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Obituary For the Sony Trinitron
An anonymous reader sends us to Gizmodo where, to honor the passing from production of the Sony Trinitron, they've done a timeline on the development of television. "After 280 millions tubes sold, Trinitron will be officially dead this month. Few Sony inventions have had the same gravitational pull as their Trinitron display technology... Trinitron became synonym of the best quality TV sets and computer monitors in the planet... Sony became the king of TV, with more than 100 million sets sold by 1994, to later fall under the weight of plasma and LCD technologies."
Too few technologies have the -tron suffix nowadays. It works with everything, so why not use it? This is the future, dammit!
"...too later fall under the weight of plasma and LCD technologies."
As someone who just bought an LCD TV and is trying to figure out how the hell he'll get his 250lb 38" Hi-Def Sony CRT to his sister 400 miles away, I find this statement just a little ironic. The damn thing weighs more than most people.
Though, I also have translucent diagonal lines that run across the screen that remind me of a CRT projector than needs its edges blanked. And the pincushioning has always been off. And on a cold day, I have to turn the contrast waaaaaaay down to keep it from shutting itself off. But aside from that, best $20 I ever spent.
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What's a matter, you ain't never kept the TV on for company? Oh, you're one of those lightweights that has friends, huh? I suppose you don't sleep with the TV on, either.
Pffft.
You are welcome on my lawn.
What the hell are you doing 16h per day at home? Haven't you got a job?
I don't even have a TV in my bedroom... I read a good book before going to bed, unless my wife has other ideas....
The Trinitron
Be dead and gone
Though large and dense
As beard, no defense.
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Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Jeez thanks a lot folks! I've got a 20" Dell Trinitron that I've had for LONG time (still just as beautiful and crisp as ever). Never thought of those 'wire' lines as a problem or, more importantly, ever really notice the damn things. Until now.
I _love_ that fdooiinnng! SUPER DEGAUSS POWER!
And the doinkzzz when I power it on is just so badass!
*hugs his 19" Trinitron*
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Few Sony inventions have had the same gravitational pull as their Trinitron display technology...
That's because a Trinitron weighed as much as a small neutron star...
Never approach a vast undertaking with a half-vast plan.
Well, those are reasons why it failed. After 35 years of Sony trying to push this technology on us, they're finally giving up. Yet another failure in the same line as Betamax, MiniDisc, UMD, MemoryStick, PlayStation 3, etc. I don't give Blu-ray more than 35 years either...
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
>>280 million Trinitron displays equals how many billion tonnes of lead and other human-unfriendly substances?
Do you live in some weird universe where 1000 ton Trinitron's roam the landscape and hunt down Magnavox's for breakfast?
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
"The sets were both dense and large."
I"M dense and large, you insensitive clod!
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35 years selling a product... uhhhmmm it's smell like: PROFIT!!!
You know you can always help the little fucker along. Decide to you need to move it, say near some stairs. Whoops, new tv time.
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