Whether your screen is a domestic TV or a dedicated monitor, the heat and voltage stress of driving a CRT made these devices significantly less reliable than many of their modern-day counterparts.

A CRT monitor (Cathode Ray Tube) is a glass vacuum tube screen containing a charged cathode. Like LCD monitors, each displays ...

Here’s a bulky old CRT monitor used as a touch-screen without any alterations. It doesn’t use an overlay, but instead detects position using phototransistors in the fingertips of a glove.

Uses large amounts of energy. Generates excess heat. Glare from the screen. The primary advantage that CRT monitors hold over ...

A TV picture tube (CRT) that had a flatter viewing surface than the traditional rounder tube. Up to 30% more glass was used to make the screen flatter. Also known as a "flat screen," "flat face ...