Source: KNews
NEC No Longer To Develop CRTs
NEC, a long-time innovator of CRT-based projectors, is rumored to have already internally decided against any further CRT projector development. Although an engineering leader with CRT projectors with the industry's first digital convergence CRT, NEC has realized what many other traditionally CRT-based companies have learned - the CRT market is dying a rapid death. Advancements in LCD and DLP technologies have poised those technologies to displace CRT in it's last two strong-holds - network control centers and home theaters. So is the CRT dead? Although most manufacturers agree that the CRT is still the quality leader in image resolution and color reproduction, it's clear it's on the verge of being shelved along with other technologically advanced products that never were leaders such as Sony's Betamax and the Apple Newton.