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Anonymous05/12/26, 10:37No.12566848CRTs
Why can't we bring them back? Retro gaming is bigger than ever and Vinyl/CDs are still alive. How hard would it be to resume CRT production in some factory somewhere?
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Anon05/12/26, 10:41No.12566852
Its lost technology nobody knows how to make them any more
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Anon05/12/26, 10:51No.12566861
we probably could make them still but it would be either poor quality or way too expensive,probably both.
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Anon05/12/26, 11:08No.12566883
It's already been discussed a thousand times, which the same arguments on both sides>Retro gaming is huge, someone could profit a lot from manufacturing new CRTs
>No, it's incredibly complicated and you need economics of scale, besides the knowledge is mostly lostOP, you should watch a documentary made about a CRT factory, there are ones at least for Sony and Philips. If you see what you have to do to make CRTs, you will understand why it wouldn't work with low demand
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Anon05/12/26, 11:33No.12566918
Over 50 years of research and development near completely lost. Recreating CRTs would be insanely expensive and difficult. CRTs are really hard to make.
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Anon05/12/26, 11:49No.12566935
What do you mean 'lost'? It's not like it's master craftsmen building them by hand who are dying one by one...CRT screen production hasn't been documented and archived extensively?
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Anon05/12/26, 11:53No.12566939
Is there any way to just make square shaped lcd tv's that are cheap and provide the same picture quality of crt?
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Anon05/12/26, 12:28No.12566997
What the fuck do i do if my CRT dies? I have a beautiful 32" Panasonic with component hook ups that would devastate me when it finally goes. Who even fixes these things anymore? I got it for 30$ and I think its from around 2005 so its relatively new
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Anon05/12/26, 12:45No.12567050
>Retro gaming is bigger than ever
Really? The PS2 is bigger now than when it was actually on the market?
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Anon05/12/26, 12:55No.12567093
>Why can't we bring them back?
Because "we" includes (You). An no one worth a pitcher or warm spit wants anything to do with you.
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Anon05/12/26, 13:13No.12567160
This entire thread is just a bunch of botted comments. Not a single human post in here.
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Anon05/12/26, 16:19No.12567464
I love my CRT. Looks amazing with S-video. but I admit some games with the right shaders and config, looks better on my OLED monitor.
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Anon05/12/26, 18:45No.12567687
The problem is the weight
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Anon05/12/26, 19:22No.12567721
>Retro gaming is bigger than ever
And the standarstandards are lower than ever. 99% of retro gamers just want mini consoles with HDMI and 1up arcade machines with LCD screens.Its the same reason DVD still outsells BD after 20 years, even though they own 4k tvs, they belive a composite cable from their 30 year old DVD player is "good enough". The masses are useless cunts.
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Anon05/12/26, 20:10No.12567809
They're just way too expensive to make on a consumer scale right down to the glass.They're also horribly inefficient with energy consumption.
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Anon05/12/26, 22:09No.12568041
They're pretty complicated analog electro-mechanical devices and restarting production is going to be prohibitively expensive for many reasons. The subsystems and components are also out of production, they use lots of copper, special chemicals, they have high internal voltages, etc. it's just not going to happen. These things are feasible only when made on large scales, it would be so much cheaper to just make a better flat screen with very fast image processing for composite and RF.Plus with 8K ultra high resolution TV's you should be able to simulate the scanline and 4:3 stretch effect near flawlessly.
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Anon05/12/26, 22:31No.12568097
It's an economies of scale thing. You need sufficient demand to spin up tube production.It might happen by the time we're all 50-60, that's what happened with boomers and tube amps for guitars.
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Anon05/12/26, 23:23No.12568193
It's simple math. The supply of used CRTs outpaces the demand for new ones.
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Anon05/12/26, 23:32No.12568207
Arcooda is coming out with another CRT-style LCD in a box. Better than previous company's attempts such as those shown in this thread. They are designed to mimic the design of a small Sony PVM.
