Flat panel TVs have spoiled us. It used to be that a big display took up a lot of room on your desk or living room because of the depth of the CRT’s electron gun. We wonder what the designers of the ...

Before the advent of flat-panel displays, cathode ray tubes were the mainstream. CRTs consist of a giant vacuum tube with an electron gun inside, which projects electron beams onto a phosphor screen ...

If you're reading this, you're an heir to a string of inventions stretching 170+ years Some of the older, mostly black-and-white TV models, based on the cathode-ray tube technology, which are now ...

Standard picture-tube TVs, the kind that the vast majority of Americans still buy, have long been video non grata at the Consumer Electronics Show. Seen as yesterday's technology, they have been ...

At my age I can remember television when it first started. Back then it was a tiny, round screen that provided a somewhat wavy black and white picture. Often the TV was in the same wooden cabinet as a ...

SPIES won’t welcome the development of the world’s first flat-panel cathode ray tube, because they won’t find it so easy to sit outside a building and pick up the signals from a VDU inside. Instead of ...

CERTAIN types of cathode-ray tubes in which the luminous spot on the fluorescent screen is moved by magnetic fields are liable to a peculiar defect, known as 'ion spot' or 'ion burn'. It is now ...