What has killed the listing stone dead is the fact it's collection only from Fraserburgh..  It's miles from anywhere! 🙁

True, but you would have thought that from the people bidding for it would have bid a bit more?

Not at all unfortunately.  We sell Avants on ebay like this for £95 now - and they don't always find buyers at that.

CRT's are very sadly 'out of fashion' as a lounge TV.  It's flatscreen or nothing - even if quality suffers.

I'd put it down to fashion.  Not always practical, not always fit for purpose - but fashionable, so people buy them..

Fair enought I guess... 

Yep, seems that as long as you can hang it on the wall at neck aching heights, where everyone who drives down your road can see it then that is all that matters these days!

I would love to have seen HD CRT's compete with flatscreens and Samsung nearly had a rival to the panels about 5 years ago, but what with all the issues they had with the super flat tube and the fact it was just too late to the market, they seemed to die a death. Shame as a decent working example had a super picture!

Step1 wrote:

Shame as a decent working example had a super picture!

Agreed.

I had a Philips 32" HD CRT Flat, bought new about 9 years ago. It probably had the most stunning image I have ever seen on any TV, B&o or not.

I paid ~$1500USD on sale from about ~$2000USD as I recall.

I gave it away not a month ago to the first person willing to lug it out of my sight.

Whether the new panel TV's have a better picture or not -they certainly weigh a lot less and take up so (relative) little space.

When my Avants finally give up... I will use the chassis to mount a commercial Panny panel and toss the tube out.

True that human beings gravitate to the latest and greatest, to whatever's in fashion at a certain period in time. Flat screens are not popular just due to "fashion", they're also more practical (lighter and taking up less space, use less energy). And by virtue of taking up less space, people tend to buy bigger screens these days (a decade ago 28" was considered big, now you have to go 40" or larger). And with more and more channels broadcast in HD, the quality penalty for SD channels is less and less consequential.

Unfortunately I don't think CRT's will be like the gramophone and have a revival in the future. Prices will keep on plummeting. My family has a two-decade-old MX that still works (except the swivel). We keep it as a "reminiscence" item.

Leo

I had to sell my avant 32 dvd for £250 and that was a trade in price!  Also included a remote for that!  A sign of the times I'm afraid

Nickyg63 wrote:

I had to sell my avant 32 dvd for £250 and that was a trade in price!  Also included a remote for that!  A sign of the times I'm afraid

Those are at 1000e asking price over here... And sells too!