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Anon05/13/26, 05:17No.12568520
they would never have been produced in the first place, if a better, more economical alternative had already existed and the only target audience would have been a few handfull of nostalgic grown ups who additionally care about technicallities and pixel-perfect replicas of some outdated technology. they were produced back then because the rightfully estimated target audience were like basically every single household.
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Anon05/13/26, 05:46No.12568547
It would take a large amount of effort and capital to begin production, so the price of sets would probably be quite high. Unless the quality were far better than vintage sets at a similar price point, there would be no reason to buy them, not to mention that they'd lack the retro cred that old sets have. Just think about it, a company could invest the many millions of dollars required to design new CRTs, set up and fine tune the production process, set up distribution channels, only for the reception to be that they're not worth the inevitable $2,000 price tag, so now they're stuck having to sell them at a discount to the point that the whole venture was a bust.
You'd basically need somebody like a Palmer Luckey who has a personal interest in their production and who has enough money to burn that they're willing to take the risk that the entire venture is a loss.
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Anon05/13/26, 06:10No.12568561
Do you zoomers ever ponder why not a single millennial or genXr wants anything to do with crt's, or even putting on fucking retarded screen filtering effects In emulators?Do these thoughts never occur to you?
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Anon05/13/26, 06:34No.12568601
Zoomers get obsessed about the weirdest shitNo one over 40 gives two fucks about crts
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Anon05/13/26, 06:57No.12568639
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Anon05/13/26, 06:58No.12568640
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Anon05/13/26, 07:13No.12568658
For me? It's being 40 years old and actually knowing more than you retards
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Anon05/13/26, 08:41No.12568760
Can we post some actual fucking CRT's please? Why do these threads always devolve into retards arguing with each other? Emulator fags fuck off, go to your own thread. This is supposed to be a CRT enjoyer thread, and you wouldn't get it. I am actually baffled at some of the absolute deliberate, mentally disabled shit I've been reading on here.
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Anon05/13/26, 13:14No.12569157
>Why can't we bring them back?
Leaded glass. You could do it! You just need to finance the creation of a specialized glass manufacturing plant. Everything else is comparatively child's play. Start a kickstarter! You'd just need a cool.... iunno.... fortune?
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Anon05/14/26, 02:38No.12570471
We wouldn't even need CRTs if we had SED and FED tvs.
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Anon05/14/26, 05:49No.12570739
For many Gen Xers, their first time viewing star wars was on broadcast tv, or VHS, on their tv.
According to your fucking retarded zoomer logic, this means the OT star wars movies should only be viewed on crts with scanlines and cropped ratios. Despite the fact it was shot on film in 35mmThis is how fucking stupid you people are.
This is how retarded your logic is.
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Anon05/14/26, 06:10No.12570761
You guys might want to hang out on /tv/ some more so you learn about this stuff
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Anon05/14/26, 06:46No.12570801
It's hilarious how zoomers can't admit crt =/= the actual image outputSiskel and Ebert had an entire episode hating on VHS tapes and even watching movies on HBO because of the bastardization of the viewing quality.
Just something you lil Z's will never understand
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Anon05/14/26, 07:03No.12570815
Nothing you've ever seen on a crt has been the way it is supposed to look. My generation knew that
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Anon05/14/26, 07:12No.12570819
I wonder if sitting 20" from these radiation emitters did any harm.
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Anon05/14/26, 07:18No.12570824
I Love Lucy, along with many other early television shows, were shot on high quality hi resolution 35mm film, their screen quality was greatly reduced for television, giving an almost night and day appearance. These prints easily could have been show in theatres. Watching on crt screens only have about 10% of the screen quality
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Anon05/14/26, 07:33No.12570856
Weird how there's never any scanlines when actual boomers use real hardware to recreate these games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6pK5on50A
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Anon05/14/26, 07:37No.12570861
i'm still not sure if /tv/-kun actually doesn't believe scanlines are a thing, or if he's just saying they aren't desirable.
