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"Yeah man, I'm going to the N.R.D.D. show tonight, you?"
I can't make it tonight. I'm going to the Shabby and Chamois show over at Murph'n'Gurp's.
400+ pound television? My spine spontaneously slipped three disks just by watching this video
Fucking Sony Trinitron man. Heaviest damn monitor I've ever had to deal with.
Felt like the glass was between 3-5” thick on those damn things. It was the closest to being stuck in a stairway I’ve ever been. Like call the fire department stuck.
They were so good though.
My brain buzzed a bit when it was turned on too. That's normal, right?
They seem to all be lifting it properly in the picture, though. Putting the strain in their backs, not on their knees, while making quick, jerking, twisting motions.
This was pretty fun to watch. But also kinda hearbreaking. That thing isn't going to last forever. The longer this goes the less excited I am about someone figuring out how to make CRTs as a boutique thing for nerds, but it's also a thing that should happen, even if I'm past my personal vinyl moment where I would overspend like crazy for it.
CRTs have so many advantages!
...ish
Like yeah, a CRT suddenly makes it so all of the fancy filters you have configured on retroarch are no longer necessary, and neither is frame advance for input latency if you're using native hardware or a mistr.
But is it worth it?
....gonna be that guy and say no, for me.
I mean... Depends on goals.
If you want to prevent your TV from getting stolen just get a Trinitron, it's heavy as fuck and old enough where no thief would take thier time to steal it. Mine's 109lbs
😂 thanks, that's the best reply so far
I genuinely had to leave a Sony Wega behind when I last moved. It was my landlord's and I would have bought it off of him, but it was just not possible to move it. It was there when I moved in, it stayed there when I moved out. You could make an olive orbit around that gravity well.
Thank you for leading me down this rabbit hole of looking up Wega, which was a German manufacturer of hifi equipment bought by Sony. They apparently made tapedecks for the Sony Elcaset format, which became an even deeper rabbit hole... TIL!
"Oooh, so that's what happened to aiwa."
Is THAT what happened to Aiwa? I had never made the connection.
I didn't even know Wega was in reference to a company they bought. I always thought it referred to their flatscreen trinitons and nothing else.
That thing struggled to keep geometry, but come on, it was a humongous widescreen CRT with stereo speakers that could replicate the Tunguska crater. You gotta love it.
Displaying basically anything that isn't text.
They don't have to figure it out. It's well documented.
My understanding is there are no new tubes/screens being produced anywhere. The figure out part is the industrial production, not the technology. But hey, if there are any production lines still in operation I'd be very curious to learn about them.
The same was the case with nixie tubes, until a guy in Czechia started artisanally hand-making them for deep-pocketed connoisseurs. Eventually, someone will undoubtedly try doing that with CRTs, though the question is how expensive each one will be and will they be able to match the quality of, say, a mass-produced Trinitron.
Yeah, the problem is you can't exactly learn to artisanally blow cathode ray tubes in your garage. Damn things are industrial by definition. You need someone to ramp up (or maintain, as someone above mentions) a big industrial facility to be able to reliably make an electron gun attached to an oversized vacuum tube that wants nothing more than to implode and throw shards of glass inside somebody's eyeballs.
Just like floppy disks and VHS tapes. Every 3.5" floppy that will ever be made has already been made.
I thought there was like one place making them, but maybe they're only packaging and shipping old ones?
But yeah, man, it's weird that we resurrected vinyl but those things are just lapsing despite retro tech fans having become a fairly large group. I suppose it's easier to manufacture replacements out of new tech than it is to build the legacy stuff, so it's all Goteks and memory card adaptors for a lot of that stuff.
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I remember seeing the news, the last consumer CRT production facility stopped producing around a decade ago, but I'm having trouble finding the article. They're still being produced for commercial uses though (Boeing 747 cockpits use them for example).
I think those are being built out of existing tube stock, I don't know that anybody is making new tubes. But yeah, basically.
Man, that gives one hope. But also, the "we're not going anywhere" general tone really paints a picture :D
I wonder how long until it makes sense for someone like that to start making absurdly expensive consumer displays as a side gig.
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The technology is no secret but making them somewhat affordable and profitable is the issue. The Verge made a video about portable cassette players recently which talks about this challenge.
This is insane and awesome!
Totally random... but I just found a CRT Trinitron with original rabbit ears and I shit you not, the original Trinitron sticker on the front of the glass :o
My first job in IT 20-some years ago began swapping their CRTs for LCDs and I got to take home a Dell rebadge of a 19” Trinitron. It did 1600x1200 at 75hz. It had a fantastic picture for gaming. I can't for the life of me remember what happened to it.
After the divorce, my dad got a top of the line desktop with the biggest crt monitor is ever seen at that point. It must have been 19-20". He didn't know shit about computers, but he knew he wanted the biggest ones when he walked into best buy.
He never did a damn thing with that powerhouse but watch porn, a fact I unfortunately stumbled upon when clearing all the malware from shady Y2K era porn sites.
Folks, never Ever learn your folks sexual preferences.
I had one like that. It gave up its magic smoke a short time after I discovered you could enter custom horizontal timings in Linux for higher-than-standard resolutions
Love shank and his videos, and this one was phenomenl. Truly showcases his passion and dedication for something few people would see worthy of saving.
Really great video! Glad the community was able to help this person out, love stories like this
This was an amazing watch. I’m going to crosspost to a few places to get more eyes.
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