Sony out of the tube TVs

[Riddick]

Was just at Circut City and the kid selling TVs there said

" Sony is out of the CRT TV business, they will only make flat panel televisions, Plasma and LCD and Rear Projections"

Is this true?

I saw this 26 inch Sony LCD Flat Panel TV very impressive but it had an impressive price too $ 2999.95 . They were running "Nemo" and it looked pretty good, but I still see latency problems in LCD TVs (fast moving live action looks strange like the TV can't process the picture fast enough) I didn't see this on this demo , did they fix this problem? or was it the digital animation doesn't lend itself to revealing this flaw?

They also had a Sony LCD Projection HDTV that had an amazing picture on it also

[Riddick]

I'm still looking for the best picture possible for under $ 2000.00 and DVD is the primary signal source.


I'm looking for the best DVD picture I can get any ideas are welcome.

[1138]

As to the Sony info, I don't really know, but I tend to take anything a sales drone says with a big grain of salt. Unfortunately, more often than not, they tend to have no clue about the stuff they sell. Which is unfortunate for those who do...

[Riddick]

I agree with you

I've been working 60 to 70 hr weeks last 3 months so I might have missed something

[NotaNumber]

I would doubt this statement too. Sony supplies tubes to many of the computer monitor manufacturers. I doubt they would give up on a lucrative market just yet. Maybe in a year or two.

[chlngr1970]

I don't see that happening as well, their Wega sets are selling to well to abandon them. However, Pioneer did stop making RPTVs to concentrate on Plasma's

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[I 8 Piglet]

Originally Posted by NotaNumber

I would doubt this statement too. Sony supplies tubes to many of the computer monitor manufacturers. I doubt they would give up on a lucrative market just yet. Maybe in a year or two.

I agree that I cant see sony going out of the direct view television market anytime soon. But I wonder if this may be a misunderstanding. Maybe Sony is dropping their CRT monitor business and only manfacturing flat pannels from now on?

[chlngr1970]

Now THAT would make sence. Prices on LCD moitors continue to fall ( not quite fast enough for me tho ) and there realy isn't any money left in the CRT monitor market...

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[videoworx]

and there realy isn't any money left in the CRT monitor market...

well, until they fix redraw rates (which are currently stuck at 25ms) in LCD's larger than 17", there will still be big CRT business in the pro video world...LCD's are just crap for video editing on large size LCD's (yes, even the wonderful apple and sony 23" lcd's suffer from crap redraw)...Sony dominates this pro CRT domain (along with Panasonic), and I doubt they will give this up (my 20" Sony pro NTSC monitor cost $1000, and their HD pro sets are ridiculously expensive - so you can bet Sony makes plenty of money in this area).

[I 8 Piglet]

Just because something is expensive doesnt mean its terribly profitable. There may be a market for Video editing and what not but the market for LCDs in the home has got to be significantly larger, as well on a highend monitor like that I would imagine the markup is not nearly as great on these mass produced little LCDS. It may just be more profitable for them to dump CRT to accomidate LCD production...Not saying this is the case, just that its possible.

[NotaNumber]

There's still a huge lower-end market for TV sets 27 inch and smaller in the US. Flat panel TV's are still very expensive in these sizes compared to their tube counterparts. And with the Chinese manufacturers getting hit for price dumping in the US, Sony can still compete in the low end market.

[Riddick]

Thanx all, I thought this didn't sound right.

So hows the picture on that Sony pro 20 incher?

[videoworx]

So hows the picture on that Sony pro 20 incher?

well, I'm sure a consumer XBR is equal to the display quality. The difference is in having calibration controls at my fingertips, and professional inputs (beside the composite BNC and Y/C, it features component inputs - not the consumer kind, but YUV for connecting to Betacam and my decklink board). I guess the only limiting feature is the lack of a tuner (big deal, I use it for video editing, not watching tv).