Crt tvs broke all the time.
I know, right? I’ve gone through like 4 in my lifetime and I haven’t owned any in over a decade lol
Rose tinted glasses.
Yep. In fact I just met an 80 year old guy today that spent his career repairing tvs. Sure were a lot of tv repair men and shops for tvs that never broke.
Remember when the tube started to go and you had to leave it on all the time or whack the side of it when you first turned it on for the day, until it warmed up?
The way CRTs work is absolutely amazing. You’re basically watching a ray gun shoot you and it’s so quick it looks like a picture. It’s an absolutely wild marvel of engineering.
I repair arcade games and often mention to curious onlookers: “Fifty years of putting miniature particle accelerators in every home and business!”
the only way to have your privacy protected these days is to be in the epstien files.
CRTs did break. And they did suffer from burning.
Just buy a non-smart modern TV, you won’t need a replacement and it won’t connect to the internet.
Please tell me where I can get a modern high-res TV that is NOT smart. I have tried but cannot find them anywhere
Your best bet would be a commercial display. Though it’ll be double the price, at least, and you’ll need an hdmi switch and a soundbar more like as not.
Just buy a tv, then don’t connect it to anything. But likely that you are going to connect something smart to it, so it doesn’t matter.
It is possible to put it in a VLAN that is unable to talk to the internet. This is fine, but I wish I could just get a TV that doesn’t have this tracking functionality to begin with.
Dumb tv’s are still a thing but they are priced insanely high
What are you using to watch on the tv?
Give me one specific example of a non smart modern TV that has a decent quality panel please.
There are some that have very little connectivity. They are very expensive commercial units made by Sharp and even Samsung.
Have seen Samsungs hostility TVs, but only resource on them I could find was their own official store pages which are woefully void of any info I actually care about
We have a mix of commercial samsung and sharp TV’s for signboards. Both come with a proprietary signboard system but I use Pi5’s and google slides to manage them all. Every great now and then I have to reset something.
What’s a quality panel? You mean you can’t natively get clear resolution on your TV? Doesn’t sound very smart to me.
You know there are more variables that contribute to the quality of the TV than the resolution? Like how bright it gets or how accurate it’s colors are and what it’s color space coverages are… Or how deep the blacks are or if the pixel response is decent. I guess people draw the line at different places and most probably don’t care at all… I do, but I also consider my privacy as a variable here. I am in a niche group of people that are completely underserved as I have looked and have not found… So if someone claims they know of some I ask them for their wisdom.
but CRTs could be more easily repaired. burn in is still a problem on modern OLEDs
You can a modern tv way way easier. I do it all the time. And you don’t risk electrocution or exposure, and it can be done in about 15 minutes for most issues.
Don’t buy CRT or OLED. Problem solved.
Spent a few days in an AirBnB with all LGTV’s throughout the house. We never turned them on but today I go on Amazon and its now showing me adverts for the Airbed we briefly talked about in front of the TV -_-
Shhhh, honey. The telescreen might be listening.
“your TV needs to install an update, please connect to the internet”, it says
how did it know it needed an update?
I am 60% sure I have seen this happen IRL
I have seen it mentioned in other threads that they may connect to open hotshots.
I don’t know how true this is, but it would make sense.I am 99.9% sure that is true, I just don’t remember exactly which source I saw it in
Might have been in the latest LG news about how much they can access
Having to update my remote before I can mute the TV is not a problem I ever expected to have
But here we are
First question I asked myself when I saw it was, “Why does my TV have an update?”
I bought a TV to watch videos, not the other way around. Promptly disconnected that shit from the internet and it will stay that way.
well sometimes it’s a firmware update and it actually improves the picture quality. Like with the recent LG G6 that had some issues during release
Fair enough. I can see everything fine and even better than my old TV though 🤷
CRT screens broke all the time.
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I truly despise that we stopped innovating on CRTs when flat panels came along.
There was some hype for nanotube display tech about 20 years ago that was closer to CRTs in picture quality and responsiveness. Unfortunately it seems like LCD/LED has won out over any other tech so far.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/motorola-builds-nanotube-based-display/
CRTs had flatscreens beat until less than a decade ago, which was nearly 20 years after being replaced by society.
Higher resolutions, refreshrates and lower latency until the 4k 250fps+ race began.
However, i doubt there is much more to gain due to CRT being well into the end of the development S-curve.
“if you go reaching inside me I might just decide to kill you” -CRT
“I accumulated a little bit of dust in me so I decided to start a fire” - my CRT 1996
Oof. Actual fire? We had a CRT TV that would flash red once in a great while. It was fine until my mom found my brother asleep in front of it, flickering all red constantly, with smoke pouring out the back!
I know now that it was likely just a failed transistor on the neck board. I’ve seen a lot of smoke and some plasma but never a fire from a CRT.
https://ca.pcmag.com/tvs/17188/yes-your-tv-is-spying-on-you-heres-how-to-stop-it
for anyone wanting to see where to shut down some features
Let’s not pretend that crts ware better than modern TVs. The picture was shit, the ratio was 4:3 and they had the size and weight of a small car. I can deal with a little upgrade once in a while. And that’s not even true as I haven’t seen a TV that needs upgrades yet.
There were hd crts towards the end too. Those are excellent for playing games on older hardware without an hdmi port.
Are there open source TVs?
Not as far as I know. But there ARE TVs that with no smart features. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJh72_O4pXE
Technically, yes? But don’t expect great pictures quality or performance. But this is a good excuse to link a Ben Eater video on the topic 😄 https://youtu.be/l7rce6IQDWs?is=oMqVPCiAFgPo1Yav
I have an old flat screen tv that I bought from Best Buy in 2011. It is just a tv, no internet, no Bluetooth, just a tv, I still have it and it works perfectly. I finally decided to get a smart tv last summer that POS broke within a year and just after the warranty expired.
