Ancient Trash or Gamer's Dream Display? Let's talk CRTs

Today, CRT Monitors and TVs might seem like ancient artifacts of another millennia, but some people (myself included) still cling to them. Why would someone want to use such boxy, heavy beasts as computer monitors? What benefits do they have to offer?

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[geraldundone]

I miss the static electricity that would make my arm hair stick to the screen and make that fun Pop Rocks sound.

[tyren]

man this is just depressing to see this tech die. Its so impressive.

[Jackpkmn]

My grandma said it was insane to hold onto my old Dell P990 19" CRT capable of 180hz at 640x480 but who's crazy now grandma? Oh it's me...

[harutechultrasound]

It's a shame that you can't find any repair store that will deal with CRTs. I live in Chile and I'm literally the last person left in my city that works on and repairs CRTs if the person's willing to pay for the spare parts to get it back up and running. I even solder back the VGA cables, it's not that hard really.

[OVERKILL_PINBALL]

Finally, someone that actually "gets it" when it comes to monitors. The ONLY reason I switched from CRT to LCD was because of widescreen support... If they made a widescreen CRT today, I couldn't give them my money fast enough!

[Perfidion]

I just miss the scaling. You could switch to any resolution you liked, provided it was supported, and the CRT was like, "Yeah, not a problem. I can do that." I love my giant LCD display, but I do wish it could scale down from native without looking like someone's smeared Vaseline all over the screen. I still play a bunch of older games on a CRT, because it just looks better.

[capp]

I no longer have any of my old CRT monitors, but definitely have plenty of experience with them. Worked at Best Buy before flat screens even came out, so I have a LOT of experience hoisting them heavy bastards up a ladder too lol

[HalkerVeil]

GTX 980 Ti with a CRT.
Once you truly see 240 fps there is no going back. *Edit:* (120hz x 2 interlaced, from Stereo CRT monitors for old shutter glasses.)

I also enjoy the extra radiation while playing Fallout.

[MetalGamer]

Digital Foundry recently covered CRTs with modern games. And they have that holy grail you talked about!

[BasiltheBatlord]

I came into this video as a skeptic, and you converted me to CRT fan. I was quite surprised to learn how advanced this old technology was in the early 2000s. What a great, informative video!

[TheOutsider]

Don't put a sign that says "Free" on it, no one will take it. You have to put like "$10" if you want someone to take it because they'll just steal it. If you say "free", no one will want it.

Trust me, I've gotten rid of enough stuff to know lol.

[f.m.f]

I actually asked my school's principal if I could have 5 of the supposedly junked CRTs, 2 fully functional IBM keyboards, and 2 IBM PC cases. (which I did get)

[ControlAllDa]

People forget the best thing about owning a CRT monitor, pressing the degauss button.

[MilkBreakMinecraft]

Someone in my neightbourhood left their old CRT by the side of the road. I am now using it to watch this video.

[Kodeb]

90s anime on a CRT monitor = peak comfy

[edm]

miss the crt days until I remember I held my 27" 4K monitor in one hand while I screwed in the vesa mounting screws with the other to the dual adjustable monitor arms :p

[brentboswell]

I witnessed a CRT implosion in the office one day...as a prank, someone dumped metal shavings through the air holes of a monster CRT monitor. The person turned on their monitor, and PLUNK!

[TripleMoonPanda]

Great video, I just recently picked up a nice Viewsonic CRT and I gotta say I've fallen in love with it and I'm starting to get a little obsessed. It's sad how rare even mediocre pc crt monitors are getting. It's like everyone has gotten rid of them and most of them are probably sitting in recycling centers just gathering dust. To bad they don't make them anymore I'm fearing the day mine breaks down and can't be repaired, speaking of which I guess I should start learning how to fix these things so I can keep one as long as possible.

[shadowflash]

The best part about CRTs isn't very low input lag but no image ghosting at all. If you'll play a game with high contrast fast moving objects most LCDs will give you blurry edges of those objects or some color "shadows" will be there. Which isn't the case for CRTs. No fixed resolution is the second best thing. 320x200 to 2048x1536 with image staying sharp - impossible for LCDs but any decent 21" CRT can do that.

[RinoaL]

Maybe i should open up a CRT repair shop... hrmm