Yeah, CRT’s are awesome in the right hands, not for watching Netflix
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Turret3857@infosec.pub 3 days agoI would take a CRT in a heartbeat. It makes watching 4:3 content feel right, especially older Star Treks.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
One thing I find crazy is that at least half of all monitors today are the same res as CRTs from a quarter century ago. I had a $250 no-name brand CRT that handled 1600x1200 quite beautifully in the 1990s.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Yup, and if having no use for one still means you don’t need one.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Allegedly it is good with vintage video games (e.g. NES). The weird idiosyncracies of CRTs were accounted for when developing the games.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Not allegedly, it’s quite true. CRT’s tech approach adds gradients, depth to the colors and softens sharp pixel corners. Any sprite based game will look richer on a CRT, but filters are eh 80% good enough
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
[This video](www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC-8y2R6IxI&t=6m30s] shows the difference quite neatly. (Timestamp included for Earthworm Jim)
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Daymn
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Not just NES; games were largely designed with CRTs in mind all the way through PS2/Xbox/Gamecube console generation!
Legitimately would love a decent CRT TV (and room for it) to be able to authentically play Point Blank again - light gun games of that era only work on CRTs.
frostysauce@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You just gonna ignore the poor Dreamcast like that?
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
My bad!
How could I literally forget Sega’s last, beautiful disaster? 🤦🏻♂️ I spent so much time playing Street Fighter III: Third Strike on it back in the day…