For old consoles pre 360/ps3 absolutely. However most consumer tvs were 1080i at most. Still, its not like many games are 1080p but I dunno if id use a widescreen crt for xbone/ps4. I would not use a widescreen CRT for old consoles because they also use digital signals which means they have analog to digital converter + upscaler which means input lag.
Xavier Martinez
Flat panels have their advantages in cost, size, and weight. CRT's benefits just don't outweigh that.
Jose Carter
Also it seems that tv is a Sony KD 34XBR960N. That does 1080i at most which isnt the full 1920 lines, maybe 1440 X 1080.
Lucas Jenkins
Sup Forums presents BACK TO /VR/ a cancerous place where you should stay
Brody James
>cost I picked up 2 CRT monitors diamond pro 2070sb's for $40, so far they have been great. I'll give you size and weight though, i'm glad I don't move my computer around very much. But 2560x1440@85hz with accurate colors, real blacks, no motion blur and extremely low input lag. OLED can't even compete it still has persistence problems which creates motion blur on top black crush and burn in problems.
Jace White
/vr/ is much better than Sup Forums. Sorry that you fell for the LCD meme
Luis Cook
>720p LCD screens I'm sorry, I didn't realize it was 2003.
Ethan Harris
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Wyatt Smith
enjoy your x-ray induced aids
Angel Hill
You can just emulate retro vidya on a typical HD monitor and add in scanlines
Jose Robinson
i'll give you the advantage of size and weight , however crt's are cheaper than all other modern technologies while being still superior to all of them
Josiah Edwards
There are Sony WEGA's that do 1080p through HDMI only and they have a grey front plate, not silver. The silver ones don't have proper 1080p and the picture is down-sampled.
Also if the front of the TV doesn't say "Super Fine Pitch" that means that any signal above 1080i has horrendous input lag. Also these TV's are horrible for any signal below 480i.
Nobody has 720p LCD screens anymore, the only reason to own one of these is for there unparalleled color depth (which is only now being matched with consumer grade LED TVs) and for legacy equipment.
These TV's also suffer from horrendous overscan Also if you have little to no knowledge on how to properly service one, you are much better off with a new TV.
Jack Smith
/vr/ seriously thinks we've not got a good game since 1999
They can fuck off
Michael Miller
in about five years OLED is going to bring most of CRT's qualities into monitors thinner than current LCDs. They literally turn off during blacks, have response times in the microseconds, and with strobing can provide the glorious clarity you're looking for.
Only downside is that they burn in like a motherfucker.
Luke Bennett
I have a CRT for older games or anything that runs 4:3, and a decent LCD monitor for newer stuff and widescreen movies and such
Hudson Morales
You picked them up for $40 because they were used and it's a discontinued product, correct?
Evan Jenkins
When did they say that?
Jonathan Evans
Pretty sure the burn-in thing got solved with the latest gen last year.
Or I remember someone on Sup Forums raving about it anyway.
Aiden Wilson
>falling for the "crt gives cansur!!11!11!1" meme stay pleb
Adrian Mitchell
Yep, but a little calibration and they look fucking beautiful.
Evan Bailey
Ionising radiation will eventually damage your DNA, dipshit.
Hudson Cook
Constantly, just go on there and suggest the idea that 6th gen consoles and pc games up to 2005 should be allowed and you'll find floods of 'em claiming that 2000 was the year gaming as a whole went to shit.
Gabriel Carter
>fell for the X meme
Not everything is a "meme" you fucking idiot.
Leo Barnes
well at least your tried
Justin Torres
there were plenty of good dreamcast games after 1999 :^)
Connor Green
CRTs outweight anything
Jack Smith
>being a 6th gen babby
Brody Myers
Just because your underage ass played them as a kid doesn't make them retro
>wanting to listen to that fucking interference noise for the rest of your goddamn life
Leo Thomas
I don't know about solved, but it's certainly been reduced. I've had a Note 5 with an OLED screen since November, and there's no burn in on it yet, whereas the Note 2 I had prior to it had noticeable burn-in by this point.
Jace Cook
here's the thing though.
Any CRT taking input from a digital source like HDMI has to pass the digital signal through an analog decoder before it can hit the screen.
Meaning any CRT running an HDMI source is going to have horrible input lag.
Meanwhile, any LCD screen can run digital input by default, and the only lag comes from the screen's own refresh rate, which is something that may have been an issue 15 years ago, but any screen bought after 2010 has as good or better refresh rates than a CRT.
Analog inputs are better on CRTs, digital inputs are better on LED or LCD. Period.
Hunter Foster
>my superior japanese tube tv, complete with hdmi
LCDS are ass but why do people with CRTs have such massive superiorty complexes
Christian Diaz
Sup Forums teached me something about dust particles shot in your eyes from CRT TVs. Is that actually a thing? I can totally imagine that and the explaination sounds reasonable too.
Luis Peterson
>literally as heavy as your mother
yeah, nah.
Brayden Nguyen
>Sup Forums teached me something Looks like it wasn't english.
Jeremiah Peterson
>teached.
Brayden James
>he fell for the "he fell for the X meme" meme
Dominic Robinson
>admitting to being a weak faggot
Juan Jackson
Sounds like you've been punked. The only slightly concerning thing about crts and dust is dust collected form the screen of a crt that sees frequent use is slightly radioactive because of something to do with radon or whatever but it's not at any harmful levels. CRTs are such an old technology that if there was anything significantly harmful about them we'd have seen a massive spike in brain tumors or whatever by now.
Carson Bailey
>had a 50 inch crt like ops pic >got it from grandma >she tells us about how one of the 3 men moving the thing had a heart attack and died during the first attempt >tfw your tv is a murderer
Mason Bennett
Fuck user, i was already afraid of these monsters, now im terrified
Justin Jones
i have a yuggge crt that i lift all by myself because i am a big guy
sometimes my brother helps me
Benjamin Cruz
Forgive me, it's getting late.
Isaiah Collins
thing was atleast 300-400 pounds, the guys lifting the thing were 40-50+ aswell, it's not too surprising that it killed one of them
Asher Taylor
>"CRT are the best" meme CRT can fuck up your eyes. modern TV can't easily fuck up them!
Chase Lopez
>400 pounds you must be talking about stone age shit no electronics weights that much these days
Jordan Ward
How so?
Easton Cook
Glad CRTs are gone, my old CRT monitor growing completely fucked my vision.
Lincoln Lee
What kind of TV stand do you use to hold a crt that big? You're probably not allowed to take it past the ground floor of a building because of building regulations and load weight or something.
Jason Edwards
it was from the 90s >What kind of TV stand do you use to hold a crt that big? it was a stand built for the tv, still use it for a led tv, the stand itself must be atleast 40-60 I would guess.
Dominic Davis
My 27 inch CRT was like 50kg, 400lb seems about right for a 50 inch
Robert Anderson
I use the Framemeister for old vidya. Looks fantastic on modern TVs with a little tweaking. Can even set scanlines if thats your thing.
Jaxson Howard
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Jaxson Richardson
Smug little musicnote
Juan James
alright lads i never considered weighting it since it has never been moved passed ground level and we were always a bunch of guys when we had to take in some other room i know its heavy but i never thought it would be that much
Jason Scott
This is news to me. Kinda curious what you guys are talking about.
Ayden Turner
I'm assuming it's referring to crt flicker. The way CRTs refresh makes flicker quite noticeable even at 60Hz and this caused eye strain migraines somehow i dunno. I didn't really spend lots of time in front of a screen until after CRTs were obsolete.