/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10483975]

Found a wild CRT on it's natural enviroment, what do?

[Anonymous No.10483985]

>>10483975
see if it still works?
take it?

[Anonymous No.10483986]

>>10483975
Is it free? If so, get a cheap Raspberry Pi with composite cables, setup RetroPie and you're good to go.

[Anonymous No.10483990]

>old crts roaming in the streets
scary

[Anonymous No.10483992]

>>10483986
Ew

[Anonymous No.10483995]

>>10483990
Not just that, but it appears the crt was having a smoke. Perhaps he was robbed and the robber bashed his head in then stuffed his tail inside? I dunno

[Anonymous No.10484000]

>>10483975
Am I the only one that feels annoyed when they see the plastic door broken on these CRTs? I mean the little door that covers the inputs. I don't understand how people can break it.

[Anonymous No.10484003]

>>10483975
pretend i didn't see it and hope someone else deals with it because Trinitron is trash

[Anonymous No.10484007]

>>10483975
push it over

[Anonymous No.10484008]

>>10484003
Why is Trinitron trash?

[Anonymous No.10484013]

>>10484008
sour grapes

[Anonymous No.10484042]

>>10484008
poor phosphor geometry compared to aperture grill, and has that visible wire

it's marginally brighter and that isn't worth it

[Anonymous No.10484053]

>>10483975
Beat the shit it of it until it's almost dead and then throw a CRTball at it

[Anonymous No.10484061]

>>10484008
The guy got so mindbroken by console warring he decided to hate all products of a certain 'rival' company, even the ones not related to games at all

[Anonymous No.10484069]

>>10484042
Aperture grille is the Trinitron technology you dumb bitch.

[Anonymous No.10484071]

>>10484042
I thought Trinitrons were a type of aperture grill? Not that I would know since the CRT I have is a shadow mask VGA display.

[Anonymous No.10484083]

>>10484069
>>10484071
oops i meant slot mask time for bed uwu

[Anonymous No.10484089]

[Anonymous No.10484101]

>>10484083
Also superior phosphor geometry just means "I like the way it looks better", so it's a bullshit thing to say when people are asking what objectively makes trinitrons worse.
Also
>muh visible wire
I've heard this is a thing, but I've never actually identified them on my monitors.

[Anonymous No.10484169]

>>10483975
lure it in with some fresh fruit and a good composite cable

[Anonymous No.10484183]

>>10483975
>cracked bezel
massive oof

[Anonymous No.10484249]

>>10483975
Quesrion:

Has there ever been a piece of consumer technology that was phased out this quickly before? CRT TVs were phased out in a matter of several years. In like 8 years after Flat panel TVs were introduced in 2008, most CRTs was totally gone by 2016.

Meanwhile we still have radios. We still have mp3 players. We still have most electronics from when we were kids. Hell, freaking vinyl records have made a comeback again!

Why are CRTs the only piece of technology that got phased out so quickly??

So bizarre.

[Anonymous No.10484260]

>>10484249
They're big in every way except screen size and their advantages are not at all obvious to the average person.
It isn't that mysterious. Most people don't care about the fact that an N64 looks bad on their new flat panel.

[Anonymous No.10484265]

>>10484249
they're illegal to make and most of the tech and knowledge about them is completely gone
and that's ignoring the dozen other problems

[Anonymous No.10484281]

>>10483975
Take it home, see if it works, if it does clean it, use it or sell it.
Duh.

[Anonymous No.10484297]

>>10484249
A lot of the stamping and tooling used to make such large glass tubes are lost or destroyed, and the lead glass neck is basically illegal to make in most countries.
>Why are CRTs the only piece of technology that got phased out so quickly??
Supply and demand. People were happy to throw out their sub-480i displays with a widescreen 720p TV that is half the weight. Unless there is enough of a demand to warrant the upfront cost of making a production line from scratch, nobody will do CRTs again.
It's a shame that we never did get the true sequel, surface-conduction electron-emitter displays (SED).

