John VanSickle wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> 
>>   Disadvantages of CRT:
>> 
>> - Energy consumption and heat production.
> 
> I work in a local store, and when walking past the large screen
> televisions, which are all LCD or plasma displays, I can feel the heat
> rolling off of these things.  Even the smaller ones suck down a great
> deal of power.

With respect to heat, I think the difference is LCDs are thinner. If they
heat the same, it will be more concentrated on a few cms of depth. CRT
screens have a larger area to spread their heat on :)

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