*checks Ebay*..... more like 3%.

Sad thing is it’s not even a joke.

FW190 has risen to 3k rn

CRT Headaches

$3,000 on eBay

and basically no lag between frames makes the image crispier/sharper even though its low pixel count.

The lack of motion blur is what makes the real difference imo.. For fast-paced games, a CRT will be sharper than 4K at pretty much any resolution above 720p - as long as you keep moving your eyes ;) Flat panel motion blur is caused by _your eye movement_ when tracking things on screen, while the picture stays still during each frame. CRT's dont suffer this, as they flash the image so quickly that your eyes have hardly moved in the meantime :)

To put it another way, CRTs have a maximum resolution and refresh rate. Anything below that is just as native, because the pixels are not fixed to a grid. They can be displayed anywhere on the phosphor screen, which is really a projection screen for the electron raster beam(s).

@@lievenvv they are the strongest display for 60fps gaming for sure. they can do low persistence blur free 60hz with no lag penalty and great contrast while still being bright. BFI on oleds has not caught up to what a crt can do best oled bfi is extremely dark and still isn't close to what a crt can do at 60hz. plus input lag when using those BFI modes on a modern flat screen often increase input lag by alot. oled is 29ms with 60hz bfi enabled.

arguably the blur at sub native resolutions is caused by the bilinear upscale. for some godforsaken reason, almost no monitor manufacturer gives an option to scale by nearest neighbor, which would fix this. at resolutions like 4k, it doesn't matter if some pixels are slightly larger than a neighboring one. the ppi is so high you can't even tell. but noooo, let's just stick with bilinear upscale >____>

Same with plasma

@@wakaflockaproject Plasma's were so under rated. I think the death knell was the initial lower resolutions compared to LCD televisions, and people bought based on resolution. I was even guilty of this. I remember scoffing at the 480p and 720p panels of Plasmas, and the burn in issues. Now when I see older Plasmas it's clear as day they were better then the LCDs of the time

@@speedyink I still use plasma. Better than any led today even

@@wakaflockaproject I won't argue with you there. I would own a plasma if I didn't get an oled instead.

@@wakaflockaproject I might still get a plasma if one pops up for cheap. I don't know where I'd put it, but..

honestly. for some types of content there's nothing like analogue video on a crt

@@tamegaming1768 I'm now realizing that everything looks so much better and is more enjoyable to play on CRT, it's a combination of near perfect motion clarity and CRT being able to retain 99% of resolution when motion is fast and things get busy on the screen, which is incredible for games, LCD/OLED drops to less that 20% of the intended resolution with just modest motion on screen, that's terrible for gaming on, not to mention CRT has zero response times, incredible vibrant colours, perfect natural blacks that manages to retain detail even in the darkest of scenes, then there's the awsome image depth CRT can have that looks so awsome in some games, FPS games with targets in the distance look so much more realistic because the depth is there, it's such a cool aspect of CRTs. Watch movies on CRT is amazing too, especial Anime content, CRT is the defacto gaming display tech no doubt.

@wobble2007 yes and no. I've owned a lot of different displays. Now I've never owned a crt monitor as awesome as these guys have but I've owned many crts a plasma,, a high end pioneer elite rear projection tv and currently own 2 of the best qleds ever made. I even own 2 vector monitors. My poineer elite pro 710 was amazing for movies but sucked for games. My Panasonic plasma was great for a couple years till the blacks turned more of a gray and I had image retention. My crts were all great at the time. Had too many standard crts to remember and even had 2 hd crts that I enjoyed. Currently I have 1 trash non led lcd that's in my kids room. Another just barely ok budget 4k led in my other kids room. Samsung q90 55 for my sim rig and 75 q8fn for my series x, ps5 and movies. The q8fn has been calibrated and you would tbink you are looking at oled, but no burn in worries. The blacks on it will match even the best plasmas and crts. For retro gaming I have a 32" jvc D series thats rgb modded. It's great for that, but for movies... lol nope. I also picked up a 27" Sony trinitron a few days ago, but haven't fooled with it yet. I'm going to try and snag a 36" Sony and rgb mod it. If I ever get a chance for a nice pvm/bvm then maybe.

