Replay: Before the cathode ray tube won the first ever video format war there was mechanical TV, and riveting programming such as man turning his head captivated early viewers. Here's how it worked.

THE use of the cathode ray tube for television reproduction was suggested by A. A. Campbell Swinton so early as 1908, and although many alternative schemes were explored in the succeeding twenty-nine ...

Today's flat-screen TVs are brighter, sharper and bigger - and they consume a lot more energy than the bulky old ones. The new generation of TVs uses a third more electricity than the cathode ray tube ...

The semiconductor division of Royal Philips Electronics hopes to help consumer electronics makers make the move from cathode-ray tube to liquid-crystal display televisions with new chips, part of the ...

Before you throw out your old cathode-ray tube TV, you might consider the possibility that it’s worth something to the right person. A few weeks ago, I was thrift shopping with a friend when he ...

LONDON — Britain's largest retailer of consumer electronics products, DSG International, has put another nail in the coffin of the cathode ray tube by signaling it would stop selling TVs using the ...

Television consumer Steve Micheli looks at various televisions at Anderson’s TV in Redwood City, Calif. The lone cathode ray tube television, set in foreground, sat by the side wall like a cast-off ...

A Minecraft player recently showed off a picture of the game being run on a CRT TV. The picture provides a glimpse of what Minecraft looks like on the old device. The CRT - short for Cathode Ray Tube ...