Dixons killing CRTs

Haven't seen this mentioned so far, unless I missed it (apologies if so)...

Small piece in my local paper has said Dixons are to phase out selling CRTs
in their shops as apparently sales are poor compared to LCD/Plasma (plus
they take more handling, space, etc...). As Currys are the same group,
they are likely to follow before too long.

Now I know we have had extended "debates" about CRT v LCD/Plasma, and we
don't need to see them again, but it highlights the fact that popular
demand is going the flat panel route regardless of technical superiority.

Dixons seem to be trying to lead the market again like they did when they
withdrew VCRs from general sale, but I haven't seen the likes of Comet and
Argos following suit even though that was quite a while ago.

Will be interesting to see how this plays out in the long term.

"NewsWD" wrote in message
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Haven't seen this mentioned so far, unless I missed it (apologies if
so)...

Small piece in my local paper has said Dixons are to phase out selling
CRTs
in their shops as apparently sales are poor compared to LCD/Plasma (plus
they take more handling, space, etc...). As Currys are the same group,
they are likely to follow before too long.

Now I know we have had extended "debates" about CRT v LCD/Plasma, and we
don't need to see them again, but it highlights the fact that popular
demand is going the flat panel route regardless of technical superiority.

Dixons seem to be trying to lead the market again like they did when they
withdrew VCRs from general sale, but I haven't seen the likes of Comet and
Argos following suit even though that was quite a while ago.

Will be interesting to see how this plays out in the long term.


The problem for Dixons is that bottom end of the market is increasingly more
competitive with the likes of ASDA, Tesco stocking electrical items. So it
must be someone looking for something better which buys at the big
electrical stores, and those buyers must be getting flat TV's.

"NewsWD" wrote in message
...
Haven't seen this mentioned so far, unless I missed it (apologies if
so)...

Small piece in my local paper has said Dixons are to phase out selling
CRTs
in their shops as apparently sales are poor compared to LCD/Plasma (plus
they take more handling, space, etc...). As Currys are the same group,
they are likely to follow before too long.

Now I know we have had extended "debates" about CRT v LCD/Plasma, and we
don't need to see them again, but it highlights the fact that popular
demand is going the flat panel route regardless of technical superiority.

Dixons seem to be trying to lead the market again like they did when they
withdrew VCRs from general sale, but I haven't seen the likes of Comet and
Argos following suit even though that was quite a while ago.

Will be interesting to see how this plays out in the long term.


More CRT TVs for Tesco to sell then

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David

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NewsWD wrote:

Small piece in my local paper has said Dixons are to phase out selling CRTs
in their shops as apparently sales are poor compared to LCD/Plasma (plus
they take more handling, space, etc...). As Currys are the same group,
they are likely to follow before too long.

Now I know we have had extended "debates" about CRT v LCD/Plasma, and we
don't need to see them again, but it highlights the fact that popular
demand is going the flat panel route regardless of technical superiority.

Dixons seem to be trying to lead the market again like they did when they
withdrew VCRs from general sale, but I haven't seen the likes of Comet and
Argos following suit even though that was quite a while ago.

By 'removed from general sale' do you mean removed from their high
street stores? Haven't been into a Dixon's store for many years, but
they still have at least 10 VCR's to buy on their website. Isn't this
just a ploy to get consumers thinking their kit is old as the hills and
it's time to upgrade?

My local co-op already dropped CRT sets a few months ago. They were already
running down stocks prior to a takeover of the store by Ikea and found that
the cost of handling CRT sets made them unprofitable. During its last few
weeks in business it stocked only plasmas and LCD's.

(kim)

"NewsWD" wrote in message
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Haven't seen this mentioned so far, unless I missed it (apologies if
so)...

Small piece in my local paper has said Dixons are to phase out selling
CRTs
in their shops as apparently sales are poor compared to LCD/Plasma (plus

More like why sell a 28" Sony CRT for £200 when they can force you to buy a
28" LCD for 1/4 of the life span for 8 times the price by removing the
competition. In fact since the picture on an LCD screen is crap unless
viewed head on you'd have to by a 42" LCD at over £3,500 to be able to watch
it with other people, so they'd be forcing you to pay over 16 time the
price.

they take more handling, space, etc...). As Currys are the same group,
they are likely to follow before too long.

More like why sell a 28" Sony CRT for £200 when they can force you to buy
a 28" LCD for 1/4 of the life span for 8 times the price by removing the
competition. In fact since the picture on an LCD screen is crap unless
viewed head on you'd have to by a 42" LCD at over £3,500 to be able to
watch it with other people, so they'd be forcing you to pay over 16 time
the price.

I think you should get up to date! Modern LCD screens are perfectly
viewable from at least +/- 45 deg. to head on.

I have seen no evidence that LCD life span is an issue, and they will not
flare and de-focus with old age as CRTs do. Also LCD and plasma screens will
always give inherently perfect geometry and colour registration with no
problems of convergence or scanning linearity.

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 05:11:48 -0000, "Agamemnon"
wrote:

In fact since the picture on an LCD screen is crap unless
viewed head on...

Not all of them.

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NewsWD wrote:
Haven't seen this mentioned so far, unless I missed it (apologies if so)...

Small piece in my local paper has said Dixons are to phase out selling CRTs
in their shops as apparently sales are poor compared to LCD/Plasma (plus
they take more handling, space, etc...).

Isn't it the case that waste laws are helping with this - CRT's are
classed differently to LCD/Plasma. We have a lot of users (commercial)
trying to get rid of their CRT's before the new law takes effect.

"Colin Forrester" wrote in message
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.. We have a lot of users (commercial)
trying to get rid of their CRT's before the new law takes effect.

What's this about?

Note you say commercial, but we as domestic from time to want to throw old
TV sets and computer monitors out, so what ever this law is we might be
next.
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Regards
David

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