Should You Use a CRT for Modern Gaming? - Tech Hacks

Alright, time to finally take a swing at the biggest question around my old desk. Is using a CRT as a primary display a good idea in 2021? This week, I hope to address that as clearly and in-depth as possible, using monitors people are likely to be using.
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[@okwary676]

for us oldschool 90s gamers that grew up with classics like Command And Conquer and Neverwinter Nights. this is a wet dream to see old tech still having it's uses even today. especially when those older games look all stretched out and not as clear or crisp and way to zoomed in on new screens. but on these golden oldies, those classic games look fantastic. looking at you gog for still letting me play kings quest with a happy tear rolling down my cheek.

[@RedVRCC]

Yeah, I kinda wanna pick up an old CRT myself to enjoy all the games from my childhood that just looked so good on them. It's really neat that this old hardware still has its uses and it cuts down on ewaste too.

[@Pe721]

crts have no real nativ resolution and feel much better at 4:3 like 860p and let you run call of duty warzone with 3080 at 1% low fps and 200hz 100% stable unlike all other monitors

[@Pe721]

get the cru resolution tool and you can go with way higher hz if you lower resolution

[@ncopp4358]

Doesn't matter the technology or refresh rate, nothing compares to the smoothness of a crt monitor. Input lag is only the time it take for your gpu to render the image. I might just get one over the 144hz

[@Pe721]

@@ncopp4358 it takes the monitor some time too and can look laggy if fps are dropping. Crt handle low fps better

[@zazabean23]

@@ncopp4358 don't get 144hz lcd monitors. just don't do it. If you want a cheap but very high level monitor with low input lag go with the ASUS VG259qm (280hz) . I'd very much prefer a 120-144hz CRT because of the non existent input lag, near perfect motion clarity and good colors. I don't mind it being huge or the noise. I just care about performance.

[@ncopp4358]

@@zazabean23 Supurb for gaming. But if I wanna watch Netflix I'm gonna want a second LCD display.

[@myquietreviewsfeaturingc.t9354]

My uncle just gave me a 17 inch CRT monitor & I’m picking it up this weekend!!! I don’t know the specs but he said it works fine & I definitely believe him so I’m gonna use this as my stepping stone 👍🏿

[@mr.jamster8414]

Sick! :D

[@MihaiLatYoutube]

I love CRT monitors. The image smoothness, response, deep colors and so much more. By the way best videocard to get for CRTs is the AMD R9 380X which has true VGA support and still is fairly modern. No Nvidia for me, but you can also get Titan X Haswell which is the best Nvidia card for CRTs.

[@displaytalk]

There is no need to use an onboard DAC. Just use a good displayport to VGA DAC and you can use modern cards. Take it from me, I bought a 980ti and later a good dac(the now unattainable sunix dpu3000), leading to me wishing I would have bought a 1080ti(this was before the shortage) instead and just started with the DAC.

[@Palendrome]

Wow, thank you for saying this. This i crazy, but I just got an s-video VGA converter for my commodore monitor. It was reccomeneded months ago for someone advising how to get my pc on my commodore. But they also reccomended to get a specific card that supports it, and I didnt understand at the time. Thank you for this clarification

[@displaytalk]

@@Palendrome Well if emulation is your aim then my recommendation changes. I was talking about general (modern) gaming and watching movies. For emulation you can use any AMD card with hdmi>vga+super resolutions or you can get the older ones with native analog out for low/native dotclocks. Almost nothing you wanna do on a 15khz crt needs gpu render power so imo just get an HD6450 for 10 bucks on ebay. Use groovyarcade (the Substring fork, not the old one) as the OS

[@Palendrome]

@@displaytalk well, I basically want it to be a 4:3 media center, so I'll watch content as well as play games

[@displaytalk]

@@Palendrome Yeah you can watch video on groovyarcade with the MPV player(or a web browser like Vivaldi). It's just archlinux for 15khz crts really.

[@marcuscook5145]

I don't care about weight, power draw or whatever else. The single two biggest selling points are black levels and most importantly, no fixed resolution. I have an old Trinitron Multiscan from 1998 and it's excellent.

