Why does Sup Forums jerk off to Cancer Ray Tubes so much?

Goddamn, you all must be 14 and have never actually used one and gotten a pulse-pounding headache from it. Or had to lug one up a flight of stairs. Good fucking riddance.

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Their response times are ridiculously low. That's the only benefit of them that I know of.
Very few people in Sup Forums actually have any reason to care about this.

Honestly, it's just a meme.

CRTs is the only way to play my retro video games

We do?

Old shit looks better.

The headache you get is from your soy eyes that can't handle the real 60Hz
Modern screens are permanently lit which is easier for your feminine eyes but it comes with unfixable motion blur, which defeats the entire purpose of a video display, on top of the shit contrast, fixed resolution and bad viewing angles.
By the way, you get more radiation from eating 2 bananas than sitting in front of a CRT for an entire week.

CRTs are better at motion, that is after all what they were originally designed to do, which was display moving images on a TV screen. There's no real need to use one for stuff like MS Office which has mostly static images and in fact they have a number of deficiencies there.

Backlight Illumination sucks. Ray Tube with point illumination is much nicer to the eyes. TFT Monitors are superiour in almost every other aspect but the backlight basically makes you stare into a light bulb the whole time. That's all I have to say.

>your soy eyes
wew
>OP suffered from severe pounding headaches from your retarded ancient nuke screens
>"hehe, soy maymay!"

>FT Monitors are superiour in almost every other aspect but the backlight basically makes you stare into a light bulb the whole time
No flat panel made in the last 7-8 years still uses a CFL backlight though.

Definitely hit a nerve there

I never got a headache from hours of staring at Civilization on a CRT. But maybe it's the muted colors and low contrast levels compared to using office software or web browsing.

it's the same with LED, I never said anything about CFL.

anything at or above 75hz and there won't be (weren't) problems with CRT

i get more fps on my crt and it bothers my autism otherwise

but man, the burn in on 90s hardware is fucking awful

>Cancer Ray Tubes
They're lead lined for that exact reason you nigger. You would fucking know, if you weren't born after 2000.

Blame that on your low quality genetics

I play Melee so I pick one of these babies up every few months when I end up dropping the one I was using. They're 5 bucks each too, pretty neat

Degauss this thread at once!

>but man, the burn in on 90s hardware is fucking awful
Like I said, CRTs were after all designed to display moving TV images and not static computer graphics.

There are admittedly a lot of deficiencies in the technology but flat panels haven't yet solved the problem of near-zero input lag.

Nah, dude, nah.

Why would anyone care about input lag? a few milliseconds isn't that much.

You play a 16 year old children's party game. Grow up.

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It's actually 17 bud, but it's ok I'll enjoy the time I spent learning valuable life lessons while you stay online trying to make people feel as shitty as I'm sure you regularly do.

The monitor I'm using now is an HP 2011x. It's adequate for web browsing but when I move the mouse pointer around, I can see the smear trails. Granted, it's not a high-end monitor but even the crummiest chink CRT has no lag.

at least lcd isn't blurry when just displaying an image
also isnt it full 180 viewing degrees for lcd?

I like CRTs but gosh, does anyone else hate the smell? I always remembered playing with the static by touching the screen after the CRT was turned off as a kid and the rest of the day my hands would smell like ozone.

The image on a CRT doesn't look as crisp at high refresh rates though.

No, it was November 2001. That is considerably less than 17 years.
If you want to play a competitive game play a fighting game instead.

Got my ass, maybe I'll embrace my inner weeb and play fighterZ.

Anything with competition is competitive though, mate. Meaning that Melee IS competitive, whether you like it or not.

It doesn't matter how crips the image looks on your LCD screen, it will get blurry as soon as there's any kind of motion
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Dragon Ball is the least weeb anime. Even blacks like it. It's also an entry level fighter. Play Virtua Fighter instead.
When did I say you can't play Super Smash Bros competitively?

sure beats it being constantly blurry on grandmas old set box. also having to beat the shit out of the side of the thing when the picture shrinks down to a single line in the middle of the screen.

Don't forget they also cause seizures.

There's a reason screen-savers exist, beyond ricing shit out.

"if you want to play a competitive game play a fighting game" implies Melee isn't competitive.

