What has happened to the CRT?

"Joerg" a écrit dans le message de news:XsPgf.24470$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...

Not for long :-)

Unlikely.

As I'm sure you know, wood burning simply releases carbon that was recently captured. It's very easy to capture it back by planting another tree.

This is indeed the original 'bio-fuel'.

Surprised at that. Coal makes more a lot smoke than wood. Maybe it's not easy to distinguish the fuel used so there's a blanket ban.

Sounds good but I wouldn't like your hot days.

Graham

Hello Dirk,

More than 30 years. The only folks in our neighborhood who bought a $2000+ set are the 'frequent viewers', or maybe people who just have to have the biggest set in town.

Regards, Joerg

Thursday, October 27, 2005 By Jim McKay, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Sony Electronics yesterday told employees at its television manufacturing center in Westmoreland County yesterday that it expected to soon end production of cathode-ray tubes and related CRT-based televisions.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Hello Graham,

When a tree falls over and rots away it supposedly produces the same CO2 as if it was burned.

It is. As long as we don't have an influx of more flatlanders (Bay Area transplants...) who don the cowboy boots, think that they're now country folk and fire up the wood stove. One has to master the skill to get a good blaze going within minutes and then keep it regulated so there is a nice lean burn without any visible smoke. It require 'living with the stove' a bit.

to

They are talking about out-lawing non-cat stoves here. Sometimes I can't resist the feeling that the big energy suppliers are behind it who want us to get back as payers into their quasi-monopoly. No way.

Regards, Joerg

Hello Dirk,

And then, about two seconds before the ballgame gets to be the most interesting the image freezes up and a large gray box appears that the OS has encountered a fatal error and will now reboot.

Nah, don't want a PC in the living room.

Regards, Joerg

Hello Robert,

No, I guess then we would have bought a new one. But what it tells me is that hanging 3-4 TV sets from the ceiling like it used to be done might be a more economical solution than all this high-tech.

You have a point with printers. The one in the lab was $85 and when the cartridge is empty it may be cheaper to buy a new printer ;-)

Regards, Joerg

Hello Jim,

Way to go. If it's just the lab you could do it off grid. But the cost of solar would have to come down and you'd have the hassle of battery maintenance.

Don't forget the fridge/freezer. These things draw an awful lot of surge current and are really taxing on inverters or smaller generators.

We can't do that, stove and range are electric. Then again, we prepare most dinners on the charcoal Weber including some pretty fancy ones. Tomorrow a big turkey will be done in there as well since oven-baked doesn't even come close in taste. Having to add the occasional chunck of mesquite is a perfect excuse for the guys to hang around the barbeque with a Pale Ale.

Regards, Joerg

What? Have they solved the yield problem yet? 14-15 inchers may get cheaper than CRT but the yield for LCDs get significantly worse for larger sizes. That's why prices don't scale up the samd with LCD as with CRTs.

I expect 32" CRTs to be cheaper than 32" LCDs by the end of the decade.

But...

Have you seen Negroponte's $100 laptop? It claims to use an LED based display. I suspect it's OLED but not sure. It is far cheaper than either CRT or LCD. And LEDs has far faster refresh rates than LCDs.

Hello Charles,

Like the niche application of watching the news :-D

Since the 60's people have proclaimed the imminent obsolescence of the AM band yet it's alive and kicking.

As long as the cost of the 32" LCD TV is higher than that of the 32" CRT TV there will be CRT.

Regards, Joerg

I heard no rumors from the Sony CRT plant near Pittsburgh.

greg

I don't know what blankets burn like, but the smell from old mattresses is terrible. :-)

Move to flat screen TVs costs 650 Sony jobs

martin

Hello Joel,

I guess AM stereo never made it because nobody really needed it. To me it always looked like 'technology looking for a home'. When you buy a new car and there is no AM stereo on it that pretty much tells the story. Even the rental cars of brands that used to have AM stereo don't have it anymore.

I doubt that. The installed base of AM receivers is just too large. Folks will be mighty miffed if they can't listen to Rush anymore ;-)

Companies can dream up all they want but they often do not talk with customers enough. In medical that would bankrupt a company in no time. We are always out there at the customers. Let's face it: If people want nice tunes they turn to FM which is good enough. If there ain't nothing on the 30 or so stations they plop in a CD or on the road they grab their iPod. Who needs digital radio? More importantly, who is going to value it enough to spring a few hundred?

It's like with DTV. Either the technology for it becomes very cheap or people with get angry and look around the political landscape to see who dunnit. That will no doubt be exploited big time during the next campaigns.

Well, then it's ok. But until then ...

In Cameron Park east of Sacramento. No barn here but one of our dogs just let one rip that could have run a Cray for a few minutes. Then she sneezed and left my office.

Regards, Joerg

Hello Spehro,

Well, how could you possible produce in the US when a large CRT set sells for $299 at Costco? I am surprised they were still doing it until now. This stuff will be produced in China like pretty much everything else.

Regards, Joerg

speckly to me.

I see is

real easy

digital

It's not so much the digital per-se - it's the companies using greater compression on MP2.If you widened the bandwidth (bit-rate) all would be fine. Instead they squeeze more channels out of it.This was always going to be the case. I can see little or no improvement at present with digital TV because of this.

McC

speckly to me.

see is

easy

Better hurry up for the digital, as UncleSugar is going to steal your (analog) TV...

They make great pistol targets. ;-)

speckly to me.

see is

easy

I've seen these effects as well. But then I've seen another HDTV screen tuned to the same program that looked just fine. I suspect that its the receiver that may have crappy s/w or other problems.