Yeah but I don’t know anybody who actually did that. Most people get a new TV every 5-10 years anyway, and by then, plasmas were affordable and widely available.
There were also…I remember a certain class of rear projection TVs from around the turn of the century that were a lot more compact than the gigantic box type from the 90’s. Similar technology but just not as boxy, often available in 16:9 that weren’t plasma or LCD panels.
The glycol may also react with the aluminum in the CRT cooling system and crystallize over many cooling and heating cycles creating CRT fungus, which degrades image quality since its optical properties are different than that of the surrounding glycol.
You gotta replace the lens juice
Yeah but I don’t know anybody who actually did that. Most people get a new TV every 5-10 years anyway, and by then, plasmas were affordable and widely available.
There were also…I remember a certain class of rear projection TVs from around the turn of the century that were a lot more compact than the gigantic box type from the 90’s. Similar technology but just not as boxy, often available in 16:9 that weren’t plasma or LCD panels.
The… Wat?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2A0fK6NlXY
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRT_projector