Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/10/13/why-crt-monitors-were-better.html
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On a very narrow range of specific topics, CRT’s are superior. Motion blur issues, black colors (EDIT: I should add overall color clarity, though this still notoriously varied from monitor to monitor). On every other measure, they are vastly inferior. Size, weight, resolution, glare, power consumption, burn in/ghosting, etc., etc.
I would also toss in eye strain. My eyes always hurt after a day of computer work when I had CRT monitors. I don’t notice that with my LCD.
OLED will be even better, and I’m looking forward to those prices coming down.
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CRT screens are much easier to clean. And the large bezels provide more space for Post-it notes.
And have you ever tried to warm your hands over an LED panel? Fuggetaboutit.
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Not everyone has room for a old Trinitron hospital or tv station grade pvm monitor grabbed from a recycling center for their 90’s gaming setups.
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I knew we should have put those 24" EIZOs in storage…
Why does nobody ever listen to me when I want to keep obsolete stuff?
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easier to clean
Good point
Post-it notes
Ummm… welcome to the 21st century? I just plop my Post-it notes all over the desk like any normal professional.
warm your hands
Valid point. I liked to get my old, dual Sony CRT’s hot enough to cook hot dogs over them.
(note: true picture of old monitor repurposed as a fireplace)
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Will people really buy these? My only tv is a 27’’ Trinitron (2002 model I think) that I’ve been meaning to upgrade to a flatscreen for the past 10 or so years. I’d give it away to anyone that’ll take it (only 100 lbs/ 40 kg)
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I still have my Atari ST color monitor down in the basement. My brain remembers it as sharp and crisp colors. I expect that I’d be sadly disappointed if I hooked it up again. (The only thing I have to drive it with is a QIX arcade board, although Pis have a mode to turn most of the GPIO into RGB output if you add a resistor network.)
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For about fifteen years I used a Commodore monitor as a tv set, a CAR after as the tuner.
I was glad to move to a new LCD set in 2011.
I’d gone LCD for the no time before that,. I found it on the sidewalk. I think a 15 inch, I gladly got rid of my Sony 19 inch CRT monitor. It was a monster, though I got it for free.
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For something like 95 % of things, flat screens are superior to CRTs.
For anything involving having to carry one, the number goes up to 100 %.
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Ohh, man, do I miss the degauss button!
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meh
monitors are not all about gaming. cheap big LCDs have been a boon to CAD and 3D work. Motion blur is a non-issue.
And its literally changed office furniture industry - no longer are awkward corner oriented workstation to accommodate the deep CRT a thing - good bye.
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In a cube farm, big, high-res monitors are unsustainable: too much power draw, and the magnets of four big-ass monitors back to back mess with each other horribly. And the desk space! the ability to reclaim two square feet of surface from a 25" monitor made it all worthwhile.
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40" CRT TV/Monitor, Weight 286.6 lbs
40" Flatscreen TV Monitor assembled weight 14.55 lbs
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That’s pretty swanky. I plugged my ST into the TV…
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And some day, my office furniture will get upgraded.
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Always good for freaking out colleagues who didn’t knew what it was for.
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Hah. Right. I have some of those wooden in-box things. I put one behind my monitor for stuff I really should deal with but don’t have to deal with and maybe if I don’t deal with it will go away somehow.
Also, whoever designed this stupid corner desk thought you need a keyboard at an ergonomic height but the mouse like 6" higher and a foot to the side. What’s up with that?
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Yes. Yes I have. But you have to replace the backlight first.
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