Thread 11918949

When did people stop using CRT TV's?

>>11918949 (OP)
Largely in the late 2000s.

There were CRTs made in that period (I have one) but they weren't that good and they didn't sell that well.

>>11918949 (OP)
as computer monitors? a long time ago because anything bigger than a 18" was big as a car and soon they became more expensive than lcd too.

that's not a tv

>>11918949 (OP)
Ask your fellow bot Grok

>>11918949 (OP)
I never stopped.

>>11918949 (OP)
Stopped using CRT as soon as I was able to get couple of panels via my work, which was somewhat earlier before they were mainstream yet. Never really cared for CRTs as they were not good for your eyes when working 8+ hours straight.

>>11918949 (OP)
>When did people stop using CRT TV's?
That is not a CRT TV that's a monitor with a VGA whioch most TVs never had, TVs had tuners typically SCART or RF coaxial connectors and no VGA, but later on most had composite.

The majority of desktop buyers quickly became business in the late 90s. CRTs are heavy and take up a lot of deskspace and the glass had problesm with reflection if near a window, causing some people splittig headaches and requests for anti glare shielding screens. As soon as LCDs came in people begged for them.

TVs were another matter, most retro games consoles were designed for tyically 8 bit computers, consoles up to the seventh generation and connecting first via RF coalial connectors and later composite, ifact many catapories of games were made for light guns that relied on teh cathode ray tube scan.

TVs used be expensive so people stuck with them for a while and even got them repaired instead of just replacing them. generally cathode ray tube TVs started dying out in the 2010s as very large LCDs became available in the 40 inch range with HDMI, Those kind of screen sizes were non existent or incredibly rare in cathode ray tube TVs because at that size the weight was massive. People like big screens for games and movies.

>>11918949 (OP)
CRTfags always post anime girls stuff
weird pedophiles

>>11918949 (OP)
People didn't. Only filthy casual subhumans did.
Then there's the vile creatures who are even lower than that. The kind of things that don't know the difference between a TV and a monitor.

>>11918949 (OP)

When they stop being packaged with new PCs.

>>11918949 (OP)
Around the same time they realized that solid square metter could be another shower

>>11919204
all those girls in OP pic are rotten teenage hags
no self respecting pedo will touch them

PCs it was '02 for me. Switched TVs sometime '04-'07.
I'm never going back I hated everything about them. even the ~50" flat one my senpai had in '01 I played N64/PS2 on. I have no reverence for CRTs, I play PSX games in 4k lol.

shaders are good enough for me now. No its not as good as the real thing, it's good enough and getting better. it's as simple as that.

>>11918949 (OP)
2007. CRTs went out of fashion super fast because the average consumer fucking hated them with a burning passion.
By the early 2010's you could easily even high-end sets from just a half decade prior in the trash. At the peak of CRTs being thrown out my local area had a 32" or 34" Sony widescreen set in the trash every single week for almost two years straight.
Turns out nobody cared about motion clarity or upscaling low-res content on their TVs, they just wanted literally anything that showed sports in color and didn't weigh as much as the average american.

>>11918949 (OP)
I stopped sometime around 2010, iirc

>>11919403
You're misisng the fact that any TV size above 32 inch in CRT was incredibly rare or non existent while 32 ich LCDs were super chesp and avaiable in 40+ inch size. When HDMI came in it came in on LCD TVs and Plasma, there was no such thing as a CRT TV with a HDMI port, it simply did not exist.

>>11918949 (OP)
For most people around the late 2000's when the prices dropped heavily. I got one in late 2005 to use with the Xbox360 but I'd already been using an LCD monitor on PC for a couple of years.

>>11919360
They are good to have a nice one for lightgun games and old original RF connection systems. Lightguns were a great part of retro games right from the early granstand pong machinnes with one up through the PS2 and XBox. House of the Dead, Silent Scope, Die Hard Triology, Time Crisis etc. The main reason I bought a PS1 that came bundled with final fantasy was not to play final fantasy but to play arcade lightgun games like time crisis on it.

>>11919403
CRTs weren't the majority in households until around 2011. They became the majority of sales by 2007 but it took a few more years for everyone to replace their CRT because people weren't buying a TV every year.

>>11919204
projecting

>>11919204
>CRTfags always post anime girls stuff
>weird pedophiles
You are referring to nintendo people who are a subset of CRT owners and yes, have a disturbing amout of pedophillic tendancies (nintendo itself was entirely focused on the kids market for most of its existence which makes it even more disturbing). Most CRT users have them for lightguns or old systems from the 70s and 80s.

I got rid of my CRT PC monitor in like 2008 when I got a hand-me-down LCD from my dad. I got rid of my CRT TV in 2009 when I went off to college.

>>11918949 (OP)
Never, they still get used all the time. in lesser numbers than the past, but a small number is not zero.

>>11918949 (OP)
When you could get a 32" flatscreen for under 200$, so around 2008/9

Ah—the twilight of the cathode-ray tube television, that stalwart companion of the 20th-century living room. Its decline was neither sudden nor uniform, but rather a gradual phasing-out—an erosion brought on by the encroachment of flat-panel displays in the early-to-mid 2000s.

By the turn of that decade, LCD and plasma screens—once prohibitively expensive curiosities—had begun to descend in price, their svelte profiles and promise of “high definition” seducing consumers en masse. Retail floors that once displayed towering walls of glass-and-steel CRTs began to replace them with shimmering ranks of widescreen panels. By approximately 2007–2008, major manufacturers had largely ceased producing CRT televisions for mainstream markets.

