I like this so much. I don’t know why but seeing technologies from different eras combined like this is like drugs to me.
I do too. One of my favorites was seeing someone playing fallout (don’t remember which one. 3?) on an era appropriate TV.
I personally enjoy this stuff a lot because I’m someone who doesn’t like to get rid of any tech. I still have all my old phones, consoles, TVs (I still frequently use a 720p plasma). I like seeing old stuff get repurposed and continuing to work.
“The medium is the message.”
I am pretty sure LGR did a video of that.
There’s not really a great word for it either. Vaporwave became a “cope” for like technology out of time. Apparently this is a nickname for the trope but I don’t like it: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SchizoTech. Schizo tech to me is just literally doomscrolling TikTok while ignoring everything around you
I thought it was retropunk?
This is how my first pc was set up!! Had some funky video card with a cable ‘out’ or something like that.
Color monitors were expensive in the 80s, so it was common for PC users at the time to use a TV instead.
Hell, even today I use a TV as a monitor (LG C1). They make TVs specifically for gaming now, and they’ve improved quite a bit in the past 5 years to the point where they’re comparable to gaming monitors in terms of input lag, response time, and all the other areas where it matters for games. The only category they fall behind in is bandwidth, due to the limitations of HDMI (and unfortunately no gaming TV supports DisplayPort yet), but even then most people are perfectly happy with 144Hz @ 4K, so it’s not the end of the world.
Nice!! I’ve been using a big-screen tv for my monitor for a long time now myself. I remember starting to search for a tv-to-computer card for the next PC i built when it dawned on me the new motherboard has an HDMI slot. Once i realized i could plug it right into my big-screen tv without any extra modifications or cards/adapters i was stoked. Never looked back since–i have a wireless keyboard and mouse and it’s been great 🙂
I had a Linux NAS connected to a huge CRT tv in a rental apartment (namely huge in the depth dimension). Had to buy a specific video card with an S-Video output. Watched films on it while tugging strings on a guitar.
P.S. Fun story, there was also a 60s-70s tv full of vacuum tubes just dumped on the balcony. I posted on the local forum, two guys replied, and both shown up together to haul the tv off and divide it between them.
Another time, a roommate left a CRT monitor with me, while I was already using laptops for everything. I drove it in my car to the nearest recycling point, at which a stranger intercepted me and said he’d gladly take it away for his son to tinker on.
Son to tinker on💀
I hope his son knows about the huge capacitor
Dad found out about it, but his son never did.
Watched films on it while tugging
This sentence did not end the way I expected.
If it weren’t for burnin, i’d like to have a console tv in my office setup as a second screen.
Better with Trinitron
I actually own a widescreen CRT with an HDMI input. Its resolution is 720x480 though. It was referred to as an “Enhanced Definition” TV.
Still got my Sony Wega
Never going to to sell it, mainly because I don’t want to ever pick it up again
I have device that converts hdmi to rca connectors. I do this for my wife console in our bedroom so she could cast.
This is tuff
That might literally be the worst color rendering I’ve ever seen on a crt. Did they actually used to be that bad or is this an age+noisy downscaling issue? And what’s up with the verticle bleed?
I’m going with that TV only has a coax aerial connector and whatever they are using to convert the signal is not great. Add to that the reflections on the glass and it looks crappy.
Looks old enough to not even have coax. I’d bet it’s 75ohm screw terminals that require a balun
Looks like it’s this one: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/hitachi_ctp_235ctp23.html
CRTs used to really suck. Especially early color NTSC units. It’s probably not doing so hot after 40+ years. But even 80s color TVs were bad. Add only supporting RF and not even composite/RGB and they looked like butts. Then pile on all the conversions needed to get from HDMI to RF and yeah…
We mostly just remember the end of the line CRTs when they’d largely perfected them.
The vertical bleed is moire. Beyond that it’s hard to say if the colors are just a poor quality photo or if the TV is out of adjustment, or the TV really is in bad shape. The dark colors are really crushed, and maybe it’s even coming from however they’re converting the signal.
The colours probably look better in person.
It looks normal to me for a 1980s tv, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen one. I remember it being almost unwatchable during the day with the curtains open.
I suspect that the bleed comes from the digital camera capturing the crt scan lines as they are refreshing, which would be too fast for a human to see.Edit: like the other commenter said, it’s going to be the Moire effect. https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/crt-photography/
It looks like Potato³ Quality™
Awesome! Haha
This makes me want to watch Goonies for some reason
I introduced my son to that movie two weeks ago. He loved it.
Sick gaming setup
hmmm
I would do this lmao.
