Why don't we use CRTs anymore?
>>106597861you can't buy them
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>>106597861Because they were too expensive to manufacture and companies are here to make as much money as possible.
>>106597861because they weigh like 600 pounds and take up too much space
>>106597861objectively it was always shit tech>expensive to make>huge amounts to maintenance to get decent quality>heavy as fuck>risk of shock with maintenance >physics bending methods to work>shit energy efficiency>vulnerable to magnetic fields>burn in>didn't get substantial improvements until the late 90's, when LCD was just around the corner >even its ultimate form, the flat CRT, needed a heavier tube, and was more prone to issuesHaving said that, it's still an insane tech that to this day provides an image style that cannot be replicated in modern screens, at least without carefully crafted filters that still won't capture the real thing. Sad to see such a cool and world changing tech go away like that, but there is really no reason to go back to all those inconveniences for 99% of people.
>>106599337Also, Sony holding the patent of the Trinitron slowed progress a lot, it took several years for other companies to catch up, and Sony barely improved anything until the Wega