You DO own at least one CRT monitor and one CRT TV, right Ganker? They don't make these anymore, they're only getting more scarce over time and people online are already scalping them.
You DO own at least one CRT monitor and one CRT TV, right?
You DO own at least one CRT monitor and one CRT TV, right Ganker? They don't make these anymore, they're only getting more scarce over time and people online are already scalping them.
Yes, why?
This is just a few of them.
nice carpet
Thanks, it’s soft
Nice collection. I have 2 and I'm trying to get a third one right now. Look into getting PVM/BVMs as well as commercial CRTs
no, I don't own any of those cancer emitters
You poor zoomer, there is a spray within the crt that prevents you from getting hit with the dangerous waves.
>he is afraid of getting cancer but probably vapes.
crts don't make me look cool, smoking does
>anon
>>"no, I don't own any of those cancer emitters"
>also anon
>>"this ripe banana will be the perfect treat for my smoothie"
radiation is actually good for you.
I know where you can find cesium in abundance if you're interested.
CRT scalping is such a moronic inflated market, even with so many recycled, thrown in the trash and otherwise destroyed, there has to be hundreds of millions of these things still around for a market of a fraction of the population that actually wants them, any perceived general scarcity is just from hobbyists obsessing over specific models and how often they actually change hands or move around because they're such a pain to transport.
Yeah you just have one stuffed down your pants 24/7.
Ideally.
Yeah, it makes no sense. Even PVMs doesn't seem like a worthwhile market to scalp due to all the hassle storing them and such. Like okay you're going to have an entire basement filled with pro monitors and sell them on ebay so that once in a blue moon some moron actually pays you 2,000 dollars for one? Wow, great investment.
But with the consumer CRT scalping it's even more ridiculous. good luck sitting on those worn out consumer sets hoping someone is actually going to pay you hundreds for your dogshit zenith
I'm a troony so yes.
I don't want or have need of one
Unlike the zoomie hipsters who idolize them, I actually had the misfortune of using them for the first ~13 years of my life and I never want to use one again.
This but 22 years, I don't miss them at all.
This. I was a poorgay, so I was using one until like 2011/2012. I don't want one.
I found one in my drand parents house and hook it up to see what the fuss was all about.
The result, it's as shit as when i was a kid playing super nintendo in one of them. Im going to stick with my oled thank you very much.
>zoomies feel like they missed out
>decide to adopt an antiquated technology without stopping to think why it was readily abandoned
I have no nostalgia for having to use one of these things until I saved up for a new TV in 2009. I am more nostalgic for the gigantic leap in quality I experienced. Nothing ever seems to leap that noticeably anymore, even my 4k TV just feels like a big 720p TV
For CRT TVs I've become a snob and really only care about ones with Component inputs.
I just left them in the basement storage when I moved because I couldn't be bothered to get rid of them.
I saw one sitting by the side of the road today and the sign said it worked and was free to take but it was too heavy...
It is the test of the sword and the stone. Zoomers are unworthy.
Of course, there is no other way to live.
Also, there is like 40 CRTs in my dads loft.
This picture fills me with immense sadness. How do you live like this?
Live like what?
i feel like you might be projecting a bit
are you a woman or something? stop being a b***h kek
Gonna pick up myself a CRT for free from someone who has like 6-7 of them but doesn't want to throw them away. Hopefully I can find one with s-video input
I still keep a CRT around solely to occasionally replay Elemental Gearbolt.
Frick no, I upscale everything to 1080p on my monitor like God intended.
i wish, couldnt find any.
Ok so give me a rundown
Why would I want this
I genuinely don't understand
Aren't modern monitors just better quality?
It’s sad when kids literally don’t know of the holy difference or know CRTs are faster than any resolution today.
I'm from 95, I grew up with them
I just don't know why they are still relevant
You can be a dick or you can help me understand, in the end it really doesn't matter for my future
>bright and juicy colors unlike most LCDs
>better black levels than LCDs (which have shitty dark blue because black pixels have to light up anyway)
>native 240p and 480i support so no scaling/deinterlacing bullshit for older consoles
>picture is less aliased due to properties of the phosphors, which many developers incorporated in spritework
>no input lag
>no ghosting
>can play light gun games
>can be obtained for cheap, preferably for free
It's only recently that LCDs started to catch up in image quality, but you'll have to spend shit ton of money, meanwhile a good CRT will cost you like 10$
No amount of money saved can make up for a back injury lifting one of these pieces of shit
Just do some deadlifts and it's easy peasy.
