Samsung Electronics Co. has an odd sales pitch for one of its new televisions. A slide show for dealers features a drawing of a TV on a tombstone that reads, "The news of my demise is greatly ...

1910 Boris Rosing is granted a Russian patent for his cathode-ray tube, the technology found in most TVs today. 1925 Ventriloquist dummy Stooky Bill makes his on-screen debut in the first successful ...

Flat panel TVs have spoiled us. It used to be that a big display took up a lot of room on your desk or living room because of the depth of the CRT’s electron gun. We wonder what the designers of the ...

There’s a new obstacle worrying some classic arcade owners. According to VentureBeat, stockpiles of the cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors that give classic arcade games their distinctive look are ...

The cathode ray tube is dead. “Rust in peace,” ministered the New York Times in its 2009 catalogue of obsolescence for the aughts. The obvious play on words conjoins an industrial mythos with a ...

If you're reading this, you're an heir to a string of inventions stretching 170+ years Some of the older, mostly black-and-white TV models, based on the cathode-ray tube technology, which are now ...

Duck Hunt '', a game released by Nintendo for the Famicom in 1984, is a game in which players use a ray gun, also known as ``ZAPPER'' overseas, to shoot ducks flying on a TV screen. The Slow Mo Guys ...

The cathode ray tube amusement device is the earliest known interactive electronic game to use a cathode ray tube (CRT). It is a device that records and controls the quality of an electronic signal.