Same I miss CRT I went through so many HD TV sets 😢

@@unknownwolf4046 go get one. I'm sure you can find one second hand, as a lot of people want to get rid of them.

DVD is really made for crt

DVD looks awful on 4k TV 😪

lol dvds are ass

Actually I remembered ironically enough more people hating on Blu ray feeling it was a completely useless format that really didn't change the game too much. Meaning ether most shund it for not being radically innovative enough or the idea that people were making the outrageous claims that they hardly saw a huge difference between Blu-ray over DVD. Then there were the complaints that it was Sony's excuse to sell the PS3 at a $600 price tag or an excuse to stop pirating of movies. In fact to this day DVD still ironically enough has out sold Blu-rays even to this day.

all southeast Asia still watches DVD

yep 🤦‍♂️ guess I'll stick with my good old ge crt for retro consoles

@@producerevan88 Peter : "Ok"...

They'll be dead soon.

At least I have a pvm for my retro stuff, fw900 prices stupid

There's gotta be other good widescreen CRT options right?

Even small ones would be great

The cost of manufacturing CRTs these days would be mad. They could never be profitable again, sadly.

@@doltBmB But does anyone even do that any more? At a scale that is profitable, or even could be? I doubt it.

@@NIGonzo Everyone thinking in terms of ''profit'' is exactly what is wrong with everything in the modern world and society. Remember kids, there is no profit without loss, this is a zero sum game where everyone is bound to lose to an increasing climate of unchecked greed.

@@RobotronSage good luck finding anybody with the resources to make you your new super crt that has that same attitude.

I've always felt that gaming wasn't ready for 4K yet. There's no hiding the low-poliness in the distance now

I thought it was just me! I always felt games were more immersive on CRT's and playing PS2 games always felt like an experience on them!

Just buy a n64 and a tube TV and enjoy your retro gaming ...personally I enjoy the fuck out of playing games that run in 60- 100 fps maybe not all can pull it off but high definition looks sharper more crips more fluid and if a lil blur is making you want to play on old tech buy a better TV or dont

For movies and video games, it can definitely get to a point where everything's oversaturated, everything's too "sharp" and the frame rate is so high that it feels like it's sped up. Modern televisions and monitors can make things "look fake," especially to Millenials and Gen X people who grew up with CRTs and watching movies that are 24 frames per second.

Grandma actually knows a thing or two, contrary to popular belief.

A properly tuned CRT had the ability to throw an amazing looking image. The real pinnacle of Crt tech was probably around early 2000's with wide screen HD rear projection sets such as the Ponieer Elite series or the Mitsubishi Diamond series sets or front projection Sony G80 or G90 units. They were absolutely incredible when calibrated.

@@RobotronSage no she just got upsold by the sales rep

Viable yes The best... Not even close

@@jayhovah5621 Hence the “sometimes”

Been messing with a nice old Yamaha dual cassette deck, don't let anyone fool you, cassettes still sound great even pit against my fancy modern Fiio M9 hifi digital music player. But it's a monster peice of hardware so not nearly as portable but still cool, kinda want at least a small CRT to go with my PC and ol' 360

@@jayhovah5621 A CRT TV or Monitor has ZERO Input lag and response time and the TRUE COLORS, its NATIVE RGB.

Agreed

My eyes tear up not more than an hour after playing on my 1440 Acer or Samsung 4k TV. I was just thinking yesterday, how did I ever manage to binge so much world of Warcraft if my eyes do this after moderate gaming. Idk, your comment was insightful and I'm going to look into this more 🌠

@@frogfarmer3551 A proper 1440p monitor with anti glare and other things shouldn't make your eyes tear up. I use low brightness and I can look at my screen for hours. Maybe your eyes are different? Try crt and tell us. My screen is a g27q if that helps.

