Desktops adopt the lush look of flat screens

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Flat-panel home TV display screens are expected to reach the market soon, and they offer an attractive alternative to the traditional cathode-ray tubes (CRT) used in today's living room TV sets. The new devices' crisp, bright images allow the screen to contain far more information that is easy to read. For example, IBM's 16.1-inch unit can lower its word-processing font from 14 points to six points while keeping words legible. This computer equivalent of high-definition TV improves colors significantly in games and on Internet sites. Size is another benefit, as the IBM unit measures only two inches wide. By comparison, such a CRT would require space roughly the size of a studio apartment. Price remains a drawback, as models can range from $3,000 to $8,000, but prices could fall by 25% in 1998. Other downsides include a decline in screen quality away from dead center.

Product information, Technology overview

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Disposal is a problem as LCDs replace tube monitors

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Because consumers are now craving the sleek computer monitors with the LCD screens, environmentalists report that only 10% of the old carthode ray tube monitors are being recycled. The rest will inevitably find landfill, with each tube containing phosphorous and about 6 pounds of lead. Monitor manufacturers in Japan and Europe accept returned-monitors and recycle them, under law. The European Union is planning stricter environmental laws. Projections that the flat panel will completely replace the cathode ray tube by 2005 coincide with immense towers of toxic scrap metal. The National Safety Council reports that by 2007, the U.S. will have 500 million computers as trash.

Production management, World, Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing, Computer Display Monitors, Interpretation and construction, Laws, regulations and rules, Technology application, Computer peripherals industry, Electronic components industry, Waste management, Recycling (Waste, etc.), Recycling, Environmental law, Computer monitors

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Prices of flat-panel monitors, TVs to drop

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As companies have produced an overabundance of the sleek flat panel liquid crystal display screens in an effort to lock up market share, the price of these once-luxuries has dropped worldwide. Samsung Electronics, NEC and AU Optronics Corp. are increasing production capacity, possibly reaching 41% a year according to DisplaySearch; good news for consumers look for lower prices.

Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Commodity & service prices, Electrical equipment and supplies industry, Electric equipment industry, Prices and rates, Electronics industry, Samsung Electronics Company Ltd., NEC Corp., Flat panel displays, Flat panel display, Company pricing policy, AU Optronics

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