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People Who Hunt Down Old TVs
They are televisions from another era, replaced by the flat screen, high-resolution displays of the modern era. Yet cathode-ray tubes are still surprisingly in demand.
The technology relies on heating up a negatively charged electrode, or cathode, at one end of a vacuum tube to release electrons, which shoot in a beam towards a screen coated in microscopic phosphor dots. You push the button on the front and it makes that zap, pop noise as it turns on – Bryon McDanoldNutter points out that, for the most dedicated of CRT-owning video game aficionados, just picking up a PVM won't always do. Repairing CRTs is now something of a specialist skill and those who can do it charge high rates (Credit: Steve Nutter)As long as you don't throw your back out lifting one, or come into contact with any of the hazardous materials that are often inside CRT TVs, then it's a perfectly healthy hobby, Przybylski says.
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