Crt HDTV

DLP technology is one of the fastest growing segments of the television market, and as of 2004 DLP TVs had captured a full 10% of the market for new televisions. DLP televisions use the same technology that has long been used to power projectors and similar devices. The technology that makes DLP televisions possible was invented at Texas Instruments back in 1987, and Texas Instruments remains the primary manufacturer of this technology to this day.

What makes DLP television technology so unique is that it uses a small digital micromirror device, or DMD, to tilt over 1.3 million tiny mirrors, each smaller than the width of a human hair. Each of these tiny mirrors

is tilted either toward or away from the source of the light, thus producing the light and dark pixels that make up the display. DLP televisions are rear projection TVs, but they are not as large, as heavy or as bulky as the traditional rear projection televisions of years past.

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Traditional CRT television screens have a number of important advantages over the newer technologies, not only in terms of the cost to buy them but in the ongoing costs of ownership as well. For instance, while a replacement light source for a DLP TV can cost as much as $500, an entire traditional tube television can be purchased for far less than the cost of that replacement bulb.

In fact it is the price that is the major selling point, and major advantage, of the traditional CRT TV. The prices of all televisions have been falling, but perhaps none have fallen quite so far and so fast as the prices for these traditional tube televisions. The

smallest traditional tube televisions, those of 13 and less, can often be purchased for less than $100, and even the traditional 25 and 27 television models often retail for less than $300. In addition, many traditional tube televisions come with features like built in VCRs, built in DVD players and the like, making them even more versatile and useful.

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The term set-top box will become something of a misnomer in the near future, as most displays will become too thin to allow a box to placed on top of them. As the price of plasma & LCD displays has plummeted and their image quality has improved, they are popping up in homes everywhere.

Although they are the darlings of the media and the generic for flat panel display in the minds of many, plasmas are about to be in a serious fight with other technologies for the flat panel crown.

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