I started collecting CRTs and noticed between different models they stand out for different systems and uses, some are good for VHS I have, some are good genesis gaming and others pop more with stuff like the GameCube and ps2

@@Valrax I had a Sony Trinitron up until the mid 2000's and it was great for GC games because it supported 480p. I couple of years ago I acquired and older NOKIA CRT TV to play my Wii VC games at 240p, and it looks just amazing, plus it's a 32" TV, can be played from quite a distance. However I was slightly disappointed as native Wii/GC games look a little blurry ( especially the text ) and flickers too much for my eyes pleasure since it's only capable of 480i. Now I know that I need a second CRT TV just for that. It never occurred to me to collect more then one ..😮

Some Chinese factories do make them, so the potential is certainly there.

I have a few and they're fun to collect but they take up so much space

Where do you store them? I have them in nice container full of bins.

Yep

Pump, meet dump. Now they just sell this garbage TV after they've driven demand up.

@@shade221 it can't even do HDR lol. Opinions are best when you don't treat them like fact.

@@shade221 You're only further convincing me of how little this this TV is worth beyond the arbitrary hype.

@@Chance57 pump and dump CRTs? hilarious. you can goto any thrift store, yard sale, online (ebay, fb market, craigslist, etc.) and buy a crt for peanuts. there is no way anyone could 'pump' the price of crt monitirs or tvs. theyre for a niche market at this point. they still do some things well, as pointed out in the video. the same video that says youre not going to want to get rid of your new tv/monitor and replace it with crt, just that a crt to compliment it is a nice place to be especially for retro titles, and possibly newer titles as well.

I would also...we ditched those beautiful analog TVs and monitors for saving space and because of the slim factor, but unless you're in the military and have to move a lot you ain't gonna need to move the TV much anyway.

BUT I WANT MY RCA AND COMPONENTS INPUTS BACK DAMMIT.

We have OLED today, nothing can beat this

@@dropdeadaf975 there's Micro LED, while expensive as sh*t, it has all the OLED Advantages, AND NO BURN IN

@@LennyQUMFIF no, the blacks aren’t deeper as the OLED, the response time isn’t as good as OLED, Micro-LED is a scam

I haven't seen anyone mention it, but have you considered RGB modding yours? I'm actually modding mine this weekend, universal to the chassis BA-4D.

​@@dotmatrixmoeI have a PS3 hooked up to a CRT. In my tests, I found PS1 games look better with AV cables than Component (RGB). Images just seem more tangible and dithering works the way it was intended to.

@@ericstaples7220Thanks for replying, but since my comment I actually already RGB modded my set :P dithering became a lot more noticeable on PS1, but honestly the pros outweighed the cons for me

@@dotmatrixmoe Sorry, didn't see the date. But everyone does have their personal preferences and that's what's great about retro gaming.

+800$ shipping, already 6 bids, end in 24h, people are crazy

Was like $1000 when I wanted one back in like 2012

At that point just buy a massive OLED 😂

people are on that r-word juice

I found one at my local pawn for $100 bucks and, with adapter few months back. Use it with my Xbox series X and, PS5 Guilty Gear looks awesome on it.

You mean we aren't already there?

I'll set up a CRT with this video playing in loop, how about that?

wait till your wife's boyfriend finds out you're using his PS5

@@user-xg6tv5hl6s Might take your Nintendo Switch away.

The Arabian peninsula sympathizes with your predicaments.

@@user-xg6tv5hl6s wait?

That’s what she said

Agreed

Yeah sums it up perfectly. The CRT just gives the games a much more colorful and vibrant atmosphere.

BRO RIP, do you remember the model??

go to the market or ebay theres a bunch of CRTs for sale now but get them before the prices go up even higher.

My dad had one in perfect condition we threw away a year ago

Same. Had a Sony G400, moved to a new house, thought aahhh it’s too heavy to handle and gave it to a friend for free. Then , first LCD TN 60hz and OMG that was a BIG disappointment for FPS games……

@@pz106r FUck, can't G400s make 1800 x 1440 / 70 Hz? That thing is an underapreciated beast! what a loss

would suck as much power as your rig plus the weight

@@gianmendez1921 that is absolutely true. It would also be amazing lol

@Røyål Læg3nd a car is different from a monitor, does your screen go 0 to 60 in 4 seconds?