[@ALRemmo]

I've bought a CRT monitor last year and my friends started making jokes about it, and i tried to convince them that the CRT is literally best than any monitor in the market but they just couldn't get the idea CRT monitors doesnt have a native resolution so the 480p on a CRT can really look like a 4k and the amount of details on the CRT and the quality is just amazing, also not to mention the colors the CRT can provide the best colors i love CRT monitors, also less stress on ur GPU/CPU because u r playing on a lower resolution with way better image quality

[@gorkskoal9315]

well not only that but like you said they refresh at stupidly fast speeds. Possibly being pretty cheap is ok.

[@ALRemmo]

@@gorkskoal9315 yeah I forgot to mention the zero input lag and the response time on a CRT is ridiculous

[@AugustoV8Cesar]

Then your friend is an Brainless casual player.

[@Terra101]

@@ALRemmo I connected my CRT a couple years back and the smoothness was crazy. It felt like the game was running in real time, probably because it is the closest to real time you could get. CRT's needs to make a comeback. Imagine a 1080p CRT with like 300hz.

[@ryanwood6754]

@@Terra101 I’d buy that. Always had a soft spot for crts. I’m 24 and my friends think I’m crazy but I grew up with a crt until ps4 type era. Wish I still had it was a massive Samsung tv but sadly we got rid of it. Instead I’ve now got a small bush crt with vhs player built in

[@cortbelmont]

The secret of CRTs being top for gaming is "High Motion Resolution". Fixed pixel displays are blurry in motion, LCD is good to display static images but once it starts moving you can't see anything. On a 1080p LCD you get 1920 horizontal lines of static resolution but once in motion you get less than 300 horizontal lines of motion resolution and it gets worse with faster movement. On a CRT you get around the same static resolution and motion resolution, it's crystal clear in motion, ideal for high speed movement like on an First Person Shooter, a 2D Sidescroller or any videogame. Movies and "video" benefit from that motion blur on fixed pixel displays but not videogames. Also in most CRTs from 1995 onward you get a pretty good deep contrast, blacks are very dark and whites are very bright, color accurracy varies with quality, Trinitrons (Diamondtron, Flatron, etc.) are the best on that matter

[@delightedbylight9893]

thank you for info

[@clydewarrior2255]

Modern LCD displays have a fairly low pixel response time; in addition, there is backlight strobing technology, which brings LCDs almost closely to CRTs in terms of motion blur. And regarding the contrast of CRT, in practice, it is even lower than that of LCD, due to the glass screen

[@adroharv9213]

it's quite understandable but a lot of new gamers wont actually realise just how smooth a CRT allows for. An lcd even from running a game at full fps will produce a blur to the static image. CRT when moving retains the static image and it's quite remarkable witnessing this as a difference. I'm lucky now to have a few of these and it's incredibly difficult trying to go back to playing on an lcd especially for past machines that mostly have 2 dimensional scrolling

[@dw300]

People don't get that with CRT your visual cortex is the bottleneck, CRT reduces that issue.

[@clydewarrior2255]

Their flickering makes your eyes very tired and sore

[@TheRealJohnHooper]

LCDs are so good for text, office, web surfing.. My first LCD monitor i got in 2006..19 inch 5:4 aspect ratio.. And suddenly i had so much spsce on my desk.. I loved it.. 🙂

[@RadeonVector]

I was around when LCD replaced CRT it felt like a step back somehow

[@jimmyschmidt14]

Yes. I remember when the first LCDs came out at the store. The picture was junk compared to a CRT.

[@PaintsAreOp]

It just felt good to me switching back to CRT after using LCD for 10 years. Small screen size isn't a problem for me either, I actually prefer smaller screen sizes. I tried to game on 27" monitor for a long time, but I just couldn't. I'm now sporting 24" LCD and 19" CRT and couldn't feel happier.

[@SuperSuperka]

I have HP p1230, now trying to buy adapter to get all the rsolution and refresh rate.

[@Axzle_MC]

I will forever admire you for utilizing a CRT for gaming in the modern era. In general they are beautiful creations with possible muscle building features lul. EIther way great video!

[@WaffleCake]

Ever since DF popularized these things as OLED-killers they've been rising in price and scarcity. With how slowly OLED is coming into monitor form factor, I think I'll be be adopting a CRT this year.

