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Has anyone followed the just pick up a CRT off the street bro meme to decent results? I've seen a few recently that appear to be in good condition with decent inputs minus the abuse of the previous owner dragging/dumping it onto pavement or dirt.

>> No.8079061

just use an ossc or retrotink

>> No.8079071
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8079071

Haven't seen too many widescreen CRT HDTVs. Seems like decent input support. Downside is the outside casing is hammered from being dragged on rough ground.

>> No.8079147

>>8079061
This is what I ended up doing. I want a CRT, but I feel like carrying around a little upscaler is both more convenient and less autistic.

>> No.8079157 [DELETED] 

>>8079058
I fell for the decent inputs meme and passed on a lot of otherwise fine tvs. Luckily I still got a couple of good ones for free.

>> No.8079159

It would be worth keeping around if you have the space. I've seen open source CRT circuitry that that can drive a tube and let you use it with old consoles without scaling+lag. So if something like that becomes widespread then tubes from CRT HDTVs would be the best candidates.

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8079161

I fell for the decent inputs meme and passed on a lot of otherwise fine tvs. Luckily I still got a couple of good ones for free. Ironically two of my crts that died where the ones with chumponent and S-Video.

>> No.8079207

>>8079147
just get a little 14" job
that's what i have, it don't take up much room but its plenty big for most stuff

>> No.8079217

It used to work pretty well back when people with fancy expensive CRTs were upgrading to flat panels
I used to see those massive Sony Wega FD Trinitrons in the trash almost weekly around here

>> No.8079236

>>8079058
I tried but only found your mom. She gave a pretty good bj for a kid her age.

>> No.8079240

I've had decent results putting a CRT on the street. The garbage men picked it up and everything. And no one stole my garbage because it has no value.

>> No.8079249

I have 7. All have ended up working fine, even the one I picked up while it was raining and the one that was covered in cut grass, with just some compressed air and paper towels

>> No.8079257

>>8079249
do you keep them all set up?
post a pic

>> No.8079270

>>8079240
Don't know where you live but garbage men here don't accept CRTs. Previously I saw a decent looking one with component that got picked up after a week of sitting out front of a house's gate.
>>8079249
Nice, would like to see a pic.

>> No.8079273

>>8079257
>>8079270
I would, but unfortunately all except for a smaller one I have at home are currently in storage. I do plan to have at least 3-4 of them set up at some point in the future.
2 of them are smaller (~16in.) wood paneling sets from the 80's, 2 of them are similarly sized ones from the early 2000's (one of which has a built-in VHS), one is a ~20in. flatscreen, one is a bigger but surprisingly not that heavy ~30in. with a built-in VHS and DVD player, and lastly a fat ~40in. fucker that weighs something like 120 pounds.

>> No.8079278

>>8079270
>garbage men here don't accept CRTs
Do you live in an area that still uses open landfills and balks at the idea of lead? Yeesh, what a throwback. Modern garbage disposal services follow a pretty strict ecological standards of garbage storage. As long as things aren't nuclear, they don't pick and choose what they can and can't take, because they know that (a) those practices are extremely unreliable and toxic waste will get through no matter what and (b) that unrecyclable shit's just going to get thrown somewhere and if their job is disposal of waste then it is exactly their job to deal with it.

I'm honestly embarrassed for your municipality. Do you think that the scavenging demand for CRTs is equal to the output of discard? Sure you aren't THAT naive.

>> No.8079517

>>8079270
>garbage men
>assuming the gender of your garbage
based af

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>>8079058
It was summer 2017. I found an 21 inch Sony a couple of blocks away. Carried it home in the scorching heat... plugged it in. Aaaaaand... it was fully working. Its the model that Sony used for their 90s Plebstation retail displays.

>> No.8079657

I did quite a bit like 15 years ago, sure. Shit, one of them I pulled out of the rain. Just let it dry out for a few days. Used that monitor for years

>> No.8079771

>>8079061
>just pay alot for inferior image quality

>> No.8080279

-Crt en mass on street meme
-2021

Lol this isn't 2010

>> No.8080283

>>8079058
Best way to find a CRT is on the curb. Just get em before it rains. I've had a dozen that worked this way.

>> No.8080290

>>8080279
I still believe that all you babies complaining haven't actually looked hard enough.

>Craigslist
>FB marketplace
>Your local estate sales
Open your fucking eyes

>> No.8080309

>>8080290
>CRTs were distributed perfectly evenly across the continental US.
>my local used market is exactly the same as yours
based solipsistic retard

>> No.8080318

>>8080279
It depends on if laws against dumping trash in the street are enforced or if the garbage infrastructure will pick them up from the street or not.

>> No.8080349

>>8079207
no one's going to play on a 14" little piece of shit over properly upscaled 4K TV images

>> No.8080361

For people who dumpster dived or curb swiped your TVs, how did you deal with roaches and ants nesting in your set? Did you leave it outside your house for a while and fumigate it?

