Obituary For the Sony Trinitron

An anonymous reader sends us to Gizmodo where, to honor the passing from production of the Sony Trinitron, they've done a timeline on the development of television. "After 280 millions tubes sold, Trinitron will be officially dead this month. Few Sony inventions have had the same gravitational pull as their Trinitron display technology... Trinitron became synonym of the best quality TV sets and computer monitors in the planet... Sony became the king of TV, with more than 100 million sets sold by 1994, to later fall under the weight of plasma and LCD technologies."

X-itron

[Anonymous Coward]

Too few technologies have the -tron suffix nowadays. It works with everything, so why not use it? This is the future, dammit!

Re:X-itron

[pipatron]

Hey! Don't give anyone any ideas!

// pipatron

Re:X-itron

[Anonymous Coward]

Posting anonymously is better with Anonymotron Technology®.

Re:X-itron

[somersault]

Chair: Reclinatron
TP: Wipatron
Cup: Slurpatron
Lightcycle: Tronatron

Sumo TV

[ShakaUVM]

"...too later fall under the weight of plasma and LCD technologies."

As someone who just bought an LCD TV and is trying to figure out how the hell he'll get his 250lb 38" Hi-Def Sony CRT to his sister 400 miles away, I find this statement just a little ironic. The damn thing weighs more than most people.

Unintended Ownership

[halcyon1234]

I wouldn't have known I even owned a Trinitron if it wasn't for this article. I've had this 19", 2,874lb beast on my desk since I lugged it home from the thrift shop, but never noticed the brand name up in the corner. So that's what those lines are. I just figured they were what-I-paid-for bugs.

Though, I also have translucent diagonal lines that run across the screen that remind me of a CRT projector than needs its edges blanked. And the pincushioning has always been off. And on a cold day, I have to turn the contrast waaaaaaay down to keep it from shutting itself off. But aside from that, best $20 I ever spent.

Re:X-itron

[Anonymous Coward]

It doesn't work with everything. Sometimes you need the -ulator suffix. Like decombobulator, or the more common probulator (coming soon to an airport near you).

Re:Sumo TV

[Mushdot]

Whatever you do, don't enlist someone who's drunk several cans of lager to help you carry it. My mate did just that and had a 32" Trinitron dropped on his foot moments later. If it wasn't for the concrete floor I think the telly would have continued toward the centre of the earth along with his foot.

I've got a Trinitron portable from sometime in the eighties when I got my Spectrum computer and it still works perfectly to this day. I used to change channels using a pool cue next to my bed as it was before the days of remotes. Eeee them were't days.

Re:Sumo TV

[clickclickdrone]

>The damn thing weighs more than most people
Would that be American people or normal sized ones?

Re:X-itron

[kamatsu]

-ulator would be used for generic common nouns, whereas -ulatron could be used for proper nouns. Introducing Decombobulatron! The latest, greatest most cutting-edge product in decombobulators today!

Re:X-itron

[seifried]

Sipatron. One does not "slurp" with Sony tech.

Re:Memories

[PopeRatzo]

What's a matter, you ain't never kept the TV on for company? Oh, you're one of those lightweights that has friends, huh? I suppose you don't sleep with the TV on, either.

Pffft.

Re:Memories

[Corporate Troll]

What the hell are you doing 16h per day at home? Haven't you got a job?

I don't even have a TV in my bedroom... I read a good book before going to bed, unless my wife has other ideas....

Re:It's true.

[smittyoneeach]

The Trinitron
Be dead and gone
Though large and dense
As beard, no defense.
Burma Shave

Re:All those years and we're still sentimental foo

[Dott_Kahm]

Jeez thanks a lot folks! I've got a 20" Dell Trinitron that I've had for LONG time (still just as beautiful and crisp as ever). Never thought of those 'wire' lines as a problem or, more importantly, ever really notice the damn things. Until now.

Re:Serendipity

[Quattro Vezina]

I _love_ that fdooiinnng! SUPER DEGAUSS POWER!

And the doinkzzz when I power it on is just so badass!

*hugs his 19" Trinitron*

Re:X-itron

[vague disclaimer]

The sound in the background is Apple trademarking iTron...

Gravitational pull is right.

[szquirrel]

Few Sony inventions have had the same gravitational pull as their Trinitron display technology...

That's because a Trinitron weighed as much as a small neutron star...

Re:X-itron

[kaptron]

I, for one....

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Re:Where did they all go?

[zulux]

>>280 million Trinitron displays equals how many billion tonnes of lead and other human-unfriendly substances?

Do you live in some weird universe where 1000 ton Trinitron's roam the landscape and hunt down Magnavox's for breakfast?

Re:It's true.

[couchslug]

"The sets were both dense and large."

I"M dense and large, you insensitive clod!

Re:It's true.

[GermanDZ]

35 years selling a product... uhhhmmm it's smell like: PROFIT!!!

Re:Memories

[Lord Apathy]

My wife says we can upgrade to a nice big HD set when this old one dies... I'll been waiting for a very loooooong time, I think.

You know you can always help the little fucker along. Decide to you need to move it, say near some stairs. Whoops, new tv time.

Re:Sumo TV

[rsilvergun]

The damn thing weighs more than most people.

You must be European?