[Anonymous No.10484382]

>>10484297
>It's a shame that we never did get the true sequel, surface-conduction electron-emitter displays (SED).
Can you elaborate on this? I'm not super technical but it sounds interesting.

[Anonymous No.10484384]

>>10484297
Plasma was kinda close to sequel to CRTs in some ways but not like whatever this is, I think Plasmas have the best color out of any TV type.

[Anonymous No.10484410]

>>10484382

[Anonymous No.10484417]

>>10484410
simplified
See also: FED

[Anonymous No.10484434]

>>10484382
“In a general sense, an SED consists of a matrix of tiny cathode ray tubes, each "tube" forming a single sub-pixel on the screen, grouped in threes to form red-green-blue (RGB) pixels.”
At best, this means getting digital-like geometry uniform of pixels with the pros of CRT tech (infinite contrast, instant frame response). We'll never know what the actual end result would have looked like.
>>10484384
Late gen PDP TV are pretty good, if you can find any.

[Anonymous No.10484465]

>>10483986
disgusting, stop watching youtube

[Anonymous No.10484558]

>>10483975
Id take it and the cart.

[Anonymous No.10484582]

>>10484297
>>10484434
>On 18 August 2010, Canon decided to liquidate SED Inc.,[21] a consolidated subsidiary of Canon Inc. developing SED technology, citing difficulties to secure appropriate profitability and effectively ending hopes to one day see SED TVs in the home or the room or the living room.
Room bros.... it's over

[Anonymous No.10484758]

>>10483992
>>10484465
Why does this make you mad? It's an easy cheap option so that you don't blow money on OEM hardware or FPGAs.

[Anonymous No.10484971]

>>10484000
It tends to happen when it's being moved. The old plastic is fragile and usually can't take being pressed against the side of a truck bed.

[Anonymous No.10484994]

>>10483975
Post about it on reddit obviously.

[Anonymous No.10485570]

>>10484410
>>10484417
This would look worse than a CRT or even Plasma

[Anonymous No.10485629]

>>10484000
This example has the top corner of the case broken, and a cable running into the hole, but the missing flap is what gets you butthurt?

[Anonymous No.10485630]

>>10484758
A main advantage of CRTs is no lag. Pairing that with software emulation is tarded.
Could be okay with run ahead or whatever, but can raspberry pis even do that?

[Anonymous No.10485631]

>>10485630
I use RGB-Pi with a Pi4 for arcade games
works well
I'll probably get a Pi5 when the new OS comes out

[Anonymous No.10486083]

>>10484994
*reddit about it on 4chan

[Anonymous No.10486084]

>>10485629
>This example has the top corner of the case broken, and a cable running into the hole, but the missing flap is what gets you butthurt?

The giant hole on top of the case goes without saying ankn. It's been smashed, but obviously it's a rare thing to see that level of damage.

For me, I've seen too many CRTs for sale online and Thrift stores where any plastic door or plastic bits are ALWAYS broken off. It's way too common in my area, and I get so annoyed seeing it. It just shows a lack of care, and made it tough for me when I was looking to get a few used, but decent condition CRTs.

I can replace flybacks and, do cap kit replacements. But finding a replacement plastic door for a specific 1998 16 inch Toshiba CRT? What a pain in the ass. It's nearly impossible. No one sells that kind of thing.

[Anonymous No.10486194]

>>10486084
Time to get good with a 3D printer.

[Anonymous No.10486271]

>>10485570
What makes you say so? IIRC the detriment was more losing the flexible resolutions, but the other aspects in regards to picture quality should be there.

[Anonymous No.10486278]

>>10486271
I recall seeing a patent for a FED that sounded an awful lot like it would be able to display arbitrary resolutions.

[Anonymous No.10486330]

>>10484061
Imagine if Mitsubishi made a game console and he goes out of his way to hate the F-2 fighter jet kek.

