I just dug up an old CRT and it's unbelievable how it mogs the average LED displays, even gaming monitors and QLED tvs.
>mogs piss off zoomie
>>12564257mog predates zoomer usage of it by over a decade, newfag
>>12564261You know the oldest zoomers are 30yo, right? They've been posting here for well over 10 years.
>>12564265yeah and they weren't the first ones using it
It's been so long since I've owned one, I can't even recall what it was like. Man, does time fly.
>>12564254enjoy you're tinnitus
>>12564271They were and I don't really care what you say if you disagree.
>>12564254Funny how you supposedly managed to 'dig up' a high quality Sony Wega CRT rather than the average Sanyo or whatever crap most people actually had back then.
>>12564328I don't recall seeing crap brands often back then for some reason.
>>12564331How old are you?
>>1256433433 and one half!
>>12564338So you were just a kid during the sixth gen. This thread makes more sense now.
>>12564342Correct, and I remember it better than every other generation.
>>12564343You got into gaming at the tail end of CRTs. There’s no mystery here. There’s a good reason that Sony stuff is sought after compared to the 90s/early 00s equivalent to TCL/Hisense.
>>12564352Well, give your gaming perspective as a 50 year old Gen Xer who grew up twisting coaxials onto bedroom TVs that lacked other connections (I did this too btw.)
>>12564354My perspective is that you didn’t dig up that nice Sony Wega like you claimed. That was definitely not the standard back then.
>>12564257>zoomieironic
>>12564358Here's the twist, I'm not OP but I do see Sony CRTs more than anyone else.So you have no anecdotes as a 50+ year old man about CRTs? Just here to cry about teh younguinz?
>>12564363>but I do see Sony CRTs more than anyone else.Don’t you think that’s because they’re valued by retro gamers like yourself who are looking for that sort of thing?
>>12564367No, since most are found on the side of the road or through facebook market, the latter of which lists all CRTs as "gaming monitors." Retro stores take what they can get, and still Sony ends up being the most popular brand, much like they were as I was growing up in the 90s and 2000s.Perhaps the quality in their day made them an easy choice for customers to but, and once they saw it, they got more and more of the same.
>>12564373>found on the side of the road This would’ve been true nearly 20 years ago, but nowhere near what you would call recently. It’s been a decade at this point that retro gamers and resellers have been grabbing all the nice CRTs like the one in the OP.
>>12564361Fuck off, newfag
>>12564328Survivorship bias. The shit TVs were disposed of years ago, Trinitrons and other great tubes stayed in use or were seen as good enough to keep in storage until Current Year.
>>12564418Sure, but OP’s wording makes it sound like he just found any random CRT.
>>12564425I think you’re the one to read that way.
>>12564381I saw a 27 ish looking WEGA out on the side of someones house a few months ago and I live in the capital of nerds in America (Bay Area) I'm sure if you lived in a more secluded place in the midwest or something, on the road finds would be more common than you'd think
>>12564434Well I guess we’ll just have to wait for OP to provide additional context, which most likely won’t happen.
>>12564436I can assure you that on the road finds outside of the Bay Area wouldn’t be Sony Wegas lol
>>12564254The rare wega that doesn't have horrid geometry - congrats.
>>12564518My WEGA visually looked good geometrically, but when scrolling screens, geometry fuckery was very apparent. I couldn’t deal with it and had to sell it, my autism couldn’t abide.
Had a friend as a kid who had his Wii hooked up to a WEGA in his room and that shit was half tinted pink and half tinted piss yellow.Fucking horrendous convergence around the edges too.Even then it kinda baffled me but thinking about it now that TV had to have been like three or four years old max at the time. What the fuck did he do to it to fuck it up that bad????
>>12564741>What the fuck did he do to it to fuck it up that bad????Unshielded speakers causing a magnetic field, probably. Or it got dropped or something which caused the yolk to shift which can cause picture wide convergence issues since it's not aligned correctly anymore.
>>12564328>>12564363Trinitron's picture quality was as good as modern TVs with flat panels so most boomers didn't throw them out, unlike koreashit and chinkshit like LG & Daewoo
What a shit CRT thread.
I remember tons of them in secondhand shops in the late 2000s and almost none now.
STOP OWNING THINGS
