Absolute clown world
>>732348964Imagine getting these CRTs and playing dog shit nintendo games on them. Get real.
>j-j-just buy a crt
I would rather see them smashed with a hammer then sold for premiums by some smug reddit faggot
>>732348964CRTs are only worth it if you find one them at the side of the road or in the trash, or at worst buying one at a flea market for sub100$ prices. Anything more than that you might as well buy memescalers if 90s gaming console quality bothers you that much.
Why the fuck would you restore such a shitty CRT?
we had a crt tv till 2015 and internet in 2007
>a thousand bucks for a 13" PVM in shit conditionMan, I'm happy I bought my 20" for 50 bucks. Wish I spent a bit more for a larger set though.
>>732349713forgot to add:when we had the crt I asked so much to have a new tv and not a crt, we got one in 2016. and now people want crt tv, zoomers mostly???
>>732348964I KNOW WHAT I GOT
>paying for a CRTi shiggy diggy
>>732349641LE TRINITRON KINO REDDIT YOUTUBER SAID GOOD AAAAAAA
>>732348964>Patreon QR
>boomers in the backgroundI can practically hear the "I KNOW WHAT I GOT PAL, NO LOW BALLS" through the screen.
>found a massive Trinitron XBR on craigslist years ago>free>guy just needs help getting it out his house>get to his place>it's up a flight of stairs in a total shitheap of a room>TV weighs over 250lbs>while taking it down the stairs feel the weight shift in the load in a terrible way>would have sent me over the edge of the stairs to 6ft drop with a +250lb TV falling on top of me>could have easily died or some shit if my friend didn't pull me in>guy I'm picking the TV up from is helping too but he's this super fucking short guy>keeps trying to motivate us by saying "YOU GOTTA GO BERSERKER MODE YEAAAAAAAAAAH" and screaming as he's lifting>somehow the TV gets into the back of my car>still have it>excellent TV, tons of crazy features and even has a built in subworth it
>>732348964It's just collectors getting fooled once again
The thing I hate about the CRT market is that it's overpriced or in the dumpster with nothing in between.You aren't allowed to have one unless you overpay but if you don't take it the owner WILL put it in the trash (but you can't curb-claim it).
>>732350563>but you can't curb-claim itWhat in the actual fuck are you saying? What hole do you live in that grabbing something by the curb is illegal
>>732351390I feel like the assholes who overcharge for these, upon failing to sell them, will dispose of them in such a way that ensures that no opportunistic retro gamer might be able to swipe it for nothing..
I've found 3 in the garbage of my neighborhood last year alone. Unfortunately one of them was caught in the rain.
>>732348964>Absolute clown world>he doesn't have a CRT at homelol zoomie get fucked
>>732351503Let them destroy them then. You can find CRTs all the fucking time if you just pay attention.Now what I will say is bullshit is picking out of the dump is illegal. It's in the electric waste let me take it you fucks
>>732351527It really is as simple as finding a neighborhood with tons of old people and doing a loop once or twice a week the night before trash pickup
>>732348964I got a 30" trinitron for 50 bucks
>>732351674*once or twice a month
Old folks homes have dozens of CRT's btw Free99
You can literally go to any yard sale and still find old tvs for cheap.
>>732351692I need to find myself a trannytroon before all of them get snatched and sold by a niggerkike
>>732351674Estate sales really only appeal to me because they might be offloading a CRT.I can't see what else I'd buy at one (though I did go to one that had a SHITLOAD of old PC parts including legitimately rare things - I didn't get back there in time when I actually had cash before some guy was picking through all the stuff).
>>732351870best bet is second hand market and praying for the seller to be oblivious to the actual value of the thing. Also, get someone to help you with that shit, it's heavier than it seems
>>732351778Places like TV broadcasting stations and recording studios often have old professional-grade CRTs in storage still.Electronics recycling centers often have to pay to have CRTs disposed of and sometimes give them away for free.
>>732348964Whats funny is OP probably has a lifetime subscription to Xbox Game Pass or PS Plus. At least the people buying this will get to own something.