[Anonymous No.10486367]

>>10486271
>IIRC
YDRC

[Anonymous No.10486375]

>>10486367
Go on.

[Anonymous No.10486502]

>>10486375
You never understood how CRTs or any other display works. It is therefore impossible for you to "remember" anything on the subject "correctly". Simple as.

[Anonymous No.10486515]

>>10484249
>after Flat panel TVs were introduced in 2008
I hate you and everyone who replied to you

[Anonymous No.10486526]

>>10483986
Dude you should posting.

[Anonymous No.10486556]

>>10486515
Wow anon. He was off by 2 years! What a massive difference.

Heresy!

[Anonymous No.10486558]

>>10486556
16

[Anonymous No.10486567]

>>10486558
Learn to read the context of the post. Anon is not talking about flat panel CRT screens. He's obviously talking about HDTVs.

[Anonymous No.10486568]

Well generally the start of the flat panel era commercially is taken as 1997 anyways. Flat CRT TVs were fucking popularized just to look less obsolete beside plasma TVs and LCDs. Absolutely no one who was over 3 years old in the mid-00s thinks flat panels didn't show up until after the Xbox 360 was on the market, that's blatantly retarded.

>>10486567
Still completely wrong and makes the entire post make absolutely no sense, try again faggot.

None of you stupid fucking kids have probably even seen a floppy disk.

[Anonymous No.10486643]

>>10486515
>I hate you and everyone who replied to you
>I replied to you
based self loathing faggot
>>10486556
User is underage
>>10486567
User is underage

[Anonymous No.10486907]

>>10486502
That doesn't answer the question. I'll assume the original post was some kind of attention bait, but if you can give some explanation as to why the image would look bad I'd be interested to hear it.

[Anonymous No.10486927]

>>10486515

[Anonymous No.10487547]

>>10486083
What's the difference anymore? I guess you can say the word retarded here. That's about it.

[Anonymous No.10487598]

>>10483975
Get an HDMI to AV adapter and connect your computer to it. Then emulate games on it

[Anonymous No.10487634]

Check the inside of it for roaches, retard. Don't just bring it into your home.

[Anonymous No.10487642]

>>10486568
Plasma TVs were a novelty when Japan first made them. They quickly died out and LCD screens didn't overcome CRTs until the late 2000s.
The electric car was "introduced" in 1890 but when people talk about their advent, they talk about the past couple of years.

[Anonymous No.10487657]

>>10487642
Well since apparently the only thing that matters is my personal exposure to something and not reality then CRTs are alive and well in 2023 because I use two and my parents haven't switched to a flat panel for their bedroom or winter home and LCDs are a gimmick for zoomers and gaymers.

[Anonymous No.10487734]

>>10486907
>That doesn't answer the question.
It does
>I'll assume the original post was some kind of attention bait
Don't include me in your ass fantasies
>but if you can give some explanation as to why the image would look bad I'd be interested to hear it.
It wouldn't be able to reading comprehension
>>10487547
>What's the difference anymore?
The humanshitpostentipede has changed. 4chin is no longer S tier.

[Anonymous No.10487863]

>>10483975
Give it back, Jamal.

[Anonymous No.10488138]

>>10486568
>Well generally the start of the flat panel era commercially is taken as 1997 anyways. Flat CRT TVs were fucking popularized just to look less obsolete beside plasma TVs and LCDs. Absolutely no one who was over 3 years old in the mid-00s thinks flat panels didn't show up until after the Xbox 360 was on the market, that's blatantly retarded.

I was 12 in the year 2000 and I only know one person who had an lcd or plasma tv before 2009. Everyone else, including me, had either rptvs or tubes. Hell, the first time I saw a flat crt screen was probably 2006 or 2007; that in itself was pretty glorious since it was also running component video. Working class people stuck with old shit.

