Video Asylum

Posted by Some Guy on December 29, 2003 at 06:01:38

In Reply to: Why not get a crt-type widescreen HDTV posted by dpy on December 28, 2003 at 17:18:01:

The first HDTVs I saw (in 1997 or 1998, as I recall) were CRTs... and to this day, they were the absolute best I've ever seen. You could creep up on them and, from about 6-12 inches away, not see any pixels, lines, etc. It seriously looked as though you were looking at a photograph. Absolutely phenomenal pictures.

Mind you, these were prototypes that were meant for the professional market, but just to know that the technology existed for image quality that amazing was a revelation. We're talking about quality so good that, in an extreme wide crowd shot, you could read the t-shirts of the audience members... When I finally got the chance to see consumer grade sets, I was sorely disappointed at the lack of picture quality, but I wasn't sure what to expect anyway knowing that these prototype sets were upwards of $50K each despite being only 30-37" diagonally.

CRT technology is not dead...