@Røyål Læg3nd um false lmao way more power directly to the wheels than fossil fuels

@Røyål Læg3nd you have major dunning Kruger buddy

Not a shocking sentence from the guy who shoehorns "bespoke" into every sentence, and ends all his sentences with the word "then" He got some snoot on him.

It’s a little ripe for sure, where is the editor? Delete the - ‘of course’, ‘obviously’, ‘makes sense’, ‘mind you’, ‘basically’s from the script..

Nice flex, huh?

I think he did pretty great in this one. I dont think he was really flexing, its more of a, I am a professional, so of course, I use a professional monitor.... thats why we come to these guys.

@@jennymelo2098 KZfaq made, but I guess it is a profession nonetheless

How’s your Dragon Ball Z 30th anniversary Blu-Rays treating you?

make a warzone gameplay on a CRT please.

-_-

You're right about that 🤣😂 I barely could pick up that 32 I gave away for $10 ; now I deeply regret 😭

I don't miss CRT TVs as they lacked support for higher refresh rates, I do miss CRT monitors. Like he said, being able to run a 1440p 120hz video on it today basically makes it good enough for modern consoles, if they recognized it.

I am not, since I still remember how big of a quality drop it was when I had to get an LCD monitor after my Samsung CRT died.

@@prltqdf9 exactly, major regression

@@Skylancer727 The problem is, in order to use a CRT these days, you would need to use an active, powered HDMI to VGA converter. This conversion process does add some delay, meaning any potential latency benefits you would've gained are lost or at least minimised anyway, compared to a decent modern LCD. So you're still better off using a high-refresh TN LCD panel, if all a person cares about is latency.

@@prltqdf9 Earlier generations of LCDs were absolutely terrible, yes. But luckily we're not living in the past anymore. Any higher-end LCD or OLED panel these days far surpases the capabilities and image quality of even the best CRT's. I think too many people are looking at the past with rose-tinted goggles, and are taking for LCDs for granted, completely forgetting all the good reasons we switched over to begin with.

Everyone was invited to his house to check it out in person but your invitation must have gotten lost In the mail…

I wanna go!

@@P1EX lmao

@@P1EX he was not invited....

well lucky for you their camera also records motion blur so you get to at least see a difference. i can see it anyway.

its over 4 grand now lol

Half the proceeds go to John for hyping the display.

John's alt ebay account 🤣

That's incredibly cheap though. Have you seen the pricing for Samsung's Micro LED TV? You could buy at least 50 of these for the price of 1 MLED TV.

Makes sense. High end CRT's have always been expensive, now it's about availability. Every year that passes the number of CRT's available drops.

Old LCD panels were horrible for motion but have significantly improved.

I feel like I am taking crazy pills watching these vids, because I have zero fond memories of CRTs. I just remember them looking washed out and gross. Maybe you are right in that these professional monitors are why. Because none of the CRTs I ever used had picture quality that I would consider good, let alone even remotely comparable to a modern day tv/monitor.

@@nerdstrangler4804 Yeah and this "can display any resolution" BS is so tiring. While you can't call it a "native" resolution, you can say that a CRT is BEST at a particular resolution. I had monitors that were "800x600" on the box but had unfixable geometry problems if you ran it above 640x480. Brightness was absolutely effected by resolution. I have an old first gen iMac and an old PPC quadra-something and the monitors on both stretch the picture on the edges like crazy. 16x9 monitors were incredibly rare and I bet this has a flatter screen then then 12 inch class balls us plebs had to use.

@@megan_alnico change your pfp... it’s disturbing.

@@frankie5821 Exactly what do you find disturbing about Megan's profile picture? Did she change it already? Because currently her profile picture is a picture of what i assume is her human face. And if human faces disgust you, then you really should consider getting some therapy for that, because that's not a very sociable response to have to seeing images of other human beings. Stop isolating yourself from the rest of the world to a point where you have alienated yourself from other human beings.

