"These cartels for cathode ray tubes are 'textbook cartels': they feature all the worst kinds of anticompetitive behaviour that are strictly forbidden to companies doing business in Europe, " said EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia.

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When it came to scoreboards for sports stadiums, incandescent bulbs were no match for cathode-ray tubes (CRTs) used in the giant video displays pioneered by Sony and Mitsubishi.

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For example cathode ray tubes those monstrous glass blobs found behind the housings of all of our old TVs and monitors, cost far more to process properly and safely than the value they can produce from the lead, copper and glass in them.

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