List of CRT manufacturers:

CRT means Cathode Ray Tube. Almost all manufacturers mentioned below have stopped producing CRTs, since now everyone buys and seems to love LCDs (with exceptions, obviously) The list:
  1. rca
  2. ergon (sold to thompson, resulting in videocolor)
  3. videocolor (bought by videocon)
  4. videocon
  5. philips (merged with lg philips)
  6. lg (merged with lg phillips)
  7. lg philips displays
  8. Orion electric/electronics (spun off into orion display)
  9. magnavox
  10. toshiba (merged with mtpd)
  11. mullard (british arm of philips)
  12. general electric
  13. Panasonic (merged with mtpd)
  14. Matsushita Toshiba Picture Display (mtpd)
  15. lp displays (lg philips with new lg? ownership (philips backed off lg philips lcd, and the management was replaced with guys with korean-sounding names)
  16. chungwha picture tubes (went bankrupt in 2019 because of the US-China trade war and overreliance on the chinese electronics market, began to make LCDs circa 1997, and AMOLEDs circa 2012, stopped CRT production in 2008-2012? )
  17. Chinese (Hua Shi, 14sx8y4, 14sx5y4, here , too, here, here, here)
  18. dongguan crt manufactory
  19. sony
  20. hitachi
  21. mitsubishi
  22. Thomson (crt division sold to videocon)
  23. Sharp
  24. Sylvania
  25. Samsung electronics (later samsung SDI)
  26. Itt germany (later panasonic)
  27. Hitachi
  28. Thai crt co. ltd. (joint venture between siam cement and mitsubishi electric)
  29. irico
  30. goldstar (changed its name to lg)
  31. Sanyo
  32. Zenith
  33. ferranti
  34. lexel imaging systems (purchased by thomas electronics)
  35. Planigon (Nokia?)
  36. tektronix
  37. tct (czech)  tesla, TVC roznov
  38. valvo (valvo euro color)
  39. JCT CPT JCTEL india
  40. samtel india
  41. shanghai novel cpt
  42. hua fei color display systems
  43. cai hong
  44. national electronics
  45. ekranas


Current:

Toshiba hokuto (not anymore)

Thomas electronics

Most stopped production in the 2000s (sony in 2008, mtpd in 2006) lp displays (aka lg) seems to have stopped production shortly after the release of their retro crt tv in the early 2010s. samsung stopped production in 2012, and videocon stopped in 2015.


I'd like to thank Frank Sharp for shedding light on CRTs through his blog http://obsoletetellyemuseum.blogspot.com/.


More information about CRTs can be found below:


all of the above links are also on the internet archive's wayback machine, and some are also available on archive.today, so you can go there if the links are down or broken. (it is normal for archive.today to redirect you to one of their subdomains (archive.vn, archive.fo, etc)





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