>> No.8080371

>>8080279
I've seen multiple CRTs recently out on the streets while walking in an affluent neighborhood that you might expect everyone to have dumped theirs over a decade ago in. I didn't snag them because they didn't have component input.

>> No.8080468

Would rather pay for a set in good condition and remote than something for free that might have issues

>> No.8080512

>>8080468
paying money to some fb marketplace/craigslist shmuck offers as much guarantee to your TV's condition as finding it on the side of the road.

>> No.8080531

>>8080512
if you dont have standards, sure

>> No.8080538

>>8080531
>he's charging 200 for this consumer Trinitron.
>surely that means he checked it out thoroughly and isn't just hoping some retarded retroomer will bite

>> No.8080541

>>8079058
plug it in see if it works, whether it does or doesn't, find someone who can service it.

>> No.8080562

>>8080349
>properly upscaled 4K TV images
There's no scaler or line multiplier capable of 4k output, so this is just false

>> No.8080564

>>8080538
hah no way I'd pay that, just saying there are good deals next to nothing

>> No.8080589

>>8080279
I've seen two with good inputs this summer plus a few that never made it to the curb just sit outside of garage doors collecting sprinkler water and cobwebs. In a population of 3,000,000 you'll still find people that hang onto old stuff for a few decades

>> No.8080605

Anyone have experience with ewaste places? Are you allowed to just go in and pay for the shit you take or what?

>> No.8080763
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>>8080349
I am, you stupid nigger.

>> No.8080858

>>8080564
yeah like a crt on the side of the road

>> No.8080929

>>8080605
Estate sales are the best kept secret around here (southern Wisconsin). It’s almost always someone that died, and the family will hire a company to come in and list, price, and advertise the sale. This will sync up with finding good old crt’s because these people were old and never found a need to upgrade passed their still working tv. Or the tv that was never used in the spare bedroom. I got a toshiba hd crt (with a fucking hdmi port) for free, simply because I’d offered to haul it away.

>> No.8080938

>>8080858
sure, let me bring a 90lb bug-ridden composite-only shitbox that doesnt even turn on into my house

>> No.8080997

>>8080763
>Phantasy Star
Absolutely patrician

>> No.8081084

>>8079236
cringe

>> No.8081092

>>8080763
how does your MD composite looks so clean?

>> No.8081102

>>8080279
There aren't that many but I still see at least 4 or 5 a year, especially if you go into semi urban neighborhoods where poor people are finally getting rid of them.

>> No.8081175

>>8080938
Check this out, you can actually just look at the road CRT and check it's inputs and cleanliness.

>> No.8081197

>>8079071
>all those colourful input ports
SOVL

>> No.8081226

>>8081197
>HDMI input
>soul

>> No.8081452

>>8081092
I’ve had it for like 2 years, many many hours adjusting the menu and pots on the flyback

>> No.8081535
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8081535

Picked this up today for $10, works so well

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>>8081197
you're like a little children, watch THIS

>> No.8081595

>>8081535
are you naked

>> No.8081610

>>8080929
>>8080929
E-waste

>> No.8081627

>>8080763
That looks like filtered piss.

>> No.8082005

>>8079531
All that to turn it sideways and play a shmup.
Well at least it's not a menu game (jarpig).

>> No.8082016

>>8079071
I have a widescreen Toshiba and the biggest thing that bothers me is that going into 4:3 adds light grey bars to the sides. I hate it, wish they were black bars.

>> No.8082018

>>8079071
HD CRTs are cool, for the most part (the Sony ones especially) natively support 540p and 1080i 480p is pixel perfect as it’s displayed in a window in 540p, and the raster is stretched so that it scans the image full screen. There’s a bit of lag in this though.

240p and 480i get upscaled to 480p like any other HD LCD tv use a retrotink to get nice 480p from these inputs to display, with blanked lines to be genuine looking scanlines.
Better yet the tink5x has a 540 mode specifically for these TVs that means lag less 240p, 480i, and 480p, all still looking perfect.

Lagless to the point where light guns for old systems will even work, I’ve tried it myself, and it worked fine for duck hunt.

The one you want is the Sony kv-34XBR960
The 910 and 955(?) are also great. And frankly any of the Sony ones are good. But those 3 with the super fine pitch tubes are the best of the best. The 960 Is definitely my favorite TV for everything up to Xbox 360

>> No.8082034

I have to stick with monitor crts because the flyback transformer frequency on TVs is too much for me.

>> No.8082226

>>8081565
PS3 actually disabled the component cables from displaying Blurays in one of the later firmware updates.

>> No.8083907

>>8082005
sneed

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>>8079058
abso fuckin lutely. it works wonderfully.

>> No.8083984

>>8082018
How about 720p, how does that work on 540p/1080i CRTs? For consoles like the og Xbox, or if I wanna plug in a PS360 for whatever reason.

>> No.8084723

>>8081535
Used to have pretty much the same TV but much much bigger. Those things are beasts.

>> No.8084923

>>8081535
Got the same one 200 pounds of tv.
Works great though