RCA has released its "Astro" TV, which is styled to look like a classic 1950s set, save that it is built around a flat-panel LCD modern CRT. Expect to see a lot more of this as LCDs get cheaper and more available: remember when FM-radio-on-a-chip costs fell to approximately zero and the market was flooded with FM radios built into pens, sunglasses, and novelty baseballs and pencil-sharpeners? Modestly-sized LCDs are certain to follow suit in the next year or two.
(via Red Ferret Review)
Updated: Andrew point out that "Both the Red Ferret and Brookstone links to the Astro say it is a 13" CRT. Of course, CRTs are even cheaper (at the moment)…" D'oh. My apologies!