@@RobotronSage I think it's her run through one of those "Pixar me" filters. I don't consider it disturbing, but could see why someone would get some uncanny valley feelings from it. Just as bad is why he's peeping her profile in the first place.

a lot of "ridge racer type 4 intro" vibes

What I've seen of CRT's is that the blues are far brighter and deeper... My dad reckons that LCD's were a massive brightness increase. I told him about Daytona USA and how much more shit, low-resolution and dark it looked compared to the arcades watching someone play it on an emulator on KZfaq. He told me "it was a special kind of screen in the arcades, then"

Charlie Sheen is not a fan of IRS

lmfao ''integer resoluton scaling'' does not really stack up to CRT-capable resolutions. Also i am wasting way too much time of my life arguing resolution semantics on the internet.

While you hear that on (non-HD) CRT TVs, you won't hear it on PC CRTs. TVs horizontal refresh rate was around 15.7 kHz but PC (at VGA or higher) is above 31.5 kHz, outside of human hearing. You can often run many PC CRTs above 100 kHz.

@@Crlarl My PC CRT definitely produces an audible hum.

@@SinkingSage Low or high pitch?

Not every CRT did that though!

The funniest thing is that only young people can hear it, the ear loses sensitivity to higher frequencies with age. So the engineers probably never knew it was a problem.

but at the end of the day it was all worth it though.

Same. All I got was eye strain and endless migraines. As soon as I got my first 15'' LCD display I threw my two monitors out of the window (not literally) and never looked back. Out of curiosity I played Jedi Outcast on a CRT at a friend's house last week and after an hour => headache. Maybe things are different for high-end CRTs, but the cheap/consumer ones were very heavy and picture quality was mostly trash.

Lol on PC CRt Monitors I never had eye problems and I was born in 1998 and my country isn't that technologically fast and my first PC and of course TVs were all CRTs up to like 2010 or later. Never had eyestrain issues at 75hz or more

Oh man the old Phillips large size crt's with the built in speakers. Those things were barely unliftable for 1 person. I could lift it but forget about moving it more than 5 meters.

@@barryschalkwijk9388 we got this old 32 inch JVC CRT TV on the curb not too far down the road where I am, and it is so heavy. Built in speakers, and the fact that it's a *32 inch display* We used to move it to the basement during the winter and garage during the summer but we realized we're just going to leave it outside to be our outside TV. It still works like a charm, even with the radical temp swings from single digit temps in winter to the 80 to 90 degree heat we get during summer. I love using that thing though. I have another one that's more moderately sized but with a busted speaker, Zenith brand, and much older too with the only port being the RF coaxial port, but I do use an old VCR with it and "broadcast to channel 3" but with mere millimeters in range, and I tune an old radio to channel 3 to get audio for it. I love using that too. I have an old 10 inch CRT in my room with an antenna too. I feel like an 80s kid deep down, even though I was born in 2002.

@@barryschalkwijk9388 the trick is to keep the screen against your belly!

@@salmon_wine i know but still :-)

I had a huge extremely heavy industry grade EIZO CRT my dad were allowed to bring home from his work place.. Monitors like these is very deep in its dimensions, requiring much more space, it can't get close to the wall, so there is downsides! but yea, I would always run that monitor at some 800x600 240hz.. The image were carved in stone, no matter how fast you would pan the camara in Half-Life it would be dead stable and Rock solid, I've owned expensive 144hz Gsync LCD's, but CRT monitors are simply vastly superior, even that old CRT I played around with some 25 years ago..!

Used to have a Sony Profeel monitor that got thrown out of the place I worked. Amazing CRT, but Jesus, what a lump it was. Like, two people needed to lift it, huge footprint and power consumption, compared to a modern LCD. After a while, it was just too much of a liability to own and I got rid of it. Kind of regret it now, but not really because I’d literally have nowhere to put it now.

Yeah I still game on 1080p 60hz 😅

based retrotech

Retro Tech, master of pro CRT's.

I don't want to spend 300$ for an old monitor

​@@krakentoastOoohh, but why not😆

@@krakentoast No worries, many of US would surely spend it on a 24" and plus CRT monitor that did 1080p/4K, no lag and no motion blur for that price.

