The end of CRT in America?
For years I was under the impression that there were no new CRTs manufactured for sale in the US (at least at retail) after 2004, as I had never found a CRT set made after 2004. However today I found a set made in November 2005. Is it possible that new CRTs were manufactured for retail sale in the US in 2006, despite me never having seen one personally?
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I think 2009-2010 was the end of consumer CRT set sales in the USA. The last ones seem to be the Disney themed youth sets, made cheaply from leftover component parts.
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I think you could still buy CRTs until 2010ish. The last ones were cheap offbrands from China, Funai and maybe an Orion. They even had digital tuners.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure the November 2005 set I got is either a Funai or a LG, it's a TruTech branded 13(?) inch TV/VCR combo unit made in Korea.
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My Sansui digital CRT TV was produced in October of 2008, and I know they still had CRT TVs in some stores locally at least through Black Friday 2010.
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This guy found a Sansui manufactured in November 2009: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LicDSxHEQcs
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I have a Sony kv27fs120 made in 07. Dam good set cant wait to get it of storage .
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I have a few RCA jail sets with the DTV board. They work rather well. Built in 2009. |
One of the clear ones? I want one of those...
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I'll clear a few spaces in my PM box later today. :thmbsp: |
I recall about 10 years ago or perhaps a little later, seeing CRT sets relegated to a back corner of my local Best Buy store. Probably 6 or 8 different plastic cabinet analog table models. Screen sizes from 9" to probably 17" sets. This does not include those small screen, very cheap $10.00 CRT's found in drug stores & discount stores ect. These Coby analog crt sets are still listed on the Amazon site. Are they the very last of the CRT sets?
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In 2005 I bought a 13" colour stereo Emerson with a built in DVD player.
It's build amazed me. They used a DVD ROM, like you would see in a tower PC. All the resistors were gold banded and all the caps were Nichichon. It also had two 3" round speakers mounted up front which gave decent audio. I retired it when our cable went digital only...and gave it to a friend's grandkid to play his DVD's on. It's still going strong too. http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...1&d=1325437383 |
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