Matsushita/Toshiba CRT Plant Goes Wide

While Thomson announced last week that it is closing its U.S. CRT (Picture Tube) manufacturing facilities, Matsushita (parent of Panasonic) and Toshiba have just announced a major commitment to manufacture its 16x9 widescreen picture tubes, for use in HDTVs, in its plant in Troy, Ohio. For additional information, check out the report from TWICE. For an earlier report on the Thomson (RCA) announcement regarding the discontinuing of its U.S. CRT production, Click Here.