Monday, October 23, 2006

The Traditional CRT Continues to Fade from View

The AP ran a piece today picked up in numerous newspapers regarding the impending death of the cathode-ray tube TV in favor of flat-panel LCD and plasma. There are some interesting data in the article from research firms DisplaySearch and iSuppli, but the one thing that stuck out at me was the complete lack of any mention of rear-projection technologies such as DLP and LCoS. I get some heat from time to time from readers who bemoan my focus on flat-panel displays, but the truth is that the industry seems much more focused in that direction. It’s not that microdisplay technologies don’t provide a quality picture at a good price, because they do. There just doesn’t seem to be that much buzz surrounding them recently.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/gear/2006-10-22-crt-demise_x.htm?csp=34

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