Why don't they sell CRT TVs anymore?

Question

Anybody know why they don't sell CRTs anymore? Yeah, I know the main reason was due to a decrease in sales, but why don't people like them? I think they give much better picture than LCDs.

Answer 1

Your crazy. Have you ever watched HD programming on a LCD tv? The picture quality blows CRT out of the water.

And they do still make CRT tv's. Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Sears, Best Buy and etc still sell them.

Why are they slowly vanishing? Because they are extremely heavy. They are incredibly bulky. Picture tubes are expensive. Oh, and people like tv's bigger than 36" and believe it or not, they love high quality resolutions.

Answer 2

People may either agree or disagree with you on the picture aspect, but the main reason is that they're bulky, heavy (from a consumer perspective), and expensive to manufacture, store, and transport (from a market perspective).

CRT is also a disproportionately expensive technology at larger screen sizes and higher resolutions. A 50-inch CRT HDTV would be an order of magnitude more expensive than the LCD equivalent, while offering little or no advantage in terms of picture quality.

It's only at the smaller screen sizes that CRTs continue to have a cost advantage, which is why you still see 14-inch CRT TVs for sale at low prices (at least for now).

Answer 3

Because they are old school!

We're just moving on (just like when CD's were introduced and cassettes were considered the old school thing)

Answer 4

I think it's because they are not very environmentally friendly

CRT / Less environmentally friendly

High energy consumption, expensive to transport, difficult to handle if need of service, hazardous in the home with the risk of fire due to high voltage components, many parts to handle in recycling.

LCD / Environmental friend

Less energy consumption, less weight, less components, few environmentally unfriendly components, no high voltage components, easy to handle in recycling. An LCD monitor causes less eyestrain and fewer headaches than CRT screens. They do not produce any radiation or electromagnetic emissions.

Answer 5

Actually they are on the rise again.  There was an article in Yahoo news a few days back that stated that nationwide CRT TV's just outsold Plasma and LCD. Mainly at stores like Wal-Mart.

I feel that CRT is going the way of the dodo, with flat panels getting better.

Answer 6

lcd tv's are not invornmentally friendly as people are claiming them to be.  They might be energy effecient while you use them at home but the manufacturing of lcd tvs releases as much greenhouse gases as a coal firing plants

Answer 7

I guess it's just preference.