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Article: Flat-panel muscling out older boob tube: Cathode ray sets headed for extinction as LCDs, plasmas begin to dominate market
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- October 23, 2006
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Copyright informationCopyright 2006 Charleston Daily Mail. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - 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 store hadn't even bothered to turn
on the cathode-ray tube TV until a reporter asked to see it on a
recent afternoon.
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.
"It's already dead, but it doesn't know it yet," said Jon Paul
Belstler, an ...
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