I don’t miss trying to figure out the often undocumented frequencies so X11 wouldn’t nuke them, and some CRTs were horrible, but games made for CRT on a nice Sony are like nothing else. I regret getting rid of my collection for a move.
Having to update my remote before I can mute the TV is not a problem I ever expected to have
But here we are
The way CRTs work is absolutely amazing. You’re basically watching a ray gun shoot you and it’s so quick it looks like a picture. It’s an absolutely wild marvel of engineering.
“your TV needs to install an update, please connect to the internet”, it says
how did it know it needed an update?
I am 60% sure I have seen this happen IRL
CRTs did break. And they did suffer from burning.
Just buy a non-smart modern TV, you won’t need a replacement and it won’t connect to the internet.
Please tell me where I can get a modern high-res TV that is NOT smart. I have tried but cannot find them anywhere
Your best bet would be a commercial display. Though it’ll be double the price, at least, and you’ll need an hdmi switch and a soundbar more like as not.
The TV has already been fed/plugged in to electric socket. Don’t listen to its BS
Are there open source TVs?
Not as far as I know. But there ARE TVs that with no smart features. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJh72_O4pXE
Technically, yes? But don’t expect great pictures quality or performance. But this is a good excuse to link a Ben Eater video on the topic 😄 https://youtu.be/l7rce6IQDWs?is=oMqVPCiAFgPo1Yav
“if you go reaching inside me I might just decide to kill you” -CRT
Let’s not pretend that crts ware better than modern TVs. The picture was shit, the ratio was 4:3 and they had the size and weight of a small car. I can deal with a little upgrade once in a while. And that’s not even true as I haven’t seen a TV that needs upgrades yet.
There were hd crts towards the end too. Those are excellent for playing games on older hardware without an hdmi port.
radioactive??
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They’re not really radioactive, they emit some X Ray that is absorbed by the lead window that is in front, making them harmless.
Just in case anybody is stupid enough to believe this, there was nothing radioactive in old CRT-based TVs. And they sometimes had black cases but weren’t a “black box”.
They worked by bending a beam of electrons that hit phosphors in the screen, which is cool enough that saying stupid BS about “radioactive” is unnecessary.
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I like this comment except for the fact it seems needlessly hostile
i love crt i just dont have space anymore :( i do have a few just nowhere to put it yet
All I want is a brand new CRT that I can connect my PSOne to, so that I can play Point Blank 1-3 again.
I would love for CRTs to be manufactured again, but that instutitional knowledge is probably long gone, as is the equipment that produced it… so making them again would, probably, be a trillion dollar ordeal.
I think there was an art exhibit or something where they manufactured some new CRT TVs a couple years ago so apparently it’s doable on the small scale. Biggest problem is the current economy especially in the US simply couldn’t support small scale manufacturers like that long term.
Man of culture I see
I will forever remember using the magnet that came with this old Klutz book near the TV in my parents’ room when I was around 10 and noticing the rainbow pattern it made in the picture. And then, after further investigation and experimentation, noticing those colors stopped going away when I moved the magnet away. And then, never speaking a word of it. For, like, 40 years.
When Bill Burr’s Netflix cartoon show put a similar bit in an episode it finally dawned on me that lots of kids must have messed up their parents’ TVs with those magnet wands.
Klutz books were truly amazing. I had that one and several others, and they were incredibly formative for me.
