Hold on to your old CRT TVs; HD only by 2007?

[dtuomi]

There's quite a bit of grumbling in the TV business about the lack of CRT's as well. Although they are space wasters, they do have a few advantages still. First and foremost is that they reproduce colors accurately. It can be difficult to get a flat screen of the common technologies available reproducing colors correctly. Secondly, many of them introduce a delay between the picture and sound. Usually its only a frame or so delay, but that can be enough to drive someone crazy when you're trying to set something up correctly.

David

[Geoff Bourquin]

I hate that frame delay. I sometimes seee it over analog broadcasts (which of course have mountains of digital processing at the broadcast end). I read where it is a real thorn in the side of broadcast engineers. I guess that it isn't noticeable if the audio is one or two frames late, but if audio leads video by even one frame people really notice it.

As for CRTs, they are still my preferred display device, despite the size and weight.

I've noticed Costco only has a few CRT sets on the shelf already. Too bad.

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