Thread 723201556

Zoomer here. Can someone explain to me why these things are so coveted?
Don't we have better tech now?

>>723201556 (OP)
Nostalgia and games being designed with them in mind

>Zoomer here
No you ain't

Less input delay
Durability
Visuals were designed around CRT limitations

>>723201556 (OP)
What CRTs? They have near zero input delay and they don't have pixels, so basically infinite resolution. On top of which, because of the way the phosphor screen responds to the electron guns, it creates much smoother graphics so the edges between colors is a lot smoother and more gradual.

>>723201556 (OP)
Old things were made with those screens in mind so they don't look as good when put on a modern screen.

Our tech today is way better and blows this boomer shit clean out the water… lol

>>723201556 (OP)
People want more Yoshi games like Yoshi's Island for the SNES. With better tech, bigger and better games should be possible. The Yoshi games they have been making don't scratch the same itch.

>>723201556 (OP)
CRTs? Basically what >>723201823 said. In addition, it's what all the games of that era were made for so you need them to get the original experience, like what >>723201834 said.

Real 02 Zoomer here.
I played N64 games on a CRT when I was younger, even played Gamecube and Wii games on one. When I switched to a regular LCD.
I noticed no real difference.
This is because I am not autistic enough to care enough about this retarded shit.

>>723202178
But plenty autistic enough to care about being the coolest guy in a /v/ thread, apparently. Fucking moron.

>>723201556 (OP)
Old game look gud on old screen.
They look especially gud on high TVL monitors like the one in your pic, but not many of us actually played games like that back then.

>>723202398
>plenty autistic enough to care about being the coolest guy in a /v/ thread
Projection, I don't care about that.
I'm here telling a fellow zoomer that it makes no difference and it's just lard asses holding onto nostalgia.

>>723202526
Why?

>>723201834
also even the shittier budget CRT's look decent. It's hard to go wrong with them

>>723201556 (OP)
>faggot here
Go back

>>723201556 (OP)
soillennials be like
>I don't have any kids because I can't afford it and I rent because I can't afford a house
>but at least I have this 30 year old monitor I bought for $3,000!

>>723201556 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sxKJeYSBmI

>>723203256
zoomers be like
>I don't have any kids because I can't afford it and I rent because I can't afford a house
>but at least I have this Jewish-made vagina I gave $30,000 Dr. Shekelberg to make by inverting my taint!

>moving for a new career and I won't be able to take my 36" CRT with me
Brutal.

>>723203256
>zoomzoom seethes because he couldn't experience the golden age of vidya
Sad! Many such cases.

>>723202178
Me too
We didn’t notice because we were younger. There is an obvious difference though.

>>723201556 (OP)
Honestly I was alive when everybody had a CRT and I remember we all wanted to upgrade to a "flatscreen" which is what we called the modern monitors back then because we were all used to thick monitors like that. Flatscreens were supposed to be an upgrade that was better and thinner.

I think most of the people who buy CRTs in the 2020s are probably zoomers who want to feel nostalgia for a time period they weren't even alive for. IDK. I think CRT has more soul than the flatscreens though so I guess that's the only appeal it would have for me I guess. But I use a flatscreen now though lol.

>>723204296
CRTs simply present differently from fixed-pixel displays. 3D content is a mixed bag, but 2D is infinitely better on a tube telly.

>>723201556 (OP)
CRTs are overrated, their input delay is comparable to a decent modern monitor

>>723203256
>>723203473
>I can't afford it and I rent because I can't afford a house
you retards are tried to move to a little city where house are cheaper and life simple? what is the point of living in a big city with high salaries if you spend all your money on rent and basic shit

>>723204296
Wow. I think CRTfags might have a point after all...

>>723201556 (OP)
40 year old boomer here. Flat screens are a gift to mankind. These TVs were way to fucking heavy and often only had one input so if you wanted to switch between cable and video games you had to go behind the TV and break your back trying to swap composite cables. Shit is even worse if you have more than one console. Sure you can buy a switcher but they were as big as a DVD player and you're already hurting for room with huge ass TVs, cable boxes, DVD/VCR combo players, consoles, all your VHS/DVD tapes, video games, books etc. I had a tiny ass room I felt so cramped with a giant entertainment center taking up 30% of the room.

>>723203681
Heh, that's my post
>he couldn't experience the golden age of vidya
Pissllennials are probably the best, shiniest example of "good times make weak men".

