Is there anything to the claim CRT TVs are better or is this just the vinyl hipster cope that the scratchiness gives it “soul”?

OP is a nigger
No I will not elaborate

>>212647361 (OP)
fucking retard

>>212647361 (OP)
They do certain things other screens don't

>>212647361 (OP)
Who says CRTs are better? Who the fuck has ever said that?

>>212647361 (OP)
zoomer or aoomer? both are profoundly inept despite having the best tools and information humanity has ever had. consider suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphor#Cathode-ray_tubes

literally nobody claims those but nostalgiafags who forgot how shitty they were.

They're only good if you're playing retro games using the original systems. Otherwise they're useless.

>>212647361 (OP)
CRT TVs have some use for retro gaming, but certainly aren't a requirement

>>212647361 (OP)
LCD/LED tvs have always been inferior to CRTs. The only reason LCD/LED became more popular was because they were cheaper to produce and thinner. Imagine if suddenly you could sell more tvs for the same price and spend less. The entire industry made you think you were getting a better product. Its why CRTs have now become a hot commodity, they're not making them any more

>>212647612
>useless
ask me how I know you don't know the difference between OLED and μLED

>>212647630
they have less of a delay or something right? that's why they still use them for melee tourneys?

>>212647632
Inferior is extremely relative, for starters my led won't fall on granny and kill her

>>212647361 (OP)

I still have a 45yo box TV and fucking love it.

>>212647655

more like GETLAID

>>212647690
yes that's also a thing, but probably not relevant to most /tv/ denizens.
for me it's how pixel graphics look. notice the eyes on the picrel example.

>>212647361 (OP)
Who thinks jittery-ass 480i is better than 4K?

>>212647632
CRTs have an upper practical limit on size. and the resolution wasn't going to get any better any time soon.

>>212647361 (OP)
>Is there anything to the claim CRT TVs are better

Only for old video games that were designed to work on them. There's no film that's going to be improved by a CRT, if its blurry on an HDTV then its still going to be blurry on a CRT.

>>212647920
Color consistency and blend is much better on CRT's, Thats why they have a more comfortable image, that and the high refresh.

Only for retro games.

No reason to use a CRT to watch 480i video content, deinterlacers and scalers are good.

>>212647361 (OP)
I dont know how anyone can go back to them with that highpitched whitenoise they emit, I have hearing damage and can still hear it

>>212647880
1080p is all you need. Anyone telling you different is a jew trying to get you to buy something with 4k in the name

>>212648349
CRTs can't do 1080p

>>212648445
Here we go, next you'll be saying we all need 8k right?

>>212647632
>The entire industry made you think you were getting a better product.
You are a fucking retard. I grew up thinking a 19" tv was big because a 19" crt tv was physically as large as most people had room for. The screen I have now would be the size of two china cabinets in front of the other and weigh a thousand goddamn pounds if it was a crt.

>>212648533
nope.
but I do like my 2k gaming monitor so I can more easily spot bush campers in Arma Reforger

>>212648215
>no reason
How about the glow, shape, and sound?

>>212648563
DYEL fags have no right talking about tv weight. I bet you need one of those motorized assists to open your soi bottle for you as well

>>212648563
it wouldnt even be that size CRT, itd be one of those $4000 projection tvs that need 6 people and look weird at the slightest angle

>>212647361 (OP)
Zoomer detected. How else would I play my SNES and PS2? Also, VHS tapes and DVDs look incredible on it. You can watch Kubrick movies in 4:3

>People who use them for retro gaming.
That makes sense, based on how pixels are displayed on CRTs. As many examples in this thread show.
>Pan-and-scan VHS tapes.
Objectively a butchery of the director's original vision, with terrible resolution nowhere near what watching in a theater at the time would have looked like. Pure gimmick.

>>212648669
>VHS tapes and DVDs look incredible on it.
You're the zoomer. There's no way you were born pre 1996.

>>212647361 (OP)
Modern video is far better than CRT in every way. CRT-er's are akin to the other similar-styled movements:
> the mechanical keyboard crowd
> the tube amp instead of digital amp crowd
> the reel-to-reel instead of vinyl crowd

CRT is too heavy, too hot, uses too much power, is limited in contrast, is too large, and gives you inferior performance. Other than that it's OK.

