/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5656319
based, they discharged it.

>>5656319
A lot of free CRTs will have some kind of major issue. Not this severe, but people seem to conveniently not talk about this fact.

>>5656327
>A lot of free CRTs will have some kind of major issue
And many of them don't. I dumped one that had a broken volume button that anyone else could have easily fixed.

>>5656327
Most don't have any issue they didn't have when near new. CRT production was known to be mediocre. You pretty much had to get a pc monitor or a professional CRT to guarantee anything good.

>>5656350
>CRT production was known to be mediocre. You pretty much had to get a pc monitor or a professional CRT to guarantee anything good.
False and zoomerpilled

Most CRTs (unless they were tiny ones) were pretty good quality to excellent quality.

>>5656319
Went on craigslist and found this immediately. Posted 5 hours ago wow so hard to find

>>5656409
Wow you get an entire "entertainment center" with this one. I bet someones parents died and they have to chuck all their useless crap

>>5656319
I set my giant sony flatscreen crt out by the curb. shit was heavy and took up too much space

>>5656419
DID I HIT THE JACKPOTS WITH A SONY?

>>5656409
ha you live right where my family lives. thank god i escaped to austin. just as many shitty crts out on curbs here too

>I still have the tv I Super Mario Bros on when I was a child
>But not my NES because my neighbor sold it

man its SO HARD to get a deal on a crt anymore!!! where will i find one!!!!! *looks in a dumpster and sees 3 perfectly functional crts*

I have a spare CRT that I'll put into a MAME cabinet. 99% arcade monitor or 100% in some cases.

>>5656419
Stereo included!

I remember when my CRT broke - the image inverted and folded on itself, like a sheet of paper.

>>5656538
Horizontal and vertical deflector collapse.

>>5656538
>>5656573
I have a super old CRT with the knobs to adjust those. They were super sensitive and bumping the table could cause the image to go crazy.

>>5656632
>They were super sensitive and bumping the table could cause the image to go crazy.
That would make scramble-porn all the more challenging.

>>5656319
>Dreamcast

>>5656790
Kek

>>5656790
I wonder where that Dreamcast is right now

>>5656809

>>5656790
Dreamcast...had a hard life

>>5656809
dreaming in heaven

>>5656319
I have literally found two CRTs near dumpsters within the last month. Both worked, and one was a TV/VCR combo. I live in Vegas, and I'm starting to find LCD/LEDs more and more next to dumpsters. East coast anons beware abandoned CRTs. Scrappers will drive by a CRT on the side of the road and cut the power cord off.

This week I got an interesting CRT off Craig's List. It's a Toshiba Bomba that has controls in English and Arabic(?) and can display in NTSC, PAL, and SECAM. I'm getting back into retro vidya after having to sell my collection a few years ago to pay the bills. Fuck, PVMs and stupidly expensive now.

>>5656327
Just yesterday I found a "made in usa" hitachi tv/monitor from 1985. It has composite and rf, both spade terminal and screw on style. Color, 22". I was legitimately surprised at the quality of the tube. It also has an on screen display, so might be rgb modable. This isn't some high dollar holy grail, but is DAMN surprising for a period correctly tv. You never know what you'll find desu, usually shit, but keep your eyes open. Curb picks have went down at least 50% from 2 years ago in my area, and I watch this shit like a hawk.

My old PC monitor died (horizontal not getting in sync)

>>5658429
>Scrappers will drive by a CRT on the side of the road and cut the power cord off.

I once saw this done to a Laser Disc player at a curb. I was furious, because I was so ready to watch some vintage anime before I saw the cut cord.

>>5658972
>>5658429
>can't solder two wires
lol

>>5656429
Imagine thinking Austin is an escape. I feel bad for you anon.

>>5656327
Is this a richfag post? cause as a working class poorfag, people were using crt's well into early 2010's

>>5659014
Not all of us live in Africa

>>5656391
scan lines were a defect and the expensive crts did not have them

>>5661972
Zoomers are a defect. Every CRT that scans in lines has scan lines.

>>5661972
zoom zoom

>>5658972
My god, damage of that magnitude could take literal minutes to fix!

>>5656319
That slut deserved what she got!

>>5661972
>scan lines were a defect
lol