>>723204575
It is nice to see LCDs finally not have shitty colors or sluggish response times. I’ll probably always keep a CRT around but do feel that as of the last five years or so that most LCD and LED panels finally look really good.

>>723201556 (OP)
They're pretty colorful and make low res pixel art not look like shit.
Also the motion quality trounces LCD.
However OLED can get pretty close to all that.

>>723201556 (OP)
Hipsters mostly, when I was young it was people using Record Players instead of MP3s.
>DOOD THE CRACKLES AND POPS ADDS SO MUCH SOLV BRO THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOUR SHITTY DIGITAL MUSIC

>>723201556 (OP)
vibes. and kitty can sit atop them

>>723201556 (OP)
A lot of CRT TVs have geometry issues, and PVMs/BVMs tend to have less geometry issues because they were made to a higher standard. They aren't always perfect.

No one was playing games on them back in the day because they were worth $$$$$$ but when they were replaced some of them made it out to the public via lot auctions or people took them home from their jobs, and so they are rare.

If you can get one cheap, go for it.

PC monitors are a very good compromise and you can get as good or better images out of them than PVMs and are more plentifully available. You can't just plug a console into them (except for Dreamcast) but you can do cool things on them with a retrotink or a mister or something. You can also just plug a HDMI>VGA into them and run modern PC games on them, and it will still be better than any 666fps bullshit gaming monitor you have. Aim for getting a 19" one because they can take higher resolutions. I'm using one right now and it takes 1600x1200@75 and frankly just looks incredible.

Motion clarity is an underrated quality of them and is in my opinion the reason you should get them. You just don't know what you're missing until you see it in person.

>>723207694
>DOOD THE CRACKLES AND POPS ADDS SO MUCH SOLV BRO THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOUR SHITTY DIGITAL MUSIC
this but 100% unironically

>>723201823
>they don't have pixels, so basically infinite resolution
Now this is a retarded take I haven't seen before

>>723201556 (OP)
zoomers grew up with crts, not fooling me, brainrotter.

>>723201556 (OP)
Infinite FPS and zero lag. A CRT can display frames nearly as quickly as a device hooked up to it can output them, because there's no processor inside and it just scans whatever it was sent to the screen.

I'll also point out that while color CRTs do have a mask (which does act somewhat like pixels) a black-and-white CRT does not. So black-and-white could actually get resolution as small as you want, depending on the vertical display lines.

>>723207694
There WAS a kernel of truth on that.
Despite the defects, the actual mastering of the songs were not done by apes that just crush the volume to 11 and half just to make the song "louder" for no retarded reason.
However newer vinyls are mastered by the same idiots, so you get crushed audio AND crackles and pop.s

>>723211152
Listening to albums from the 70s and 80s with better mastering than modern records is both soul crushing and a bit inspiring.

>>723207694
And now people are using MP3s instead of phones for their quirky aesthetics. Funny how things just never change.

>>723201556 (OP)
>Don't we have better tech now?
As someone who works in tech support: lol no.
Technology is regressing in the weirdest way possible. It's technically faster, but it's packed with so much fucking bullshit that you end up spending the same as if not more time on the same tasks. Look at the modern games that look no better than RDR2 and run at a fraction of the performance. Look at Windows 11 and the impossible task it is to set up the OS quickly or efficiently, and offline. Look at fridges and washers and TVs with AI.

Technology has not gotten better. It's gotten more corporate.

>>723211306
I don’t have it in me to begrudge anyone for that, personally. It’s at least less pretentious than carrying around a gimmicky feature phone.

>>723207694
Maybe you should look at yourself for being so insecure that you need to project ulterior motivations onto others.

>>723204602
there's no fucking jobs in a little city faggot, not all of us work from home.

>>723211329
It's pretty amazing. When I was younger I was stumped by the idea of technology regressing like in WH40k, but now I'm seeing it happen in real time. Maybe civilization reaches some sort of collective memory limit, and knowledge starts being lost as a result, disrupting the continuum of progress.

>>723213765
At some point the companies learned that was easier to just point the marketing department in the investor direction instead of the public, and things such as profit and company sustainability became secondary.

>>723203881
We wanted flatscreens because CRTs are heavy, take up huge amounts of space and all have the high pitched scream.
People also just want to flex the biggest screen possible. Can't get a 100" CRT.

They absolutely have issues which are dealbreakers for alot of people. But the softer picture and less harsh glow is much nicer than modern LED chinkshit.