The cathode ray tube needs a warm glow return. HD is overrated?

Appliances should be beautiful. Why aren’t built like that anymore?

Pixels art games objectively look better on CRT.

BigBooty CRT has a vibe that cannot be matched by flatscreens.

CRT still lives in the form of projectors.

Written by Paul Shaffer and Dan Aykroyd, it features Laraine Newman, Jane Curtin, and Gilda Radner performing a girl-group-style song about how televisions worked in the 1970s. The lyrics humorously explain cathode ray tubes, includes a chroma-key background of the SNL control room.

Almost every late-model CRT Computer Monitor, is capable of 'HD' resolutions. The legendary Sony FW900 was 2304 x 1440. Sadly, the most impressive quality about CRTs, will never be seen in the consumer space again... CRTs do not 'buffer' or 'process' any data. They're 0 latency.

NGL - I don't miss CRTs at all. I also don't miss VHS, cassette and 8-track tapes, or vinyl records. (But sometimes they did come with some pretty cool artwork.) I also don't miss the telegraph, although I did learn Morse code as a Boy Scout.

Cool

Looks nice

I do not miss crt's.

My 9500LC looked good with HD

I still own about 10 crt tvs and pc monitors. I use the monitors all the time with retro gaming.

We had a Business Basic CRT and after a while "Ready?" was burned into the screen. "Ready?" was the basic prompt.

OK, stupid question time, "Could they actually make an HD CRT?"

My daughter agrees, she found one of these out thrifting and was so excited. 😁

I just LOVE old "high tech."

I think you may be conflating two different things. CRT's can be HD no problem. Try hanging a 75" CRT on the wall. The radiation coming off that CRT is probably not great either.

Agree, I miss the CRT. HD CRT’s did exist though.

July 1976 SNL did a skit and sang a song “Cathode Ray”. I tried to find it. Might have to ask Grok.

Agreed.

There are so many cool people out there creating awesome things, many of which we know nothing of… Many who could be, if they could afford it.

It's interesting, but anime isn't the best choice to compare it to HD's resolutions and quality. Anime will look good almost in any format. BTW my favorite animation movie ever is Howl's Moving Castle, a true masterpiece.

I took a Bell & Howell correspondence course in the mid-70s. Built my instruments (digital tube voltmeter & crt oscilloscope) as part of the class and then used them to test the 25" color tube TV that I built for my final. Good old CRTs....

Y e s .

Absolutely not! hundred of reasons - safety - electron beams, RF radiation, secondary Al ionization...weight, , dimensions, power...precision - you can make HD TV low fi, but can't make CRT HD!

Maybe a good compromise was plasma?

For a while there I had a retro CRT emulator on in bash on my Linux box. It would have an amber, or green hue and warping effects at the edges, depending on settings. It was fun.

I would only use it to watch old tv shows, movies and video games. Shrek is a movie that looks awful in HD.

Make TVs heavy again.

Woah Slow down there buddy Even I agree But cathode?

I remember in my childhood that we had to turn on the TV a few minutes before start watching so it would heat up. Two channels. Black and white only.

my mother had that clamshell tv on her kitchen table in the 80s-90s

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Until you try and watch sports. HD is the only way to go.