Why are there no tube televisions anymore?


It’s funny when you come to think of it and compare video with audio. How come in the audio world discussions sometimes become intense, while there seem to be far less intense discussions in the TV & video realm?

With TV’s there’s no talk on tubes, transistors, analog, digital, vinyl, cables, power cords, heck we can even get ’audio’ fuses and -USB cables.

No one has a tube TV (while they really have a ’warmer’ image :) and very few people use a $400 power cord with their TV set. And while there are expensive HDMI cables on the market, the vast majority uses one below $50. And no one spends money on floor spacers to avoid cable vibrations.

Our eyes may even be far more sensitive than our ears ... yet discussions are far less intense. How come?


rudyb
As mentioned the resolution ratings of today could not be met with CRT plus a 50” Tube would probably weigh 600 lbs or more and have to be 3-4 feet deep if not more for the guns to focus on the screen. 

Gone are the days.
I only watch hockey and documentaries on TV.

Otherwise it's books and music. Yes I have tube amps and love analog.
I remember back when I bought the best CRT TV I could afford at the time and it was a small Proton TV. Had a great picture and made my living room look larger than it was.

Had a look at CRTs and the gamers do want those.

All the best,
Nonoise
There is no question that today's tv sets have better resolution when the picture isn't moving very fast, but there is still a latency problem (even with the best sets of today) that CRT sets don't have that's why the gamers want them.
I remember my first TV ectasy...In 1958...7 years old or six...my grandfather bought a TV set....

Animated comics with classical music beside the mute image, even the scherzo music of Bruckner ninth symphony...

It takes me thirty years to retrieve this Bruckner thema consciously...

I miss the Indian static image target when the program were off......Younger people here had no idea of what i speak about....It is a mystery   keeped  in memory by  old ape like me....

I guess i am a nostalgic character....

My favorite screen are not computer one nor TV one nor gamer screen... Ereader screen take me on the verge of ectasy though....I own 2 russian pocketbook ereaders because they read all ebook format files with dictionary integrated in 50 languages ....

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