I realize it's an entry level fighter, but I'm not trying to learn something as deep as melee all over again

>sure beats it being constantly blurry on grandmas old set box. also having to beat the shit out of the side of the thing when the picture shrinks down to a single line in the middle of the screen.
That's never happened on any CRT I've ever used.

>t. 2 k/d

I put soy on everything I eat.

>you all must be 14

So are you.

Biggest issue with CRT is focus and sharpness.

You needed $$$ trinitron for sharpness to come even close to LCD.

widescreen master race

You forgot that that sentence ended with instead, implying Super Smash Bros can be played competitively.
Smash Bros isn't deep, just because someone found a bug that lets you move faster doesn't mean your party game is deep.

is that a vhs player lmfao did you know they kept making movies after 2002?

Got a WEGA there?

He's probably talking about what happens when the vertical deflection circuit on a CRT fails. What happens is that the electron beam ends up running across the middle of the screen and producing the "line of death". If this ever happens, turn the thing off immediately because it will damage the shadow mask from the concentrated electron gun energy.

The backlight driver burning out on LCD screens seems far more common than this.

I've also seen centrally burned dot.

The last VHS ever was made in 2006, user

Yeah I know what he's talking about. I've never personally seen it happen though.

i wouldn't know, i moved on to something better before i absolutely had to.

In my experience with huge amount of LCDs caps are biggest reason for their death then there's backlight yellowing over time and with really old ones delamination which results in spots on the edges of screen.

nah, you just slap the side of it and Jurassic park comes on again.

CRTs are delicate analog electronics. I actually feel that flat panels are better in terms of being normie-proof in that there are a lot of things you can do to damage a CRT or shorten its lifespan that aren't possible with an LCD.

One such example would be how it was very common for TVs to have a factory 90% brightness/contrast setting. This was done so they'd look better in store displays, unfortunately it was quite hard on the picture tube and would shorten its operating lifespan, and a lot of people never properly adjusted their TVs and just always used them at the factory setting, thus causing the CRT to crap out in

I bet CRTs are better at shock (physical) resistance than LCDs. Granted if you threw a tube it would break, but a 2 foot fall LCD is guaranteed to crack.

>t. a person who has a life

An LCD won't implode and launch sharp glass fragments everywhere though.

They claim manufacturers preferred the flat panels because they were more profitable to produce. Although from a purely economic standpoint, the fact that a CRT has a finite operating lifespan means that you'll have to replace them every couple of years as the tube wears out. That would mean Sony could sell you a new Trinitron every five years when the old one has developed screen burn and weak electron guns. But with a flat panel, they're solid state so you could easily be using one for 20-30 years without a drop in picture quality and you have less need to buy a new one after a few years.

Have you ever broken a CRT screen? The glass is around 3 inches thick, it takes some effort. If you annihilate the back case, yes. Still it will take effort because the plastic shell protects the back of the tube quite well.

>when your argument has become so fucking moot that the people on either side speculate on which one will break if you drop it.

you guys are like children trying to one up each others super powers

>continues to watch
You like it

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That's an interesting argument. LCDs don't wear out like CRTs because they're not analog electronics, but most people throw out their old monitors when they get a new PC anyway so it's not as if they can't sell you a new one every couple of years.

People are idiots. I've seen people replace an entire rig because it was dirty.

Advantages of CRTs:
1. adjustable resolution
2. quick response times
3. good viewing angles
4. high contrast

Disadvantages of CRTs:
1. huge form factor
2. blurry
3. inefficient
4. dim
5. susceptible to magnetism
6. x-ray emission
7. strains eyes
8. fault-prone due to several factors

Be careful, son, one of those Smash Bros autists was in here a while ago talking about how deep his party game is. You don't want to catch his autism wrath.

Oh, but that's exactly what I'm hoping for.

I once did some IT shit for a mormon family. They had like 8 dusty computers in a room that they weren't using. They didn't pay for my service, so I asked them if i could scavenge their old computers for parts and they said sure. To this day, i have like 8-10 hdds that are like 100mb each. I wanted to comb over them and look for secret Mormon secrets, but i never got the chance.

