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| strawberry:
so fragile remembering days when you could play football against your TV |
| tooki:
Without even watching it: what's your point? A modern 4K or higher TV (or display) has better sharpness and far more resolution than was available at any price point during the CRT era, and do it at low cost and low weight. Yes, CRTs have some advantages (like any technology), but there's a reason we stopped making them. The very, very best CRT displays ever made could be pushed (beyond their published specs) to 2560x1920 dpi at 75Hz, but individual pixels were quite blurry at that point. And don't forget that CRTs have convergence and focus errors, various geometric distortion, etc. The best ones kept those things under control quite well, but they couldn't reach the absolute perfect geometry of flat panels. In other words: don't be a whiny curmudgeon. |
| james_s:
I watched the video, the problem with those monitors is the crappy USB-C connector that is flimsy and ends up tearing traces off the board. That's just a case of poor engineering, using a connector lacking sufficient mechanical strength. Regardless of the connector type, it should have ears with screws to hold it to the housing and take the mechanical load off the PCB. |
| rdl:
I bought some pretty expensive CRT monitors back in the day. Every single one had geometric distortion to some degree. I was very happy when LCDs became affordable. I tossed my last CRT in the trash while it still worked because it was too heavy to move. As I expected some enterprising dumpster diver snatched it before the next day. |
| james_s:
Perfect geometry is about the only advantage of LCD other than the weight and bulk, especially early LCD. CRTs still have superior color and contrast ratio even today, OLED is arguably better though. |
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