>>732351590>actually kept a crt until the big 26lmao thirdie alert
>>732352063>doesn't have enough space in his house to store everythingYou're the thirdie.
>>732348964>$1000>restored>didnt even put in the effort to touch up the paint
>>732352004I once saw at least two dozen CRT monitors being thrown out by a church. If I knew then what I know now I'd be rich.
>>732348964Just emulate your favorite retro games retards
you are retarded if you market search for "crt" instead of "old tv"
>>732352127>I was just hoarding, I mean storing it! I wasn't using every day since my shithole hasn't joined the 21st century yet!Not fooling anyone.
>>732352306>single room nigger calls anybody poorlel
>>732350563I can buy small 14-15" ones for 10 EUR with parcel locker delivery.
>>732352424>I canCongrats, now maybe one day you'll learn that not everybody shares your same experiences.
PVMs were always $1000< premium displays, if anything them going for pennies was the anomaly
>>732348964>110 bucks for an rgb mod tv>999 for a refurb collectors itemDunno, seems pretty reasonable.
>>732348964>you must buy a CRT to have the "real experience">proceed to make shit like thisthis is why you fags will never be taken seriously.
Anyone who has a PVM in the current year knows what it's worth. This isn't 2007 anymore where people are just throwing them away
I got my 28” Quintrix from a school that was going to be demolished. It was hanged from ceiling and I just put two desks on top of each other and climbed on top of them and held it with other hand and screwed it off with other hand. I don’t know how I managed to get it down in one piece, it weighs 40kg. I somehow found service manual for it from the internet and then I spent two nights studying how those things work and then went to service menu and adjusted the picture to perfection. That took hours. It’s from year 2000 and used maybe once a month for an hour so it has long time left. Thank you for reading my blog post
Surely some of these old CRTs have exploded and killed a retro gamer or two
>>732350053Man I hate these fuckers. I was trying to buy a laptop for work a couple of years back on ebay amongst some other sites. Some of the listings I was looking at were listed as "open to offers" and you get 3 offers. I went with 20% off, 15% off, and then 10% off. Every single one of them rejected all 3 offers. One of them even messaged me as if I had wasted his time. No asshole, you have wasted MY fucking time, inviting me to make an offer when you're only willing to give pennies off the price, fucking cunt.
Wait, I can buy shitty old tube TV's, recap them, then sell them to sweaty nerds for a massive profit?
>>732352947every year a crt kills 3 retro games
>>732352998You can try, but they don't sell as easily as you think.
I probably have more CRTs now than ever, mostly because I have hoarder tendencies.I picked up 3 of the exact same 13 inch dynex TV from banks I've been doing service work for.Sadly my 32 inch sanyo doesn't exactly have a place in my apartment, maybe it'll replace my blockbuster clearance TV once that TV finally dies
>>732349957I had to order one on eBay once because I wanted a very specific model (one that was small and transportable but also had component inputs).
>>732349781I dumpster dived my 16" JVC TM-H1750CG for free. pvm trannies only care about sony lmao.
>>732352947Tubes don't explode, they implode. The inside of them is a vacuum.
>>732352956They literally expect offers above the asking price. Like you're supposed to use offers to skip the bidding war and only pay 5% extra instead of whatever the price might end up being
Feels good playing the way the devs intended
>>732353410hey the screen matches the gaymer lights in your keyboard!
Just add inline crt filters to lcd panels and sell to nostalgiafags
>>732353410>game turns green when poisoned
>>732348964>grift QRs>overpriced outdated tech>"""retro""" spammed to trick retardsno one is genuine anymore, everything is for a cheap buck
PVM tax.
>>732352998I just finished recapping my hand-me-down 32" Sony I grew up with. boards are still disassembled, so today i'm gonna reassemble and test to make sure I didn't fuck it up, then do an RGB mod after.It's not that easy. Disassembly is complicated, then you have to go through and catalogue all the caps. Then you have to find and order appropriate replacements. Then you have to actually recap a fuckton, and removing the old ones can be a pain even with a desoldering gun. Then reassembly and testing, and iif you screwed anything up its exponentially more work to identify the issue. All for a niche hobby with not a lot of buyers, for something so heavy and bulky that it'd need to be localNot exactly easy money
>>732353294These were "buy it now" listings, not auctions.
