Missed out on these 4K Ultra HD 1980s CRT TVs
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 00:36:21 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ -
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 00:39:43 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ (Man that would be an amazing Kickstarter. New 15” CRT monitor/television with ultra-small dot pitch to support sharp 4K.)
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Technology Connections (techconnectify@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 00:58:51 JST Technology Connections @thomasfuchs no need to worry about me slapping you upside the head, you just said 4K - there can absolutely be 4000 lines 😜
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 00:58:51 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @TechConnectify man that would be a thing of beauty
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 01:00:46 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @TechConnectify The last CRT I had in a non-retro way was a iiyama 22" monitor, it went up to 1200 lines; so it's not out of the question.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 01:21:00 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @Tijn Yeah, the initial reason LCDs became popular wasn't the image quality but because you wouldn't end up in the hospital trying to carry them up three flights of stairs.
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Martijn Frazer (tijn@dosgame.club)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 01:21:04 JST Martijn Frazer @thomasfuchs I used my 19" Iiyama CRT until they went well out of style because it was simply a better display than the shitty TFT LCDs available at the time.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 01:26:53 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @sarajw @TechConnectify correction, my monitor went up to 1,440 lines (at 72Hz!) but 1,200 was recommended… that's a lot of phosphor gunning
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: (sarajw@front-end.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 01:26:55 JST Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @thomasfuchs @TechConnectify I kind of miss the fun you could have trying all the resolutions, even really high ones that made the monitor whine and your head hurt, with CRTs.
Then TFT screens came along with their static flat pixels instead of having them being pinged out of a gun into a fun curvy screen, boooriiiing.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 01:50:36 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @sarajw @TechConnectify yeah those late 90s/early 2000s trinitron-clone CRTs are second to none
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: (sarajw@front-end.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 01:50:37 JST Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @thomasfuchs @TechConnectify at a decent refresh rate too!
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