Samsung Electronics Co. has an odd sales pitch for one of its new televisions. A slide show for dealers features a drawing of a TV on a tombstone that reads, "The news of my demise is greatly ...

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 ...

Happy birthday, boob tube! Well, almost. The cathode-ray tube, the technology that made television sets possible, was patented 100 years ago today. But it would be a slow slog before TV took over our ...

Replay: Before the cathode ray tube won the first ever video format war there was mechanical TV, and riveting programming such as man turning his head captivated early viewers. Here's how it worked.

If you’re going to conquer the world, you can’t let a broken CRT monitor stand in your way Gif by Nihil Minus When it’s functioning properly, a cathode ray tube is an engineering marvel more ...

Duck Hunt '', a game released by Nintendo for the Famicom in 1984, is a game in which players use a ray gun, also known as ``ZAPPER'' overseas, to shoot ducks flying on a TV screen. The Slow Mo Guys ...

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 ...

Marked: "3611, Pat. in USA, 3-20-7; 10-8-20; 4-22-24; 6-16-25". Early cathode ray tube with horizontal and vertical deflection plates. Plates are connected directly to filament stem which is cracked ...

A SEALED-OFF cathode ray tube for demonstration of electron diffraction patterns at low voltages (6,000–7,000 volts) has already been described by me 1. We have recently carried out experiments with ...