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ELI5: If laptops have been around since the early/mid 90s and they had LCD screens, why were LCD TVs not developed sooner?

Why were CRT TVs used for so long after the invention of the laptop monitor being so thin?
gpt
A lot had to do with price.

Laptops were expensive, and there was no way to do one with a CRT. LCDs were still developing fast, and were very expensive. On the other hand, the CRT makers had long since amortised all their capital costs, in contrast to the LCD makers who were paying for expensive tooling up. TV is a very price-sensitive market, so the CRT makers chased the LCDs down in price and maintained their advantage.