Re: Shipping Costs of TVs (Tongue in cheek)
- From: "Emperor's New Widescreen" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:44:03 GMT
"john" <john.plant@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> A significant proportion of the cost of a TV must be in shipping it half
way
> around the world.
>
> If you think how many CRT versus LCD TVs will fit into a packing crate /
> container then I would suggest that LCD is bound to win in a very short
time
> and as new production plants get going I believe the CRT will quickly
become
> a curiosity.
>
> Remember the Smash Mashed Potato Aliens? - "Ha Ha Ha! So you aimed an
> electron beam through a metal mesh to make little dots of phosphor glow!
Ha
> Ha Ha. And the machine weighed how much? It had over 20,000 volts in it -
Ha
> Ha Ha" (And they didn't give them away with petrol!)
Yes but I could manage on a 21" 4:3 CRT
The minimum for a widescreen set seems to about 40" or so
(to give the picture a little apparent height) I expect the shipping
cost are similar.
Nobody needed these monster TV's before widescreen came along.
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