I do actually, but I don't really use either. I turned on a CRT TV like last month and it was still working fine but the monitor has been dead for years. For a while it had a hard time starting up and then it stopped turning on completely. I believe these symptoms could indicate failing capacitors but I never really looked into it. Might take it to some TV repairman at some point to see if it can still be fixed or not, for childhood nostalgia if nothing else.
You wouldn't want it, for the most part. The only truly practical use case for CRTs today is just using them with old video sources from back when CRTs were the only option around. Due to how CRTs work they can display "any" resolution (within limits) without requiring the digital scaling which raster displays like LCDs and OLEDs do. That scaling can often look ugly and nasty and while dedicated scalers with much better image quality can be purchased if you just want to view some video coming from an old, low resolution source you may just be better off viewing it on a CRT.
Another advantage is the fact that they're not sample & hold displays and as such do not suffer from motion blur that is caused by sample & hold. This means they get better motion resolution, but in practice this is hamstrung by the fact that they cannot run at high resolution and high refresh rate simultaneously like modern digital screens can, plus the lack of sample & hold actually comes with the downside of visible flicker at low refresh rate (using any CRT monitor on a computer while running under 85Hz was total cancer for me back in the day).
*cracks*
*sips*
woah those look amazing. what model/type are they?
OEV141 on the left is a shadow mask, olympus had rebadges of various CRT models, I think this one is actually a panasonic.
BVM 14F5U on the right.
needa pick up an old mis 2000s tv tbh whats the best way to find em? just ask relatives and friends?
craigslist/israelitebook marketplace should have plenty of nearby options for free from boomers begging someone to haul away their junk. Might depend on where you are though; apparently europoors and ausgays have a harder time with this. But yeah, just ask any of your older relatives/friends if they have an old tube TV collecting dust in a spare bedroom or basement. You'd be surprised.
The likelihood of a TV being free goes up exponentially with it being too big for you to want it either. I don't think I've ever seen one actually try to get money for any CRT over 35".
That's true in general. It's easier to find CRTs in the 24-36" range than below that. Smaller ones were more quickly thrown away because it was relatively easy to just pick them up and toss them in the trash. The big ones are often still around because nobody wants to move them. Usually though, CRTs weren't made above 35-36" besides some exceptions like those mitsubishi presentation monitors. For the most part anything bigger than that is a rear projection, and those things were ass.
This is also why despite having stumbled across tons of good quality consumer CRTs over the years I've NEVER come across an old PC CRT monitor. Those being smaller meant they were replaced a long long time ago.
Basically because old CRTs are really fricking heavy. Anything over 30 inches is gonna be impossible to move without someone else helping out. People that didn't grow up with these things don't realize how much they actually weigh compared to a modern television. The difference is enormous
You are moving it wrong. The proper way to move a CRT is with a combination of dragging, rolling, and walking. A remember taking CRTs up the stairs by myself when I was like 12. It was a very careful one step at a time thing.
one or two
stop clinging to old garbage moron
I've been looking for a decent 17-22" with s-video or component and a good brand for months now. Only listings I see are many hours away.
Real homies use RF
ah... feels good playing the way the devs intended
It appropriately punishes you for living in high density urban housing, truly the perfect technology.
I'm an old fricker, I had several not too long ago but I tossed them out. I needed to make space in the garage for my new smoker and lawn mower.
I love this little homie life you wouldn't believe.
I have one of these as well. Got it inb HS and took it to bandcamp for Melee and halo LAN. Use it as a backup to my PVM these days.
I thought that TV was playing Deadly Premonition for a second.
>Have a big Sony TV from early 90s with the black plastic. Like a 40inch
>Move it from one room to its storage area. Was me and like 3 other guys cuz of its mass.
