90s into the late 00s for me. No reason to throw out a perfectly good TV.
People have taken it way past the point of sanity now, but they are better for game consoles from PS1 era and below. Especially for 2D games, as the pixel art was often designed around the square aspect ratio, and the tendency of CRTs to soften images and blur minor details.
It’s how the waterfalls in Sonic appeared transparent. Every line alternated between waterfall and background, so when the TV blurred it slightly it looked transparent instead of alternating lines. You’ll also often see it in old games with dithering, using a checkerboard pattern of two colors to approximate a third color in between the two when “smoothed” together.
Like I said though, people take it way too far. Most people don’t need a reference quality Sony Trinitron monitor meant for professional video editing studios with less than 500 hours of time powered on so it’s still in perfect shape. You do you, but there’s some real elitist shit I’ve seen, and some audiophile level “$600 cable for digital signal” delusion going around.
As long as you aren’t streching a “square” image to a widescreen one, it’s really up to preference on the blur/softening side. And even the streching is just the one point I’m personally elitist about.
As moderm screen resolutions get better, we get better and better approximations of CRT screen effects through using graphical shaders. There’s some mad genius shit out there that does things like simulating how the electron beam scans across the CRT vacuum tube.
I think it’s funny cause RGB modding consoles and playing them on a PVM makes them lose most of what I like about CRTs
I had one until about 10 years ago. I was moving and planning to take it with me, but I dropped it on the way to the truck. So it went in the dumpster.
Second only to a black hole
We had a skateboard we used to move that heavy sonofabitch around. Lan parties were different.
I have that exact TV in 34". About 200 pounds
I used to have a 27" set. Probably weighed about 150 lbs. It had bowed the platform on the entertainment center. I wish I hadn’t got rid of it. Those things fetch a pretty penny these days. Old games just look fantastic on a CRT.
For any non-yanks reading: 150lb is about 62.5kg or 10st 10lb.
Do they really? I still have one upstairs in my house. I don’t use it at all, I’ve just been using it to hold the house down in case of windy weather.
(actually I’m just too lazy to try and haul it out of the house and toss it.)
I knew they did better visually, I meant more that they’re actually worth anything. The only reason I even still have this old thing is because it’s bigger than my recycle bin and I have no urge even attempt to haul it away.
It really, really depends on the shape it’s in, and if it’s one of the few models that people consider “collectors” models. The only one I can think of is Sony Trinitron.
You might be able to find someone who is willing to pay for it regardless, but it’s a really niche market. It’s more of “it’s not just a massive doorstop, you might be able to get $20-80 for it”.
In that case it depends on the TV and how close you are to a CRT gremlin willing to pick the damn thing up.
I helped my buddy move his new Trinitron HD (in 1999 or 2000) up 2 flights of stairs.
Our hands were practically bleeding and thighs were bruised from stopping repeatedly to adjust our grips.
There was one point where why weren’t sure we were gonna make it and would need to go rent a dolly to finish it. Which would have meant me sitting with the TV blocking the stairs for Horner long that would take.
Gotta lift those with the screen to your body my man. This gives you a slightly greater chance of surviving stepping on the cord as you waddle it.
And a lot better for your back!
This reminds me of that episode of Seinfeld where they get a guy they know a massive TV as an engagement present but he breaks up before they get to see it in action
And now I’m having PTSD Flashbacks of moving that fucker upstairs
Shit. I had a Zenith Space Command up into 2004 or so. It started smoking so we decided it was time to replace it.
Google that shit. It almost killed my friend helping move it.
*what it was like moving a TV from one room to another in the 90s.
I know I’m being that guy, but meme grammar is often pretty abysmal.
Those Sony WEGAs were bananas. Mine weighed 99lbs. I remember.
It depends, also an current TV can have ~50 kg https://www.bang-olufsen.com/en/us/televisions/beovision-harmony
The good ones had built-in handles.
And the really good ones had handles that functioned more than once.
!We couldn’t afford the really good ones… !<
Dimitar Savatinov!
Nowadays if you’ve got a fancy one you’ve gotta do do your best not to accidentally tear it in half
