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Originally Posted by Mr Pheer
I've noticed that old TVs are making a comeback. Not that they are being made again, but they are getting hard to find because people hit the thrift stores and garage sales looking for them, to play their old VHS tapes and vintage videogames on.
That stuff looks pretty shitty on new TVs.
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Well they haven't hit the mainstream stores yet.
However now that you've mentioned it I do recall seeing an antique store with a sign saying they paid cash for very old TVs.
Plus I stumbled across this article about vacuum tubes making a comeback
Cathode Ray Tube TVs Make Roaring Comeback Nationwide
“Any time you need to operate at the outer reaches of the power-frequency parameter space, vacuum tubes are the technology of choice,” said Dev Palmer of DARPA’s new Innovative Vacuum Electronic Science and Technology (INVEST) program in a statement.
Through INVEST, DARPA is now taking vacuum tubes back to the drawing board. The agency hopes to overcome some of the engineering challenges that historically placed upper limits on the operating frequency and power output of tubes. For instance, in the render shown above, a vacuum tube amplifies signals by exchanging kinetic energy in an electron beam (the blue line) with electromagnetic energy (the orange wave). Concepts like this could push vacuum tube performance to new heights.