Sony Australia says that it has stopped importing and selling CRT computer monitors. From now on, it’s LCD all the way. The reason?<\/p>\n
According to GfK independent research statistics, in Australia the LCD market has grown by 183% by volume (2003:2002), at the same time as the CRT market has decreased by 11%.Compared year on year, value-wise the LCD market has grown by 73% whilst the CRT market has decreased by 38%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In other words, they are selling a lot more LCD monitors and fewer CRT monitors. And while the retail prices of both are falling, those of CRT monitors are falling faster than those of LCD monitors.<\/p>\n
It may take another couple of years, but I suspect that the big players in TVs will be shifting this way too (although the replacements for CRTs will be both LCDs and Plasmas).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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