picture tube

Example Sentences

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Despite all this, picture tube televisions continue to linger.

From The Verge • Feb. 6, 2018

The replay boards suffer against the standards of today, like entering a hotel room with a small-screen television backed with a giant picture tube.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2013

Carl Lewis in flight, Jackie Joyner-Kersee in extremis are things of beauty: taken apart on the picture tube, they lose all contact with the natural.

From Time Magazine Archive

His conclusion: GE's profit margins could be found not in producing the set's electronic components but in building its plastic-and-wood casing and picture tube, a process that could be done most cheaply in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

For a moment I was disoriented, seized by panic; could a ghost embody itself through wavelengths, electronic dots, a picture tube?

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt