Crt fading away

[fujifrontier]

Originally Posted by karmaman

I completely agree. I am a 15 year old freshman in high school and I'm really into electronics, started when I was 10, and it saddens me I was not around during the heyday of tubes. The way they work absolutely fascinates me, I could read about them all day. When our main TV started having trouble (vertical foldover) I ran across a very interesting read on how tubes work (google "picture tube info", it's the first link) and that really got me into tubes and how they work. The image quality and sturdiness of a quality tube blows anything else out of the water, and it is always interesting to take the back cover of a TV or crt computer monitor off and just look. I really wish I had been around 15-20 years earlier, back when LCD and Plasma were unheard of. Nowadays, when you walk into a store, all you see is crap made by Funai and Orion.

Too bad by the time I have enough money to buy stuff tubes will be a thing of the past.

*sniffle*

[peverett]

I worked in TV shops back in the 1970s while going to college. Even then, they money was not that good. None of the the TV repairman that I knew were making a fortune.

The two that were doing the best had other income. One also ran a postal route 1/2 day. The other was retired military with who also had a security officer job part time.

This is one reason why I got a BSEE and went into electrical engineering. This has been great until now with interesting work and good pay. However, with all of the work now moving to China and India, who knows how long it will last.