Dixons killing CRTs

Agamemnon wrote:
Yes. CRTs make good central hearing radiators too.

Only if you turn them up really loud.

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:54:10 GMT, Malcolm H wrote:

What is this lamp you're talking about? We're not talking about projection.

LCD's have a backlight that provides the illumination. It fails eventually,
sometimes sooner. Common problem with laptops - and a b****r to change.


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Dixons are probably looking at saving on the handling costs and (weight)
risks of CRT TVs. Easier to put a LCD on a shelf and less space needed in
stock room.


John

In message , Bill Wright
wrote


I live in a village and we are bedevilled by people dumping at the side of
the road, but can you blame them when the local dumpit forbids vehicles
except cars (discrimination against van drivers) and pedestrians
(discrimination against non car owners)?

My local council's drive in tip is on the border with another authority.
This leads to people living a few hundreds yards away, but paying taxes
to the other local authority, being turned away.

We all are sent a dumping permit each year in the post - probably
costing lot more than allowing a few non residents to use the nearest
disposal site.

The site has a policy of also turning away certain vehicles - anything
over a certain size must be commercial.

Result: rubbish is dumped just around the corner on the exit roads at an
additional cost to the local tax payer to clean up the mess.

Politicians, local and national, really don't seem to understand some of
the results of their policies.

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Alan
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In article ,
Dave Saville wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:54:10 GMT, Malcolm H wrote:

What is this lamp you're talking about? We're not talking about
projection.

LCD's have a backlight that provides the illumination. It fails
eventually, sometimes sooner. Common problem with laptops - and a b****r
to change.



but the lamp in laptops is much more subject to mechanical damage than a
fixed tv set.

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Using a RISC OS5 computer

Rob wrote:
Bill Wright wrote:
"steve" wrote in message
news
It would be nicer if you just ensured you got rid of your stuff
responsibly whatever the law.


If the powers that be are so unrealistic as to make waste disposal
disproportionately expensive for dubious 'environmental' reasons then
ordinary people will break the law and dump things in laybys.
Fortunately this is an area where the public can easily ignore the
law and thus expose the absurdity of some environmental policies.

I live in a village and we are bedevilled by people dumping at the
side of the road, but can you blame them when the local dumpit
forbids vehicles except cars (discrimination against van drivers)
and pedestrians (discrimination against non car owners)?

It's all a con, basically. We have to pay an extra 50p when we get a
new tyre to cover disposal of the old one, yet old tyres can be
recycled in all sorts of ways.

There's no real shortage of landfill in the UK. We have massive
opencast coalmines despoiling the countryside, so why not do the
same thing in reverse and use valleys as massive dumps? Topsoil off,
dump, topsoil back on.

Then build on it, then ... ;-)

Bill



Well, I blame privatisation ;-)

In fairness LB Newham's tip (private) allows anything FOC (except
paint curiously, and probably weapons grade plutonium, and ...), and
vans, but
you have to take your driving license to prove you're a resident.

Rob

It would be silly to dump weapons grade plutonium, you could get a good
price for that. ;o)
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Adrian A

Conor wrote:
In article -
berlin.de, steve says...
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:00:44 +0000, Mike Henry wrote:


And even
then, only if it can display an interlaced signal (or I can afford a
professional de-interlacer and scaler).

Genuine q? What can one of them do a decent PC with DTT card cannot?

A PC/DTT setup will certainly be your best bet for HDTV.

Just as long as you stay away from LCD monitors.

So what would you use to display HDTV?

Alan wrote:
In message , Bill Wright
wrote


I live in a village and we are bedevilled by people dumping at the
side of
the road, but can you blame them when the local dumpit forbids vehicles
except cars (discrimination against van drivers) and pedestrians
(discrimination against non car owners)?


My local council's drive in tip is on the border with another authority.
This leads to people living a few hundreds yards away, but paying taxes
to the other local authority, being turned away.

We all are sent a dumping permit each year in the post - probably
costing lot more than allowing a few non residents to use the nearest
disposal site.

The site has a policy of also turning away certain vehicles - anything
over a certain size must be commercial.

Result: rubbish is dumped just around the corner on the exit roads at an
additional cost to the local tax payer to clean up the mess.

Politicians, local and national, really don't seem to understand some of
the results of their policies.


My local tip doesn't appear to have any restrictions at all.

I recently borrowed a friend (man), and his firm's van (white, 3tons),

and dumped a fridge, a TV, 2 PCs, other electronic bits and pieces, and
some furniture.

Everything had it's allotted space, and no-one asked where we came from.

Just to get back on topic, I didn't chuck my old Philips OnDigital box. %~)

PS, my spell checker wants to replace Philips with phi lips.

Ian.

"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.

I wont even touch why CRTs are naff .....

ignoring that - Dixons isnt the only supplier of CRTs, in fact although they
may hold something like 1% of the UK CRT sales which makes this relatively
insignificant news. They're not even a dedicated seller of computer
products, so the fact that n00bs dont buy CRTs from dixons is not news - i
dont even think ive seen a CRT in dixons [show-shops] for years.

"Pyriform" wrote in message
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Agamemnon wrote:
Yes. CRTs make good central hearing radiators too.

Only if you turn them up really loud.

Its done it again.