[@juanme555]

Only now im realizing just how lucky i got buying my Samsung Syncmaster 997MB for 34$ 4 years ago , its been my main driver since. It can do 1280x720 @ 120HZ , 640x480 @ 165HZ , 1600x900 60HZ , 1280x800 @ 100HZ I find that 16:10 or 15:10 resolutions work best with this monitor, still working like a charm, but it is true that lights gotta be off to get good blacks, and i had to do some fine tunning. Will not go back to liquid screens until i can save enough money to jump to a good 240hz or 360hz.

[@blunderingfool]

Pro tip for good blacks, get a video with black borders up and then adjust the picture to have "blank" space. Reduce the brightness until the black borders match the area not being lit, then return your picture size to full panel.

[@malvage1825]

The color being described as dark on the CRT might mean that you didn't calibrate the display gamma, you really need to do that on CRTs if you want an accurate display picture. Just type "Calibrate display color" in the Windows search bar, and it will bring up the tool, and give you instructions on what to do, once you're done, it will save a custom ICC profile with the calibrated gamma for your display, without it content will just look way too dark, and it will often crush the blacks, this will also not affect the black level, so you will still get CRT's near-perfect black level. Overall though, great job explaining the strengths and weaknesses of CRTs, and clearing up doubts on whom they might be appealing for (I found that for me, the absolute best use case for CRTs is playing horror games, the black level and smooth non pixelated picture just add a big boost to immersion)

[@purefrostinghdarchives6044]

Smoothest monitor drop ever, not even a drop noise. That's LCD. Light as feather.

[@myquietreviewsfeaturingc.t9354]

Man you know your stuff so you just earned a subscriber 👍🏿

[@PurpleComrad]

I am subscribing. Hope both this channel and you will have a very bright future...

[@vinnievincent85]

Crts are often way better than modern screens. I use a Diamondtron 21" crt mainly for 240p emulation. It looks so good.

[@mrburns366]

for 60hz gaming there is no substitute for CRT! not even an OLED with black frame insertion! Honestly i don't even think the "baller" gaming monitors can match motion clarity of a CRT even at 360hz

[@alpzepta]

Way better but price is not better $3000 for CRT Monitor are they crazy?

[@vinnievincent85]

@@alpzepta Dont pay that. That is a Scam.

[@Terra101]

@@mrburns366 Nope it cannot. My eyes hurt from my 240hz LCD monitor with 240 synced FPS. Even tho it's okay-ish the stutters messes with my eyes. Blur busters said that you would need about 1000hz for LCD monitors to get it to CRT like performance. Would probably take a while until we are there, that means we would also need the GPU to render 1000fps. It's so weird to think that we had that type of clarity with displays already back in the 90's.

[@yipperskipper]

​@averageinternetuser3537 Based pfp

[@makmakg242]

I am surprised you're still stuck at less than 1k subs, you deserve alot of exposure man

[@cjaay4359]

Wow i really enjoyed this video was in a bad mood, you just made my day ✌️

[@Adefesio94]

CRT all the way.. the smoothness from the screen.. how alive everythig looks!

[@HeavyMetalfps]

The best things about CRT's are essentially the great white, black and color levels, no motion blur, and the ridiculously low input lag. The downsides are the size, and the power draw.

[@eggbag4182]

Images on CRTs also look deeper than LCDs for me

[@ichampagnez2204]

which do you recommend to get? are do they for the most part all offer all those things?

[@rtyzxc]

Shallow color gamut, low contrast, blurry image, spherical distortion. I hope Hardware Unboxed gets one so we can put these glorified lies to rest.

[@Skipti_LLC]

Or maybe wait until next week...

[@danmar007]

I still have a 17 in CRT, so I will give this a try. Cute cat.

[@TheDustmeister88]

I love that shirt. It feels good to see another fellow club member.

[@GamerFolf]

I have 2 I use everyday. An HP pavilion M50 I got for free. and an HP pavilion vx74. I not for 10.00 when the price was 15.00 bit dropped 5.00 when I made it from the trip I went to get it. They both work great. I've had a great experience with CRT monitors for year and I believe they can still out shine modern days monitors we have now

[@doom33469]

What adapter you use?

[@GamerFolf]

@@doom33469 just a VGA to HDMI converter. As long as it meets the monitors screen settings it's ok.

[@doom33469]

@@GamerFolf and The adapter have a good Quality or is a cheaper model? What model is?