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Anon05/14/26, 07:47No.12570896
Isn't it funny how no one over 30 gives two shits about scan lines and scan line emu filtering?
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Anon05/14/26, 07:50No.12570903
Can magnets actually damage tube TV's? I remember fooling around as a kid and the image would get distorted with a rainbow effect if you bring a magnet close to the screen, but is it just temporary or can you actually fuck it up if you put a magnet on top of a CRT for an hour or something?
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Anon05/14/26, 07:51No.12570905
No actual gen x'er/millennial likes scanlines, wants to recreate scanlines, or thinks scanlines are important in any way. That's not how the actual raw image looked, or was intended to look.Don't even @ me
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Anon05/14/26, 07:57No.12570913
this entire thread is the same 2 schizos calling others zoomers
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Anon05/14/26, 08:01No.12570916
>Why can't we bring them back?
CRTs were not cheap nor easy to make and none of the production lines are left, it would take a shitload of money to rebuild all the infrastructure needed to manufacture them again, and it's just not cost-effective considering how few people would care. Really, outside of the drop-in-the-ocean retro market nobody wants anything to do with CRTs anymore. It would be likely hundreds of billions wasted for no real reason.
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Anon05/14/26, 08:13No.12570928
>If raw video feed output results in crystal clear raw video feed>But for some reason you want to make it fuzzy and add blurry lines.... You MIGHT be a Zoomer!
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Anon05/14/26, 08:18No.12570941
imagine being married to this guy:
>wanting to relax and watch a nice movie
>husband goes RAAAHHH, the scanlines, pausing the movie each 2 minutes and disappears behind tv to fumble with some weird hdmi adapters and shit, sperging out, RAAAHHH, dont you see the scan lines
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Anon05/14/26, 11:45No.12571257
You don't notice the scaliness on CRT unless you're really close and looking for them.
Literally the best litmus test to weasel out stupid zoomies is the SQ
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Anon05/14/26, 15:34No.12571668
ITT: Pajeets argue with ChatGPT for hours
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Anon05/14/26, 15:58No.12571728
Crts like many pieces of tech are not made in one area, they require a whole chain of manufacturing often spread across the world to produce.
It would require a considerable demand or price to justify such a thing.
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Anon05/14/26, 20:01No.12572095
Has anyone had luck with Windows 11 detecting their crt as a secondary monitor? Bought a cheap composite to hdmi adapter and I'm not having any luck. Have a basic composite Toshiba crt.
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Anon05/15/26, 03:58No.12572660
whats a 20 incher I should be looking for? a Sony or Toshiba? kinda want to have one for my setup im planning
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Anon05/15/26, 04:55No.12572707
the last place where you're going to find niche options is in foundational supply chains. hardware manufacturers are so allergic to consumer choice and any inefficiency that it was impossible to find non matte gaming monitors before oled became a thing.
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Anon05/15/26, 06:55No.12572806
Most people like the new 4k smart TVs for all sorts of reasons. It is so much easier to find repair technicians for modern flat panels than CRTs. Believe me, I have tried for years, as I have two of these ready to make one amazing one and one backup, but no a single person around can perform such an operation. I've seen youtube videos of people modding regular TVs for RGB, and even with that public knowledge, no one would even dare try with my off-brand CRT TV. Even if you can get some Chinese company to resume production, there's nothing stopping them from encoding some underlying malicious chips intended to spy on you or outright scam everyone with the device/production. The money makes more sense in modern displays but there's hope as I've heard some brilliant engineers are recreating a Vectrex to sell, so maybe once they get that going they may tackle color.
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Anon05/15/26, 13:25No.12573207
never say never, vinyl records made a comeback for some reason even though CDs were superior in every aspect.
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Anon05/15/26, 18:34No.12573879
Years of hunting finally paid off. I finally found a 13" Sony Trinitron at Goodwill for $30. I'm over the moon, bros.