>>732354024the funny thing is that PVMs do nothing for a video game that a normal CRT wouldn't, they were for VIDEO AND BROADCAST PROFESSIONALS. The thicker scanlines are not worth the overprice, and you could say such characteristic makes them worse for video games than standard CRTs. PVMs are best suited for the thing retro fags will never use them, which is watching video, ironically.
I'd buy the camcorder
>get hammer>smash the screen>walk away>CRTard seethes in the corner
>>732348964This would only upset you if you didn't already have a CRT.This would only happen if you are bandwagoning zoomer faggot who wants a CRT now that everyone else wants one.
>>732354494I mostly use mine for watching anime. Gaming on a small 13 inch screen is kind of annoying, but my anime looks really nice on it.
>>732352998>shitty old tube TV'sNo they still have to be sought after models. Then you recap them, and then maybe you make 300 dollars.
>>732354494meant to quote >>732354148 instead
>>732353410Fix your underscan
>>732354967how is 13 inch small just sit closer to the screen
>>732348964God damn I wish I hadn't tossed out my old CRTs. There's practically no chance of me finding more on bulk trash day like I did with my old ones because my city does bulk trash on demand now.
>>732348964does no one notice the fucked up reflection in the tvs? ai shit?showing a little outside but also as if they are inside in a storage room
I saved the one I bought as a kid, I dunno what I'll do when it finally dies on me. But I did randomly find one on the roadside a few months ago, so there are still people just tossing them.
>>732355639you can still find them on facebook from clueless boomers sometimesi got a toshiba 27" free a few years ago
>>732348964I'd smash all that shit with a bat and run
I picked the CRT I currently use to play PS2 from a dumpster.
>>732348964Less than a decade ago people were having to pay junkyards to even take these fucking things away
>>732353410Nobody was using CRT in 2011 except turd worlders, so this was definitely not the way they intended.
>>732357895true. People hated them, big and deemed useless.Parents had a perfectly working Sony Trinitron and they threw it away for shitty flat screen. Fucks sake.
>all those all games and consoles I traded in for pennies when the new ones came out>all those pokemon and yugioh cards I tossed when I had to make space>even my shitty fucking fat TV could now be sold to some retro dumbass for the price of a brand new one The lesson I've learned in my nearly 3 decades of life is to sell NOTHING
>>732359739What's funny is that the next generation will have nothing of value to look back fondly on. Paying for digital skins in dead games? Maybe in 50 years you'll be able to sell early accounts along with the emails for a grand or so to kids who want to pretend to be 80.
>>732348964Do you still like capitalism, goy?
>>732356579holy fucking based. who is this man?
>>732348964Who the fuck is spending 1k on a CRT. I bought my Sony Trinitron for £50
>>732359739I sold my collection between 2005 and 2012 and even though I didn't sell it for pennies, I often think that I should've held into it for another decade. I would be rich by now.
>nyooooo you have to sell me old consumer electronics for low prices!!!>i don't understand supply and demand!!!!!!!!!
>>732363198>100K>rich
>>732363614This is not supply and demand.
>>732348964>I know what I have
>>732363614The thing is, the demand there isn't from people who want to play video games, but from other collectors.That's why retro gaming fairs always end badly (in my experience). You have two audiences with totally different intentions surrounding the same products.On the one hand, there are people who are genuinely interested in video games and don't understand how obsolete products, often in poor condition, can be so expensive, when they know that 99.9% of all the guys who share their interest won't pay those prices.On the other hand, there are the collectors, many of them members of a cult of lunatics who worship objects.When there are 1,000 players in a room, and those 1,000 think the price of the games being sold is absurd, the collector doesn't care, because his audience is not video game players, but cultists who collect obsolete objects, all of which need such extensive repairs that it's easier to just throw them all in the trash.
