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Originally Posted by andy
http://www.superslim.com/superslim/home.html
The technology doesn't look that new to me. They show 110 degrees for the 20" and 125 degrees for the larger ones. Sony was using 114 degrees on 19" CRTs in the 70's. Zenith and RCA had similar CRTs in the 80's. They all discontunued them in favor of smaller deflection angle CRTs after only a few years.
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Well, that's true, but on the other hand, those older wide-deflection color CRTs had rounded-off corners and spherical faces (or cylindrical in the case of the Sony Trinitron). These new CRTs have square corners and flat faces. Getting a wide deflection angle (while maintaining proper convergence and geometry) on something like that has got to be significantly trickier from an engineering standpoint.
Thanks for the link-- I didn't know that LG and Philips were building CRTs like this too. For that matter, I didn't know that LG and Philips were partnering in TV manufacture these days either.
By the way, here's the URL for Samsung's "SlimFit" product line:
http://www.samsung.com/Products/TV/s...hdtv/index.asp