Why did we stop using CRTs?
480i
they was blurry and bulky.are you stupid?
Using is one thing but it's a shame certain technologies just stop being produced at all.
>>740848814this is caveman-tier onionboy techjust make one yourself retardhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRr6OTpLGD8
because people are cattle
Because they cost too much to produce, and they cost too much to SHIP. So we downgraded to a lower quality technology instead, because it wasn't reasonable for retards to buy 40" CRTs.
>>740848663lcds were significantly more practical for widescreen formats and hd image quality.
Because they were big, heavy and low res. Next question.
>>740848663It's fundamentally inferior technology that happens to make older games look better because they were designed around being played on the CRT screen.
>>740848663Lower visual qualityLoud background noiseA pain in the ass to move due their large size and lopsided weightPresumably higher electricity draw but I'm not poor so never noticedUnlike "smart" TVs, nobody called the new thing a downgrade because they weren't
>>740848663the entire office industry of the world was going to eventually switch to lcd, it was vastly cheaper and superior at displaying text characters on a screen. it makes sense to unify your supply and build around lcd's display strengths rather than keeping two completely different technologies going.
>>740849090>fundamentally inferior technologyYeah because motion blur, and input latency, and bad blacks, and anything not set to the displays native res looking like shit is so superior. OLED is finally fixing some of the issues but modern displays still can't compete with CRTs.
>>740848663Convenience.
>>740848814Because it is not cost effective and is obsolete/What next, why dont they make gramophones and typewriters any more?
>>740850306They do make both of those thoGramophones mostly as a novelty product, typewriters have some niche uses like high security environments.
>>740848663Because the profit margins on other TVs are higher. It's that simple, the people making them make more.
>>740848663simpletons have sensory issues that disallows them to recognise CRT's superiority.
>>740849119>Lower visual qualityThis is simply and objectively false. High end CRTs still blow modern TVs out of the water. Never pretend for a second the switch was made with the customer's interests in mind.
Marketing. It's the same reason why everyone has 4k TVs but almost nobody watches any 4k content.>"oh I need a new TV I might aswell buy the (new thing)"
>>740848663Logistics and convenience.Just look at the footprint per unit and a comparative replacement.In any reasonable cost:benefit analysis CRTs got destroyed and were phased out despite being better displays. They were kept for specific use cases until later displays could adequately replace those too.They're STILL better displays to this day and they STILL lose that same cost:benefit analysis.It is still worth having a smaller one, if you can get hold of it, to play old games, TV and movies on.
>>740848663Time last time I interacted with a CRT was a monitor that just up and fucking burned out on me one day. Fucker just blipped off and let out a puff of smoke out the top, stinking up the place with the smell of burning.
Costly to mass produce and costly to ship. In the space and weight the fat ass of one big boy CRT takes up you can stack several flat screens.
>>740850306What next they make paint and brushes?
>no CRT>complain>game put CRT filter on>complain
>>740851108Filters don't properly replicate the look nor fix the inherent input lag with modern displays.
>>740851423CRT filters can be pretty authentic. This retroarch shader is pretty close to what my genesis hooked up to my sony trinitron through composite looks like. Obviously the real thing is better but I think having shaders as on option on PC is nothing but a positive.
>>740851805I don't have a problem with them existing, I do have a problem with pretending they are a silver boolet.
>>740848663They are expensive and the technology to make high quality CRTs is proprietary and buried in ancient tombs.
>>740848663>Why did we stop using CRTs?It was too much soul for castrated zoomers
>>740851423>Filters don't properly replicate the lookLooks fine to me. Ultimately I prefer playing games on my 35" IPS because the screen is almost twice as big, and I can sit closer to it (my PVM is in an awkward spot due to its size). Is it perfect? No. But given buying the screen I would like would now cost me an absurd amount of money, it's good enough.
>>740848663They were terrible and gave massive amounts of eye strain.
I've seen testimonies of people claiming to switch back to CRT because it just looked so good. My dad has an old Sony tv and I'm thinking of keeping it before he sells... I've not used one probably in 12 years. How easy is it to connect it to a current high end PC nowadays?
>>740851842Unfortunately most people aren't autistic enough to go find and make space for a massive 25+ year old TV just to play their old games on. I'm glad that filters do a pretty good job replicating the look because it's probably the only way most people are going to experience the CRT look nowadays. I would much rather zoomers play with filters rather than looking at the raw pixels.
>>740852106>eye strainI never had to use shit like flux with CRTs meanwhile I can't go more than 30 minutes with a modern monitor raw without eyes hurting.
>>740848663I have a 98 inches tv, do you imagine the weight that a 98 inches CRTs would have?
>>740849234>bad blacksthat's a given, technology won't change thatwait i forgot what we were talking about
>>740850306Anon... have you tried going into amazon and typing gramophone or typewriter and seeing the results, you failure of a human being?
>>740852193>extreme strobing due to the nature of how it works>not bright enogh to work in a room lot by daylight>very blurry and has pixel bleedYou never used one for any length of time, there's a reason they gave an entire generation glasses.
>>740848663I stopped using my 32inch CRT in 2010 when it broke and a 32inch flatscreen was under $300 so I bought it. Still have my 2010 flatscreen. It has lasted longer than any CRT I ever owned.
>>740852332>trying to pretend dither was a bad thing
>>740849119>lower visual qualityif you were getting a TV in 2005 you were either tossing up between a massive 1080i Wega CRT with good colours and deep blacks, a shitty 32" 720p LCD with shitty fluro tube edgelight, or maybe an equivalent DLP set with slightly nicer video quality. if you wanted 1080p you had to shell out a good few thousand and you had to run it from a HTPC over VGA>loud background noisemost good sets of that time had the squeal filtered out. my big wide-screen smasnug sure did
>>740852114most will be VGA only so you'll have to mess around with adaptors or routing the output through a second GPU with VGA out
>>740852493Ah, a wild retard has appeared.
>>740848663>SONY WEGA crt tvI had one of these and the flatness of the screen is nice, but the aspect ratio was terrible for everything. These screens had some kind of processing, especially when they had to change to certain settings. That added a significant delay, so they're worse than sub 5ms modern screens.
>>740853331pretty much all HD CRTs had some form of digital processing, they were all pretty much like that
>>740853028You're the retard, he's correct
>>740854976You can dither with any display.
>>740848663CRTs? You mean like the shaders?Which one is the best one?
