Cathode-ray tube (CRT) TVs and monitors were a major influence on late 20th century home entertainment and business culture, but how do CRT screens work?

Old TVs make the coolest drums. In this video, you can see and hear what happens when these TVs are drummed on. This has to ...

Up to 8 percent of the weight of a television tube is lead. This lead is largely trapped in the glass of the set—ironically, CRT glass contains lead to block the emission of harmful X-rays.

Electronic CRT TVs flourished in the years after World War II, and for the rest of its lifespan, manufacturers looked for ways to iterate on it.

Demand is huge. Old CRT monitors make good enough TVs and arcade consoles. All that metal, plastic, and glass offer rich deposits to be mined out of burgeoning cities.

Here the TVs "are dismantled by hand on work benches and the main glass CRT tube must be split in two," explains David Robertson, Recycling and PR Manager for SITA South Gloucestershire.

Cathode-Retro is a collection of shaders and sample C++ code for reliving the glorious days when graphics were composite video signals displayed on a CRT screen. How? By faking it in software and ...

Fast-forward a few decades, and roundy TVs have become collectible enough that curing their CRT cataracts is necessary for restorationists like [shango066], a skill he demonstrates in the video below.

An electronics and a recycling trade group are looking for ways to reuse recycled cathode ray tube (CRT) glass from computer monitors and television sets, with a US$10,000 prize for the best proposal.

That got Paul Burns of San Francisco’s Fireclay Tile thinking: What if he could take the CRT glass and make a tile out of it? Thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign, that’s just what he ...

There are millions of old TVs, filled with toxic materials, tucked away in basements and spare bedrooms across America.

Why? Because old-style televisions and monitors have a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT), which has glass full of toxic lead. The goal is to keep it out of our landfills. But now it will end up there after all.