Go for a cheaper LaCie or a Diamondtron Dell and laugh in the face of the dorks paying American healthcare-money for a banged up CRT display with a tube burned to cinders.Welp, there goes my last hope of ever getting an FW900 for a reasonable price :/
I honestly would have preferred if they didn't mention the model. It's like people checking out r/crtgaming for the first time and immediately only wanting a D24 or 20L5, driving the already ridiculous prices way up.
I already have a LaCie Blue IV, and did own a D24 that I since sold. Now I'm mostly using a 20F1E and got myself a 65" LG OLED C8 off the D24 money, lol.Go for a cheaper LaCie or a Diamondtron Dell and laugh in the face of the dorks paying American healthcare-money for a banged up CRT display with a tube burned to cinders.
HDMI is getting VRR on Nvidia .Just upgraded to a 144hz ips 1440p and I'm good. Like it's a huuuuge step up from a VA panel just for the colors. And then running doom at 142fps is nuts. It does have HDR but now I again have the conundrum of having to choose between gsync and HDR. Can't do both at the same time.
Same problem as my last monitor which I assumed this one would solve as it is freesync 2.
Didn't know gsync was display port only.
May end up swapping my 2070 for a 5700xt. Would rather have freesync and HDR than rtx.
Even better view:While we're on the topic at hand, does anyone remember this?
I can't even imagine how that would look in 1995.
It is really hard to find a decent CRT TV or monitor these days.
I have a mid-low range 21" Trinitron (I used to play on a bottom range 14" as a kid) that I got from my parents and I only keep it for Sega Saturn's Virtua Cop 2. Being PAL and a model not capable of accepting 60 Hz signals (I think Dreamcast's 60Hz mode didn't work on it) can this realistically be used to connect a modern console or is this limited to playing PC games (which I hardly ever do)? It has SCART but I ignore if it even matters.A good Trinitron TV in good shape (of which are plenty) with RGB inputs offer great display quality for console and low res gaming. Even a cheapy 26" Samsung CRT with a SCART connector will do just fine. Computer monitors are even easier to score. Both are excellent alternatives for their respective uses.
It's easy to forget but yes CRT was always better than the LCDs and plasmas at the time.
How would you go about connecting a PS4/X1 to a CRT?
I'd be quite interested to check out it for myself, if I can find one on the cheap and it's cables to connect the consoles aren't too expensive either.
B&O sets may be even better than Sony PVM/BVM monitors on account of being in fantastic shape, generally speaking. They were "prestige" tvs for videophiles that never got a lot of play hours, come with a large number of inputs (I believe some really late models even had an VGA port) and the included speakers blew away those of any consumer-grade TV. A 4:3 B&O in good condition is terrific for retrogaming.
Does this introduce any noticeable lag? What is the price range of a "decent" one?HDMI to VGA adapters.
Make sure to get a decent quality one and not something that's like 2$ on Amazon.
The DF video is about PC monitors though, and specifically about the high refresh rates and motion clarity you can get from them.I loved my old Plasmas tbh the quality of the picture and colours on my Panasonic Plasma was stunning (I wished I never sold it) . I don't really agree with DF on this matter. I still have my old Philips Matchline 32 inch TV but just don't use it, not even for my classic consoles. I happier these days, with my 65 LG Oled with its HDR and lovely big screen and none of the issues of weight or size of the back of the unit. Like one got/gets with CRT.
Can you explain those advantages so an idiot (me) could understand?
Does this introduce any noticeable lag? What is the price range of a "decent" one?
Let me tell you about the NEC XM29.
I know somebody who got two mint units from the storage room of some video production house. One of them still wrapped. And for cheap, apparently.
That's mortgage payment money on resale.
How would you go about connecting a PS4/X1 to a CRT?
I'd be quite interested to check out it for myself, if I can find one on the cheap and it's cables to connect the consoles aren't too expensive either.
My family owned a B&O CRT up to 2009, and I remember my brother playing Uncharted 1 on it after I had completed it on a 60" Pioneer plasma, I was completely blown away how good it looked.Was in a charity shop recently and they had one of those Bang & Olufsen CRT TV's in there (in its "built in" stand), couldnt believe it, never seen one in them (most told me they dont take them as they take up too much space and hard to sell), looked at it, £150, thought no-one is going to pay that ....... then I saw a sold sticker on it. Fuck sake.
Thanks!Doesn't need to rescale image for different resolutions, CRT's do not have a "native resolution", contrast levels are way better, blacks are fantastic, colour depth is great with 24-bit per pixel resolution, and likewise greyscale is superb, also doesn't need gamma correction. Response times are practically nonexistent, no motion artifacts/blur. Same with display lag.
Reading up on Microled, it should do waaaaay better on a lot of these (response time, display lag, blacks).
me too but i believe new crt production is effectively banned under environmental nonsense, even if some company wanted too, they cant. since they use more power/more toxic materials/whatever than lcd...
CRT displays are still being produced in limited quantities for mission critical applications and legacy systems of the kind you really don't want to fuck with.The manufacturing plants were decommissioned and the equipment scrapped. I'm sure the engineers that really knew how to make a great CRT have also probably retired by now too. The used screens that are still out there are the only ones you'll ever get.
Nah don't be too worried about burn in. Just use it. 2018+ are good for keeping burn in away.Thanks!
I bought a super nice OLED not too long ago and I love it but I'm aware of input lag at least. And I'm always terrified of burn in. Sometimes it ghosts so easily. D:
The DF video is about PC monitors though, and specifically about the high refresh rates and motion clarity you can get from them.
Just to remind you, Radeons still don't support fressync over HDMI [yet].May end up swapping my 2070 for a 5700xt. Would rather have freesync and HDR than rtx.
How would you go about connecting a PS4/X1 to a CRT?
I'd be quite interested to check out it for myself, if I can find one on the cheap and it's cables to connect the consoles aren't too expensive either.
Probably priced way out of the consumer market though if that's the case.CRT displays are still being produced in limited quantities for mission critical applications and legacy systems of the kind you really don't want to fuck with.
Kind of like America's nuclear arsenal is still dependent on ancient computers that require a constant supply of floppy disks and drives.
Older LCD was such a struggle.
I cringe whenever I see some poor soul fitting some ancient 4:3 display on a bartop to play classic arcade games.
No. Just no.