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[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 147 points 11 months ago

People now pretending that these box tvs were great is hilarious.

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

What was wrong with them? They served their purpose just fine for many years

[-] marx2k@lemmy.world 103 points 11 months ago

The weighed a ton, they were limited in size, their resolution was terrible, they sucked down electricity...

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 56 points 11 months ago

Their screen was curved the wrong way until they released flat screen TVs

4:3 resolution meant you lost some of the content from movies or you watched them with black bars

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

Except movies keep changing so now if you want imax at home you need 4:3.

Whatever isn't available at home is what movies will change to to keep themselves unique.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

Widescreen has been the movie industry standard for how many decades now? IMAX is its own beast but most movies aren't filmed in real IMAX resolution and now there's digital IMAX which is basically 19:10 which is the same as many TVs...

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[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

We had four channels and loved it!

And most people were lucky to have a TV. You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!

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[-] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

They make a high pitched whine

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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 9 points 11 months ago

Are you serious?

  • Curved (the wrong way)
  • Massively heavy
  • Noise (just from the unit itself
  • Very low resolution
  • Noticably hot (might be a benefit in the winter)
  • Small picture, especially relative to weight
  • Depending how far back you go, no/shitty remote, only has 1 port for video
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[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 11 months ago

Sometimes I think about how some technologies could have evolved if they didn't get out of fashion. I always thought it's a bit unfair to compare products made decades ago with new ones and use it as a comparison for the whole technology.

In the case of crts, it would be totally possible to make them with modern aspect ratio and resolutions. The greatest challenges would probably be size, weight and power consumption.

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[-] new_guy@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

They were great until you had to move them. They were clunkier than a sofa because they had no place to hold and weighted as much as a refrigerator

[-] Maiznieks@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

They did break, You know? My father fixed those things, it's that they were actually fixable back then and it was cool. Or maybe it was just russian tech that broke, we lived in one of those ussr sattellite countries.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 21 points 11 months ago

Stupid false nostalgia, just like the old c10 pickup trucks. They are rare now because they are SHIT and nearly all of them were scrapped like they deserve.

Yes, but... Counter point:

They are so god damn good looking.

[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 months ago

And god help you if you are even in a car accident

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Gotta put a lot of work and/or money into one to make it look that good, but point taken.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My '96, quarter-million-mile Ford fuckin' Ranger is still running. I love it partly because it's shit. It's incredibly cheap, it hauls stuff, and I don't have to care about it. Similarly, anybody coveting a C10 knows exactly what they're getting into.

Also, I've still got a CRT TV in my back room and a couple of CRT monitors stored in the basement. I'm well aware that they're not as good as my LCD TVs and monitors in every single way, except that they're good for accurate retrogaming, so I keep them around for that purpose and that purpose only. (I'm also under no delusion of them lasting 50 years, contrary to the meme.)

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 points 11 months ago

My ‘96, quarter-million-mile Ford fuckin’ Ranger is still running.

FFR Member Checking in! 1993 SuperCab with the 4.0l V6 and twin sticks!

[-] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Mine also has a manual transmission and lever-operated 4x4 transfer case, but is a regular-cab 2.3L.

I picked it on purpose because I wanted the most efficient 4x4 truck I could find, but now (with kids and with towing/hauling more than commuting) I'd be better off with one like yours.

[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 7 points 11 months ago

Moving those CRTs from one place to another is arduous.

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

The fear of having to walk under a mounted crt every time I went in and out of my room was real... 😂

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago
[-] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Umm... How? There should be vacuum inside.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 3 points 11 months ago

Okay, so technically CRTs implode, but the result of the implosion can be an explosion. What happens with a CRT implosion is that the the glass gets sucked into the back of the tube with so much force it'll bounce off the back of the tube and come out the front. So they kinda implode and explode. Combine that with the glass being leaded and there's a reason you really shouldn't go out smashing CRTs.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The vaccum craved A I R

[-] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Nostalgia is a powerful thing.

Do I think crt's are better? No. Do I miss them? Yes.

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