‘Technologies don’t usually die because consumers move on, they die because the inputs disappear’: I asked CRT TV experts if the technology could ever make a comeback — the biggest obstacle wasn’t what I expected
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CRT’s constraint isn’t demand from retro gamers—it’s the vanished supply chain for glass, phosphors, and skilled manufacturing. If you’re betting on any “revival” hardware category, audit upstream inputs and vendor know-how early or you’ll discover too late that the ecosystem you need no longer exists.
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