>>732363956Wait what? That can't be real.I have the exact same TV and bought it for 20 bucks.
>>732364389>t. doesn't know what he's got
>>732364226>>732363956don't buy it then>but i want it wahhhh it should be sold for $10 to me!!!!!!!!!curious hmmm really activates the almonds
>>732348964just tell zoomies they missed out on something and they will FOMO prices into the sky, just look at what's happening to 3DS prices
>>732364389I've seen listings in which some guy is selling a normal Trinitron for 20 bux, and then the same TV appears a week later listed by another guy with two zeroes added to the price.
>>732364596covid created so many god damn resellers
shit, i bought one of these for $20 and later threw it away for lack of spacethis is almost worse than that time i sold several bitcoin for $7
>>732353213I like my PVM but yeah there's plenty of other good production-grade monitors. I was always on the lookout for Ikegami ones but they're out of reach nowadays too. I actually work at a place you would think would be good for dumpster diving but I rarely see that kind of stuff come through unfortunately. One of our clients actually hooked me up with a consumer Trinitron once though when I was on site. Was pretty sick, I still have it in my shed as my backup CRT. Pretty good size, too.
>>732355089Sadly can't. Theres a pot for v-size but not h-size. And even that you have to disassemble to even access
>>732353410Where are the colors?
>>732355434>how is 13 inch smallMy 17" is small even if I sit in front of it.Hell even my 27" led feels small sometimes. I think 27" is the bare minimum and 32" is porbably optimal when you sit in front of a screen.
>>732349118What would you play on them
>>732364470But players aren't buying it. Do you think that if someone is really interested in some shitty Nintendo 64 game (the worst mainstream console ever released), they're going to spend $1,000 instead of downloading the game for free on the Internet?This market isn't for people interested in video games, it's for collectors. These are people who are trying to profit from the "mystique" that certain objects have among those who worship them.The side effect of this is that something that could cost $5 if the only interested audience were really those who want to play video games now costs $500 because now the interested parties are quasi-religious collectors. That's why normal gamers openly hate these guys.
>>732354494>thicker scanlines are not worth the overpriceYou'd have thinner scanlines on a PVM due to them usually having a higher line count than your average consumer set. Especially in Europe, though, there's no reason to ever consider a PVM/BVM unless you REALLY hate scanlines (just use an OLED at this point) or if the PVM is extremely high end like the L5 series.
>>732365892Monochrome. 640x480. As God intended. >>732358835No this is definitely how it was intended you pleb
>>732351590I'm with the zoomshit on this, crts are dogshit
>>732350118Ok but you clearly didn't go berserker mode
I picked up the current CRT i use for free off of the side of the road
>>732348964Don’t brand new CRTs cost 1k? For a long time it didn’t make any sense but I guess we’re approaching the crossroads
What stops some chink factory from making new CRTs? Are those tubes such a bitch to make?
Bought a 14" set recently, want a 21-25" set. I think I'll go for a PC CRT monitor next.>>732367436They cost a lot to make it's like millions of dollars just to start production.
>>732348964The hilarious thing is PVM's don't look as good as standard consumer TV's when it comes to playing low res games.That and they require custom cables.The PVMeme craze is fucking stupid.
>>732364389Retards think that just because TV is a Trinitron it's worth thousands. In reality there are only few models that are worth that much.
>>732367546Even RGB doesn't look as good as composite or s-video on most games
>>732367436What generally happens is>Have new/improved technology>It's expensive, but affordable to people>The more people buy them the more of a competition it creates between companies>This improves the technology of the product over all while bringing the price down for the consumer>The better you understand the technology the more refined it becomes, the less time you need to spend on research, you understand this shit like the back of your hand and streamline it>Because you're eliminating all of these overheads and the technology is becoming more efficient you save a bunch of money which is then passed on as a saving to the consumer who enjoys a better product at a cheaper price>Gradually the technology evolves and moves onWhich is basically what you have with TVs. There used to be a repair store on every fucking corner, but once it got to the point where it was cheaper just to buy a new TV, well, that's why you don't see repair stores on every corner now.You might think "well if it's old technology we should be able to make millions of them cheap as door nails" and you would think so, but not really. Same reason A person from now and a cowboy from 1850 would have very different experiences in the desert when they're both only armed with a book of matches.
