• statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz
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    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.

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      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.

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      21 hours ago

      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

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    21 hours ago

    Really great video! Glad the community was able to help this person out, love stories like this

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    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

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    400+ pound television? My spine spontaneously slipped three disks just by watching this video

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      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.

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        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.

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    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.

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        …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.

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          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

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            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.

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              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!

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                  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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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          Just like floppy disks and VHS tapes. Every 3.5" floppy that will ever be made has already been made.

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            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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              Maybe it’s the matter of vinyl consumers being a larger group than floppy disk consumers?

              I enjoy going to music concerts, and in the case of smaller scenes/bands i always buy a vinyl (and most of times a t-shirt) to support the band directly. I don’t even have a vinyl player at the moment - long story - but I have a collection of 300+ records.

              If I recall correctly it is also very cheap to produce in terms of tools and machines needed, the pipeline being all analogue and mechanical?

              I am also a retrocomputer nerd, but I guess the number of indie game developers that target floppy disks as the distribution medium for their next game are fewer by number compared to the musicians distributing on vinyl?

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                Floppy disks are still used in industrial automation. If something works, you don’t mess with it until you need to. The thing with floppies, is that there are lots of them floating around, and they last a long time. You can also write different information to them.

                I’ve got a couple of 8" floppies near my desk that aren’t used for anything anymore, but I bet they still work. So even though there are no floppies being produced, the existing supply of floppies will last a heck of a long time.

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                Yeah, that’s the thing. Pressing a piece of plastic with some sharp grooves in it is one thing, but once you get into TVs or magnetic storage things get hard pretty fast.

                And since most of that is digital anyway you can instead make a cheap adaptor to use a modern solid state device that will do the same job objectively better. There’s just no upside to it beyond nostalgia.

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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).

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    I love getting my eyes bombarded with the occasional ionization electron beam fired from the electron gun that make it past the phosphorescent screen.

    I do not envy some of the ocular conditions some of the old long-time programmers in the industry had, although this is from personal experience. All CRTs generate Xrays, even if later on regulation would attempt to minimize the amount generated. and using them should still mean keeping your distance. The effects it has on your eyes are not instant, specially if you don’t use them as part of your job.

    A lot of the excessive warning from screens came from this era, where there was an actual risk. Unfortunately, there are planty of antivax-like CRT-radiation deniers, but fortunately, it’s no longer a problem.

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    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.

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    I had one of those.

    Edit: Y’all have exactly zero sense of humor. ZERO!

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      You had a TV that cost $40,000 ($100,000 adusted for inflation) and only a dozen or so were ever made?

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        You had a TV that cost $40,000 ($100,000 adusted for inflation) and only a dozen or so were ever made?

        I had a TV that weighed 400 lbs. Probably more.