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The CRT TV Fights Back

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LG.Philips Displays, the 50-50 joint venture between LG Electronics and Philips Electronics, has started selling the 35 cm thin tube and believes it can slim down the depth of a 32-inch-screen (81.3 cm) TV tube further, to as little as 25 cm in two years.

His firm has cut the depth to 35 cm by squeezing the curve on the back of the glass tube until it is almost flat. The electron gun and deflection coil still protrude, and engineers are working on those, Hesselink said on Monday.

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Expect to see television using the new slimmer picture tubes in 18 to 24 months. Will you be able to hang these TV’s on the wall? Maybe…

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