Current CRT use in businesses

[Dude111]

A friend of mine recently re-designed his store.... He took out the beautiful CRT he had there and replaced with one of those ugly flat screen things!!!!!! (Its hung on a wall) -- I asked him what happend to his TV he had all these years and he said "I gave it away" -- Totally disgusts me....... I wont be visiting his store again...... (Nothing I want there anymore anyway (He used to have VHS,records and all kinds of stuff -- Now he just has CDs and DVDs there along with the other stuff he has (baseball cards,etc)))

[MRX37]

He kept a CRT until 2016 give him a break.

Also note he runs a business. keeping up with the times is essential for a business owner.

And if that means flat screens, so be it.

[rca2000]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

BTW: You may complain about the short life of most flat-screen televisions, but please remember this type of TV is the only kind of television made anymore. Moreover, flat screens are all today's "millenials" know these days. Try to tell them there once were such things as televisions with picture tubes in big cabinets, and most of them will be amazed; they may even laugh.

Third, flat screens are what are available these days, as I mentioned above. Like it or not, believe it or not, old CRT sets are on the way out; the only people who care about these oldies are antique/vintage TV collectors, such as some folks here on VK--Doug, drh4683 in Chicago, for example. However, there is an elderly lady in my apartment building who still watches a Zenith CRT television similar to my own Sentry 2 table set, but I understand, from what the maintenance man tells me (I don't know the lady personally), her set may be on its last legs. Since she is in her mid- or late eighties, she is probably used to the picture, such as it is, and may well leave it as it is until she dies. The maintenance man told me the picture on that set looks almost black and white because the screen is coated in nicotine from heavy cigarette smoke (the lady is a heavy smoker).

An lCD panel of ANY type will NOT hold up long in a smoking house. In a year, maybe 2==there WILl be heavy "smoke trails" deposited all over the diffuser, polarizer and such..and it will be visible under certain picture conditions.. A CRT will N OT have this problem--they are sealed and any smoke deposits can just be cleaned off.. On an LCD it has to be torn down, panel removed from BL assy and ALL cleaned...to remove it !!

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[WISCOJIM]

Originally Posted by Dude111

A friend of mine recently re-designed his store.... He took out the beautiful CRT he had there and replaced with one of those ugly flat screen things!!!!!! (Its hung on a wall) -- I asked him what happend to his TV he had all these years and he said "I gave it away" -- Totally disgusts me....... I wont be visiting his store again...... (Nothing I want there anymore anyway (He used to have VHS,records and all kinds of stuff -- Now he just has CDs and DVDs there along with the other stuff he has (baseball cards,etc)))

But if he had given it to you, everything would be wonderful now. Maybe he has more than one friend? Maybe his other friends are more loyal than you appear to be?

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[Eric H]

We have a smallish industrial CRT monitor in our office at work, it was installed in 2007 when the place was built.

It's on 24/7 but it quit a while back and was off for a while, I fixed it a couple months ago, just a blown fuse from all the power surges and failures in the neighborhood.

What's more surprising is all the cameras (5 or 6 I think) are all still working, they're all mounted outside the building in the California heat.

[MIPS]

Sony's PVM stuff is still really, really sought after for commercial uses, not just by the creepy game/MAME collectors alone. There's a fair number of galleries that still keep a stock of them for video displays and exhibits because they are quite minimalist and stack really well. There's a private gallery in Vancouver along Main Street who has half a dozen of them and no matter how much a friend of mine offered them they didn't want to sell them.

The Home Depot here has one at the entrance for the CCTV. It's been on since they opened in 2003. That poor, poor tube is so weak you can barely see a picture on it now.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by WISCOJIM

Maybe his other friends are more loyal than you appear to be?

No no...I like Scotty alot......... I am his friend

[Electronic M]

The local Home Depot had one too till a few months back. My guess is it got too dark to watch (it was pretty much there when I last saw it) or it just died. There is a generic flatscreen there now.

[maxhifi]

Originally Posted by andy

True, although at least an LCD can be torn down and cleaned unlike lungs...

I remember back when smoking was common in bars, projection TVs always had an awful, cloudy picture due to smoke on the lenses and mirror. Even those easy to clean direct view CRTs were rarely cleaned.

My predicta was from a smoking house... Disgusting inside, cleaning it,
It seemed like someone took a paint brush and slathered the insides with rancid bacon fat. I have similar aged stuff from non smoking houses which is like new inside.. Needless to say mine will always be a non smoking house!

[CoogarXR]

I remember I got in a load of LCD TVs that had hung directly over a bar... Needless to say, I totally get the bacon-fat analogy. Open the back, throw in a bucket of bacon fat, then empty your sweeper bag on top of it. Let it harden, and there you have it. Tasty!

I ended up scrapping them even though they worked. The screens were totally orange-tinted, and the boards were so gross I couldn't imagine selling them.