>>732348964i got a CRT for free because i'm not retarded
>>732368106Now this is just retarded.The difference between RGB and composite is like night and day, I literally feel like I put my glasses on with RGB, it's that much better.I don't care if it does dithering if the price for it is for everything to look blurry like someone smeared vaseline all over the screen.>b-but then you can just use an lcd!No, it's not the same.
>>732369285B-b-b-b-b-ut the sonic waterfall you see for a fraction of a second in act 2 of the first level... it's worth sacrificing 99.999999% of the game for that fraction of a second...
>>732369285Developers made games for composite in mind, not RGB.
>>732369438You got a source for that, buddy?
>>732369438100% of developers? included arcade developers even though they shipped the cabinets with internal RGB? PC developers with VGA? SNES developers whose games didn't have any need of blending dithering?Ah yes, it's the usual MEGAFAGGOT who again pretends NES and Genesis accounted for 100% of video games ever made
>>732369389kekTrue, they always use that one example.>>732369438And god made you ass with dicks in mind.RGB looks infinitely better to anyone with eyes.
>>732369562Nah was talking PS1, N64, Sega Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, smd faggot.Arcade games suck btw.>>732369485It is known.
>>732349243At this point I would rather buy HRT and get fucked to death by an Ugly Basterd
>>732369769>PS1Outside of Silent Hill, it's not really needed>N64System's already blurry as it is, composite works against it>DreamcastYou made it up and it's a flagrant example given the fuss Sega made about being VGA compatible>PS2Another headcanon example, I got RGB for it and never went back to composhit>GameCubeditto>Arcade games suck btwThis has the same effect as saying "Please invalidate my entire post" which I gladly will
>>732369769>It is known.Doesn't look like a credible source.
Im glad i live in a country where CRTs literally rain from the sky, so i can get anything i want for 5USD
>>732370001
>>732370001I fucking hate youYes I know you from the /crt/ general on /vr/You have zero respect for the games you widescreen faggot
>>732369910So you think a lot of people in their bedrooms was gaming on a TV bigger than 14inch? 14 inch TV's mostly don't do RGB.The developers knew most kids wouldn't have it as an option.
>>732370169So you think a lot of people today are gaming on anything bigger than their phone screens? Yeah when discussing the past we should always hold the lowest common denominator as holy and sacred
>>732370169You're not a kid anymore. You can choose.
>>732370313>>732370517Are you both obtuse or something? Obviously the developers would be targeting the player base
As someone who regularly shops at thrift stores and estate sales specifically to buy and resell old TVs.... fuck these people. The most I have ever charged for a TV is $125 and that is only because it was a 32" and I was driving 2 hours out of my way to deliver it. There is nothing wrong with rescuing these old CRTs from the bin and making a little extra money in the process but that scalper shit needs to end.
>>732370640Rare intended DKC, a kid's game, to look nice with S-Video & RGB. See point 17. Other than NES, Genesis/MD and some 8-bit computers due to tech limitations, no one designed their games for the blurriest output possible.
>>732370140i dont think about you at all
>>732371393Says the guy who craves attention by posting the same pics for months, week after week, on several boards. Here have your (You).
>>732371603thats cute, here have a photo of me playing SNES in my high resolution Syncmaster 997MB CRT monitor i bought for 10USD
Never trust somebody when I see they have an N64 controller with it's joystick perfectly upright
>>732359739I bought a copy of Path of Radiance for like 10 bucks back in the day and traded it in years later...
>>732348964Imagine charging $1000 for something that looks like it's from the bar in a John Candy movie. Probably stinks of cigarettes too.
>>732372431It only has over 150k hours of use, it's a steal!
>>732354273Where can I learn such power? I wouldn't even know where to begin.