[@pioneer1131]

you managed to make me want a monitor older than i am good job

[@MaisistkeinGemuese]

I just got a massive 24 inch Elsa Ecomo 24H96, a very High End CRT for CAD. It has a maximum Resolution of 1920x1200 at 75hz and my god, it is a sight to behold!

[@frich2k]

awesome video man!

[@MaybeTiberius]

i might get one in the future tbh. As a kid, i was growing up just before flat panels came out. And i remember having Lan Partys at school and how hard it was to transport crts around. I havent seen a crt in ages, so i dont know how they would look like now but something i noticed over the years, how much nicer it was to simply look at crt. i dont remember getting eye-strain and stuff like on flatpanels. The fact you cant see moving pixels at all annoys me for years. Even to i m using a pretty good 144hz Benq, thats also color calibrated...it does look good, but slight movements in game and you dont see anything at all, even at 144hz, it kind of feels like youre sitting in a super fast car just staring outside at close distance and everything is just zooming buy as colors. If i play a shooter for example, i cant constantly look around and then spot an enemy, especially since newer graphics makes it super hard to see (eg, a small head poppoing up behind a tree in some super dense jungle area) I basicly need to look a certain direction and then basicly stop movement, so i can clearly see everything and spot movements. So basicly spotting moving stuff in a still image because spotting an enemy visually in a moving image is nearly impossible. I dont remember i ever had these issues back then. We were mainly playing stuff like unreal tournament 2004 or cs on lan and, no issues. i think my crt i had as a kid was actaully really good, if i remember correctly, i was using something like 1280×960 100+hz , it was able to get higher in resolution but the funny thing was: as a kid, i didnt even fully understand how resolution and refresh rates even work. it was more like: Trying out 1600×1200 and it basicly almost looked the same than 1280x almost but i noticed it showed less hz. So my basic kid understanding was: ''okay if hz goes up, it feels better'' But if you had a game that was insanely demanding, you could drop to 800x600 and it still looked good. You had PC Hardware performance, you could scale up and down based on resolution, wich was awesome because basicly everyone was able to play the game.

[@clydewarrior2255]

Perhaps the problem is primarily due to the very simple graphics in older games rather than the display technology?

[@huerta25264]

good video mayne. keep up the good work. you are to get your break soon, in the meantime have my sub!

[@user-ze6tb4xq5f]

For some reason when I opted for flat monitors instead CRTs, my eyes were getting more tired. I always heard that CRTs are more damaging to the eye, but I experienced quite the opposite. I could use a CRT for 10 hours without any problem, while on modern monitors I was getting tired after 2-3 hours. My first flat monitor was a Samsung 2032BW, so it was not one of those high latency displays.

[@Gigagamer74]

What do I think about using a CRT monitor for modern gaming? I now use a CRT monitor for gaming and only a CRT monitor, because it is the best choice for gaming today. The main thing that is important to me is the complete absence of input lag on the monitor. This allows the player to have much better control. Response time and color rendering also matter. The benefit from a high refresh rate in a CRT is much higher than the benefit from a high refresh rate in an LCD monitor. Summarizing everything together, I came to the conclusion that an LCD monitor could never replace my CRT monitor. The return of CRT monitors to the market is inevitable. Once upon a time, just as CRT monitors were forgotten, tube sound amplifiers and vinyl records were also forgotten. Today, these technologies are making a comeback and are in great demand on the market. If our world has not gone crazy, CRT monitors for games will return to the market and make a success. I have just one comment. For some reason I can't stand pot-bellied monitors; I only recognize the Sony Trinitron as an acceptable CRT monitor for gaming.

[@themaindragon]

heh, to think of all the money i paid for crt's back then, then people threw away working ones when they got lcd's. the crt's were HUGE and HEAVY, picture was blurry, refresh rate at 60hz had a flicker, some of them made awful high pitch noise, the heat they put off. trying to remember was i using 75 -90hz and 800x600 maybe 1024x768, it was nice not being stuck to the native res, the ghosting on lcd's was so bad back then. funny how he mentions having to adjust the screen to fit, i used to do that all the time on other people computers cause they just used them out of the box. i was so glad to get rid of that 19" monster i had. but crt was harder to break, unless you took a magnet to the screen, but you could fix that, and computer monitors did have degauss. are modern speakers still magnetically shielded so you could put them next to your crt or does everyone just use headphones now so it wouldn't matter? crt tv i held out longer, older movies look better on a crt, unless you have some crazy remastered copies. another thing, speakers in most tv's were not as bad as some are today.

