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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?


rudyb

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clearthinker
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Not a valid comparison.

CRT TVs worked on an entirely different principle to those of today's flat screens.

Apart from transistors and, for those that like it, digital, today's hi-fi uses the same technology as yesterday's, going back nearly 100 years.

You might as well ask why there are no horses and carts.
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clearthinker
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Rudy, technology dies when it is ousted by better technology.
viz horse and cart vs car
     CRT vs flat screen
     VCR vs DVD
     bow and arrow vs rapid fire automatic rifle
     etc.

Valves and vinyl have not been driven from the market because there are no newer technologies that are clearly better.

See also:  oil painting on canvas, the violin, most other musical instruments.  After all the electric violin was consigned to Desolation Row.


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