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
Yes warm up time and the picture what was it 200p.They were heavy.i know I worked in an electrical warehouse in LIC back in 1970.
I owned one of Sony's best CRT models, toward the end of that era, and the picture was outstanding.

I defer to the experts in terms of the objective superiority of today's technology, but I sure didn't feel like I was missing anything at the time, and could live quite happily with that quality today.
i have one for sale that has all  new caps and resisters with an attenuator on back for adjusting gain digital feed with external digital zenith box.
I’m very happy with my 65” Sony 4K OLED. The upsampling is amazing, 4k is killer. Football no judder or anything CRT isn’t even close 
I don't miss tube tv's. Size, weight, heat, reliability, low resolution.
    TV's could be a lot better.  I had a Sony Qualia 46" LED that was c. $15K new.  Discontinued because it cost so much to make them, I don't think it was profitable.  Sony went all out and put all the electronics, which were of "audiophile" type quality, in a separate box the size of a receiver, connected by an umbilical.  It was fabulous. I know of no other tv in which the manufacturer used the kind of parts and engineering standards used in hi end audio.  Such a tv might be $30  - 40 K today, the market's just not there.  Particularly when upgrading is desirable and justifiable because the new model is provably better every year, quite unlike audio...