[@OCTAGRAM]

I have found a great addition to CRT. A hardware scaler. My scaler is Kramer VP-724XL. The only specific thing about this scaler is that I found cheap used one. Otherwise Extron or something else will also do. But most of them have problem of not having VGA output. Or else they have D-SUB pin output, but with some RGB TV signal which is not VGA. Modern games think they run in 1280x960, and then hardware downscaled to 640x480 with nostalgic scanlines. I like this feeling of getting used to scanlines and looking through them. There is something magical in this graphics. Modern games won't run that good on CRT if I try to run them in authentic 640x480.

[@Wobble2007]

Why would you only upgrade to a top-tier CRT if you have a crappy LCD monitor, a good CRT beats even a 33 thousand £$ RGBOLED BVM, let alone a top-end gaming LCD, nothing comes close to CRT for gaming. 1920x1440 @ 120Hz on my LaCie Blue 22" would take at least 1000Hz on LCD to feel as smooth.

[@motomasterx5824]

I agree, I have a sweet BenQ 240hz monitor with backlight strobing “dyac” and it comes relatively close to my crt. But still the crt at only 75hz wins by a decent margin. I also have an OLED tv that I thought would be amazing due to the near instant pixel response time but I underestimated how bad sample and hold really is for motion clarity even with lightning fast response times

[@overnightdelivery]

@@motomasterx5824 I have the LG C1 OLED and even with all game optimizations, 120Hz, GSYNC, or Black Frame Insertion, it has a juttery motion and still has noticeable blur. Seemed ok until I looked at a CRT that is still noticeablely smoother at 60Hz. Sucks that it COULD BE great but this sample and hold stuff ruins it.

[@likara6667]

A way to offset the somewhat blurrier CRT picture is to use the CAS shader in Reshade, and there's another shader that lets you adjust brightness and contrast

[@mr.jamster8414]

Sick T-Shirt Brother!

[@dheerajSM]

You have a really beautiful explanation 🙂

[@Skipti_LLC]

Thank you! 😃

[@dheerajSM]

​@@Skipti_LLCwe would love to see more videos of CRTs​! they are getting more famous now-a-days, te intrest has come back..

[@8BeatsVGM]

Motion blur = 0

[@ricarnuninho80]

Flicker causes zero motion blur. :) The very fast response time doesn't cause blurring but yes the cause is very low persistence time.

[@delightedbylight9893]

hey, thank you for the video man. you inspired me and reopened my past closed dors. i will research CRT. i am a fps gamer since doom quake 1 2, 3, halflife & cs 1.6... all of them played on crt screens. i recently started to game apex and i love it buy i always find the motion is fishy and stupid for my neuros when i turn camera.... my brain is still searchin for that perfect fast smoothness. is CRT the solution that i forgot about? i do play on 180 fps cap + 3060ti and buyed"esports" monitor benq zowie xl2546k but nothing satisfyes my eye nowdays. i am still looking for that childhood memory of super smooth motion when i turn my camera in fps games. hope crt will be the solution, i will research more. thank you

[@ryanwood6754]

I wanted to try it just for fun on my switch and a crt tv and man it looked great. Too small on some games but great on others tho some of it could be the tv I dunno. But with older games especially like ps2 etc it makes the games look so much nicer imo and the FPS drop isn’t as noticeable

[@Skipti_LLC]

In a couple of weeks I’ll be releasing a video about using the Steam deck on a CRT 🤫🤫🤫

[@errvega2705]

You can put launch commands on apex to support 4:3 or just straight up use the dx12 launcher it has

[@Cesar-ot1xk]

Good video, i have an hp v7650 with 1440x1080i 144hz or 1600x1200i 120hz, depending on whai im playing

[@RedVRCC]

CRTs are great for retro games because a lot of those games were made to take advantage of such a display. The fact you can find them for cheap makes it even better. You can make a badass retro gaming setup that's entirely separate from your main gaming rig for super cheap so you don't have to constantly reconnect your monitors too. Grab an old ass office PC or even a raspberry pi and install something like lakka (linux distro meant specifically for emulator boxes).

