Oleg Zabluda's blog
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
 
I have a Sony 36" KV-36XBR400 Trinitron CRT TV.
I have a Sony 36" KV-36XBR400 Trinitron CRT TV. It's 12 years old, weights 240 lb, 36 inch diagonal, 4:3, the pinnacle of direct view CRT TVs. Sergey Zhupanov is making fun of it. But it's still unsurpassed in image quality by any of the current flat-panel TVs, be it plasma, rear-projection, LCD, OLED, what have you, no matter how much you pay. It is surpassed only by CRT front projection TVs. Its only problem is that, altough it does have full 1080 horizontal lines, it has only ~1600 vertical lines, instead of 1920. Fancy flat-panel TV's do surpass my TV in image size, but size doesn't matter, until I start going totally blind. For a while Pioneer Kuro Elite Plasma was developing with such a speed that it seemed that it would be equal to CRTs a couple of generations later, but then it died.

Now, Dolby Labs (from SF Bay Area) claim that they created "The first flat panel to surpass the CRT". I'll believe it when I see it. It is barely larger then mine (42"), costs US $55,000, and will become available at some undisclosed time in the future.

http://www.dolby.com/us/en/professional/hardware/video-monitors/prm-4200-professional-reference-monitor.html

CRT is the new vinyl.
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