Sony to Stop Producing Smaller CRTs

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Sony to Stop Producing Smaller CRTs

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday January 23, 2003 @12:59PM from the forced-obsolescence dept.

NerveGas writes "Sony is apparantly going to stop producing 17- and 19-inch CRTs, in favor of LCDs. It seems a bit soon to drop CRTs completely, seeing as how LCDs still have less than 30% of the market share. Maybe since their patent on Trinitron screens expired, they're not able to command ridiculous margins any more." Smaller CRTs? I've got a couple 19" Sony monitors here, and I've always considered them to be a good size.

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the las vegas effect by timothy · 2003-01-23 13:00 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm happy for 19" CRTs to be considered small -- anyone who would like to give me an LCD or nine, I take all sizes, even little tiny 17-inchers.

Looking forward to the day that 42" plasma TVs are also small :)

timothy

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1. Re:the las vegas effect by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 13:09 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Looking forward to the day that 42" plasma TVs are also small :)
  
  Welcome to my airplane hangar... I mean office.
Oh come on... by dasmegabyte · 2003-01-23 13:02 · Score: 5, Funny

It's not the size of the CRT that matters...it's the resolution of the image!

At least that's what my wife tells me.

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1. Re:Oh come on... by Magus311X · 2003-01-23 13:21 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Tell that to some of the people in my company.
  
  User is still using one of the older monitors (15" Trinitron tubes) and made a requisition, complaining for a better monitor. Well, they clamored enough for a while we were told to give her a 19". I set it up during her lunch, and set it to 1024x768.
  
  I thought I was being very conservative with that resolution, because everyone seems to complain about their eyesight.
  
  Next day I walked by it and she apparently set it to 640x480 with large icon and large fonts. She wears glasses too.
  
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2. Re:Oh come on... by Syncdata · 2003-01-23 13:23 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  and I've always considered them to be a good size.
  "Brodie, when a woman tells you it's a good size, that's a nice way of saying 'It's too small'".
  /mallrats
  
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3. Re:Oh come on... by goatasaur · 2003-01-23 13:37 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  "It's not the size of the CRT that matters...it's the resolution of the image!"
  
  At least that's what my wife tells me.
  
  That's what your wife tells me too. :)
  
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Easy Fix by Dolly_Llama · 2003-01-23 13:08 · Score: 4, Funny

Maybe since their patent on Trinitron screens expired, they're not able to command ridiculous margins any more.
Easy solution to this problem: Copywrite Trinitron and lobby Congress to extend your rights for another 50 years.

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1. Re:Easy Fix by ajakk · 2003-01-23 13:23 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Or they could just traidmarc it.
  
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Aww! by SteakandcheeseUm · 2003-01-23 13:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Now I won't be able to have a CRT display device double as a heater for my room. shucks!
17" is plenty big. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 13:24 · Score: 5, Funny

I've got 17" monitors at work (3 of them) and a 17" at home. Not much point in getting anything bigger for what I do.

What I _really_ want is a 3840x1024 LCD display. Wide, wide, wide. Reference on the left, code in the middle, debug on the right. I'm probably going to get cancer from having three CRTs blasting at me all day.
"good size" by jimbolaya · 2003-01-23 13:38 · Score: 1, Funny

when a girl says it's a good size, it's a nice way of saying it's small.

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Stop production of defective products by jsse · 2003-01-23 13:50 · Score: 3, Funny

Failed the attempts to remove two black lines on all trinitron monitors, Sony finally announces discontinuing of the production line.

"For all these years," said a Sony spokemen, "we thought we could finally fix this problem, the progress were not as expected."

"but we pushed the defective products to the market anyway, and told people these two black lines are a sign of high quality. We're glad we didn't get caught and now it's over!"

(For humor impaired, this is a joke. :)
No more tans?!? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 13:52 · Score: 1, Funny

Now I won't be able to have a CRT display device double as a heater for my room. shucks!

My take:
Damnit, now I won't be able to get my white ass tanned from all of that monitor radiation my bright CRT gives off!
Re:LCDs Still Suck. by Gyan · 2003-01-23 14:07 · Score: 2, Funny

I'm a gamer.
I run UT2003.
I own a LCD.
My LCD runs usually at 75 hz, although it can run at 80 hz.
I see no ghosting whatsoever.

Stop blinking so much ...now how is it ?
Once you've had a 21"... by c_g12 · 2003-01-23 14:40 · Score: 2, Funny

you'll never go back.