>As we were carrying it there was loud poppings coming from the plastic, luckily we acted quickly and put it down
>We all stood back and watched as the plastic started cracking as the TVs huge mass caused other pieces to burst, causing a cascasding effect of cracks, bursts, tv settles on a fresh part of the plastic as the weight creates another crack etc etc
At the end was just the 'tail' part of the tube just sticking into the air with a mass plastic pieces under it. THe plastic was just old and dried. So i dunno avoid those types
i think those big 90s sonys are called rear projection tvs
im probably older than you, just an early model crt. I know what a fricking projection tv is. dont think too much about it
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No monitors, but I do own a PVM, that's gotta count for something, right?
Unless you're a stinky melee player, you don't need one. I'm gonna start smashing every one I see.
Thanks for increasing their worth for me, buddy!
I still see them on pawnshops that are not aware of the retrogamer meme prices but I don't know how to repair them and I'm not interested.
Pawn shops aren't going to charge ebay meme prices because they actually want to move inventory.
I had a 65in Sony CRT growing up.
Do you didn't. That was a dogshit projection TV
I do.
I recovered my mom's old PC twelve years ago. thanks to that, I can play old games just like in the day. It helps that I kept most of my PC games boxes and CDs.
As for the TV, same thing, kinda: in 2011, I recovered an old big ass and heavy as shit 2002 60 cm CRT from a family's friend.
They are both in my retro gaming room.
2D gaming is where they shine
a 3D is fine too
They're great for psx/saturn gaming.
Meanwhile N64 looks like ass on literallu everything. Prob the console which aged the worse.
> Ganker agreeing on something
What about wii? Was thinking on getting one
Wii looks great and can output 240p so NES games actually look better than ever. N64 games still look like shit but NES, SNES, GCN and Wii games all look amazing and you can buy a wii component cable for like $30 vs the gamecube component cable for $250+
Nice, think I'm gonna pull the trigger, saw more stuff online and it looks good
N64's smearing definitely hasn't aged the most gracefully, especially on modern displays, but on a CRT it doesn't look bad.
Wii is an excellent option for use with a CRT. It has composite, s-video, and component output and supports both 240p and 480i. It's a really easy option for playing emulators on a CRT at native resolution.
The issue with N64 is that it has "hardware antialiasing" that basically just applies a vaseline smear to everything.
> on a CRT it doesn't look bad
No, it still looks bad, just not quite as bad as modern displays. There is a limit to the CRTs magic, and N64 exceeds it.
Some N64 games look good. F-Zero X and Mario Kart 64 and SM 64 are some examples.
Most look like dookie.
That mostly comes down to the horribly low-res textures that plagued the system. Nothing is ever going to fix that. But I was referring to the bilinear filtering the console does. On a CRT it's fine but displaying on a flat panel it looks horrible.
N64 too, since it looks like garbo on flat panels no matter what upscaling bullshit you do.
Not a troony:
Own two Trinitrons, a 21 and a 29 inch.
Also have 3 PVMs, Two 14 inch ones and a 9.
>i have nothing but Sony's.
Idiot.
Pure coincidence.
Of all that I could test, these were the best.
About the PVMs, working in broadcast has it's perks
Yes. 3. A trinitron, an LG Flatron and a Wells Gardener arcade monitor.
The Sony is hands down the worst.
Based, take the Philips tube pill
No, I don't own any. I have flipped at least 30 of them though, I can't believe morons will consistently buy them for over $100 when they're shit compared to modern monitors
yeah. lately i've been thinking of taking it out of the closet and playing through Ico at long last. maybe some tokyo xtreme racer
> tokyo xtreme racer
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I just use CRT shaders because I'm poor.
I got 1000 coming to me in tax returns. Don’t know what I want but I’m going to buy some retro games.
I've got 25K in bonus coming my way and Im paying off debt....
if you're going to go down that rabbit hole I recommend just buying hardware and mods/flashcarts. Or just put your tax return toward something useful like a mortgage, but hey.
This. I still collect but there are some consoles where its just too expensive and I also don't care about cartriges without the box and that shit is also expensive.
There I will buy modded consoles or flashcarts.
yes, smol 13 inch Toshiba with a built in DVD player. It's cozy but I don't know what to play on it first. I'm a zoomer that hasn't even played the original Zelda games, I was thinking I should get an N64 with OOT but I really want to experience the original RE games on it. That's my main goal
Neat. Good luck zoomer-kun.