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Posted by Larry I (A) on March 11, 2010 at 06:07:00

In Reply to: RE: Hard to say. . . posted by ramw on March 11, 2010 at 00:14:24:

CRT pictures are great, but, they too would not be that good if blown up to the size of your usual flatscreens. The largest CRT I saw was a 40" model, and it actually didn't look that good because of the size of the picture. Beyond 30-32" CRTs become incredibly heavy because the glass has to be really thick to sustain such a large surface area under enormous air pressure.

The best picture I saw was from a professional monitor with a really small screen (I think 20"), that cost something like $40,000 back when that was real money. I do miss the kind of color accuracy, deep blacks and freedom from motion artifacts of CRT. I know the makers of flatscreens have come up with all kinds of processing to cure motion problems, but when the camera pans across a scene, the picture still looks like crap.

What really seems to matter to the buying public is the thickness of a set. Apparently, something like two inches is intolerable these days and everything has to be about an inch thick or it cannot sell.

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