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Originally Posted by dr.ido
There's a Sharp Linytron. Only yesterday I was dumping on Linytrons in another thread for being ugly, but this one is kind of cute. |
I wouldn't sell the Sharp Linytrons short. A friend of mine has a 13" Linytron portable that served him well for many years, until he inherited his family's 25" RCA GuidePlus TV; the Linytron had a great picture on cable when he was actively using it. His was a small, cute-looking portable, a black cube but cute nevertheless. The last I heard, the Linytron was in a closet in his bedroom, unused (he is probably saving it to use in case his RCA set goes bad).
BTW, I believe the Linytron line was the first of Sharp's color TVs to use an inline CRT, with an aperture grille and vertical phosphors, rather than a conventional shadow mask and phosphor dots arranged in triads. The latter is the U.S. industry standard today for color CRTs. If so, it's just as well, as I think the inline tubes produce much sharper and brighter pictures than the delta-gun tubes did. I chalk that up as well to the fact that today's CRTs are made with dark-tinted screens, which also improve picture contrast and color rendition. I also believe RCA/Thomson finally got it right as far as the CRTs in their sets are concerned. I cannot speak for other Thomson sets, but I am sure they got it dead-on right in my 1999 CTC-185. Bought that set new almost seven years ago; the picture is still as sharp and clear (on the set's original CRT) as the day I installed the TV.
As well, the CRT in my 1995 Zenith Sentry 2 19" TV is still original and still works great.
I don't use the set much (in fact, it hasn't been used as a daily watcher since 1999) ; maybe that's why the tube and everything else in it is still going strong. I mention the Zenith because that company has had problems with the CRTs in its sets manufactured between 1993-1997. Mine was made in Mexico in 1995. I read in a post here some time ago that this was because the Mexican-built Zenith sets used a better grade of CRTs than the later models built after Zenith was bought out by LG/Goldstar.