'You just can't recreate that glow': The people who hunt old TVs
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They are televisions from another era, replaced by the flat screen, high-resolution displays of the modern era. Yet cathode-ray tubes are still surprisingly in demand.
  • SkabySkalywag@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Slightly off topic from crt nostalgia:

    I do miss the older ‘dumb’ flat screens. Feels like all devices, but specially tvs, are spying on us by default. It’s an exhausting privacy arms race with my home network against ads or tracking.

    • Luccus@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I once got myself a small projector. It ran on Android. I didn’t want to connect it to my network. Unfortunately, an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot would sometimes pop up nearby, which the damn thing would connect to in order to download ads and bother me with nonsense.

      The workaround was to give it Wi-Fi, but block the internet connection in the router. The solution was to throw it away. Malicious little fuck.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      2 months ago

      In most respects, CRTs were technically worse, but a lot of video game art was designed around their characteristics, optimized for them, and thus can appear better on a CRT. We can — and do — try to emulate CRT quirks on LCDs/LEDs to varying degrees, but we’re always going to be just approaching what a CRT looked like.

      https://wackoid.com/game/10-pictures-that-show-why-crt-tvs-are-better-for-gaming/

      Final Fantasy 6:

      Castlevania: Symphony of the Night:

      Final Fantasy 7:

      Things like blurriness are a limitation in the fidelity of the display, true enough, but in the context of material optimized for that display, it can be a positive rather than a negative.