CRT Enjoyer Thread - CRTs >>>>> Everything else.

[xXEddie.DurellXx]

Im looking at a Sony Trinitron KV-32hv600 CRT TV Television 32" and I'm wondering if it's a good model or not thought I'd ask here first

 

[BallsMcLongDong]

Im looking at a Sony Trinitron KV-32hv600 CRT TV Television 32" and I'm wondering if it's a good model or not thought I'd ask here first

Honestly, really not bad. It depends on the price. I just picked up a free samsung widescreen dynaflat of the era and repaired it. The old HD crt models are pretty decent for ps2 era and back, but where they really fucking shine is with the wii/360/ps3 era. They look so fucking good on it. Not to mention, if you can find the secret maintenance mode, you can really dial those sony WEGAs in.
Glad to find this thread. I'm a older tech dork. I just finished building my garage theater. Have an 8 ft by 6 ft pull down screen, a nice projector that does both 4:3 and 16:9 (and 14:8 and 14:9, what the fuck), has S-Video, component, composite and HDMi along with the other computer stuff like vga and DVI. Behind the pulldown, I have my retro setup. A 13 inch sony BVM wired into a 13 inch panasonic PVM, wired into that samsung widescreen. All my consoles and laserdisc and vhs and all that fun stuff. Thing is mint. My living room TV is an 80's era RCA CRT wood monolith home centerpiece retard box that weighs 400 pounds. Wired it up to accept HDMI and other modern connectors. Have it wired into my wife's grandpas home stereo system I was given to repair when he passed.
We mostly use the living room for big dumb loud movie nights, but now that the theatre is finished, that'll be where we go.

 

[Ayana Otonashi]

got a big ass JVC I'art 32' that my parents have had around forever, shit's so good. I also have a small Sansui that has a built in VCR which is cool too.

 

[Quijibo69]

CRT look good for the stuff that was made for it. Play a Laserdisc or a tape on a flat screen and it looks like ass.

 

[PhoBingas]

The day that CRT kicks the bucket will probably end my interest in retro collecting. There's no point in playing retro games on anything but a CRT.

It's been a bitch of a time finding a CRT in my patch of frozen canuck shithole. Maybe I'd have better luck on facebook marketplace, but years ago my account got "hacked", and now I need to scan an ID to make a new facebook or get my old one back.
I've checked everywhere, pawn shops, thrift stores, used electronics places. I'd really rather not go to another city just to get a CRT TV I did manage to snag a 3:4 small flatscreen, but it's just not the same.

 

[Battlefield42]

It's been a bitch of a time finding a CRT in my patch of frozen canuck shithole. Maybe I'd have better luck on facebook marketplace, but years ago my account got "hacked", and now I need to scan an ID to make a new facebook or get my old one back.
I've checked everywhere, pawn shops, thrift stores, used electronics places. I'd really rather not go to another city just to get a CRT TV I did manage to snag a 3:4 small flatscreen, but it's just not the same.

Mine is getting taken over by a gen a retard. Nigger doesn't realize that there are people out there with the same name as him

 

[Ayana Otonashi]

It's been a bitch of a time finding a CRT in my patch of frozen canuck shithole. Maybe I'd have better luck on facebook marketplace, but years ago my account got "hacked", and now I need to scan an ID to make a new facebook or get my old one back.
I've checked everywhere, pawn shops, thrift stores, used electronics places. I'd really rather not go to another city just to get a CRT TV I did manage to snag a 3:4 small flatscreen, but it's just not the same.

Kijiji also works pretty well for local buying, there’s always that

 

[PhoBingas]

Kijiji also works pretty well for local buying, there’s always that

There's been fuck all there. I've seen one CRT tv that looked like it was from the 50's or early 60's. One of those big cabinet models that only had coax and rabbit ear hookups. Everything in my area has been various flavors of flat screens.

 

[Battlefield42]

It's been a bitch of a time finding a CRT in my patch of frozen canuck shithole. Maybe I'd have better luck on facebook marketplace, but years ago my account got "hacked", and now I need to scan an ID to make a new facebook or get my old one back.
I've checked everywhere, pawn shops, thrift stores, used electronics places. I'd really rather not go to another city just to get a CRT TV I did manage to snag a 3:4 small flatscreen, but it's just not the same.

