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by hunta2097 161 days ago
CRTs were so incredibly hard to manufacture it kind of blows my mind!

Also they were heavy, fragile and difficult to import. The components were usually shipped to the target countries and assembled there.

We must be around 10-15 generations in to LCD TVs at this point.

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a modern lcd is also a wonder but it's infinitely more suited to automation