picture tube
Old television display
A picture tube is the cathode ray tube in a television set—the large glass vacuum tube that displays images by firing electron beams at a phosphorescent screen.
The term was common when televisions were bulky furniture pieces built around these heavy components.
Flat-screen technology has made picture tubes largely obsolete.
- electron gunCharged particle beam source
- electron beamFocused stream of charged particles
- screenDisplay or barrier
- television setHome broadcast display device
- colorVisual hue property
glow · cathode · raster · degaussing · NTSC · yoke · CRT · computer monitor · PAL · analog television · glass · convergence · scan lines · vacuum chamber · ray · analog · retro · monitor
- televisionTV, television, broadcast, TV shows, TV series
- tubestubing, rubber tubing, CRT, straw, drinking straw
- Analog TVCRT, rabbit ears, VHF, UHF, NTSC
- TV partspower button, volume control, tuner, speaker system, circuit board
- vacuum tubestriode, pentode, tetrode, diode, cathode
- TVsCRT TV, LCD TV, LED TV, plasma TV, flat screen
display technology
picture tubeflat panel
Slim visual display
LCD · flat screen · LED display · OLED · QLED