Mine is getting taken over by a gen a retard. Nigger doesn't realize that there are people out there with the same name as him

 

[PhoBingas]

Mine is getting taken over by a gen a retard. Nigger doesn't realize that there are people out there with the same name as him

Have you thought about getting another since yours has been coopted by some mouth-breathing gorilla nigger? Hopefully they're easier to get where you're at.

 

[Battlefield42]

Have you thought about getting another since yours has been coopted by some mouth-breathing gorilla nigger? Hopefully they're easier to get where you're at.

I wasn't active there but its annoying to lose contacts.

 

[Stalker]

yeah, if I really wanted, I would treat myself to some cutting edge vr goggles instead. The immersive experience beats any slightly worse motion clarity in the good headsets and even then there isn't much to experience in regards to immersive, worthwhile gaymeslob, if any, really.
CRT was only interesting for the better gayme immersion in the first place. Color and contrast are better on modern oleds for a while now.

I'm surprised VR hasn't taken off more than it already has. Would I be correct in assuming it has mostly stagnated? Surely the hardware is improving, but I haven't been compelled enough to pick one up. It seems like such a cool technology, maybe its one of those things you just have to see in person? I've detected a negative sentiment, especially with the release of Apple Vision Pro (which is NOT VR, but targets the same audience, as I see it).

 

[BallsMcLongDong]

I'm surprised VR hasn't taken off more than it already has. Would I be correct in assuming it has mostly stagnated? Surely the hardware is improving, but I haven't been compelled enough to pick one up. It seems like such a cool technology, maybe its one of those things you just have to see in person? I've detected a negative sentiment, especially with the release of Apple Vision Pro (which is NOT VR, but targets the same audience, as I see it).

It has stagnated as far as average reach to consumer goes, but in the VR sphere, things have never been better. I love VR, and I have a shitty early WMR headset. I play more VR games than flatscreen, but I understand why most don't. It takes a while to get used to, but if you can, being able to mod shit like L4D2 or the like is wild. People are going back to add vr support to all sorts of stuff like crash bandicoot, ocarina, mario kart, etc.... And it just makes it so, so wild.

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

It seems like such a cool technology, maybe its one of those things you just have to see in person?

Absolutely. DK2 made even euro track simulator (only got it for it's early, good vr support) rear parking an absolute hoot with 3 of my guys when I had it n the mail. But then I played a few dozen hours of warthunder in it and then there wasn't anything new or really good left, the better ones still itch my inner consoomer because, for me it really was the motion and picture quality which needed a lot of improvement then - not sure how much better the new ones are because the field of view issue also kills immersion a lot. You still had to really lean into the experience with the few post DK2 goggles i tried. it was overall still very straining, esp. on your eyes. But, as to that, you either have those fighter pilot genes or you don't - that's another big hurdle for a market break through, too many people can't stomach it. There just was a lot missing with the overall quality of the experience. But the concept already works, you just have to see it in person. It's no b.s at all. My aim in warthunder got crazy good because the game has an actual, sensible scale, so I was suddenly able to gage distances and speeds as if I was really there. Was absolutely mind blown by that, and that's only a pay to win shlop game with a tacked on, wonky sim portion. That taster made me dust off my old force feedback sidewinder, even jerry rigged a gameport adapter for it. Crazy, I basically got to experience the immersion they amped you up for you when I bought that thing in the 90s. The v.r. industry veered off the correct path imho by going portable and having all these motion sensor shenanigans with retarded party games, instead of just doing a proper, high end head set first, shill it to the sim-freaks and then try to cater to joe shmoe.

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

Things like treadmills and light guns always seemed retarded to me, they expect too much but the actual state of the art, home users can't afford, allows for immovable cockpit stuff, so they should just do that. If game arcades were still a big thing, this shit would lift off. Everyone would want that at home after seeing it in action. Imagine some tricked out coin slot setup with rumble seat and big external 3rd person view screen for your friends to cheer and curse at, running a simple, really well made photo realistic light sim game, something old school, teenagers are actually amped for: "A-10 Warthog - Tank Killer", "Huey beach assault", "AC-130: Vulcan Gunner" or "GAU-12 Equalizer". We let kids consoom hours of press F to knoife Call of Duty gayness but I'm sure if you did propose THIS they would all go soy on you and do some retarded ass party game instead and I'm saying this because, AFAIK, there are some parlor-like v.r. things in the wild and I've never heard or seen a cool one. Sorry had to double post my feels on this.

