I like this so much. I don't know why but seeing technologies from different eras combined like this is like drugs to me.
I do too. One of my favorites was seeing someone playing fallout (don't remember which one. 3?) on an era appropriate TV.
I personally enjoy this stuff a lot because I'm someone who doesn't like to get rid of any tech. I still have all my old phones, consoles, TVs (I still frequently use a 720p plasma). I like seeing old stuff get repurposed and continuing to work.
There’s not really a great word for it either. Vaporwave became a “cope” for like technology out of time. Apparently this is a nickname for the trope but I don’t like it: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SchizoTech. Schizo tech to me is just literally doomscrolling TikTok while ignoring everything around you
If it weren't for burnin, i'd like to have a console tv in my office setup as a second screen.
I actually own a widescreen CRT with an HDMI input. Its resolution is 720x480 though. It was referred to as an “Enhanced Definition” TV.
Still got my Sony Wega
Never going to to sell it, mainly because I don't want to ever pick it up again
This is how my first pc was set up!! Had some funky video card with a cable 'out' or something like that.
I had a Linux NAS connected to a huge CRT tv in a rental apartment (namely huge in the depth dimension). Had to buy a specific video card with an S-Video output. Watched films on it while tugging strings on a guitar.
P.S. Fun story, there was also a 60s-70s tv full of vacuum tubes just dumped on the balcony. I posted on the local forum, two guys replied, and both shown up together to haul the tv off and divide it between them.
Another time, a roommate left a CRT monitor with me, while I was already using laptops for everything. I drove it in my car to the nearest recycling point, at which a stranger intercepted me and said he'd gladly take it away for his son to tinker on.
Son to tinker on💀
I hope his son knows about the huge capacitor
Dad found out about it, but his son never did.
Watched films on it while tugging
This sentence did not end the way I expected.
I have device that converts hdmi to rca connectors. I do this for my wife console in our bedroom so she could cast.
For things that are "hmmm".
Rule 1: All post titles except for meta posts should be just plain "hmmm" and nothing else, no emotes, no capitalisation, no extending it to "hmmmm" etc.
