The last scan - Inside the desperate fight to keep old TVs alive
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16973914/tvs-crt-restoration-led-gaming-vintage [www.theverge.com]
2018-02-10 03:42
CRTs were once synonymous with television. By 1960, nearly 90 percent of American households had one. But at the turn of the millennium, their popularity rapidly decayed as LCD panels flooded the market. Even though CRTs comprised an estimated 85 percent of US television sales in 2003, analysts were already predicting the technology’s demise. In 2008, LCD panels outsold CRTs worldwide for the first time. Sony shut down its last manufacturing plants that same year, essentially abandoning its famous Trinitron CRT brand. By 2014, even stronghold markets like India were fading, with local manufacturers switching to flat-panel displays.
Dead, but not gone.