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Why are there no tube televisions anymore?

It’s funny when you come to think of it and compare video with audio. How come in the audio world discussions sometimes become intense, while there seem to be far less intense discussions in the TV & video realm?

With TV’s there’s no talk on tubes, transistors, analog, digital, vinyl, cables, power cords, heck we can even get ’audio’ fuses and -USB cables.

No one has a tube TV (while they really have a ’warmer’ image :) and very few people use a $400 power cord with their TV set. And while there are expensive HDMI cables on the market, the vast majority uses one below $50. And no one spends money on floor spacers to avoid cable vibrations.

Our eyes may even be far more sensitive than our ears ... yet discussions are far less intense. How come?


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The most entertaining thing to do with an old CRT was to toss it off a bridge.....sans chassis, of course.

Best variant of that was the Ant Farm car crashing into a wall of CRTs', but I'm just languishing in an old fit of Creative Destruction.

Progress on many levels is a Good Thing, to paraphrase The Martha....a CRT VR headset would not only be heavy, hot, wayyyy too much voltage wayyy too close to ones' face....and look like an alien mind control experiment done 'retro-punk' by Spock in a drunken state....
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