[@jesselam5867]

When the adaptor costs more than your monitor

[@clumpyschlipz7571]

What software was that where you configured the monitor?

[@dbowl7111]

For a moment, I swore to god that the thumbnail was an edited screenshot from Terminator 2. Looked so much like Eddie Furlong

[@skullheadwater9839]

I hate LCDs especially for watching TV. I am 54 yrs old and I grew up with CRT tech. This is going to sound weird, but I totally like the look of a CRT image better. The smoother look is more realistic and comparable to real life IMHO. When I got my first LCD tv 54" to replace my CRT TV in 2018 it took some getting used to. It was so crisp it looked fake. I know that makes no sense but watching stuff especially old movies the LCD shows any imperfection and the CRT just is just better to me. This video is making me want to get my 42" CRT TV out of the shed and plug it back in. Another thing is CRT TVs last so much longer. I literally bought a 36" CRT in like 1987 and the only reason I don't still have it is because my house was in 9' of water after Hurricane Katrina. When I got my first LCD it broke after 2 weeks. I returned it and got a different brand, and it broke after 3 months. My third LCD has lasted since about 2019 so I feel I am lucky. Also, with regard to TV I miss when you turned on the TV it was just on and worked. I really hate that now I turn on my TV and it has to boot up. Then I have to select input and grab the cable remote and hit the center button before I get a picture. I hate that if you watch for more than an hour or so it pauses you and asks "are you still watching? yes or no" I just want to turn it on, and it stay on until I turn it off. Is that so hard to understand. LOL

[@stacywilliams6965]

I have a Mitsubishi diamond Tron which does 1600 by 1200 at 85 or 1800 by 1440 at 75 but I'm trying to change it to interlaced and get higher refresh but Nvidia is being a but any ideas?

[@TuiCatNZ]

I have a beautiful 22' trinitron and am having a really hard time finding an adapter that can do 2048x1536@80hz. At the moment im slumming it using a gtx960 with the native VGA out (vire dvi-i) my gtx980ti died :-(.

[@Clambo226]

Had the same issue, I miss my two fw900 trinitrons.

[@stefanpapdi5151]

Im using an old probsbly fw900 level sgi, its 85hz on my csgo resolution of 1024x768 and its obvoiusly instant resposne with no refresh times since they literal tubes. Very instant hand to monitor feeling im thinking of getting a 980 ti for the analoge port, pair it with zen 4? Lol

[@oathanrex]

I have crt i use vga to hdmi its runs but screen start blinking after 1 min its annoying can you tell me how to fix it or its impossible tor un 1050ti on crt moniter?

[@L1Q]

is there a way to turn an old CRT tv into a decent monitor? I have tons of them around town. maybe there are some chinese boards around for turning HDMI/DP into analogue signal fit for a tube display?

[@Dudelee1]

not really, 99% of CRT TVs had a maximum resolution of 480i, which will look terrible on a PC if you can even get windows to output at that. On top of that, a typical CRT TV's geometry is not good enough to be a monitor. In short, if you can get it to work at all, it will be a flickering image with illegible text at a very low resolution with terrible geometry

[@SuperSuperka]

the link to reddit is not working. Please give a link to good adapter (HDMI/Display port - VGA). I have perfect 22" HP p1230 but cannot have all resolutions and freshrates.

[@dheerajSM]

Why ain't anyone telling the most notable thing, CRTS LASTS LONGER!

[@bikashdash7960]

Old is gold

[@Abandex369]

thought this was a joke but now I wanna get one

[@doom33469]

@Displays Guy i have problems with DVI-D to VGA active adapter(my GPU have DVI-D, HDMI and Displayport)..The resolutions have bad Quality and diferents screen sizes..i use a Netbook with native VGA to test The CRT monitor and works amazing..The DVI-D to VGA active adapter feels bad..now, Displayport to VGA adapter is better option?

[@onlytrueanonymousfanszzzzzz]

Your t-shirt had me lauging out loud!

[@jskript1894]

love your shirt 💀💀

[@sachoslks]

Is the difference from say 85hz to 120hz as big on CRT as it is on LCD panels or is the CRT technology already smooth enough to make the jump harder to notice?

