Is 2026 the year that the CRT market dried up? I swear it's a dessert in my local area, the only sets that pop up are composite only and they want like $150 for them.
>>12541251there's nothing wrong with composite. What the fuck is wrong with you zoomers? Most TVs only had RF back in the day.
>>12541251>dessert in my local area>dessertGood bait
>>12541253It's not bait. We don't all live in an oasis of CRTs.
>>12541254He's saying you called the CRT landscape a sweet confection as opposed to a dry landscape.
>>12541251The Goodwill I worked at for 6 months two years ago stopped accepting them so I just took home all the good ones
>>12541251I have a decent one in my attic collecting dust. You can’t have it.
>>12541251found a 27" panny tau for $5 this week at thriftkeep looking
>>12541251>>12541253>>12541254>>12541268crt market is tiramisu right nowonly composite flavored sets left
>>12541253For all intensive purposes, it's a doggy dog world out there.
>>12541301>compositeGood, that's what most devs intended.
>>12541251I'm so mad. I got a beautiful pro-sumer set from some old lady local to me that was HUGE, like 100lbs and had absolutely beautiful color. Only paid 20$ for it and I thought I'd never need any other CRT again.Then one day it died. Just shut off in the middle of a game, wouldn't turn back on. Fuse replaced, still nothing. I'm thinking about taking a look at the capacitors because when it was plugged in it would have a high pitch whine, even when not on.
>>12541251They're still out there, but it's literally a dwindling supply, more and more wind up in the hands of collectors/gamers/vintage media enthusiasts, and the definition of what constitutes a desirable CRT just keeps expanding as the availability and affordability of the truly top tier sets continues to decrease. I know I paid like $350 for an effectively unused 29" NEC monitor back in the early/mid 2010s, an amount that seemed like it was pushing the limits of reasonable at the time, but nowadays such sets apparently go for a few grand and rarely ever show up for sale. That's not to say to fuck yourself on pricing, but there's a good chance that the overpayment of today will be the "glad I got that when I did, for what I did" tomorrow.
>>12541252>"n-no you HAVE to use the horrible quality cables!! e-even though RGB and HDMI exists.. F-FUCKING UNGREATFUL ZOOMERS!!"it's okay to be jealous, grandpa.
>>12541401I'm also a Zoomer, and even I can tell you Down the Tubes looks fucking horrible with raw pixels. It was made with the Genesis' composite mode in mind.
>>12541251No.You're just looking to get one for essentially free.
>>12541251I was going to swipe a bunch of smaller sets from the back of my local goodwill, but they were gone by the time i went there. I did however grab a big ass 2001 Panasonic with s video and component that i had to guess the dock workers were too physically inferior compared to I to bother lifting it inside. Its only my 4th crt this year, so it certainly has been slower finding them this year.
>>12541321this aint rocket appliance
>>12541251Composite is all you need. It's what 99% of gamers used until HDMI was a thing.
I kept playing in this crap to play vidya until around 2014 i was poor
I won a CCTV crt monitor brand new in box sealed for $1 at an auction 4 months ago. It only does S video though.
i think i got my PS3 plugged into my CRT rnyea. i do actually. fight me
>>12541252It is a faggot trying to bait and is probably a RetroRGB fag from yurop
>>12541251don't know what you're talking about, i just moseyed down to goodwill this morning and picked all these up. the trick is to get there right when they open.
Why are people putting this old, smelly things in their nice homes? EW!
>>12541557I lost a bid i left on the tiniest Trinitron pvm you could imagine, almost game boy sized screen, and i still didn't win it for 100.
>>12541719>the trick is to get there right when they openThe trick is to go to the back drop off area when they are not open.
>>12541719and your dad works at nintendo
>>12541251>dessert>wanting anything more than compositebegone zoomoid
>>12541251even goodwillis carrying them again you queernut
>>12541252My Phillips has a good comb filter so composite looks great
>>12541251I got all the tvs I wanted a few years back but I've been eying marketplace still and it does seem to have slowed down alot over the past two years. Rarely do I see anything of note pop up. Nothing wrong with composite btw.
>>12541251you are fucking retarded
>>12541251Even dog shit tvs support rgb here.Only tv I ever found that was composite only was some dog shit 10" rv tv.
>>12541358I bought one of the original plasma big screen tvs over 15 years ago. It was absolutely huge and cost me thousands of dollars. It lasted until a few years ago when watching a movie it let off a loud cracking popping noise and smoke came out the back. It was honestly funny when it happened because it was a tense moment in the movie so it scared the shit out of me. Made the room smell like burnt plastic.Anyway I go to kick it off the back of the car at the dump and watch the screen smash into thousands of pieces. Got a new LCD a little smaller for 200$. Cannot tell the difference.Things just break sometimes. You can find another CRT TV but realize they’re all old and might just stop working.At least you didn’t waste thousands of dollars on something new just because you had to buy something big from a jump in employment. I should have paid a bit more at that time and bought a fucking car.