Eye strain is still a huge issue of CRT display, but we now want to pretend they’re easy on the eyes when the flickering was and still is an issue. I guess we now have a lot of rose tinted glasses and also a bit of overcriticism toward sample and hold due to those blur tests. Improved motion clarity at the expense of strained eyes is not a deal I’m interested to make, to be honest.

@@misterwu7233 CRTs don't flicker at all. There is no on/off cycle at all, no PWM. Nothing flickers. Now you may be talking about interlacing of 480i content, but that was pretty much only TV broadcasts and 6th gen consoles. One of the absolute worst qualities of an LCD is that content has to be deinterlaced before being displayed, which greatly reduces quality, adds blurriness, breaks many effects(such as rapid flashing transparencies), and adds a ton of input lag.

@@joemamr710 CRT displays work by having a single line being gradually lit (“scanned”) and then proceeding to the next, until the last line is reached. Every time the phosphor are hit, their luminosity quickly decay so the line doesn’t stay lit for long, and if you look at high speed cameras you can clearly see how basically at any time only a bunch of lines are lit. You usually don’t notice this thanks to retina persistence and brain processing, but CRT display flicker a lot, this becomes very noticeable if you look with peripheral vision. Deinterlacing is only applied on interlaced content, progressive content is displayed as is, once the frame has been fully received, with the lag only due to additional processing, most of which can be disabled in the displays that offer low latency modes like ALLM. The modern consoles are able to output progressive content so there are no longer the issues introduced by deinterlacing.

@@misterwu7233 One thing to note, almost every single LCD/OLED panel deinterlaces 240p non-interlaced content too. This is why you see things like the flashing chaos emeralds in sonic either be absent, solid, or have combing artifacts.

Honestly though. As much as I love CRTs, I DO NOT miss moving them.

@Top Noodle Pretty much exactly 20 years. Mostly I lugged around 17 and 19" Viewsonics/Optiquests. With the box, they weren't fun to move and stack.

Does it look good on your LCD or is the LCD incapable of showing it? 🤔

@@Mr_G_s_Route_66 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What kind of screens do phones use

@@colbyboucher6391 Yeah, We know it sounds like a weird religious cult but you REALLY have to see it to understand, all these small things add up and you get this much more true to life image.

@@colbyboucher6391 It's not your display that's the bottleneck. It's the way the video was recorded, the camera (its capabilities and settings), and the compression (and color compression) used that mainly limits how true-to-life a recording looks. Your display only acts as a kind of filter to this that's significantly less impactful than ALL the latter. It's why standards such as SRGB was developed; to make everything look decent and consistent across all screens, regardless of hardware capability.

😥😥buy me one plz

not really

@@wildechap yea really, try playing a ps1 game on a stock standard 720/1080 lcd tv and then a crt the difference is night and day

@@wildechap It really is. CRTs are objectively better at some things (like displaying lower resolution images and motion clarity) than even the greatest OLED HDR TV/Monitor. It's actually a lot more than that once you get specifically into retro gaming, like how 2D (And maybe some early 3D) games way back when were designed from the ground up to look best on a CRT, and look much worse on an LCD. If you want examples of this, look up "CRT Pixels" on Twitter, they post images of what old games actually look like on a real CRT display and compare it side by side to the raw pixels that you'd see on an LCD.

@@TexelGuy don't worry i understand that, but i don't think that is the reason why games looked beautiful back then. They were nkt beautiful back then, it's just our frame of reference that changed. Im talking about those 3d games not 2d. And his sentence is also based off of some internet meme , like how GTA SA looked really beautiful back then.

@@wildechap Part of what you said is true but no games really did look better back then because of the displays we had back then vs now. There is a significant difference.

... shame 4k would probably make most retro games look like dirt nowadays lol (not knocking OLED - it would be my personal choice for modern display tech)

@@TheKayliedGamerChannel-KZfaq I just switched from a 1440p ultrawide to an LG C1 48" for my productivity and gaming. For someone who's been around to see CRT monitors go from 2 colors to completely gone again, I can tell you, we're back on track display wise!

Lol I noticed that watching on my 1080p tv

Too bad OLED monitors (not TV's) literally don't exist.