[@Skipti_LLC]

85 to 120 means you're giving up some amount of resolution in order to achieve that frame rate, I would argue that getting the highest resolution is more important on a CRT so long as your FPS is above 75 or so.

[@josephdias5859]

im getting a 2048 x 1536 dell p991 ultrascan trintron rebrand today cant wait

[@NYCMario1982]

i watch this on my COMPAQ P920 CRT from 2002!

[@TranscendentalAirwaves]

So what are you using to adapt to your CRT? I kept having tonnes of issues with it flickering.

[@Skipti_LLC]

I use a DisplayPort to VGA adapter that I bought from Office Depot, but flickering issues could be because of either a bad screen or using resolutions that the CRT wasn’t rated for.

[@lgmnowkondo938]

also..lower resolutions will likely look better. I know that makes no sense to a modern view of display technology, but consider it....and try some lower res's before you stick to the 1600x1200.

[@Skipti_LLC]

Yep, even emulation like Gamecube games look excellent because of the way CRT's handle "resolution"

[@christineayres7199]

Someone tested high end CRT one of those PVM monitors against the best Oled on sale today and the crazy thing is the 20 year old CRT was better than the $2500 monitor lol and it had a higher refresh rate too

[@sebww_-ef3li]

im looking for crt/retro monitor to be in my backround but cant find anything

[@ramranchcowboy8857]

so Amd fsr can make an old gpu run smooth again using this crt monitor??

[@displaytalk]

PC CRT strengths: Good on/off and low ADL contrast(falls apart at mid-low ADL levels), better motion clarity than any lcd(no crosstalk and 1ms MPRT, strobe frequency=hz at all refresh rates, no response time/gtg), resolution flexibility. Enjoy your CRTs today. By the end of the decade they will finally be made completely and totally obsolete by new display tech. Hopefully sooner rather than later with miniled fastIPS pc monitors. I'll be on mine until then(and until prices come down on those, probably til 2026 if my diamondtron keeps chugging til then).

[@SteveAkaDarktimes]

so me remembering Quake and Unreal tournament looking better than today isn't just nostalgia?

[@jameshunt1516]

While I would probably never go back to using a CRT,I still use LCD 4:3 monitors over widescreen as I just prefer it as the height is closer to the width.

[@ProJatior]

I’m more of a console gamer. I’ve thought about streaming old 4:3 shows on a CRT via a PS3 or something because they have component support. I like scan lines for certain games. I got one somebody wanted to donate but we don’t sell CRTs. So me and my boss got it in my car. Eventually I got a good set up. Got an NES recently for light gun games.. I tell myself. I turn the power grid off whenever I’m done using the Trinitron beast.

[@Skipti_LLC]

I'm actually planning a video soon about console gaming on CRTs

[@robloxian9962]

Me: **using a Compaq CRT monitor in 2021** Also me: its beautiful! 😌

[@muhammadhumza8458]

That post in the start says that your crt is 1600x1200 100hz but later in the video you said that its 1080p 85hz which means that it can only do 75hz at 1600x1200p

[@S0raJr]

Love the shirt

[@saleemnasir2k]

The post in the start says that your crt is 1600x1200 100hz but u said that it is a 1080p 85hz which that it can only do 75hz on 1600x1200

[@clydewarrior2255]

I once used a CRT monitor, and I categorically did not like the flickering and blurring of the image, especially on small text, as well as the glass screen in which everything was reflected as in a mirror These monitors have too many disadvantages, that's why I prefer LCD

[@ManOfAttitudeLP1998]

I used a proper CRT like HP P1230 as my primary display for some time and it was a blast and even a bright 200nits CRT was great for CSGO and Red Dead Redemption 2 looked sick

[@curiousmind_]

CSGO maybe, RDR 2 I don't think a crt is a good choice

[@ManOfAttitudeLP1998]

@@curiousmind_ it is believe me but now I have a ultrawide which is even nicer but believe me motion clarity and colors still were way nicer

[@curiousmind_]

@@ManOfAttitudeLP1998 for those things you mentioned I agree

[@ManOfAttitudeLP1998]

@@curiousmind_ and in general I wasn't missing much of a gaming expierience on it compared to the ultrawide mainly screen size it was just as sharp at just 1600*1200 to 2048*1536 compared to my 3440*1440 Monitor

[@RBimas37]

Did you sell the P1230 CRT?