 

[BallsMcLongDong]

I want more horror and shooter experiences. It's one thing to be good at moving a cursor on a screen. It's entirely another when you round a corner only to see a life size with depth dude there with a rifle pointed at your face and the only thing that saves you is your own reflexes to unholster and aim with your own skill. Or the panic of hearing several dudes converging on your position and you have to manually count remaining mags and reload chamber and fire. VR has made me a better real life shootist.

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

I want more horror and shooter experiences. It's one thing to be good at moving a cursor on a screen. It's entirely another when you round a corner only to see a life size with depth dude there with a rifle pointed at your face and the only thing that saves you is your own reflexes to unholster and aim with your own skill. Or the panic of hearing several dudes converging on your position and you have to manually count remaining mags and reload chamber and fire. VR has made me a better real life shootist.

Is this actually working well as of now? Treadmill, motion sensor gun, all that?
But I get the idea, I'm also very good at immersing myself in shooters, even while just sitting around in a headset but that still requires a lot of larping on your part which isn't the V.R. ideal.
To that end, I also think treadmill setups for "full immersion" always rip you out of it by limiting you ability to move in very sudden, unexpected ways: like your brain, after getting lost in the simulation, telling you to duck or prone but then your find yourself weirdly constrained and it's orge.
But I can totally see strapping people into a fully actuated ball turret with v.r. and them going berzerk in that motherfucker without any immersion breaks. For at home purposes you'd have to maybe leave it at huey door gunner out of economical restrains.

 

[BallsMcLongDong]

Is this actually working well as of now? Treadmill, motion sensor gun, all that?
But I get the idea, I'm also very good at immersing myself in shooters, even while just sitting around in a headset but that still requires a lot of larping on your part which isn't the V.R. ideal.
To that end, I also think treadmill setups for "full immersion" always rip you out of it by limiting you ability to move in very sudden, unexpected ways: like your brain, after getting lost in the simulation, telling you to duck or prone but then your find yourself weirdly constrained and it's orge.
But I can totally see strapping people into a fully actuated ball turret with v.r. and them going berzerk in that motherfucker without any immersion breaks. For at home purposes you'd have to maybe leave it at huey door gunner out of economical restrains.

The fancy VR stuff I've gotten to use, they're okay. Not quite "there" yet. I game on headset and hand controllers. They're not completely immersive, but they're good enough. It's one thing to click R and have your dude reload after you duck behind a wall, it's entirely a different thing to drop to one knee, hold your pistol around the edge of a barricade and fire with your right hand while desperately trying to grab your full rifle mag from your chest rig with the other while someone is trying to pop over on you.
I play Ghost of Tabor and Contractors a lot.
They're all still in beta, and will be for a long, long while. Very small studios. Ghosts is like Tarkov, just in VR. Very short TTK, have to adjust your shots for distance, can't tank 3 rounds of 7.62 just cause you're built different, also a level of autism with gun attachments and configs I've not seen in another PVP VR game, and still improving with every wipe. Contractors (not the stupid fortnite battle one, Contractors Showdown) is a lot like classic CoD. Both can be sweaty as sin and you usually feel exhausted by the end. My buddies and I usually hop in every few nights, and by the end of it, we're wiped. Plus the modding scene is insane.
In Contractors, stuff like classic CoD zombies, Team Fortress 2, Star Wars Battlefront 2 (the good one) Halo 2 Multiplayer, you name it. They've all been perfectly 1:1 recreated, just in VR. If not one to one, like 80% there and still being worked on.

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

They're all still in beta, and will be for a long, long while. Very small studios. Ghosts is like Tarkov, just in VR. Very short TTK, have to adjust your shots for distance, can't tank 3 rounds of 7.62 just cause you're built different, also a level of autism with gun attachments and configs I've not seen in another PVP VR game, and still improving with every wipe. Contractors (not the stupid fortnite battle one, Contractors Showdown) is a lot like classic CoD. Both can be sweaty as sin and you usually feel exhausted by the end. My buddies and I usually hop in every few nights, and by the end of it, we're wiped. Plus the modding scene is insane.

Sounds awesome. Ty for the heads up. You wouldn't, by any chance know if there's some worthwhile mech-porn out there atm? I really enjoyed hawken when that was a short lived thing 10 years ago. I just never improved and then shut down.

 

[Battlefield42]

I wish Contractors allowed you to play with more bots. They should make the bots moddable at least. Can't be bothered to sweat in vr more than irl airsoft.