CRT’s Doing Well in some Places
CRT is dead. Long live CRT!
The death of CRT has long been predicted, but it seems to be a technology that just won’t die. First we have SED displays, which are built on the same basic premise, and now we learn that Samsung has breathed some new life into the CRT segment with their slim CRTs.
Samsung SDI (CEO Kim Sun-Taek) is gearing up to affiliate, expand, and reorganize the CRT division in response to increasing global slim CRT sales and strong sales of tube TVs in Brazil, Russia, India and China, or the BRICs.
Shipments of super-slim CRT TVs by Samsung SDI surpassed 120,000 units in September after staying at 40,000~50,000 units from its initial mass production of in February through the first half of this year. In addition, overall CRT shipments jumped roughly 7% on-quarter from 14.3 million units in the second quarter, showing that the CRT TV market is turning into a recovery phase.
I don’t know if these particular sets are HDTV or not, is anyone’s memory better than mine?
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November 4th, 2005 at 11:36 am
Pretty sure these are HD, or at least some of them:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000247033123/
Actually a pretty tempting set if I wasn’t holding out for 1080p.
November 9th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
no wonder crt will live i am not convinced of this so called lcds they have really poor picture and bad viewing angles and expensive the space saving is not very much good feature no one care about the space hey companies please know this the customer want one thing cheap and fine crt is cheap and fine with the slim crt space saving is realized