>secret Mormon secrets

Normie idiocy is what keeps Sony et al in business. If you were all neckbeards who took excellent care of your TVs and monitors, they couldn't sell nearly as many new ones and they'd go out of business.

Maybe you're smart enough not to drop a monitor or spill Sprite into it but a lot of people aren't that smart.

Most of their secrets aren't secret, like how they had a secret basement full of secret food, or how their father had secret diabetus and regularly secretly choked on his own fat throat. Biggest unsecret was that they brought me there to convert me and i ended up sitting through a goddamn morman bible study while i was trying to install pirated windows 7 on their computer

Also some TVs deliberately had the high voltage jacked up to have a brighter picture which also shortened the lifespan of the tube.

I had a Jew client, once, that would "educate" me on some aspect of the religion whenever I did work for him.

have dropped a trinitron 3 feet onto concrete when my hands slipped. they're actually surprisingly hardy. in LCDs the backlights love to die as well as capacitor failure literally anywhere though that's a fault of the plague and usually not the design inherently

use a truck, a friend, and a dolly you jackass. my CRT weighs 220lbs and I have taken it up a flight of wooden stairs before - big enough dolly, good jack straps, and lifting the whole assembly up each step 1 at a time. how often do you move the things anyway?

yesterday there was a massive autist trying to defend some trash Taiwanese CRT monitor he owned. I bet if he still had the thing and used it, he'd realize how shit it is.

why can't religious people understand that if im doing IT shit, ive already been lost to the weird darkside of pornography and masturbation and no religion is going to save me now.

I had a Samsung (I think?) 4:3 LCD monitor I got from a thrift store. At some point it stopped displaying any picture. The backlight was working fine, but no image at all.

not an uncommon issue. like i said capacitor plague will cause a lot of the funkiness that renders older LCDs "dead" and that LCD sounds like its from the right time frame for it. Samsung LCDs were particular victims of it. would check caps visually across the boards and see if any are suspect, and if any are, replace every single one. otherwise, would check LCD panel connectors.

i have a pair of older NEC MultiSync 20" and 21" 1600x1200 monitors and the only issue I have is display yellowing and backlight dimness but fuck me if I'll find the right replacement tubes for them

The monitor I'm typing on is from 2011 and has zero degradation in image quality since it was brand new. That would never happen on a CRT, it would have a shot tube by now especially considering the amount I've used it.

I am mostly annoyed because I'm trying to fix something that has been broken in the most convoluted way and it needs my full attention. Being interrupted every 5 minutes for a 5 - 7 minute "lesson" adds to the overall bill, but most of the time I would rather just get that shit done and leave.

It wasn't a Samsung, it was an LG. I just remembered now.

Real talk though, if i went through those hard drives and found old photos of theirs, do you think they would be thankful or creeped out if i sent them to them? they are Morman so they are really nice, but also i definitely would not want somebody that hasn't spoken to me in 8 years to send me a bunch of photos of when i was a baby

>Real talk
Never post here again.

It would only be weird if they had CP, but then if the things are 100MB drives, there's probably nothing but ASCII porn downloaded from a BBS.

You know, they probably have something on there to make you think it's something they want back, in order to have the chance to convert you, again.

says the man hording vhs tapes

I personally like CRTs and would like to have them back on the market, but at the same time I do acknowledge that they have a number of drawbacks and I wouldn't want to use one for a computer monitor unless I was doing gaming.

Makes me happy that my 1080p LCD Acer from 2012 still works. I'm glad I was prolific in preventing my bro from messing with the brightness settings, when I got it. I'm glad I got out of my gaymer-rage phase and was always careful when I brought it places.

All in all, who cares, but I wonder how long a given monitor can last.

Learn to spell.

>All in all, who cares, but I wonder how long a given monitor can last

I don't know if there's a definitive operating lifespan for a flat panel being that they're solid state. On older LCDs, the backlight would die eventually because it's a florescent lamp. but they're all LED-based now.

woops sorry

says the *faggot hording vhs tapes

Is there any solution to the shit motion in LCD besides 120Hz with black frame insertion?
I'd buy a high refresh panel but the price is just ridiculous

It's whoops. Not woops.

i guess a vhsfag would know better than anyone else how to spell whoops