[@8L0ND1E_WOLF]

Does anyone where I can buy a CRT monitor? I tried looking on ebay, but there may be lots of scammers out there.

[@yellowchino3883]

Are you located in America, and which part if you in if you are? I could probably help you out on discord/ Instagram or such

[@Eman-wj8gq]

"And if you give it a second, hasn't aged a day" hahaha

[@salaman1]

What's the crt's resolution?

[@arandomkaz]

2 years too late but ngl i just subbed cuz of the Tshirt

[@mrburns366]

a lot of monitors would remember your geometry settings for different resolutions so you wouldn't have to readjust every time

[@operaatio5117]

Oleds are so light that they are easy to steal. Since big boi CRT heavy, they are much harder to steal.

[@crazywarp36]

yes

[@allyouneedtoknow8638]

when u see his tshirt

[@ab_xcqi5708]

My 75hz monitor cracked so I have to use a crappy 2008 TV as my monitor and EVEYRTHING looks shit so I'm trying to look for videos with people who also use crappy monitors like my TV so I feel better and not alone 🥲

[@ManOfAttitudeLP1998]

CRTs aren't crappy and have zero input lag your tv is actually crap

[@ab_xcqi5708]

@@ManOfAttitudeLP1998 i got a new monitor

[@ManOfAttitudeLP1998]

@@ab_xcqi5708 Me too 21:9 ultrawide and my crt still which looks better in motion no black smearing like va panel has

[@zazabean23]

You can force games to use any resolution. CRU is just one way.

[@Skipti_LLC]

As far as I can tell, most games only use resolutions that your monitor expressly states it supports. CRU is a way of tricking windows into thinking the monitor supports other resolutions as well.

[@zazabean23]

@@Skipti_LLC Where do you think games check to see what resolution your monitor is natively displaying? I can use any resolution on the game.

[@PffingAlexeyPetrov]

Yes i should to game. I have CRT monitor with 19' called LG Flatron F900P. I remember overclocking to 104-105 Hz on 1280x960. I wanted to do better experience Max Hz on resolutions 2048x1536 - 70-71 Hz 1920x1440 - 75-76 Hz 1600x1200 - 89-90 Hz 1280x1024 - 104-105 Hz

[@justiny.9600]

I miss the old days Coming in from school Watching toonami

[@prorameez6738]

what is the name of your CRT

[@seamusmckeon9109]

I felt a jolt when he choke slammed his LCD monitor

[@frenchfrysz6695]

CRT monitors gave me eye strain like HELL back in the day. I do not have issues with the newer models. man... ugh.

[@Skipti_LLC]

I had the same experience, especially when looking at predominantly white images, I would get headaches. Still, definitely a cool option to have!

[@adityagauba630]

The Photo Shop where I go.. there are 4 CRT monitors as big and fat as an old TV...and the people edit on those.. on asking them, they said they just upgraded the CPU and RAM..but didn't think of these items like keyboards, monitors and mice as necessary to upgrade if they are working fine...

[@ManOfAttitudeLP1998]

How do they calibrate them nowadays

[@adityagauba630]

@@ManOfAttitudeLP1998 Local computer shops are our only option...as all larger shops refuse, saying that those services are obsolete

[@adityagauba630]

Btw I use a BPL crt TV as my gaming monitor

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodsc1447]

I just use a CRT monitor cause I think it looks cool

[@BJtheBassist]

Nah. My 27i are currently on rBay with a mount. My CRTs are faster drawing and have 0 ghosting. I don’t want to use an LCD monitor ever again!

[@RatusMax]

Rofl I was just going to say "damn, that monitor might be older than YOU!" but at the end you made the joke.

[@amielebron3380]

431st sub. here.. i hope you reach a mill. subs.

[@BeatemupMaster]

Yes. You should use CRT for Modern Games AND Retro Games! Because, you can Play both! Of Course you can Retro Play on Modern TV. But not so good as the old crt tv! And the last one have hdmi Input! There is no Reason (for me) To Buy a Flatscreen again...

[@TechSpec814]

I personally don't see myself getting a CRT. LED works for me but this was still interesting nevertheless. Old tech is interesting to me as current tech