Why would the connections matter?The TV is an analog device. The digital to analog signal happens inside the outs of your console or if it’s a digital cable it happens inside the TVs DAC.I believe this is almost exactly like audio where cabling doesn’t really matter at all. A normal analog cable only has issues at extreme lengths compared to the width of the cable. If it’s a few feet away this is completely negligible. There’s equations for determining the noise in cables, look them up and do the math. Don’t get suckered by what is audiophile nonsense. Really here it’s which DAC is better given your options on connections.
>>12541358Unless the fuse is visibly broken its not the fuse.Unless you know your way with basic electronics repair, best you can do is hope for it being something obvious as a capacitor that has visible shat itself, blown resistor leaving residue. On the other hand it could be something like a IC.
>>12542217Dumb nigger
>>12542228What part did I get wrong I didn’t look it up, either you have an analog signal over a cable or a digital one. I don’t sperg out on it unless someone pays me sorry.
>>12541251Weird. I thought CRTs would become more and more plentiful as time went on. Are they not self-replicating? Shit like this is why I can't stand the laws of physics. When the fuck are we reaching the singularity utopia?
>>12542268You think your demand is the general demand when it’s a niche demand If anything having anyone make new cheap ones of quality is probably unlikely given that there are still many high quality ones available sold second hand
Is Symphonic any good? my grandma is getting rid of a lot and asked if i wanted her old CRT. Its a model WF-1901 and i cant find any reviews online about how it looks playing games. i was gonna make a thread but maybe you guys can help. i havnt used a CRT since like 2006. funny thing is im sure my dad had a good one set up in our old house back then but im positive we only used Component on it even with the ps2 xbox and gamecube. i think by the time we got a wii and a 360 we got rid of it which sucks. I feel like it was a toshiba. maybe old pictures of it will pop up and i can try and figure out what i was playing halo 2 on back then.
>>12541251Composite is how we all played back then. Hell I remember needing to get a RF adapter at RadioShack for my PS1 because my TV didn't even have composite.
>>12542352>only used componentmeant composite. i get them mixed up. im not a cordfag and you guys will probably laugh but i played through a bunch of 360 games out of curiosity during covid, touching a 360 for the first time in like a decade, using composite because it was what i remembered. then i read about hdmi and it was such a huge change i replayed a few games a second time just to admire the jump. i dont think ive ever used a component cable.
>>12541251Because people are greedy and think they're dogshit telly set is worth 3 figures.But if you go to the recycling centre, there's always, ALWAYS, like 15 crts sitting in the dump. The only reason I don't take one is because there are flies everywhere.
Atlanta still has PVMs regularly but I own like 10 CRTs at this point and barring finding a holy grail I am out.
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>>12541251My TV has component and S-Video but I only use composite anyways
>>12544058Not for 6th gen I hope
>>12541358Could be a bad flyback transformer. If so, and you can find a replacement, it's an easy fix, assuming you know how to desolder and solder. Just make sure to look up how to discharge the tube before poking around (and to be safe, let it sit unplugged for a few days before opening it up).
>>12542362Yeah I had to use an RF converter for my N64. Never thought twice about it, and when I did get a TV that had composite, I honestly don't recall even registering a meaningful difference with the superior video output, to the point I didn't even realize that there was one. Even now I play most stuff in RGB, but playing an original Famicom via RF doesn't bother me, and in my mind is probably the most authentic way to play games from that era (which doesn't mean that I prefer playing NES/FC games via RF as opposed to on an RGB modded system, but it's still fun to play some FC on a small 80s CRT on occasion)
>>12544091Do you realize how expensive 6th gen component cables are? Ps2 aside you are looking at $100+
>>12541251I feel this. It's extremely hard trying to find anything that isn't just engorged with a bullshit stupid price. Scalping and reselling is it an all-time high for pretty much anything and it's just awful out there. I've had the best luck just finding broken sets. I got this one for free because it's fucked up currently but I'm going to fix it up. It's an LG HD set, but I had to travel two and a half hours to get it
>>12541251It has been a bit over 15 years since CRTs started being thrown in the thrash en masse even in third world shitholes, so it's about time the supply started drying upThe biggest reason people wanted to get rid of them in the first place was the size, so it's amazing that there's still some sets around that haven't been tossed out at least once
>>12541252>Most TVs only had RF back in the day.American moment
>>12545201Always confuses when I see those comments, I had a piece of crap 20" Daewoo rebrand in 1995 and it supported Composite and RGB through the scart outlet.Only mono audio though
>>12544996If you mean GC, I just use Nintendon't on WiiComponent and RGB is a must for 480i
>>12545217XBOX and DC too
>>12545224XBox and DC have extremely cheap RGB
>>12545229They dont component no one outside Europe has RGB support on their TVs
>>12545234RGB2Comp is your friend
>>12545240Anon
