I currently own a 21 inch Sony TV and a 17 inch NEC VGA monitor. I'd like to get an older monitor or a smaller TV because I'm thinking about buying an MSX2 and my TV doesn't have anything in front of it to put the MSX.
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A friend had me help an elderly person take out 4 of them recently for a curbside pickup. I was very tempted to take them home to test them out, but the owner was kinda hoarder-y and I didn't want to risk them having roaches or something in them. I have 0 CRTs though. I just deal.with the shittier graphics. I'm in a HCOL area, and space is limited, so that was another reason I didn't pull the trigger - CRTs take up a metric fuckton of space.
It was on a fairly busy street, and I went by later that day and they were gone. (The curbside pickup was supposed to be the next day) I'm sure someone with an eye for retro gaming grabbed them up. Hopefully they didn't go to waste.
if we are counting only consumer TVs, three.
if we are counting CRTs in computer monitors and built into other devices, last time I counted I had 23.
Holy shit, you own an arcade or something?m
lmao I wish. I own one arcade cabinet (that needs some CRT work, actually) but the rest are all old computers computer monitors. I really like compact Macs and similar systems
Wow, you are definitely eccentric!
Now I can tell people I'm not too crazy, someone online has 20 of these!
My friends think I'm insane for having CRTs lol
None because modern CRT shaders are awesome on emulators, and real consoles are clunky and break down.
Real console are perfectly fine if you know what you are doing, also not necessary at all to enjoy a CRT (but suggested).
I have two.
A 1981 JVC 5" radio TV, and a Sylvania 27" with builtin VHS+DVD combo.
None. Got rid of my last when I got married. Owned since brand new, was a 27" Toshiba w Component and S-Video. It worked perfectly well as a kids room TV, but I also got really sick of lugging it when moving and furniture got cheaper and less stable to hold something so heavy too, so it was time to part ways!
None, I'm all in on emulation and shaders now.
My last tube I got rid of around 2018. A 36" Sony Trinitron EDTV with component inputs for progressive scan. Ungodly heavy.
I have a 19” compaq computer monitor for my 98 PC and a 27” Magnavox that uses S-Video
I have a nice Magnavox 27" TV, as well as an old 17" gaming ViewSonic CRT that will do 1024x768@100hz
27 club!
None anymore. I’d like to get my hands on a CRT HDTV if I can find one. I saw a listing on Nextdoor a decade ago but it was old and the guy had wound up trashing it before I messaged him.
None, I don't have enough room for one and even if I did, I don't know if I'd want one. CRT enthusiasts go on about how CRT is unmatched when it comes to motion clarity and I wouldn't want to get used to that experience since we are higly unlikely to get any more of those displays and it could make everything else feel like a severe downgrade.
You are right. Nothing matches the response and depth.
Thought my retrotink 2x pro was good. Then I swapped back to CRT and its a world of difference.
Need a 2000 dollar oled and a 700 dollar upscaler to almost match a CRT...look what they need to match a fraction of our power.
none anymore.
my 36 inch big boy died a few years back, and it was too fucking heavy to cart around trying to find someone to fix it.
God my back hurts just thinking about it.. 2 people should have moved that thing, yet I always did it by myself.
yeah 27" is my max. 36 is nuts!
Got one. It works well.
I have a questionably broken PVM and that’s my only CRT TV I have. I have maybe 4 or 5 more CRT computer monitors.
I only use them when absolutely necessary. I detest CRT coil whine, and at least currently have nowhere to put them so I’d also have to dig them out to use them.
5: 1 - My main Sony Trinitron 2 - A smaller Philips vhs combo tv that I want to integrate to a retrocart setup 3 - PC monitor for my Intel 386 and AMD Athlon retro builds 4 - A cute 5-inch monochrome travel TV 5 - An Amstrad GT-64 monochrome monitor for Amstrad CPC 464, Commodore 64 and sometimes Gameboy games through the super Gameboy on SNES.