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I remember CRTs being washed out, heavy, power hungry, loud, hot, susceptible to burn-in and magnetic fields… The screen has to have a curve, so over ~16" and you get weird distortions. You needed a real heavy and sturdy desk to keep them from wobbling. Someone is romanticizing an era that no one liked. I remember the LCD adoption being very quick and near universal as far as tech advancements go.

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Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
As someone who still uses a CRT for specific uses, I feel that you’re misremembering the switch over from CRT to LCD. At the time, LCD were blurry and less vibrant than CRT. Technical advancements have solved this over time.

Late model CRTs were even flat to eliminate the distortion you’re describing.

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- Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I had a flat CRT. It was even heavier than a regular one.
  
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  - Soggytoast@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    They’re under a pretty high vacuum inside, so the flat glass has to be thicker to be strong enough
    
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    Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah I suspect there’s some lensing going on in there too which adds more weight.
    
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  - Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    yeah my parents had a trinitron, that thing weighed a whole cattle herd. The magnetic field started failing in the later years so one corner was forever distorted. It was an issue playing Halo because I couldn’t read the motion tracker (lower left)
    
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- rothaine@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Resolution took a step back as well, IIRC. The last CRT I had could do 1200 vertical pixels, but I feel like it was years before we saw greater than 768 or 1080 on flat screen displays.
  
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- sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Sure, but they were thin, flat, and good enough. The desk space savings alone was worth it.
  
  I remember massive projection screens that took up half of a room. People flocked to wall mounted screens even though the picture was worse.
  
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deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I miss the <thunk> sound of the degaussing function.

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- UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Schdoing !
  
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ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
There was always push back in esports

Smash uses CRTs today because of how much pushback there was/is

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- WldFyre@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Melee uses CRTs because it’s an old ass game lol
  
  Ultimate is not played on CRTs
  
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  - ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    They don’t have to use them, it’s a choice
    
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