Flat Screen conspiracy?

[Carmine]

I mentioned in another posting (about the old radio I gave my grandparnets for Christmas) that I'd recently been in a Circuit City.

Naturally, I looked around a bit in the TV section to see the "latest and greatest" in disposable flatware from China. I also noticed they were down to just a handful of CRT sets, all of them 27" or less I think.

Since they were all on the same feed, I started looking back/forth between them and the LCDs/Plasmas/DLPs. It occured to me that these remaining CRT sets had some of the WORST picture quality I've ever seen! No wonder the masses are rejecting CRTs like cancer!

Lots of color bleeding, bad convergence, sharpness turned way down.

So I ask...

Do you think Cicuit City/Worst Buy, etc. are mis-adjusting those cheaper sets, just so they don't show up the more expen$ive flat screens? OR Just the fact that the only CRT sets they had on display were crapola brands like Funai, Apex, Lucky-Panda-Puke or whatever?

I'm guessing that it's not intentional, these things just suck out of the box, although I'm sure there is no special effort made to adjust them.

I recently made the arguement to some co-workers who were talking about new sets that CRTs still produce the best picture quality. They looked at me like I was on crack! After doing the same side-by-side comparison, I can see why they would.

If I had money & time to burn, I'd love to build a Chromacolor II set into the wall at a store, and hang the mask from a flatscreen around it. It would be funny to see how many people wanted to buy that one.