>>212647584
retard

>>212647361 (OP)
with a CRT you're staring directly into an electron beam, after a short time it'll make you feel a little nauseous and give you a headache, glad this tech is dead

The only thing I can see where they are better is for retro consoles where the art was actually designed with crt's in mind.
There is screenshots comparing them to regular tv and its night and day.

>>212648445
My last CRT was a 36" 1080p Trinitron.

>>212650275
I assume anon doesn't count 1440x1080 as 1080p, but if I remember right there was a company making absurdly expensive widescreen CRTs right near the end of their era.

>>212650275
>36"
wonderful.

>>212648445
there were plenty of 1600x1200 CRT monitors back in the day

>>212647361 (OP)
crt's are better formedia that was made to be on crt

>>212647713
I have a 27" Sony Trinitron ProFeel CRT TV from 1989 that still works perfectly in 2025. I doubt my LG OLED will still be working in 2061. You're lucky to get a decade out of any modern screen.

>>212647442
Many people. It's a common topic of discussion. Though a lot of it pertains to old games designed to be played on CRTs, it also extends to TV shows and home movie release intended to be viewed on CRTs.

>>212647792
>>212647630
Really amazing

>>212648445
I had a Panasonic Quintrix HD CRT that was a 32" widescreen about 15-20 years ago and it could display 720p and 1080i via component cables.

>>212651545
My LG OLED already pisses me off by springing popups on me demanding I update then making me agree to new terms of service I'm sure aren't legally enforceable and only exist to inform me of new ways they're spying on everything I do. Why can't screens just take a signal and display it?
And don't get me started on all the enhancements they try to do that delay the output and usually make it look worse anyway.

>>212647361 (OP)
When I got mom her first LCD screen she was complaining about how bad it looked. I did not believe her, and explained that the LCD had a higher resolution. She was insistent that it did not look as good. So I set up a side by side comparison.

She was right. The CRT was much brighter and had much better contrast between the light and dark regions. It looked way better. However, I think with OLEDs, the difference is not as big now a days.

>>212651349
But those were PC monitors, not TVs? I've got a 21" ViewSonic that can resolve 1800x1440.

>>212651659
I agree, I fucking yelled out loud when I paused a movie one night and came back a few minutes later to see an advertisement for butter as the screensaver. These new TVs being so reliant on an internet connection and updates makes them redundant even faster, which I'm sure is by design.

>>212651943
Plasma was the better choice before OLED came around.

I have over 20 tubes, a stockpile of 100% beeswax candles, and over 1,000 incandescent light bulbs.

>>212652106

>>212647361 (OP)
what happened to all the CRTs I wonder??

>>212650275
>>212651349
>>212651641
form factor is also an important, uh, factor. 1080p is just more convenient in flat screen.
as the anon said earlier, CRTs are impractical at large sizes .

Someone, somewhere said they watch the prequels on vhs/crt cause the shitty effects don’t look so fake

>>212652133
are you worried someone might break in and pee on everything

>>212647361 (OP)
They handle low resolutions a lot better than LCDs. I used to wonder how the fuck people tolerated 240p/360p video on YouTube for nearly 5 years after it launched but then I tried a CRT monitor after over a decade and low bitrate '06-'08 uploads looked surprisingly good on it, even in full screen.

>>212647361 (OP)
The technology behind it is pretty cool

>>212651659
>>212652053
When you buy a new TV dont EVER connect it to the internet. Thats what a console is for.

The difference between CRTs and new TVs is almost as big as watching film vs digital. All TVs nowadays have a thin, flimsy screen. They're paper thin. CRTs have depth to the image, thick sturdy glass. For gaming, CRTs are better for dark games like Doom or Stalker. I tried playing Stalker on an LCD monitor and everything was washed out and I couldn't see anything in the dark, even with a flashlight in game. When I used a CRT, I could actually see in the dark in games. Also, they're better for visual novels or anything that has to be upscaled. The upscaling on a CRT is smoother. However, I hear a lot of people like the new LED stuff. It's getting harder to find Trinitrons online. And the price has gone way up.

