What the fuck is this love for CRT? Whether it's new or old, it isn't warranted.
Seriously, 240p resolution where you can physically see each pixel on the screen, and games were designed with art direction that intentionally utilized the light emitters to smooth out edges on the glass, while they also fired light directly into your eyes, and were insanely heavy.
"it worked forever" until the parts literally fucking burned out, or the emitters actually burned your fucking screen, let alone your retina. Which, normally, would still have been 5-10 years.
This shit isn't like the solid, cast-iron, sewing stands from the early 1900's which were built to last forever. This is just cheap electronic junk from the 1990's which was still made in China and Indonesia with no intention to keep them working.
Seriously, pick a product that isn't shit. Like those sewing machines, or antique furniture, or even stone masonry for construction.
lol, fiance's mother had a 1080i(1080p? Can't remember) CRT in the mid-two thousands...had a nice picture, admittedly weighed a ton like you pointed out. Even cheap sets were reliable, though. LCD/LED are fine, I just liked the CRTs a little better. I wont deny some of that is nostalgia-goggles, but If I could find a hi-def CRT anymore, I'd buy it in a minute.
You can't make 1080p CRT's that's the point. 1080i was 720p, that was the maximum limit of an HD CRT which used different technology than regular CRT's.
I still have several. They are very good for being heavy and making white noise.
Bullshit. A normal gaming monitor around 2005 would run 1600x1200 at 85hz, that's 200 more lines of vertical resolution than 1080p. A high end gaming monitor like a 24" widescreen trinitron would do 1920x1200 at well over 100hz or 2048x1536 at 85hz, higher than "2k" is today.
And that was for monitors built in 2004.
LCDs are such an unbelievably shitty technology that's taken twenty years for them to just barely start catching up to CRTs in terms of resolution. Response time and image quality are still down the toilet.
It's just pathetic that you have to lie this badly.
A 24" CRT monitor. Yeah, that's pretty fucking high-end alright. Besides still not believing you on the stats, how much more expensive than the computer do you think that monitor typically was? Four times? Ten times? I'm sure you're gonna tell me that in 2005 you could buy one from Wal-Mart for $50.
Considering how long gamers have been obsessing about refresh rate and resolution in that time period, CRT's would not have gone away if you were right, which you're not.
What the fuck is this love for CRT? Whether it's new or old, it isn't warranted.
Seriously, 240p resolution where you can physically see each pixel on the screen, and games were designed with art direction that intentionally utilized the light emitters to smooth out edges on the glass, while they also fired light directly into your eyes, and were insanely heavy.
"it worked forever" until the parts literally fucking burned out, or the emitters actually burned your fucking screen, let alone your retina. Which, normally, would still have been 5-10 years.
This shit isn't like the solid, cast-iron, sewing stands from the early 1900's which were built to last forever. This is just cheap electronic junk from the 1990's which was still made in China and Indonesia with no intention to keep them working.
Seriously, pick a product that isn't shit. Like those sewing machines, or antique furniture, or even stone masonry for construction.
lol, fiance's mother had a 1080i(1080p? Can't remember) CRT in the mid-two thousands...had a nice picture, admittedly weighed a ton like you pointed out. Even cheap sets were reliable, though. LCD/LED are fine, I just liked the CRTs a little better. I wont deny some of that is nostalgia-goggles, but If I could find a hi-def CRT anymore, I'd buy it in a minute.
You can't make 1080p CRT's that's the point. 1080i was 720p, that was the maximum limit of an HD CRT which used different technology than regular CRT's.
I still have several. They are very good for being heavy and making white noise.
Bullshit. A normal gaming monitor around 2005 would run 1600x1200 at 85hz, that's 200 more lines of vertical resolution than 1080p. A high end gaming monitor like a 24" widescreen trinitron would do 1920x1200 at well over 100hz or 2048x1536 at 85hz, higher than "2k" is today.
And that was for monitors built in 2004.
LCDs are such an unbelievably shitty technology that's taken twenty years for them to just barely start catching up to CRTs in terms of resolution. Response time and image quality are still down the toilet.
It's just pathetic that you have to lie this badly.
A 24" CRT monitor. Yeah, that's pretty fucking high-end alright. Besides still not believing you on the stats, how much more expensive than the computer do you think that monitor typically was? Four times? Ten times? I'm sure you're gonna tell me that in 2005 you could buy one from Wal-Mart for $50.
Considering how long gamers have been obsessing about refresh rate and resolution in that time period, CRT's would not have gone away if you were right, which you're not.