How CRT TVs Disappeared Without You Realizing it | Mini Documentary

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  @bennykrebschristensen5215 · 1 year ago

  I am watching this video on a CRT tv no joke.

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  @MetalTiger88 · 1 year ago

  the sad part is that many crt's got destroyed over the last two decades, but new ones aren't produced. so eventually this piece of technology will be forgotten...

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  @mymarci · 1 year ago

  I remember how you could hear that high pitch noise from those tv's when you passed a house, especially on calm nights in the summer and the windows were open.

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  @lukedavis436 · 1 year ago

  The digital Tv switchover is what i blame for deleting at least 65 percent of Britain's CRTs

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  @crestofhonor2349 · 1 year ago

  It is false that LCDs had better image quality than CRTs. CRTs actually had significantly better image quality thanks to much better colors in both accuracy and color volume, infinite viewing angles, much better contrast, and motion clarity. Early LCDs, the ones that replaced CRTs, simply had pretty terrible image quality. HD CRTs especially showed this as well and didn&apos;t have the whine of the old SD CRTs. Once you paired up a CRT with RGB, Component, or even the rare HDMI equipped CRT, it was clear that CRTs had far better image quality. In fact I heard a lot of people did complain that their old DVDs and VHS looked terrible on their shiny new LCDs of the time compared to their old TVs<br><br>The reality is that people just wanted thin and lighter displays and that trumped image quality for most consumers. Personally I hate old LCDs for these very reasons even though I was a kid by the time CRTs were being replaced in the mid 2000s. In my house we never really got rid of the CRTs, we just put most them into storage in the house and used one HD CRT as our main set up until 2019. It did and still does look fantastic for both image quality and it was replaced with a 4K Sony TV. Other than that I am just used to using CRTs so not having one, even now in 2024, would be very weird to me.

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  @KittyTheCat_ · 1 year ago

  I remember getting rid of my previous CRT, probably only because my dad dropped it on his toes 💀

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  @betfoyet · 1 year ago

  I have 4 CRTs. My neighbors decided to place them on the curve and I rescued them.

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  @tomcarlson3913 · 1 year ago (edited)

  What really killed CRTs was the DTV transition. Most people weren&apos;t smart enough to understand that you could keep using them with a converter box (or they were but didn&apos;t want the hassle). When it happened CRTs were mostly gone from stores and there were few DTV capable CRT sets, and even fewer HD-CRTs available, so most consumers who wanted a H-DTV just grabbed an HD-LCD and a mass CRT E-Waste event ensued.

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  @MitchellAzevedo · 1 year ago

  In my game room I have 7 CRTs from 20&quot; to 36&quot; set up and running 27 different OEM retro game systems. Long Live the CRT!

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  @Tech_481 · 1 year ago

  I love my CRT. I just upgraded my parents CRT to an LCD last year and they appreciated it and I appreciated taking there Sony for myself hahw

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  @Shadaole · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m a photographer and still using CRT as my secondary monitor for color grading.

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  @Bleats_Sinodai · 1 year ago

  I still have my childhood Semp Toshiba TVC-102, and around mid pandemic, I got 3 others - 2x 10&quot; Toshibas and 1x 5&quot; portable TVs - from a neighbor across the street throwing old stuff out, and more recently my uncle gave me a vintage &quot;Pong&quot; console and another 5&quot; portable TV alongside it. They all work.

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