just received an email back from video display.
wholesale rebuild with a good dud shipped to them $124.00 and you pay shipping back. sounds like a win win situation. so i am going to start using my sets reguarly now. steve
btw they are listed as chroma on the web. www.videodisplay.com

i called them today,they said thet do not rebuild any round color tubes at all.. what number did they give you to call to set up?,I called the "chroma" number..
thanks
terry

emailed them. she asked then sent me a email with that price.
steve:dunno:

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i called them again this morning at "chroma" who is part of video display corp and she said someone must have sent you wrong info because they DO NOT rebuild any type of ROUND color picture tube,the number i called is 1-570-253-3910,i have a 21cyp22 that i want to get rebuilt,i gave her every type of 21" round crt number i know of and she still said no no no no..
has anyone else tried to contact them..?
terry

their website has a complete listing of rebuilt crts along with rebuilt projection crts. they also do industrial, avaition, special purpose. steve:dunno:

but their site does not list any type of round color picture tube at all... rcaman you had me excited for a few days,your post subject was 21fbp22's and getting them rebuilt for 124 bucks,it aint going to happen with them,they simply say no..are you sure it was VDC?
terry

Am I correct that this was the company which consolidated their operations into a plant in the northeast, & in doing so discontinued this type of rebuild? There seemed to be a couple rebuilders in Texas but I'm not sure...

That is the same company. I placed two CRTs to be rebuilt at my house in Texas. I drug my feet getting them up to Video Display. So, I lost out on the rebuild. Maybe they had a change of heart?

polaraman

As far as I know, Hawkeye in Des Moines is the only place left.

jc

If My business was hurting for money I would not turn any potential business away. A Dollar is a Dollar!

polaraman

This is not just affecting CRT re-builders-see below:

(06/30/2005 7:19 AM EDT)


LONDON — Sony is to close two South Wales manufacturing facilities. The ceasing of CRT manufacturing in Bridgend will result in 400 job losses with a further 250 job losses at the Pencoed TV assembly factory.
A workforce of 300 will be retained at Pencoed to focus on production of circuited boards for flat-screen televisions which are made in Barcelona and broadcast cameras. It will also maintain its logistics and customer support centre functions.

In January 300 staff were made redundant at the Bridgend plant which Sony set up in 1973 and at their peak more than 4,000 were employed at its two factories. The Pencoed plant opened in 1992.

Sony has blamed the decision on spiralling consumer demand for flat-screen televisions. Sony is also closing a Spanish CRT manufacturing facility in Barcelona and CRT production in Europe will now be concentrated in Slovakia

Anybody have any connections in Slovakia? :D


polaraman

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It's interesting logic that INCREASING demand for a new product results in job loss.

I think the increased demand is for LCD & Plasma sets not CRT.
Last time I was at Beast Buy all the CRT stuff had been put in the side area, the main display area was all LCD and Plasma sets.

I'm afraid the days of the CRT are numbered! :worried:

The ironic thing is that many of the flat panel sets look like crap. Weak colors, and poor contrast.

What I don't like about the flat panel tv's is that the pictures are grainy...like it's made up of digital blocks, like "real video" on the internet. Have seen this effect even on the big screen plasma TV's.

Does Sony still manufacture CRTs here in America, or did that leave? My Dad has an older Sony 17" Trinitron Computer monitor and the CRT is American made (The only monitor I've ever seen with an American CRT), I have a newer Sony 17" Trinitron from 2002 and the CRT is from Singapore, I thought Sony was one of the last companies to make their CRTs here.

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I saw a box for a Panasonic Plasma TV in the alley, and it said the TV was assembled in the USA.

Does Sony still manufacture CRTs here in America, or did that leave? My Dad has an older Sony 17" Trinitron Computer monitor and the CRT is American made (The only monitor I've ever seen with an American CRT), I have a newer Sony 17" Trinitron from 2002 and the CRT is from Singapore, I thought Sony was one of the last companies to make their CRTs here.

I think they manufacture 25"/26" inch CRT's and up here in Pennsylvania at their New Stanton plant which used to be where VW made their Rabbit. As to job losses and stuff, don't get me started, I'll explode and go on all day about it. :D :scratch2:

Hate to keep things off track, but was just reading in a trade magazine a profile of a garage in another part of the state. Their janitor is a new immigrant from China who used to teach at a vo-tech over there. His wife helps him, she was an obsetrician in China! Tickled to death to be here, sweeping floors in this shop, said they never want to go back.