Flat panel televisions are taking over the market
Jan 30, 2008 Technology
If you haven’t paid a visit to your favorite home electronics retailer lately, you just might be surprised what you’ll find over in the television section. Over the course of the last year or so the once ubiquitous “Tube TV” has been more or less replaced by flat panel models. In fact, that’s all you’ll find in many stores nowadays.
Thanks to recent large price drops in LCD and plasma display screens, the prices of flat panel TV’s have fallen to the point where they are now pretty close to those of high-quality tube models, making the bulky icons of yesteryear little more than a fading memory. It is already virtually impossible to find a new computer monitor that doesn’t sport a thin, cool-looking LCD screen, and it’s just a matter of time before the television industry follows suit.
Of course we can thank the amazing advances being made in digital technology for this historic shift, and within a year or two virtually all new television sets will be High Definition models – and they will likely be available at amazingly low prices.
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