Unboxing a New 17" ViewSonic CRT Monitor
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2017
- This is a new old stock Optiquest Q71 display from 2001! Viewsonic made some lovely tubes back in the day and I've wanted one for some time, so I bought this one still sealed. Testing with a Windows 98 PC!
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Meant to bring it up in the video, but ViewSonic was famous for using a trio of colorful Gouldian finches to show off the vibrant color of their monitors. They often included wallpaper files on the disks, which were used to show them off in stores! Here's a great album of them:
CRTs - a time when you could run things at lower than native resolution and they would still look super crisp
Computers took long to reach Brazil because politicians thought that it would prevent us from being dumb and watching football.
CRTs are
Omg my child hood dos of 😑
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I hate 1280x1024. That resolution has always bugged the hell out of me. I don't know who came up with that resolution and why it caught on, but it's NOT 4:3, LCD monitors with that as their native resolution where a weird almost square shape, and if you use it on a proper 4:3 monitor you'll have non-square pixels and distorted proportions. The correct 4:3 version would be 1280x960... Spread the word :)
Windows 2000?
$79 for a new crt Would be a steal with todays crt prices lol
I fear I will never be nerd enough to really appreciate the musk of a new CRT power cord.
CRTs are awesome, sure they are big and power hungry but the image quality is amazing, and until they start making more mainstream OLED monitors, CRTs are king of quality
>Goes from watching LinusTechTips 16k video to an unboxing video a 16 year old monitor.
Always loved that degauss noise on CRT monitors...
CRTs last forever and the colours are so sharp. And even cheap CRTs know how to display dark colours properly! Unlike cheap LED screens which glow blue instead of black, unless you fork out for expensive models which don't do that. Shame CRTs are so bulky and power hungry compared to flatscreens. Gotta love how they cause mini power surges whenever you turn them on. :D I wonder how that affected PC equipment in the long run.
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I think I saw one of those big SONY CRTs at Savers... might have to go back for it!
every bit of this stabs me in the heart with nostalgia... :"(
Must admit I am a bit envious, yes CRTs are heavy and power hungry but they do more colors and until very recently a faster response time with a resolution up to 2560x1600@75Hz.
I love the noise CRT monitors make when you turn them on, that fizzy static noise they make.
I still hold on to my old 21" CRT just in case all of my other monitors spontaneously explode. I still remember how all the lights in the room would dim for a second when I turned it on.