Koreans try to save cathode-ray tube
An AP newswire article by Elliot Spagat, via USA Today, reports that:
Samsung Electronics Co. has an odd sales pitch for one of its new televisions. A slide show for dealers features a drawing of a TV on a tombstone that reads, "The news of my demise is greatly exaggerated!"
The South Korean manufacturer is referring to cathode-ray tube, or CRT, televisions — the heavy boxes that have dominated the business since television was introduced at the New York World's Fair in 1939.
As rival technologies become cheaper, the era of the conventional tube TV is ending.
Yet Samsung and a South Korean rival, LG Electronics Co., are refusing to abandon the old-style tube TVs entirely. They continue trying to improve CRTs even as they and other television makers are building more and more factories that churn out super-thin LCD and plasma televisions.
posted by Fergie @ 8/14/2005 02:40:00 PM
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