>>212652265
>CRTs are impractical at large sizes
The widescreen Panasonic Quintrix I had was a 32" HD widescreen and weighed 90kg (200lbs).

>>212652265
When I was a kid one of our neighbors down the street put their CRT on the curb and I'll never forget how hard it was to move that thing to our house. I think it was a little over 40 inches, 4:3 and we managed to get it on two skateboards to roll it down the street. We got it down the stairs into the basement but had to take it apart when we wanted to throw it out because it was just too damn heavy.

>>212652400
i still watch youtube at 144p

>>212647632
This. Retards bought bigger screens so they could sit further away from them, some of the dumbest shit I've ever heard.

More recently LCDs have finally overtaken CRTs though, at least in terms of resolution. I love my 4k monitor, I have the kind of space that LCD should've given me 20 years ago, except it didn't because Moore's law died. Until that point, LCDs only really made sense for people who were too poor for plasmas, but still wanted a large screen for their living room so they could push their couch back against the wall. Give it another 20 years and maybe we'll have BFI as a standard so miniLED can finally catch up in motion clarity, I guess.

>>212647632
>Imagine if suddenly you could sell more tvs for the same price and spend less.
The price of televisions is lower than at any other point in history, anon. That's fine with me

>>212649326
They did sell widescreen vhs tapes. Sometimes it cost more, but I usually was able to find them. Kinda like how you had subtitles and dubbed versions. Just had to look for the ones that said they were widescreen or didn't say they were modified to fit the tv.

>>212653223
wow you sound like a colossal faggot

I still have a big Trinitron in a retro room in my basement

IIRC CRTs are actually a type of particle accelerator and have theoretically unlimited resolution.

>>212653872
That's not how physics works. If you had a large enough screen, and a precise enough yoke, then maybe. But the phosphor layers take up physical space.

But that's like saying LCDs have theoretically unlimited resolution because you could just build a production line to make a massive one and then sit 2 miles away. Unlimited resolution as a concept doesn't make any sense anyway, because the eye has a physical limit of resolution based on brightness, which is why stars can be tiny but don't just look like singular points, they bloom beyond that due to their intensity.

>>212647361 (OP)
We had an xbox fuckhueg trinitron, and it was super awesome until we had to move, and it took like 3 dudes to carry it, and now I'm much happier with a featherweight 80" shitty LCD that I can easily install alone.

>>212653834
I bet it's so easy to watch and it never hides the movie, hides the dialogue, or blows out your retinas. Newer TVs are "better" but the software operating them is dogshit.

>>212647361 (OP)
CRTs have fast refresh rate for vidya or other things you want a very high FPS for, but for film and movies that distinction is pretty much wasted.

>>212649413
To be fair mechanical keyboards are statistically more likely to be good because membrane keyboards are usually cheaply put together garbage
I know this because I've had to replace one four times.
On a laptop.

>>212653834
How much can you make from one of these?Mine is about that size, didn't get used much (has been kept inside unplugged for years), and I still have the remote

>>212654002
Fair. I don't fully understand the science, I just know that CRTs have crazy physics, which makes it more impressive that we've had them since the 19th century.

>>212654114
>Newer TVs are "better" but the software operating them is dogshit.
This is the main thing that really gets under my skin about TVs now. Forget about marginal improvements in picture quality for a moment and just make a stable OS for fuck's sake

>>212652053
I sensed that as well. Easier to obsolete your shit. Lots of ways to do that with software.

>>212653834
Would be really cool to have one of those rarer widescreen models. A nice high end one that will last for 50 years.

>>212653834
>Retro room in basement
holy soi

>>212652588
>When you buy a new TV dont EVER connect it to the internet.
My service is online so I don't really have a choice

>>212650275
I've thought about picking up one of the later model Trinitrons for playing PS2/Xbox games with component cables but god damn those things are so heavy, moving them is an absolute nightmare

>>212653223
>4k monitor
kek. HDfags are a spiritually raped people. lossless 480p is all you need.

>>212654172
the problem is shipping them. it essentially needs to be local pickup.

>>212651659
>Why can't screens just take a signal and display it?
projectors are still this way. I have a JVC NP5 that's got no smart slop.