Monday, Jul 7th 2008 by Abby McVay
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It turns out HDTVs are a bit hazardous to our health, well eventually. Actually, it turns out, all flat-panel displays aren’t so great.
LCD panels actually use a deadly gas called Nitrogen Trifluoride when in production. When inhaled the gas is extremely harmful to your kidneys and liver.
When it starts being released into the environment is about 17,200 times worse than carbon dioxide. Which means it will end up trapping heat into our atmosphere over a hundred year period. Hopefully they will fix this issue so I can have an HDTV at least mostly guilt free.
[via crunchgear]
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So your headline reads that HDTVs are more hazardous than things that release carbon dioxide, but then you only mention LCD HDTVs in your article. What about Plasma? What about DLP?
Wow. I still saved my old 27 inch 200 pound monster CRT TV that I almost broke my back setting up in my room here in the 1990s :)
CRT’s emit radiation…they contain lead which is hazardous. LCD’s emit NF3. Looks like DLP is all we got…