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Any good reasons to hang onto a CRT monitor?
nitz:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 15, 2013, 12:16:35 am ---for emulation lcds have so many benefits and so few drawbacks... they are just better, especially now that we can fake crt dot pitches via shaders.
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Howard nailed it here. Put a good quality LCD behind a smoked plexi with Mame's HLSL tweaked to suit your tastes and you'd hardly notice it's not a CRT - yes the CRT diehards will notice, but if you were a diehard, you wouldn't be asking this question. ;)
I resisted LCDs for a long time, but now that I've converted, I don't want to go back. You just can't beat the convenience and cost, and as far as I'm concerned, stuff like HLSL is an acceptable workaround to rectify it not looking like a CRT.
I've got two 17" CRT computer monitors and a 20" CRT TV in my closet. I've been clinging to them because they still work so great, but I think I'm gonna be getting rid of them this summer. I can't see myself using them again and I need the storage space for other stuff. Hopefully I can give them away to someone who would use them, but I suspect I may end up having to just recycle them. Seems like no one wants these things anymore outside of niche hobbies like ours.
shponglefan:
TBH, I don't see myself using this for arcade purposes. To me the portability and reduced power consumption of LCDs outweigh the 'authenticity' of a CRT monitor.
Mainly it's just other uses I'm wondering about. But I can't really think of anything offhand other than input lag testing. Which admittedly might be a good enough reason to hang onto it.
shponglefan:
--- Quote from: kahlid74 on May 15, 2013, 09:45:30 am ---If you do get rid of it, spend a few minutes to identify how to recycle it.
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Yeah, I have a local computer recycling center that's good about taking all sorts of electronics. In fact, I downsized 4-5 CRT monitors and several PCs this past year.
ark_ader:
Donate it to a Chinese reclamation processing facility.
Looks like they need the work.
Is that a good enough reason for you?
Gray_Area:
They import the junk?...or export it? They just haven't got one of those plasma arc lasers, ta ash everything down, and then throw bac on it an make biofuel.
@pongle: No.
Longer answer: if that one feature you mentioned isn't a reason, then no.
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