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Years ago in college my mom tried to dump her old CRT TV on me with a roku.
"we're leaving this tv with you"
"I don't want it, if you leave it here I am throwing it out"
"Oh son you could use it to watch netflix"
"or mom i could watch netflix on my phone, my smart tv, my xbox one, my xbox 360, my ps3, my computer, my other computer, my other other computer all of which would be in high resolution. If you leave that here I am putting it where it belongs, in the trash"
This is a shortened version of the conversation that went on far too long with me getting more and more annoyed with being given garbage.
I would take a CRT in a heartbeat. It makes watching 4:3 content feel right, especially older Star Treks.
Allegedly it is good with vintage video games (e.g. NES). The weird idiosyncracies of CRTs were accounted for when developing the games.
Not allegedly, it's quite true. CRT's tech approach adds gradients, depth to the colors and softens sharp pixel corners. Any sprite based game will look richer on a CRT, but filters are eh 80% good enough
This video shows the difference quite neatly. (Timestamp included for Earthworm Jim)
Daymn
Not just NES; games were largely designed with CRTs in mind all the way through PS2/Xbox/Gamecube console generation!
Legitimately would love a decent CRT TV (and room for it) to be able to authentically play Point Blank again - light gun games of that era only work on CRTs.
You just gonna ignore the poor Dreamcast like that?
My bad!
How could I literally forget Sega’s last, beautiful disaster? 🤦🏻♂️ I spent so much time playing Street Fighter III: Third Strike on it back in the day…
Yeah, CRT's are awesome in the right hands, not for watching Netflix
One thing I find crazy is that at least half of all monitors today are the same res as CRTs from a quarter century ago. I had a $250 no-name brand CRT that handled 1600x1200 quite beautifully in the 1990s.
Yup, and if having no use for one still means you don't need one.
They're obsessed with this idea that people they perceive to be lower on the social hierarchy than them can somehow always have a use for their old stuff. As if using their old stuff is part of the process to become successful like them.
stuff used to be more expensive relative to wages, especially electronics. our parent's generation were from a time where a TV cost 3 months rent. now a month of rent is 3 TVs. this also accounts for "you're poor but you have an iPhone" discourse
It is chock full of yummy copper though!