Wait what? Who? Why have I not heard of this? Did the AI hallucinate?
There definitely is interest in next-gen CRTs.
Wait what? Who? Why have I not heard of this? Did the AI hallucinate?
There definitely is interest in next-gen CRTs.
Nobody’s making the tubes any more.
It’s bit like cassette decks - there’s only one manufacturer left and the mechanisms they build are not up to the quality of the ones from the 90s, and a revival is not enough to bootstrap manufacture back to economic viability, it’s very likely a blip.
He then followed that they were investigating whether they could build a modern CRT. I can't immediately find the except, but I had previously watched the interview
https://www.reddit.com/r/ModRetroChromatic/comments/1m82csj/...
I was hopeful I'd get a different pointer. There really is a market for this sort of thing.