Just allow me to remove my flat cap and genuflect.
My steam driven 4:3 34'' Sony Trinitron was top of its class in its day, costing a whopping £2300 back in 1990. In April this year its on/off switch failed and probably would have cost £50 to repair, so it went to the tip just yesterday, all 83kg of it.
Just bought a 55'' 3D LED Samsung. Amazingly cheap I reckon. It's 4x the screen area for less than half the price, and not a single scan line visible to the naked eye. Its audio is cr*p after the Trinitron but then it weighs 68kg less. Will it last 23 years? I somehow doubt it.
tom.
The CRT goes to the tip
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Michael Slowe
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Re: The CRT goes to the tip
I remember Tom when you got that, you were very proud of it. You ought to have a look at a John Lewis store and see the 84" Samsung Super HD (or whatever the new codec is). Never seen pictures quite like it - mind you £17,000 it was! My better half likes screens out of sight in a cupboard so I'm limited to 40".
The pace of change is quite frightening to old people like me, it will be holograms soon, how do we shoot in hologram Tom?
The pace of change is quite frightening to old people like me, it will be holograms soon, how do we shoot in hologram Tom?