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Are flat CRTs crap? I bought a flat WG 9800 and I kinda hate it! :)
brandon:
I'm aware of the quirks of CRTs because like i said, i grew up in the 80s.. I'm not obsessing over grid patterns, the poor geometry is obvious in the games. Slow scrolling games, Double Dragon, Golden Axe.. it's like I'm looking through a fisheye lens. I really don't remember it being this bad. it has to be a flat CRT thing because as i said, I've never used them until recently.
--- Quote from: pbj on September 19, 2021, 01:55:52 am ---Flat screen CRTs looked like garbage when they were new.
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i think you're right
Ropi Jo:
I was a tv engineer in the 80's and 90's.
The most common flatties in the early days were the trinitrons. I could never understand why people raved about them. Close up, as I would be as the repairman, they were awful. The convergence was never even close. And the viewing angle was very limited. From the other side of the room though this was much less noticeable.
My last CRT tv was a 36" philips matchline. It was a widescreen flattie, and the geometry was perfect in every way. The picture was superior in every way to the hitachi I had before it, even though it was older. But philips had cheated. The face of the screen was indeed flat, but the phosphers in the corners were behind about 1 1/2 inches of glass, so it was really a curved screen pretending to be flat. I never noticed this until right before I scrapped it. That explained why the thing was so incredibly heavy.
brandon:
my main issue with the geometry is the compression around the edges. it creates this weird fishbowl effect with scrolling. It's almost like this chassis was designed for a curved tube and WG just stuck it on a flat one. I emailed them and they said they only had a manual for a D9400 and every tech who knew anything about CRTs is gone. I have a Virtual Fighter in storage with a dead curved monitor its 25-27. I guess I'll either try to repair it (again) or see if I can use it's tube with this WG chassis and end up with at least one decent monitor.
lilshawn:
--- Quote from: Ropi Jo on September 19, 2021, 03:57:08 pm ---philips had cheated. The face of the screen was indeed flat, but the phosphers in the corners were behind about 1 1/2 inches of glass
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yeah my uncle had a toshiba 34" that was a cheater screen TV. was "made for home theater viewing" or something like that. It looked great, but holy christ was it heavy. it literally took the 2 of us to lift it when he moved. a literal ton of leaded glass in the front of that thing.
brandon:
I'm find that my issue with my D9800 is the exact opposite of what it should be. That is, compressed geometry around the edges instead of the center. This makes me think that something else is the issue. perhaps the chassis is designed to compensate for the distortion of flat tubes and is overdoing it. Did any of these digital WG monitors have service menus or is it WYSIWYG?