The bulky, squarish, heavy picture tube, the standard television technology for more than 60 years, is heading for the dustbin of history much faster than anyone expected. This year, the number of TV ...

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 ...

Thomson has decided to close its 50-year-old CRT picture-tube production plant here and a related panel and funnel manufacturing plant in Circleville, Ohio due to declining demand for tube televisions ...

In the early 1960s, humorist Stan Freberg issued a record album extolling the virtues of radio. In one routine he`s asked: ”But can`t television stretch the imagination?” Freberg replies: ”Yes, up to ...

Their ingenuity probably spared you from watching people eat worms on "Fear Factor'' in black and white. In March 1954, RCA rolled out the world's first mass-produced color TV set, unveiling a product ...

Last week Thomson, citing a decline in demand for CRT picture-tube television receivers, announced it is closing its more than 50-year-old picture-tube plant in Marion, IN and a related manufacturing ...

Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd (中華映管), Taiwan's third-largest maker of liquid-crystal-display (LCD) panels, yesterday posted its first quarterly profits over the past five quarters as price rose on eased ...

Marion, Ind. – Thomson announced here Tuesday that declining demand for CRT picture-tube televisions has forced it to close its over 50-year-old picture-tube plant here and a related panel and funnel ...