Crt tvs broke all the time.

I think that's some major rose-colored-glasses thinking. They did break. A child with a magnet could also cause issues, at least on older ones (I say having been said child).

The way CRTs work is absolutely amazing. You're basically watching a ray gun shoot you and it's so quick it looks like a picture. It's an absolutely wild marvel of engineering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_ray_tube

the only way to have your privacy protected these days is to be in the epstien files.

CRTs did break. And they did suffer from burning.

Just buy a non-smart modern TV, you won't need a replacement and it won't connect to the internet.

"your TV needs to install an update, please connect to the internet", it says

how did it know it needed an update?

I am 60% sure I have seen this happen IRL

Spent a few days in an AirBnB with all LGTV's throughout the house. We never turned them on but today I go on Amazon and its now showing me adverts for the Airbed we briefly talked about in front of the TV -_-

Having to update my remote before I can mute the TV is not a problem I ever expected to have

But here we are

First question I asked myself when I saw it was, "Why does my TV have an update?"

I bought a TV to watch videos, not the other way around. Promptly disconnected that shit from the internet and it will stay that way.

CRT screens broke all the time.

"if you go reaching inside me I might just decide to kill you" -CRT

I truly despise that we stopped innovating on CRTs when flat panels came along.

i finally got mine out of storage and set up

it turned on 3 times and the kids got to see the static. they got to hear the super high pitched wine

but now it doesn't respond to anything 😭😭

I'll try to get it fixed one day 😓

Let's not pretend that crts ware better than modern TVs. The picture was shit, the ratio was 4:3 and they had the size and weight of a small car. I can deal with a little upgrade once in a while. And that's not even true as I haven't seen a TV that needs upgrades yet.

https://ca.pcmag.com/tvs/17188/yes-your-tv-is-spying-on-you-heres-how-to-stop-it

for anyone wanting to see where to shut down some features

Our TV was from the early '70s and when you turned it on if you weren't at least 10 ft back the hair would stand up on your arms. I'm sure that thing was definitely giving you a suntan.

Are there open source TVs?

I have an old flat screen tv that I bought from Best Buy in 2011. It is just a tv, no internet, no Bluetooth, just a tv, I still have it and it works perfectly. I finally decided to get a smart tv last summer that POS broke within a year and just after the warranty expired.

I don’t miss trying to figure out the often undocumented frequencies so X11 wouldn’t nuke them, and some CRTs were horrible, but games made for CRT on a nice Sony are like nothing else. I regret getting rid of my collection for a move.

They're not really radioactive, they emit some X Ray that is absorbed by the lead window that is in front, making them harmless.

Can't believe my mother sold ours for a dollar 😭🙏

Yeah except CRTs had terrible resolution per price. Also CRTs asplode - was terrified of them setting the house on fire. Also they radiated. (Old joke that doesn't translate well: They caused compli-, impli- and mutations). ALSO they're not really manufactured anymore, so yeah!