Are you old enough to remember the shift
from tube televisions to flat - screen TVs?
Not exact matches
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week fined electronics recycler Jet Ocean Technology of Chino, Calif., just over $ 10,000 for illegally exporting cathode - ray
tubes from old
television sets to China.
Tapping these amiibo in Super Mario Maker adds a Big Mushroom power - up to your course, allowing Mario to grow big and bust blocks
from any direction, as well as adding a retro visual filter to the game, reminiscent of older cathode ray
tube televisions.
A lot of ink's been spilled about the extent to which movies in the mid-to-late-Fifties tried to outdo the boob -
tube with grand Technicolor visions; comparatively little has been written about Zapruder's 486 colour frames, which stole the thunder of
television's hold on vérité — remember, in 1960, Hitch wanted to shoot Psycho in a televisual style for its implicit realism — as elegantly as a shell fired
from a mail - order Carcano.
Appliance stores made most of their money not
from selling
televisions and radios, but
from repairing the burned out vacuum
tubes in the products they had sold.
Televisions went
from fuzzy black and white
tube TVs to sleek HDTV screens that seem more lifelike than, well, life itself.
An endoscope is a
tube of lenses that carries an image
from inside the animal's body to the doctor's eye or a
television monitor.
I don't watch a lot of
television and so had never felt compelled to upgrade
from my hulking old
tube behemoth.
Pippin's work shows a strong interest in the mechanical, which he has said stems
from an early childhood memory of seeing his father surrounded by the wires and
tubes of a
television set he was repairing.
31 / 41 — Simon Denny, Channel 4 Analogue Broadcasting Hardware
from Arqiva, Sudbury, 2012, viewers watching video archive showing historical artworks dealing with attempts at alternatives to
television from the 1960s — 1990s on CRT
tube TVs imported
from China.
collection of those electronic devices is expensive, and separation and proper recycling of some of the materials recovered, such as lead
from cathode - ray
tube televisions, is costly;
Philo Farnsworth did not imagine the
television culture that would burst forth
from his cathode - ray
tube.
Looking back
from today, it's hard to believe that a decade ago most people made do with 30 - inch
tube televisions, 16 - inch monitors, and «flip phones» with displays the size of a quarter.