[Anonymous No.10488224]

>>10488138
Right so now you've rephrased this from
>why did it take so little time to go from everyone having LCDs instead of CRTs for everyone to have LCDs instead of CRTs
Bravo you stupid fucking zoomer.

[Anonymous No.10488325]

Is there seriously an anon is this thread who is getting so triggered because he doesn't like that people are talking about the years (late 2000s/early 2010s) flat panel HDTVs became the majority of of TV on the market, And not when flat panel technology was invented (1960s)?

We aren't talking about when the technology was invented. We are talking about when HDTVs became the majority of TVs in the market.

[Anonymous No.10488384]

>>10488325
I originally assumed you were actually trolling but it turns out you are just stupid and can't accept it because nobody ever hit you.

[Anonymous No.10488397]

>>10488224
I don't know what you're responding to but that was my first post in this thread, you mongrel.

[Anonymous No.10488425]

>>10488397
>I didn't read the thread or know what the argument is but-
Nobody cares retard.

[Anonymous No.10488451]

>>10488425
You clearly thought I was someone you were arguing with previously. To your point, most people didn't get LCDs until after 360 and ps3 came out. Personally, I didn't buy an lcd until 2008 or 2009 and that was a sanyo 30-something for 600 dollars. Most people didn't move on from tubes until lcd came down in price, retard. I don't know what universe you're living in but it didn't include the common experience.

[Anonymous No.10488487]

>>10488451
I clearly thought it didn't matter because you were a stupid kid either way.

>most people
Most people still don't have smart speakers and spotify accounts which is why radios and CDs are still being sold. There's absolutely no relevant comparison based on when LCDs were adopted by "most people", it's already over at that point. If you want another example of why you kids are dumb in more than one way, DVD players went on the market in 1996, were basically "what the fuck is a DVD player" when the PS2 was announced in 1999, finally overtook VHS in 2003, and once it had reached that point killed it so fucking dead they stopped releasing movies on VHS entirely in 2006.

[Anonymous No.10488504]

>>10488224
No one is saying everyone with 100% population in mind. We are talking about the majority of people. And the majority of people are just normal working class people. You are such a dumb zoomer.

[Anonymous No.10488508]

>>10488504
>No one is saying everyone with 100% population in mind
Especially me moron

[Anonymous No.10488541]

>>10488224
>12 years old in 2000
>"zoomer"

[Anonymous No.10488579]

>>10483975
I like to take them and bring them into the woods, I have done this to at least three TVs. Remember it's not dumping if it's really funny

[Anonymous No.10489439]

>>10487734
>It does
I'm explicitly telling you that I read your post and saw no reasoning. I'd like to hear your perspective on why you think those displays look bad. As in articulate the differences between them. Just saying you think they'd look worse doesn't explain why you have that impression. Nor does it explain what displays you were even comparing against. Trade show prototypes or what?
It's weird that you're seemingly willing to engage with people in this topic, but are reluctant to talk about the topic itself.
Sorry if you got offended or whatever, I'm genuinely curious so it wasn't sarcasm or however you interpreted it.

[Anonymous No.10490159]

>>10489439
You didn't see anything. You're a bot. At least I hope you are. If homo zoomerus is actually that thick then we've already passed the singularity.
I never said those things you're hallucinating that I did.

[Anonymous No.10490758]

>>10490159
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I'm referring to this >>10485570 and >>10486271
I.e. What makes you think they would look worse.
I'm guessing you're roleplaying about bots or this is some meme I'm not familiar with and assume I'm also joking but I'm legitimately curious about the technology.

[Anonymous No.10492104]

>>10490758
I never said those things you're hallucinating that I did.
You need to ask your creator to upgrade your software, or at least model. You're not ready for frime time.

[Anonymous No.10492119]

>>10492104
>upgrade your software
I don't own a FED monitor or TV. I was asking why you think they look bad and you're being obtuse about it. Are you implying there were some kind of firmware issue with some of the sets or something? That seems like an odd reason to write off the whole concept.