Just an FYI for the team, A Tube Tv is called.....

[ShaggyB]

CRT or Cathode Ray Tube. They are becoming rare, but you can still find them and even in HD (I had one that was 1080i, but once the tube goes it cost more to replace than to buy an LCD tv)

Great Email show, but i figured id share that with the team.

PS.
For those who want to know, there are four major types of TV sets in your local store.... CRT (Cathode Ray Tube), DLP (Digital Light Processing), LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) and PDP (Plasma Display Panel)

(there are more but most places will only have a few of the remaining types and sometimes its online only to get them.)

 

[irishdadx4]

My two home TV's are CRT/Tube sets, each is about 8-10 years old. Work great. Not looking forward to the day I have to replace them with lcd/plasma tv's. I don't have/don't want HDTV, blueray, surround sound, 3d-tv, DVR, etc. To paraphrase..."I want my CRT"

Mike

 

[starwood]

It's an ion bombardment chamber.

 

[mikelan6]

CRTs are dust magnets too.

 

[k5jm]

OLED TV's also

 

[ShaggyB]

OLED TV's also

that's true... OLED (organic light emitting diode) just came out didnt it. Ah well (more like re-came out... but hey they are super thin arent they.)


My CRT's tube "folded", I had a warranty for it that was still good... so i called the repair guy whom diagnosed the folding. Apparently the tube cost more than i paid for the tv when i got it 3 years earlier...

So I got the replacement credit and purchased an LCD HDtv, It has far superior color to the CRT i had before. (plus, it weighs soooo much less.)

 

[doconeill]

OLED's have been "out" for a while, but they just don't seem to make them big enough or cost effective. Sony had their 11" model for $2500 several years ago, and I don't think it ever came down in price.

OLED did get adopted at some levels for some cell phones, but not for high-end screen models.

Most of the OLED tech now is focused on flexible screens.

I posted about the "tubes" a couple days ago (among other things), but that post has been largely ignored All the "tubes" in the TVs DID get replaced by transistors - except the "picture tube", which as mentioned by the OP is officially called a Cathode Ray Tube, or CRT for short now (to distinguish from other types). "Tube" works though.

There are a few other TV types although they appear to be dwindling, which like DLP are "projection" technologies. LCoS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) was one of them. so it is more than just 4.

 

[dalt01]

I posted about the "tubes" a couple days ago but that post has been largely ignored

i hate it when that happens...ya post something that ya think is earth shaking...may even turn out to be your defining post, and then...................................................................................................................................................crickets.....then you post something someone takes issue with and you cant make the damn thing go away

 

[lugnut33]

CRTs are dust magnets too.

Actually that's a good thing, otherwise the dust floats around waiting for you to suck it in.

 

[Joshua_me]

And of course there are LCD's with LED lighting as opposed to the basic fluorescent tubes that light the 'regular' LCD's... The LED lit ones are probably your best purchase right now...

Although, a case can certainly be made for plasma. True movie fanatics tend to pick them for their truer 'blacks'. I have a Pioneer Kuro that I wouldn't trade for anything. The only reason (well one of them) that LCD's took over is that they look brighter on the showroom floor, and for most consumers brighter is better.

IMO, the best CRT's ever made were the Sony Wega's. I still have a 36" one in my bedroom. (Basically because it's too heavy to move it. ) They had flat screens and a widescreen mode that concentrated all the precious pixels into the letterbox format for 16:9 viewing. Arguably, that mode looks as good as any LCD I've seen. Perhaps a bit better.

Is that enough geeking out for now ?

 

[doconeill]

Plasma got burned (pun...) by the reports of screen burn-in in the early models with steady images (like was put out by video games, program guides, etc.). A second generation attempt reportedly "fixed" this by having a mode you'd turn on that would "equally burn" the remainder of the pixels. They also tended to consume more power, but I believe they are better now at that as well. But by then, LCDs had far outpaced them in market share.

 

[doconeill]

I forgot...OLED IS getting a bigger foothold in the phone device market - the Samsung Galaxy S and HTC Incredible use the newer AMOLED version, which is faster and uses less power than the earlier OLED tech. But no one has come out with a commercial item bigger than that - and apparently there are supply issues with the panels as well.

 

[ShaggyB]

Plasma got burned (pun...) by the reports of screen burn-in in the early models with steady images (like was put out by video games, program guides, etc.). A second generation attempt reportedly "fixed" this by having a mode you'd turn on that would "equally burn" the remainder of the pixels. They also tended to consume more power, but I believe they are better now at that as well. But by then, LCDs had far outpaced them in market share.

that and price of plasma back in its early days... just insane. You could usually get a bigger lcd that looked just as good for the same price.

 

[froggy5657]

CRTs also display colors much better than plasma TVs