I've been reading a lot of informed posts here the past couple months and I can honestly say that I feel well-prepared to enter the HDTV market. Thank you.
I read that Sony had just about laid off some 22K people and they're pretty announced that they're leaving the CRT market. Since they still have manufacturing plants (in Mexico?) that produces the CRTs such as the 34XBR910, how long before they decide to stop producing them? Do they have another model coming up to replace the 910 series or is the 910 series pretty much the last XBR series ever from Sony in the CRT market? It doesn't seem to be a wise business decision to spend so much money on R&D to create the Super Fine Pitch CRTs only to have it last for one product cycle. I'd like to see the 910 series enhanced with a few features like FireWire, HDMI, digital tuner (unlikely I know), etc.
I read that Sony had just about laid off some 22K people and they're pretty announced that they're leaving the CRT market. Since they still have manufacturing plants (in Mexico?) that produces the CRTs such as the 34XBR910, how long before they decide to stop producing them? Do they have another model coming up to replace the 910 series or is the 910 series pretty much the last XBR series ever from Sony in the CRT market? It doesn't seem to be a wise business decision to spend so much money on R&D to create the Super Fine Pitch CRTs only to have it last for one product cycle. I'd like to see the 910 series enhanced with a few features like FireWire, HDMI, digital tuner (unlikely I know), etc.