Dixons killing CRTs

"David" wrote in message
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"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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David

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"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.

Presumably this is because Dixons shops are highstreet stores and therefore
smaller than Currys, so they think they can put the space to better use.
After all who wants to buy a 36-in CRT in town and carry it home on the bus?
Currys on the other hand are largely on retail parks where people can get to
the door with their car. Obviously on-line sales are a different matter.

Adrian

David wrote:

"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.

Umm, it might prove difficult (and dangerous !) to break up my 32inch
CRT TV and hide the bits in the bottom of my wheelie bin, under all the
leaves and branches, under all the 'allowable' rubbish.

Alan White wrote:
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...

The viewing angle issue ceased to be an issue at least a year ago.
Modern LCDs have similar viewing angles to CRTs nowadays

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Mike

In message .com, Mark
Carver wrote
David wrote:

"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.

Umm, it might prove difficult (and dangerous !) to break up my 32inch
CRT TV and hide the bits in the bottom of my wheelie bin, under all the
leaves and branches, under all the 'allowable' rubbish.



Just do what everyone else will do when something becomes difficult to
dispose of - or cost money. Dump it in the countryside or the nearest
lay-by.
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Alan
news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com

"Mike Redrobe" wrote in message
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Alan White wrote:
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...

The viewing angle issue ceased to be an issue at least a year ago.
Modern LCDs have similar viewing angles to CRTs nowadays


Really. Well when I had a look in my local Sony Centre the LCD screen were
dimmer that the CRT's and as soon as you moved off centre the picture got
even dimmer or the colour tones and contrast changed, while the CRT's could
be viewed form any angle without dimming or the picture quality changing.
And these were LCD's which cost over £3,500. The cheaper ones costing only
2,500 were so ****ty that even head on the picture was 1/4 of the brightness
of the CRT's and 1/2 of the expensive LCD's and the colour and contrast were
pale.

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Mike

"Malcolm H" wrote in message
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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

Why should I pay 3,500 for an LCD screen when the lamp will burn out in 5
years while a CRT will last over 20 years. In fact since I normally leave
the TV switched on to listen to it while I'm at the computer at my rate of
usage the lamp would but out or be so dim as to make the TV unmatchable in
less than a year.

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.

"Agamemnon" wrote in message
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Really. Well when I had a look in my local Sony Centre the LCD
screen were dimmer that the CRT's and as soon as you moved off
centre the picture got even dimmer or the colour tones and
contrast changed, while the CRT's could be viewed form any angle
without dimming or the picture quality changing. And these were
LCD's which cost over £3,500. The cheaper ones costing only 2,500
were so ****ty that even head on the picture was 1/4 of the
brightness of the CRT's and 1/2 of the expensive LCD's and the
colour and contrast were pale.


Yeh but Sony have only made over priced **** for the last 10 years.

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Ian

"Alan" wrote in message
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Just do what everyone else will do when something becomes difficult to
dispose of - or cost money. Dump it in the countryside or the nearest
lay-by.
--
Alan
news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com

"Everyone" doesn't do that - only aresholes. Are you one of them?

"Mike Henry" wrote in message
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In , "Malcolm H"
wrote:

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.

True. But instead they have introduced whole new set of problems that
CRT's do not suffer from! Consumer-grade deinterlacing, motion
prediction artefacts, dead pixels, smearing, posterisation, poor gamma
correction, black and white crushing (means dark scenes impossible to
see), etc.

Plus of course not only will prices drop significantly over the next couple
of years, but just after punters have forked out a fortune there will be
newer and better models arriving on the market, or at least so they would
have us believe.

http://www.canon.com/technology/display/