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Article: BUSINESS BRIEFS
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- October 24, 2006
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WATER COOLER
Old boob tube extinct
The lone conventional television set at Anderson's TV store sat
along a side wall like a castoff. Its screen was dark as dozens of
other gleaming flat-panel and big-screen models flashed nearby with
vivid color images.
The staff at the Redwood City, Calif., store hadn't even bothered
to turn on the cathode-ray tube TV until a reporter asked to see it.
The obvious neglect reflected the wallflower status of today's CRT
TVs, as well as the mature technology's doomed future.
Experts say the old-fashioned boob tube that catered to
generations of Americans will soon be all but extinct.
Across stores and in homes, sleek LCD and plasma televisions are
taking over.
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