Editing Compactron (section)

== Technological obsolescence ==
{{Original research|section|date=July 2016}}Integrated circuits (of the analogue and digital type) gradually took over all of the functions that the Compactron was designed for. "Hybrid" television sets produced in the early to mid-1970s made use of a combination of tubes (typically Compactrons), transistors, and integrated circuits in the same set.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/johnengsdeadtechrescue/photos/televisions--1946-1999-the-great-electronic-culture-change-of-the-20th-century|title=Televisions 1946-1999|access-date=May 2, 2021|first=John|last=Eng}}</ref> By the mid-1980s this type of tube was functionally obsolete. Compactrons simply don't exist in any TV sets designed after 1986. Other specialist uses of the tube declined in parallel with the television set manufacture. Manufacture of Compactrons ceased in the early 1990s. [[New old stock]] replacements for almost all Compactron types produced are easily found for sale on the Internet.<ref name=autogenerated1/>