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I use outdated technology just for fun, listen to crappy music, and watch a lot of horror movies. Expect posts about These Things. I talk a lot.
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What's weird (when you have to get rid of one) is that e-sports people (I worked with a few) insist that you need to hang onto those TVs, because they're important to the scene, somehow involved with latency. But they don't seem at all interested in putting any money or effort into getting them. I mentioned throwing one out at my previous job, and I was told that I couldn't, and instead should deliver it to one of their houses. Even picking it up from the curb (ten minutes from the office) was too much for them...
lol. but yeah, simply by the manner in which CRT's function, they are the lowest latency displays possible. With any modern digital TV, processing has to be done to receive the data, convert it into an image, and send it to all the little pixels. Whereas with a CRT, the latency is determined by... how fast the electron beam can move across the screen.
Of course, an eSports type of person would want to play modern games on them, which would involve introducing some kind of digital to analog video converter box, which would completely trash any concept of "low latency" and even in the days of like the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation 1, the console was still doing its own digital to analog conversion on the fly... so imo it's always been a silly reason to buy/keep a CRT for.
I genuinely just want one to watch my Star Trek DVDs (and by extension any other crummy DVD, VHS, laserdisc, etc.) with the benefit of a display it was meant to be viewed on - the method by which a CRT displays the image masks a lot of the imperfections that become distractingly obvious when viewed on modern flat-panel LCDs.