's doomed future. Experts say the old-fashioned boob tube that catered to generations of Americans will soon be all but extinct.
"It's already dead, but it doesn't know it yet," said Jon Paul Belstler, an audio/video consultant at Anderson's. "It's just trying to hang on."
Across stores and in homes, sleek LCD and plasma televisions are taking over.
Was it a CRT or a flat screen?
It seems you can still get some good deals on CRTs but the flat screen prices have fallen dramatically.
Flat-panels rule, old boob tube all but dead (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/10/23/tube.tv.decline.ap/index.html) - The lone conventional television set at Anderson's TV store sat along a side wall like a castoff. Its screen was dark as dozens of other gleaming flat-panel and big-screen models flashed nearby with vivid color images.
The staff at the Redwood City store hadn't even bothered to turn on the cathode-ray tube TV until a reporter asked to see it on a recent afternoon.
The obvious neglect reflected the wallflower status of today's CRT TVs, as well as the mature technology's doomed future. Experts say the old-fashioned boob tube that catered to generations of Americans will soon be all but extinct.
"It's already dead, but it doesn't know it yet," said Jon Paul Belstler, an audio/video consultant at Anderson's. "It's just trying to hang on."
Across stores and in homes, sleek LCD and plasma televisions are taking over.