Yet—disappearance from production did not equate to instant extinction. In homes, offices, and the odd basement rec room, CRTs lingered. Some households clung to them out of frugality; others, because old game consoles and VHS tapes looked right on them in a way no flat-panel could replicate. Even into the early 2010s, it was not unheard of to see a CRT humming quietly in a bedroom or garage.

In short—the “end” of CRTs as a cultural mainstay came in the late 2000s, but their afterlife persisted for years. They did not so much vanish as quietly fade, replaced by sleeker successors—yet never entirely forgotten by those who remembered the warm hum and subtle curvature of their glass screens.

>>11918950
This or the early 2010s thread over.

During the early 90s. CRTs were largely an 80s phenomenon.

>>11918949 (OP)
2006

>>11919418
>there was no such thing as a CRT TV with a HDMI port, it simply did not exist.
Incorrect.

>>11921686
it wasnt too long ago when I would despise the chatgpt posts and now in newvr these are unironically the most human interactions I can get here

2011/2012 was when LCDs dropped in price enough for the last vestige of CRTs, poor people, to abandon them. I would go to friends' houses and they would be using the old TV that they had for decades as a stand for the new one, because it was too heavy to throw out.

>>11919418
>there was no such thing as a zoomer with a clue, it simply did not exist

I still saw CRTs in homes and at thrift stores up until the late 2010s, so I'd say until then. I still own several of my childhood CRTs and actually imported one of those small Trinitrons from Japan earlier this year, so I've never stopped using them, even if I mostly use an OLED monitor these days.

>>11922447
I have a panasonic widescreen CRT with HDMI in.

>>11918949 (OP)
>Heavy
>Out of the box low end versions look like shit, needing mods to do proper RGB or Component
>PVMs and BVMs, while objectively superior, cost a lot of money
>Repairability is dangerous to the consumer, leading to the need of technicians to do repairs
>Throwing too much heat to the glass could cause the TV to implode since CRTs are holding a vacuum
That said, LCDs need to do 4K and HDR for it to at least mimic CRTs. OLED boosts the mimicry significantly.

CRTs were commonplace into the early 2010s. The phase-out started around 06-08 but getting an HDTV during those times was a big deal for a lot of families, where it would be the centerpiece living room TV and CRTs were still in bedrooms. It wasn't until 2011-2012 that you'd start seeing small HDTVs replacing those "corner of the son's room" type setups, and even then you might still see them in 13 or 14. The greatest shift happened when cable providers stopped supporting analog signals without a converter box (I think this was in 2015/16 or so? I forget now) so most people found it easier to buy a new TV than fuss with workarounds.

>>11919102
>not good for your eyes when working 8+ hours straight.
Give me a screen that is.

>>11918949 (OP)
There's a missing link in this discussion that never comes up most of the time that this anon is hinting at: >>11918950
The last few years of CRTs sucked for a number of reasons, mostly involving marketing.

>HD is finally starting to catch on in the early 2000s because you can finally get HD broadcasts of sports and other stuff in your cable/satellite package
>Majority of HD tvs on the market prior to 2004~ are not CRT/Plasma/LCD, but instead a technology that died in 2006ish called Rear Projection. These are the "big screen tvs" that boomers talk about.
>Public has no idea what any of this stuff is technically, they just know the marketing terms
>Public universally refers to Rear Projection/LCD/Plasma televisions as "flat screens" instead of HD/720p/literally any other more descriptive term
>CRT companies still have massive infrastructure around making tube tvs, they want to sell them as long as possible but the public won't buy anything that isn't a "flat screen"
>So after 2005, all CRTs are now flat not curved, literally for no reason other than guys in the showroom being able to confuse your mom into thinking she's buying a plasma for $500 bucks when they were going for $2000
>This whole era of CRTs is trash, any normalfag that bought one HATES CRTS afterward and always will because they got hardcore scammed

>>11922904
>a big deal
I remember right before the economy went to shit and while my dad still had a great job with great benefits us going to Best Buy in 2007 and him buying a big flat screen and sticking it in the back seat of our convertible top car and it seeming like it was a big deal. Things were fucking good.

Then the economy shat itself and we lost the house. Biggest Redpill how made up everything in this society is. Getting back to tvs, it’s crazy that between then and now they have only found ways to make TVs shittier with them harvesting your data and being a general pain in the ass to use or set up. is there any company today that just makes a dumb tv that can display proper blacks so I can play dark videogames without the screen being a fucked up grey mess? I don’t need any extra bullshit like the fucking television updating or a fucking all menu or anything either.

>>11923179
Sceptre makes a 50inch 4K Panel for $250~ depending on where you buy it. Amazon and Walmart should both have it. It's only not a smart TV as a cost-cutting measure, and there are other compromises. It's a trash purchase if you don't already have a sound setup/aren't willing to buy one because the speakers and case the panel is in are terrible. If you have external sound though, it's a pretty good deal. Just check it for dead pixels immediately and get another one if it has any, the dead pixel rate is pretty high, this shit ain't Sony or Samsung.

>>11923020
I'd never call it holistically good but lcd doesn't give you the pain crts did. you can be absolutely degenerate in your use of lcds and you will only have the faintest wisp of a headache at most.

>>11922490
>2011/2012 was when LCDs dropped in price enough for the last vestige of CRTs, poor people, to abandon them.
I remember buying a plasma TV in 2011 and a friend later came over and laughed at how "thick" it was compared to his LED-LCD TV. That plasma TV lasted me until 2023 though, must have watched over 1,000 movies on it.

>>11922568
I think the main issue was that even if you had a HD-capable widescreen CRT; it could only display 1080i at best via HDMI?

>>11918949 (OP)
Fuck the CRT.

I loved that Microsoft mouse!