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'You just can't recreate that glow': The people who hunt old TVs (crt tv monitor) (bbc.co.uk | ia)
7 points by nickt 48 days ago | 8 comments
  • bmonkey325 47 days ago
    I see the appeal. Unless you have an anchor bay the purity of the image is very appeasing. Certainly can’t play Duck hHunt on an LCD screen.
    • KODust 46 days ago
      I'll take any version where you can shoot the dog. Laugh at me, will you!?
      • bmonkey325 46 days ago
        You’re welcome.

        https://youtu.be/4rN4yDNj5ME?si=VNmKf2FVIcJE8e_S

  • ddingus 43 days ago
    I still love a good CRT and can often fix them. I like their speed, and I love the glow

    A good plasma set can be a compromise and that is the family TV right now

    OLED glows well, but I am really hoping we get LED for supermarket bright displays that are not so delicate or susceptible to burn in.

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  • zxm 46 days ago
    what i liked about crt's was the toughness. you could slap, punch or hit the glass tube and the screen would be fine. there were so many pics of screens destroyed by nintendo wii controllers that would have bounced off a crt. even pointing out numbers on a spreadsheet can cause a modern screen to be damaged if it's not done carefully. and of course all the cats miss the warm shelf they could sleep on while they watched their human work. :-)
    • ddingus 43 days ago
      Same. Watching high res 60fps YT video on a crt is amazing!
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    • bmonkey325 46 days ago
      CRTs definitely react positively to percussive maintenance.
      • ddingus 43 days ago
        In high school, a physics teacher once had a play on percussive maintenance. I call it impact encouragement. Or when using a hammer, linear encouragement, but I digress...

        He held a glitchy TV by one side 6 inches in the air. Went on at length about the physics of it too. All sorts of BS, and then he dropped it!

        #BAM!

        Perfect picture after that! And I mean exemplary! Was weird. That set performed better than the others for years! At least two

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