1) Perfect black levels 2) Flawless off-axis viewing 3) Much faster refresh rate than LCD 4) Warmer, more natural image (thanks to scan lines and small granules) 5) Far longer life-span 6) Not subject to manufacture problems such as dead-pixels 7) Good range of compatibility with lower or non-standard resolutions without blurring
Given ultimate space and money the world's best CRT could easily crush the world's best LCD. So tell me Sup Forums, why do you like your inferior screens that companies such as Samsung have brainwashed you to think is better than what already existed? The only cost-savings are on their end.
And the funny thing is you guys keep buying this crappy LCD technology and giving away your free CRTs on Craigslist. A fool and his dollar are soon parted I guess.
And before you start yapping about IPS panels: Enjoy your slow G2G response to switch pixels already, not to mention that hidden input and scalar lag. Luckily, CRT has no such bullshit.
The only semi-legitimate point I've heard against CRTs regards weight, but you don't bitch about the weight of a prospective couch while furniture shopping, do you? Didn't think so.
You're making far too many assumptions, here's a pic of me watching =3 on my crt.
Isaiah Barnes
You're not wrong OP, but CRTs are bulky and expensive and there's not much anyone could do about it. People don't want to spend as much or more on their monitor as they do for the rest of their PC, they don't want to pay huge electric bills, and they don't want to lift those bigass motherfuckers. The better technology losing out to the cheaper/easier one is not a new story at all.
T. Using SyncMaster 1100p Plus and CPD G420 right now.
Benjamin Lee
Ok thanks
Jace Ward
Man, ignoring OPs claims CRTs disappearing is a bitch
>no more being made >old ones being thrown out or dying constantly
They are now a finite resource that is rapidly declining.
Not an issue for most people but a lot of people (myself included) are into "retro" shit
What will I do about my Amigas once they are all gone
Ayden Allen
>ctrl + f plasma >0 results
Shit thread, OP
Leo Mitchell
>blurry as fuck >blasts radiation at your face >fucks with your eyes great tech fampai
Jacob White
Which one should I buy?
Nolan Cox
Plasma is good but it has issues.
>Plasma can be louder than CRT screens >Runs hot as fuck >Runs so hot it sometimes needs fans >Burn in is easy on plasma but this is often fixed with pixel shifting and on newer ones is never a real issue >can be eye raping as fuck when viewing PAL 50hz shit depending on the TV
I do love my plasma TV though. It is a shame it is on its last legs.
Caleb Walker
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Brayden Bailey
>>Plasma can be louder than CRT screens
Bullshit. I can hear any CRT through a locked room but never heard a thing from any plasma. >>Runs hot as fuck Okay >>Runs so hot it sometimes needs fans So does my gpu >>Burn in is easy on plasma but this is often fixed with pixel shifting and on newer ones is never a real issue Then use a newer one >>can be eye raping as fuck when viewing PAL 50hz shit depending on the TV Pal is a shit standard
Plasma is superior, just get a used panasonic
Owen James
>Perfect black levels
On a light grey screen
Sure thing granddad
Henry Anderson
Panasonic are actually the ones known to be most eye raping @ PAL
If you can't hear how loud most plasma are you're literally deaf. They are very loud televisions. Just as loud as CRT often and CAN BE louder.
A TV should never need a fan that's retarded. I don't need extra noise or moving components in a TV that's an awful idea and shouldn't happen ever.
Plasma isn't superior - it is in some cases but not in all. Same with CRT. It is a horses for courses thing.
Dylan Reed
Do you honestly believe that a leading Japanese TV manufacturer like Panasonic or would design a TV with an annoying audible buzzing sound that can be heard from your couch?
2012 panasonics plasmas and up solved all these anxieties. And stop using PAL.
Blake Evans
enjoy your eye cancer
Eli Morales
>tfw 32" 1080i flat widescreen CRT tv Got it for free off Kijiji. Like the warmth comfy feeling it vibes playing TV in the background.
Christian Gonzalez
I can safely say I do not miss the high pitched whine of electricity from these buggers.
Adam Campbell
Is this they screen fedora thread?
Chase Miller
Yes because the noise is a result of the tech they literally all do it what the fuck are you talking about lmao
>this idiot
Yeah let's just tell entire countries to just stop using PAL so people can easier use now dead tech.
Also PAL can be better than NTSC
Elijah Morris
I felt this way 20 years ago.
Alexander Evans
>>>vr/crt Not even memeing, honestly recommending this general
Sebastian Cruz
Not a single comment on how CRT emits 16khz whine the whole time it's on
Leo Kelly
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Jason Cox
OP is brain damaged. Just let the thread die
Grayson Myers
>Also PAL can be better than NTSC Fewer controls to fiddle with, for a start.
