Can You Really Buy A New Tube TV From China?
A curious story of the afterlife of a once-standard technology
So here’s a piece I’ve been wanting to dig into and write up for awhile: can you really buy brand new CRT televisions on Alibaba? The Chinese website—sort of Chinese Amazon but with a big wholesale/bulk orders division too—has a number of listings for what appear to be, or are marketed as, new tube TVs.
Some years back this would have been believable, be…