CRT TVs

[Pentium4]

Re: CRT TVs

My honest opinion (ask and you shall receive) is that CRTs are a waste of time. I do agree that low quality/early LCDs can not compete with high quality CRTs. But any decent LCD is a better option than a CRT. It's less harmful for your eyes, uses less space, uses less power, is safer to work on, is easier to lift and move, and usually has better inputs (VGA is crap at higher resolutions).

Haha, you make good points. To each their own though, the same things could be said about your old chevy truck (regardless of how cool that thing is!)

The awful whine! MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!

It aint so bad, and it'll get better once your loud dubstep damages your ears some more
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I won't touch a Can't Read This display with a 10 foot pole nowadays. I can't stand how bulky and heavy they are, and electricity here is extremely expensive.

Eh, I never had such issues with reading on CRT computer displays. But I've always been more drawn to CRT TVs rather than computer CRTs. Moving them is a good workout though!

how can any engineer not like something that has an anode cap with a BIG red wire on it!

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[stj]

Re: CRT TVs

how can any engineer not like something that has an anode cap with a BIG red wire on it!

[c_hegge]

Re: CRT TVs

I won't touch a Can't Read This display with a 10 foot pole nowadays. I can't stand how bulky and heavy they are, and electricity here is extremely expensive.

[goontron]

Re: CRT TVs

The awful whine! MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!

[shovenose]

Re: CRT TVs

My honest opinion (ask and you shall receive) is that CRTs are a waste of time. I do agree that low quality/early LCDs can not compete with high quality CRTs. But any decent LCD is a better option than a CRT. It's less harmful for your eyes, uses less space, uses less power, is safer to work on, is easier to lift and move, and usually has better inputs (VGA is crap at higher resolutions).

Oh, and many CRTs make a terrible whining noise that drives me crazy.

It has been many, many years since I have used a CRT for more than a few seconds to test that it works.

In my situation I'd throw them in the truck and e-waste recycle them at work. Actually, no, scrap that, I would never accept them in the first place. But if I was helping somebody move, fine, throw them in the truck, park it by the road, put the tailgate down, display the TVs with a big "FREE WORKS", and wake up the next morning hoping the TVs are gone but the tailgate isn't

[Pentium4]

For whatever reason I've always had a fascination with CRTs. I think they're much more interesting than LCD units. Maybe because I can't believe how long they've been around, and I just think the way it displays a picture is ingenious. Electron guns being aimed by a coil and painted onto a phosphor mask using only 3 colors?! COOL!

I've always loved the clear colors, and the non existent response time of the display. Electricity is cheap here, so I don't really care about the extra cost. I'd like other members here to throw in their opinion on CRT displays, and if anyone else here is still using them. How come they are so reliable? They run hotter than LCDs yet tend to last so much longer. Is this because so much research has gone into them over the century that they have been around? Or is it the fact that planned obsolescence coincides with the "boom" of LCD production?

I'm down in California helping my grandparents move, and they offered me two of their old CRT TVs. I think they are both really awesome but can only take one due to space. One is a 25" Zenith made in October, 2000. The other is a really neat 21" unit from Emerson Radio manufactured in January, 1987. Both work perfectly! Despite the Zenith having a 4" bigger display, it is only 1/2" deeper than the Emerson and is only rated to use 5W more. I plan to use either one of them up at my place.

I really like the customizable knobs on the Emerson, but it only has Antenna in, and it's very old. Still pretty awesome to see the thing still working though!

The Zenith was probably made by LG, since Zenith closed the last of their USA factories in 1998. The only capacitors I could actually see in there were Chemi-Con SMG with 2000 date codes. When I shine a flashlight through the side, I can see "MADE IN USA" on the tube itself, with UL31254, which doesn't turn up anything. I've heard about Zenith tubes going bad (ones made after 1993) is this something I should be very worried about? I'll be honest, I'm terrified of working on a CRT display!

There are some pictures attached, the last one is a zoomed up picture of the lines where you can see the red, green, and blue firing. Very neat!