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."

Comments

Re:Where did they all go?

[Fleetie]

Yawn. Haven't you got trees to hug?

Anyway I'm typing this on a 21" Iiyama trinitron monitor at 1920*1200 resolution, and very nice it is too.

I also have a 10-year-old Sony trinitron TV at home. It's needed repair once, but the original tube is still fine.
It's going to be a while (I hope) before I need to buy an LCD monitor or an LCD/plasma TV. That suits me fine.

Re:Triniton monitors sucked

[lucas teh geek]

text is more easily readable, it easily gets blurry on an lcd.

LCDs can't be "blurry" without major malfunction

I suspect he was talking about motion... Response times still aren't there.

yeah, because all that text just wont stay still...