[Gllug] Why we still like CRTs

[Andrew Davies]

t.clarke wrote:
> I wouldn't be at all surprised if modern consumer electronic devices
> incorporated a 'countdown chip' that failed some vital bit of the circuitry
> so many years after initial power-up !
>
> Tim
>   
Consumerism would seem to demand that some sort of  upgrade happen as 
quickly as possible, whether imposed or desired. Tech is the ideal 
consumer item in that rapid advances mean that deemed or imposed 
obsolescence occurs sometimes even before the box has been opened.
One of the most recent mass-market examples of this is the new HDMI 
specification that was finalized in June. HDMI 1.4 actually changes the 
plug type to allow higher video bandwidth and an Ethernet-compatible 
100Mbps data channel.
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