CRT manufacturing equipment

oled >> crt.

I think the best solution instead of trying to revive CRT manufacturing is to design an LCD monitor to have the same look and feel of a CRT. Just use the CRT shape as a shell, put the LCD screen in it (rounded curved display and all) and futz with the look until you get something 99% accurate to the original look and feel.

There's no reason why we can't use today's technology to recreate yesterday's.

Obviously I'm not talking about just jamming a normal LCD screen in a cab and calling it a day. But it would be far cheaper to design a "fake" CRT monitor than a real one at this point.

It would be lighter, require less power, be far safer to work on and troubleshoot... etc

I'm all for keeping things original but man... 100 years from now it's gonna be a bit difficult to come across a nice working CRT monitor... I'm trying to think about future arcade rooms or barcades or whatever... Like if you have 50-100 machines in a public arcade right now, it must be hell trying to deal with CRTs. I can't imagine trying to do that 50-100 years from now.

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Lol okay dude... Just trying to find a way to preserve these games for the next 100 years. Certainly it won't be by a handful of people hoarding CRTs in their garages... We need thousands of replacement monitors for the ones that are dying out now.

We already have flexible screens in the making... why can't they flex to the shape of a CRT screen?

The other option as mentioned above would be to find a way to get all these 19" TV monitors to work in arcade cabinets with little fuss.
 
It will never be "right" without a CRT. Ideally, a small but proficient group of entrepreneurs will figure out they can make money manufacturing CRTs and selling them to a boutique customer base. I could live with other options but I'm not crazy about them.
 
Modern high-res display panels + powerful GPUs + HLSL (or equivalent shader and effects technology) is the long term answer. Done right it could be very convincing.

The CRTs will die with us. Beyond that, see above. We're already emulating the CPUs and PCBs. We're going to have to emulate the CRTs as well.
 
Modern high-res display panels + powerful GPUs + HLSL (or equivalent shader and effects technology) is the long term answer. Done right it could be very convincing.

The CRTs will die with us. Beyond that, see above. We're already emulating the CPUs and PCBs. We're going to have to emulate the CRTs as well.

I will admit that the higher processing power of the systems today does help make it somewhat better. Now that I have an actual arcade cabinet, I can tweak my "HLSL" settings within emulators to get a close representation. However, the geometry of an LCD/LED/OLED/Etc. can't really be reproduced properly as modern display devices are completely flat. The curve of the CRT glass just can't really be accurately simulated.
 
How about a DLP in a plastic molded case that's painted to look just like a crt. Even mold the pcb boards. It would be way lighter.
 
I still say the solution is one of us needs to go to china, bring the specs for the 19" monitor(s) we want to build, negotiate a deal with a factory, go back and test the products with an arcade test rig, and then bring back 10,000 of them and be rich and famous.
 
I still say the solution is one of us needs to go to china, bring the specs for the 19" monitor(s) we want to build, negotiate a deal with a factory, go back and test the products with an arcade test rig, and then bring back 10,000 of them and be rich and famous.
Are you volunteering? That's a lot of time, effort, and money! So... go for it. 😃

Scott C.
 
oled >> crt.
This is very true, my Nexus 6P screen is ridiculous, basically if you made a curved version(Samsung is doing this already) you could simulate the look of a crt as the oled screen is way higher resolution you could even mimic the guns being sightly out of alignment. I'm saying you could make something that looks indistinguishable once mounted in a cabinet.

As for convergence being a lost art, I disagree as I have no problem converging a monitor, yoke and rings.

And manufacturing a black and white crt is possible, but making a color one is way more difficult because you have to make a tube with a shadow mask or aperture grille inside a tube and then you have to make it align properly with the colored phosphorus triads or stripes. And then it has to be quality or nobody would want it. Without the existing equipment it's going to take a lot of R&D.

What I do is horde Tv tubes, I pick them up off the side of the road.
 
Are you volunteering? That's a lot of time, effort, and money! So... go for it. 😃

Scott C.

Well, you know if *I'M* the one going, I'm only coming back with 13" monitors :p

And I'll save some for you, too. Too bad Todd Tuckey sold his collection...
 
Well, you know if *I'M* the one going, I'm only coming back with 13" monitors [emoji14]

And I'll save some for you, too. Too bad Todd Tuckey sold his collection...
😃 Yes, I definitely agree.

Getting those 19" (and 13", 14", etc.) would truly be great, but I fear there are too many obstacles to them being a likely option for us.

Scott C.
 
China will make whatever you want, and they'll sprinkle the toxic waste over their lunch and eat it for good measure....they are very motivated by the Benjamins.
 
Vinyl manufacturing came back. Just wait two generations when CRTs are hard to find and hipster-desirable, someone will eventually dig up an abandoned plant covered in dust ready to run.
 
They have these championships every year and it's all about art so she probably was trying to look good for the cameras... if you ever get a chance to watch one of those shows it's mindblowing no pun intended. They can make anything, any shape, whatever and can make it perfectly symmetrical, can put things in the glass, etc.
 
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