Jacob Foster
OLED,my dudes
Sebastian Reed
t. sub 25yo undearge faggot
Jason Ward
k
Gavin Wright
I checked this year's LG oled. It's like 50 to 60 ms lag. I'm glad it's out though
Bentley Cooper
wanting a 100W+ space heater cube that gives you eye cancer and has "amazing refresh rate" of 60Hz on a high (or normal for these days) resolution. Only reason i would use now is for horror gayms now, since my LG had amazing blacks and i could just see the main character and shit highlighted by flashlight in silent hill games, menus were unreadable though.
Carson Howard
>cant possible work longer than 10 years >loud >hot >only viewable from long distance >extremely inefficient >shit colors >shit contrast
Jose Morris
What brand/models to look for among CRTs?
Henry Barnes
This shit needs to be nipped in the bud
>>cant possible work longer than 10 years Evidence? >>loud my panasonic in my living room at point blank range. >>hot Why are you touching your television ? >>only viewable from long distance Any distance. What kind of bullshit statement is this. >>extremely inefficient It eats power and spits out 0 ms response time. >>shit colors The colors are more natural and realistic than any shit TN panel or CRT >>shit contrast Fuck you. Now you're just trolling. Plasma's hallmark is their contrast.
0/10
Kayden Baker
lcd tvs aren't superior and i thought everyone knows that, it's just easier to store it, and it was also easier to use/setup for consumers, it's all about making money tbqh
Ian Smith
Enjoy your cancer raygun faggot.
Brandon Bailey
"The amount of radiation escaping the front of the monitor is widely considered not to be harmful. TheFood and Drug Administrationregulations in21 C.F.R.1020.10are used to strictly limit, for instance, television receivers to 0.5milliroentgensper hour (mR/h) (0.13µC/(kg·h) or 36pA/kg) at a distance of 5cm (2in) from any external surface; since 2007, most CRTs have emissions that fall well below this limit." your computer makes more radiation, faggot
Kevin Jenkins
The FDA actually has to regulate that shit CRT. No need for Plasma OR led
Gavin Torres
Can't wait to pay 10 times as much as a comparable IPS display
Levi Scott
>Samsung have brainwashed you to think is better than what already existed Only retards think LCDs are better than CRTs user.
It's an established fact CRT is the best overall technology for picture quality. The problem is obviously resolution and maximum viable size. I hope OLED solves that, since it's only thing that can remotely compete with CRT.
Bentley Kelly
That was the MSRP when it was still in production.
I saw one of those go on ebay for €50.
Also what IPS display has perfect blacks, 160 hz, 0 input lag, ...?
Aiden Morales
>And stop using PAL.
Who the fuck uses PAL or NTSC in fucking 2016?
Cameron Ross
Because what people do is watch perfectlt black screen refresh instantly 10 times per second
The damn things weigh more than my little sister, and I'm not about to replace my 3 hi-res IPS panels with them
William Long
>tfw have 50" pannysonic
it has 4 fucking fans on the top, but good god is the picture ever fantastic
Alexander Butler
but they say it's harmless, the point is, before crts dying they had the superior quality, only reason lcd become mainstream is it was cheaper to produce and easier to store. in an ideal world tvs would still use crts while computers use lcd
Gabriel Wilson
I've actually been considering picking up a CRT from craigslist. right now I'm using a Viewsonic VP201S that I found in the dumpster kek. it has a couple dead pixels but its okay, I just really like the aesthetics of CRTs.
will I have problems with burn in if I use it with my PC? will I have burn in if I use it to play Xbox on?
They're only like 10 bucks anyway though.
Luis Gonzalez
>has much faster refresh rate than LCD LCDs do not have problems with vertical refresh rate - they do not flicker, transistors activate pixels all at once
thats why CRT has like 120hz refresh rate unlike LCD (usualy 60hz)
Aiden Hill
burn in happens when you leave a static image on it for a long time, which is why screen savers are a thing
Cooper Wright
so i shouldn't have problems using it to shitpost and play old video games?
Tyler Scott
No, but why would you? Unless you're a CS 1.6 pro
Josiah Lee
I can only use an ultrawide monitor.
2560x1080 or higher. Anything else is useless.
No such CRT exists, and if it did, it would be way to large to fit on any reasonably sized desk.
Christian Hughes
>blasts x-rays at your face
no thanks
Daniel Hall
>video games
yes you will burn it.
t. happened to me
Josiah Johnson
I love CRT's and hoard them in my garage, but they're not coming back. Get over it.
Anthony Fisher
>1) Perfect black levels
WTF do you mean? See that gray when it's off? That's your "black." "Black" is a relative thing dependent upon ambient lighting and contrast. LCDs have superior contrast.
>2) Flawless off-axis viewing
Not so much of an issue anymore. My laptop from 7 years ago has a great viewing angle. Any more and you'd be looking directly at the side of it.
>3) Much faster refresh rate than LCD
LCD's don't have a "refresh" rate since they don't refresh. The transistor is on or off and the pixel stays lit or it doesn't.
>4) Warmer, more natural image (thanks to scan lines and small granules)
Subpixel anti-aliasing makes this not an issue in LCDs, especially in the era of 4k displays.
