Tokyo — Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. is betting that TVs based on cathode-ray tubes will remain a high-volume part of the global digital TV market for years to come, despite the rapid growth of flat-panel TVs. The display manufacturing company is backing up that belief with the introduction of a super-slim CRT that is aimed at consumers who want to purchase a digital TV set but don't want to pay several thousand dollars for it. Samsung SDI, part of the Samsung group, has developed a 32-inch CRT, Vixlim, with a depth of less than 14 inches—about 6 inches slimmer than conventional CRTs—and is aiming it squarely at the high-volume market. Vixlim will open the fourth golden age of CRTs, Samsung SDI CEO Kim Soon-taek said when the product was launched. Black-and-white CRTs represented the first age, color the second and the third was ushered in by flat-screen CRTs, he said.
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