Gizmodo article on CRTs

I love the How It's Made video showing how they make CRT's. :)

And yeah, the author chose a hilarious expert to base the article on.

Hello, I'm here talking with a guy that does window tinting in pick up trucks and he said once I run out of this role of tint plastic, I'm all out... There you have it. The car industry is dead and everyone will have to walk...​

But since modern writing is about clickbait and not journalism, it worked. I read it.
 
i read it too and got a good laugh. i especially like Dream Arcades new and exciting products. someone should remind them that nintendo made the table top arcade in 1986 and people have been installing MAME in them since the late 90's. how about there full size control panel for home use with built in MAME, thats never been done before......or has it. google search shows every imaginable joystick, button, flight stick, and trackball combination on the face of the earth. but we do have to give them credit for reviving the arcade handheld. Coleco has not made them since 81' lmao. and dont worry the shortage of NOS 29" crt's isnt likely to affect you playing pacman and galaga anytime soon (19"). and for that we thank you Gizmodo.

thanks
blake
 
So after watching the video, I would ask why the process of reconditioning CRT's isn't an option. I would think that even a necked CRT could be repaired.

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You know something is really, really dead, when even the Chicoms give up trying to make it.

.....the last company that was producing the displays sold its manufacturing equipment to an unnamed Chinese company that was unable to replicate the required winding procedures.
 
I wish we could convince someone to make 19" oled screens, seems like they could make for a good crt replacement.

Nothing will be a good CRT replacement until they can replicate reality, i.e., when the video on the display is indistinguishable from looking out your window at the real world. Then maybe someone can write a program which will take the video signal from an arcade game PCB and convert it into a video signal that looks exactly like a real life CRT with that game running on it, so real that it would make you think that if you reached out and touched it you would feel the cold, curved, thick glass screen of a CRT. It would have to be some amazingly fast hardware to do the conversion in real time.

As for using an OLED today, it wouldn't just be a matter of making a 19" one, there would also need to be a separate model for every one of the dozens of different resolutions of the various classic arcade games, because digital displays inherently have only one fixed resolution, and things get ugly when you scale/filter other resolutions to fit/fill the screen. But even if the did that, an OLED has no shadow mask, so you would lose the "texture" of a CRT. A CRT also has a natural anti-aliasing effect of sorts, rounding off sharp corners and slightly blending adjacent colors together, which makes old blocky graphics look better. Digital monitors don't do that. They make every pixel look like it was cut with a razor blade and a carpenter's square.
 
I think that eventually, we'll see cheap LED film that can be stuck to a real CRT tube like a decal. Then it's just a matter of making the same images in software to make it look exactly like a CRT.
 
there are still plenty of repairable monitors out there and TVs with compatible tubes. I only see them getting expensive in about 20-30 years when like the 50+ old TVs of yesteryear too many of the tubes start getting weak signals. It's happening faster to the more modern ones due to the fact that they were made on the cheap and not made to last as well.

The sad part is when the last CRT goes you can no longer play most gun games. Everything that uses an optical/light gun or optical tracking will no longer work. Personally I like standing in front of a machine and shooting stuff and LCDs are not compatible.
 
Jeez, had to read the same boring irrelevant bullshit twice today with just a few words changed here and there:

http://venturebeat.com/2017/03/03/w...nology-means-for-classic-arcade-machines/amp/

"The current stock of new 29-inch CRT monitors is dwindling"

http://gizmodo.com/as-crt-supplies-vanish-the-classic-arcade-machine-is-vi-1792968855

"the stock of new 29-inch CRT screens has almost been depleted"

It's really weird, I read them yesterday. Poor DOnkey Kong! How will I ever replace my Sanyo EZ29? lol.
 
Jeez, had to read the same boring irrelevant bullshit twice today with just a few words changed here and there:

http://venturebeat.com/2017/03/03/w...nology-means-for-classic-arcade-machines/amp/

"The current stock of new 29-inch CRT monitors is dwindling"

http://gizmodo.com/as-crt-supplies-vanish-the-classic-arcade-machine-is-vi-1792968855

"the stock of new 29-inch CRT screens has almost been depleted"

hahahah - who plagiarized who? maybe it's the same dude with a nom de plume?
 
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