>5) Far longer life-span
As someone who had to deal with CRTs as a daily thing in repair... no. The only way to repair a CRT is to put it on a rejuvenation machine and blast the crap off the elements. This is a stopgap measure until you throw it away. LCDs ... all you do is replace the backlight. The LCDs themselves are really reliable.
>6) Not subject to manufacture problems such as dead-pixels
Welcome to 15 years ago.
>7) Good range of compatibility with lower or non-standard resolutions without blurring
Scaling is no longer an issue. Again, welcome to 10 years ago.
>heavy
What matters is not the weight, but the goddamned amount of space a CRT takes up. You also can't bloody well mount it to a wall without extreme measures.
Charles Lee
Are you from 2008?
Luke Evans
>Unless you're a CS 1.6 pro He said old videogames, CS 1.6 is from 2000.
Ryan Edwards
61' LG plasma here, coming from a DLP with a collapsed light tunnel I got for $100 on craigslist it's amazing. That fucking BZZZZZZZZZZZT on all-white frames though lol
Ryder Gomez
Quantum dot and OLED screens are better fight me faggots
Nathaniel White
>2016 >using a CRT
Enjoy your flickering screen, limited desk space, low framerate, obsolete resolution, and high power consumption.
PS magnets work great for making the display picture more vivid.
Jace Price
>1) Perfect black levels no, it's even gray when turned off
>2) Flawless off-axis viewing so are modern LCDs
>3) Much faster refresh rate than LCD at super low resolutions, yes.
>4) Warmer, more natural image (thanks to scan lines and small granules) matter of preference, but OK. Personally I hated that for everything other than SNES games
>5) Far longer life-span haha no
>6) Not subject to manufacture problems such as dead-pixels yes. But can get local discolorations
>7) Good range of compatibility with lower or non-standard resolutions without blurring yes.
8) Enjoy your eye cancer
Benjamin Peterson
>perfect black levels NOPE they still glow you dumb mother fucker >flawless off-axis got me there but if you are watching tv from a stupid angle you are retarded anyways
i only keep my trinitron around because old games look like ass on modern tvs.
but even my modern sony LED glows less than my high end trinitron from the 90s
literally kill yourself if you use an old crt for anything other than old videogames
Isaac Miller
lmfao (my response doubles as era-appropriate music)
Xavier Peterson
so don't fucking try and stick magnets to your screen
Jack Gomez
fug m8. I guess I'll just buy a CRT TV instead to just use as a TV and maybe for porn.
Matthew Rogers
Is there a way I can make like a plastic shroud that goes behind my LCD to make it look like a CRT? just for the aesthetics. I think I could put a raspberry pi in there for a torrent server.
William Reed
poor fatty thought she'd finally won something. nothing so hilarious as crushed dreams
Brandon Phillips
High quality bait. Legitimately hope this thread hits 200+ replies.
Ayden Rodriguez
I'm the faggot from the retro threads where I go to thrift stores to buy old stupid shit to sell at markup to luddites. I was visiting the websites of them just for fun and one of them read
>We do NOT accept old TVs, and old computer monitors anymore, because NOBODY ever wants them, and then we have to pay a fee for a recycling center to take it. We do NOT take "CRT" monitors.
stupid fucking pieces of shit. not worth to ship because they're too heavy, but one day someone might throw out a trinitron or whatever meme garbage internet hipsters psuedo-decide is the best.
I know this is pasta but after you post this stuff for almost 15 years after the fact... it isn't trolling anymore, there really are CRT shits out there that are this fucking butt hurt. By the way, said thrift stores offer lcd monitors for $15 now, but this isn't about that is it.
This isn't about tech, CRT, or LCD, there are actually faggots out there that get off on just posting the same shit for decades, it's become their fucking religion. Or you say "my threads get 150 posts every time so I am an internet historian expert" when 140 of those posts are "kill yourself"
Julian Wood
>High pitched ringing noise permeating the room upon turning one on
Gabriel Morris
>Not destroying your high frequency hearing in your youth
James Wright
It's older than the average Sup Forums poster
John Richardson
You got that right though.
Andrew Gutierrez
LCDs do have manufacturing issues which have led companies to have policies like "gotta have at least 5 dead pixels or it's fine". My current LCD is an IPS screen that has a 1cm bright spot near a corner. It's not terrible, but it's definitely there.
My last LCD had dark spots which again weren't terrible, but were definitely there. And the LCD before that was pretty much perfect.
I'm definitely not defending CRTs though. I do own a CRT, but it's solely for retro gaming. I've owned several CRTs in my life, and they definitely have a shorter lifespan than LCDs. Toward the end they can develop a high pitched whine, have a picture that gradually gets blurrier, have bleeding reds, etc. For my old consoles, I'm saving up for a line doubler/upscaler so I can use them on my HDTV because I know the CRT is unlikely to last 5 years from now.