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No More Television Tube from Panasonic

Even if the cost is to believe, we still made televisions tubes in the world, although it seems that his end is approaching: Panasonic has announced it will cease to produce such screens, after having been This is done for 55 years. Knowing Japanese brand has left a little later the CRT in Beijing in April 2005 and was an auxiliary company, Matsushita Color CRT, which has undertaken the manufacture and sale of the past in China and Southeast Asia. According to Panasonic, times have changed, and the entire application, including that of emerging countries, focuses flat TVs. The company will sell its shares in Beijing Matsushita Color CRT for focusing exclusively on flat screens.

[Panasonic via North Shore]