Old CRTs are probably the best thing for Retro gaming since they offer no input lag. Also Light guns (Yes I know you can use Light guns on LCDs by hacking the game to introduce delay but that doesn't work on all light guns).
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Kid me (from the 90s) was so jealous of my grandma who had a TV in every room. Now I don't even have a TV. I just watch stuff on the the laptop.
I remember a calibrated monitor needing two men for moving.
It was because of the shielding on the entire back.
I used to live in a 3rd floor walk-up, and when my TV blew out, I had the money to buy a really big one. It didn't occur to me that I would have to drag that boat anchor up 3 flights. It took a while, with rests on the landings, but I finally got it up there.
In the summer sometimes, we would camp in the garden, take the TV and the PlayStation to the tent, pull a long extension cords from the garage, play all night. Good times, good times.
good fucken times!!
This guy is an amateur. Everyone knows it's easier to carry with the screen facing your torso. Sheesh
That's definitely the method. Screen presses against your belly and lift with your knees while a concerned person behind you keeps asking you if you're sure you don't need help with that 👍
I GOT IT!!!
Are you sure? It looks heavy?
If you want to help, get the cord...
Is it on the left or the right?
The right.
Your right or my right?
The side with all the wires!
Oh, that's -my- right!
WE'RE FACING THE SAME DIRECTION!!!
You really need to manage the cord before this becomes a thing at all, smh that's how TVs die
Me heaving my 17 inch CRT computer monitor into the car to go play games via ~~local~~ LAN all night at my friends.
play games via local LAN all night at my friends
I dunno what it was like for everyone else but it always felt like 90% of my time during these was trying to sort out compatability issues and so we'd end up just pissing around. Still great fun that I look back fondly on though!
Two days of installing and bug fixing, half a day of gaming.
If you did it with the same friends more often, you got into the groove and everyone had the correct crossover cables, and the setup memorised.
But there Was always that one guy that never got it running.
Yeah, same when we were still using those old style cables, the one where you have the T plugs to put everyone on the line. Once we switched to the newer cables it went better.
For our LAN parties we would always help our fellow players carry their stuff and set everything up. Except for monitors. Everyone carries their own. You want to be fancy with 19 inches? Sure, but you carry that yourself!
Good ol local local area network
It's 'Local area LAN network'. Didn't they teach you anything in school?
Gonna use my PIN number to get a bit of cash from the ATM machine.
I prefer wide local area network.
Actually now I’m curious. Could you do a lan game over a cell connection? Do carriers isolate devices?
Today TIL.
RIP in peace.
Shaking my smh head, laughing my lmao off
Ours was one of those really old ones built into a wooden box. I say wood, but I'm fairly sure it was actually a mix of wood, lead, and neutron star.
Yeah, that broken thing is still here.
We can not move out.
It's now a 'fixture'
Sell it for 20 bucks and make sure they bring friends to help them. Only one will show up and had no idea of what they were getting themselves into they're super weak, but it's better than just 2 of you.
Ehhh we use it to hold the actual working TV so it's not the worst it's there.
It'll be a problem for future people!
and neutron star.
Akshually u mean quark gluon plasma
Trinitron TV's man .... Awesome TV but the price is your back!
*Triniton
That's why you needed the rolling TV cart. The one that had a bunch of VHS tapes and SNES games piled up all out of order in the bottom
Lets get a heavy piece of expensive electronics, put it at the top of 5ft tall rickety and narrow cart, and then stick it in a room full of children.
It's amazing more kids weren't crushed by those things.
That was the one at school, the one I meant looked kind of like this:
I think I got it in like 1997 when I was still in highschool and had it until well after I had graduated from college lol
Stairs: exists
DAS ROLLING CART DOES NUTZING!
Source: 2000 me, buying my first TV, 27" flat CRT. Upstairs bedroom. Distorted picture. Exchanged, even worse. Returned, bought different model. Total garbage. Returned, back to the first model from a different store... damn near perfect. Still have it.
In college, a friend of mine had a TV whose picture would mess up every so often, and the solution was to take it in the hallway and drag up and then back down the hall by the power cord. Then, when set up again, it would work again.
There was never an explanation, that I know of, for why. Presumably there was some simpler method that would have achieved the same result but no one was interested in that.
Also in college, I had a "gaming" CRT that I refused to let die. Towards the end of it's life, it wouldn't turn on if the temperature got too low. But would work fine if I "preheated" it in the oven. Once it was on it would stay on.
It rocked on nearly a year like that until I decided to smoke a bowl while it warmed up and came back to monitor shaped blob.
How big is your oven?
Approximately CRT sized
CRT? You were probably generating enough static electricity to do the electron realignment thing that they usually have a button to do.
THUNK
Woooomwmwmwmwmwmwmmmmm clear picture
CRT, yes. I really hope that static electricity was the explanation honestly. I sort of always assumed that it was just tilting it forward jiggled something around back into place, something stupid like that, but they swore that was the only thing that worked. It would please me greatly to think that they were right and the dragging across carpet was actually a vital component that they had figured out.
Our old CRT tv would all of a sudden go full volume at random and the only way to fix it to go back to a normal volume level was to smack the side of the tv.
I owned a computer for a while for which the standard startup procedure involved smacking it hard on the top to make sure everything was seated right.
Back then everything was made of metal, and it was an ugly white color, and we hit our computers if they weren't doing what we wanted. We all knew what our ports and IRQs were. It was great days.
As someone whose job it was to fix other people's computers when they borked the IRQs, before the days of drivers being widely available online... I can't say it was all that fun from my end.
Anyone else ever flip their huge CRT TV sideways for Ikaruga on the GameCube? I literally had the one shown in the meme and had to devise a way to keep it from rolling back, since the edges on the sides were NOT designed to be used that way 🤣
I started work at a place that gave us single CRT monitors and expected us to do programming on them. I scoffed at the suggestion, ordered a Dell LCD monitor in the days when you had to mess around with screws and XF86Config to remount it vertically, and made for myself a 2-monitor setup with all the code on the vertical monitor on the side. I am not trying to brag when I say that I instantly became the alpha nerd of the office.