@@KITOMERO Meh. I'm using an LG C1 48" as a monitor since a couple of weeks and I won't be going back. 4k120, g-sync and primo HDR. This has been an all-round great upgrade from my IPS 34" ultrawide. I was a bit hesitant at first, but 48" is perfectly doable.

Lol unlucky lad

Be faster.

They're getting harder to find due to channels like this one, so if you plan to ever have one, keep a constant eye out for them. Facebook marketplace is a good place to find CRT's, but good luck getting the sellers to tell you want kind of CRT it is or what its resolutions and inputs are.

That would be an OLED sadly. The truth is, There isn't much they can change about CRT without changing what makes a CRT a CRT. That is why we have crappy LCD, Plasma, OLED, and now QD. Every step is "Modern approach" to achieve what the CRT did years ago. The main problem is no matter what they do, there is compromises.

@@SparkerR1987 Oled is the closest to a crt, but it still doesn't have the same quality. Brightness is weaker, durability is lower, and latency is higher. The only downside I can think of when talking about CRT compared to current TVs is the issue of size, exorbitant weight and energy consumption. But I wonder if these problems wouldn't be solved with today's technology, since they were CRT problems from years ago. For example, with current technology we would certainly be able to make much smaller and efficient electron gums. And with the fiber optic technology we have, we could guide the electrons to different zones of the TV without necessarily requiring the electron gum to sit behind the TV in a gigantic vacuum tube. In other words, I'm sure it would be possible to use the same concept of CRT TVs today in a much more efficient way than in the past and achieve a better picture than any current television technology.

The fact that it needs HDR though makes it worse though

I've found from personal experience (with a good but not great phone camera) that it can be very hard to properly capture the vibrancy of the image of a CRT on camera. Most recently, I tried recording footage of a black and white TV a few weeks ago, and I was shocked at how dull it looked compared to in-person. Cameras and eyes work differently.

What did you watch the video on, was it a crt?

@@Dave_the_Dave probably not

You can't properly judge just from a video, unfortunately, you only get an impression. Only in person you can truly appreciate it.

Oled is nothing special a plasma with hdr would be the perfect TV since it would have amazing motion like crt

I'm just wondering have you tried a Sony Trinitron CRT?

I wish I could transition to OLED, but I pretty much know I'll get the screen burned in. Already got burn in on my phone's OLED display from playing too much Duel Links.

@@romxxii I bought my OLED CX with 5 years panel warranty, which covers Burn in and dead pixels. Can totally recommend!

I assume you've never seen a CRT equivalent (as in same screen size, resolution, and refresh rate).

Any market with finite supply will go bonkers… life sucks I love old tech.

I noticed that same thing. I had a CRT in my bedroom and my mom had purchased a new HD flat panel. I remember putting my 360 on it when she was at work one day and thinking, man this looks kinda bad compared to my tv. Also the motion blur and input lag made the game feel slow and unresponsive, though I didn’t understand why at the time

i still use crt on modern games, notably Doom Eternal, the game genuinely looks AMAZING on crt.

Agreed. I love the giant hq flat panels, but a crt had special qualities to the image that cannot be replicated. Older games are a must on crt televisions, there is simply no comparison. Even video shot on SD camcorders had a certain look when paired with crt televisions. Happily, I bought a fair number of them when people were basically giving them away, so I’m set for life unless I have to move…some of those TV’s are just not movable lol

I remembered most CRT's looking like shit.

And some us 32:9

There will always be individuals with the knowledge on how to maintain consummer CRT's , but as more CRT's die , and the few users that care for this tech need more maintainance, their labour will become more expensive. CRT is still the standard technology in military and healthcare industries, X-Ray displays are all CRT , so is military equipment, i forgot the name of the main manufacturer in the U.S , but CRT isn't going away anytime soon, important industries with infinite budgets dont need to care about profits and efficiency, they need reliability, and CRT's are still a lot more REALIABLE than liquids.

I would say they are already the vinyl of 2020's. Largely due to channels like this boosting awareness of them. It's now hard to find a large quality gaming CRT like the trinitron for free. Gamers have already snatched them up and are selling them for hundreds.