🟥The Greatest Display That Ever Was Or Will Be.... The GDM-FW900 💎💎

[@ZReviews]

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[@ZReviews]

PS, April's Yard Sale these will be in

[@brane2379]

GDM-W900 were AWESOME. We owned two of them. It was only CRT I ever seen that was totally artifact free OVER WHOLE AREA. You could run it 1920x1200 and every SINGLE PIXEL would be FRIGGIN IDEAL. No defocus, not color bloom, no distortions, nothing ever.

[@MrAmazinj]

Are these still available?

[@EposVox]

FW900 has been my holy grail for a loooooooong time.

[@leomendez3195]

owner of one here HP version. video of it on my page if you want to see it.

[@ManOfAttitudeLP1998]

@@leomendez3195 Can I calibrate it for you using windas and a colorimeter

[@JunkBondTrader]

lol I just read you commenting this in a Linus video, that showed a clip of this monitor. Your comment led me down a rabbit hole on this monitor. I end up on this video, and here you are again, longing for this monitor :p

[@wg8561]

There is one on eBay right now. He's local to me and through communication I found out he actually had 4. So I bought one today for a very reasonable price. He might be up to sell 1 more. His ebay handle is cross eyed zombie hunter. I think there are still 2 day's left for the one on auction.

[@sleep_now...]

It's good to see someone appreciate image quality over thin bezels or how thin screens are.

[@PastorwithoutaPulpit]

There were CRT's that came with a Degauss built in but it looks like all of those could use a good degaussing, especially the one that's to green. Basically you need a large fairly powerful magnet and you start at the center of the screen you want to degauss after the monitor has fully warmed up. Then slowly work your way to the outer edges in an ever larger circular motion. You do this working from the center and start making small circles getting larger until you no longer see the magnet having any effect on the screen. If your magnet is the right power you will end up making circles about 3ft in diameter from the screen yet on the same plain. Hope I've explained this correctly as it was part of the normal maintenance of CRT's and depending on placement of the monitor could be something you need to do monthly. I used to be director of management for Nickelodeon Arcades back in the late 90's early 00's which meant I had to deal with a ton of CRT's as every video arcade machine had one in it. Being so close to each other meant that they had to be degaussed biweekly to monthly due to the machines they were next to also having CRT's which throw off one heck of a field. Hope that helps anyone who bids on these because you'd be surprised just how much that simple maintenance procedure can correct the colors and overall alignment of the gun/guns in these old monitors...

[@ZReviews]

I think that is what the Image Restoration pass does. I demo it in the video. But I will consider that.

[@ericthomas2388]

Thanks Z. Long time viewer. I left the audio scene a while ago, and had a few hobbies here and there. I ended up discovering how amazing CRT monitors truly are. I have two Dell P1110 monitors which I have officially proclaimed my endgame monitors. Funny how the world bring us together again. I would love one of these and have family located in Pennsylvania. But, I don’t think I’ll be winning any yard sale bids. Thank you for years of enjoyment.

[@Daniel_Schadel]

I have the 4:3 version of this, the Sony fw420 and I love it so much so happy to see your enthusiasm for these old displays!

[@ZReviews]

not the 520?

[@Daniel_Schadel]

@@ZReviews no it's basically the same monitor exact same shell and everything, I think it came out a little earlier and they did a slight refresh

[@aleksandarbojovic]

@@Daniel_Schadel Sony CPD-G420, 19 inch 4:3??

[@Daniel_Schadel]

@@aleksandarbojovic yes! Sorry I messed up on the name a bit

[@socaranectien1933]

@@Daniel_Schadel ​ I have that one too. It’s not the 4:3 version of the fw900.

[@JacobLAChristenson]

So When Crysis came out I built a computer and bought a nice lcd and thought I was king. I had a xbox 360 and played it on a crt hd tv looked awesome. I then bought a lcd tv and it looked horrible. Which made me think what's going on. I did my research and that changed my life forever. I am now a FW 900 owner for life. I own 5 of them and even now OLED dont compare when gaming you get lag and motion blur. The picture in stills is close but I still prefer the FW900.

[@ManOfAttitudeLP1998]

How would you get five GDM FW900 I have an lacie electron blue iv and Vision Master pro 454. Also owned an HP P1230 and HP P1130 they were great as well but I might die without an GDM FW 900

[@wreckervilla]

You can use software called LookingGlass that copies the frame buffer of one graphics card and send it to another GPU for output. Could take a 3090/6900XT for acceleration and output video passthrough with a DVI-I dual link capable card.

[@ZReviews]

You don't say............

[@Lionotus]

Thats a good idea, though i wonder how spotty the software compatibility would be as multi-gpu support is basically extinct these days. It might also get flagged by some online games anti-cheat. I'm also curious about how much of a latency hit you'll take. Right now the best i can hope for is that GPU vendors go back to making more diverse custom PCB's, and finding one with a DVI-I port (probably an import from Asia market), but i'm not holding my breath on that considering the state of the world right now with regards to computer hardware manufacturing :(

[@eryonzane]

Holy shit I want one of these so bad. They are incredibly rare in my country, haven't seen one for sale anywhere in like 3 years now. I found a single one in kinda bad condition for like 3000 bucks and I'd have to drive like 700 miles to pick it up. One day I'll get one, these are so fucking amazing.

[@Ace01010]

See this is what I mean! Appreciation of these beautiful displays and willingness to give onto others, Not someone who clearly knows the value of these monitors and only wants profit but someone who knows they won't last forever and wants to give it another home. You sir have my respect! and just got yourself another subscriber.

[@Kahana82]

Zeos gets it. Very fond memories of that era ... had a 19" iiyama or maybe a 21", can't remember exactly. Only now with a 43" C1 OLED am I getting some of that visual satisfaction back.

[@Ab-ru1ew]

Oled's 10bit color output is far from crt's 24bit color output.

[@davidmthekidd]

Those SGI monitors were the defacto for visual effects & animation work in the late to early 2000s.

[@IkuMiku96]

i wish i could get FW900, just that no one's selling locally here anymore (pretty sure everyone kept theirs). im only using cheapo ACER AC713 at 1920x1200@60Hz (black bars) but its a beauty for colour, blackness and motion. used for photoediting, game and for movie. i ran at 720p@90Hz for gaming. wished interlaced worked on 2018 and above graphic cards so i could use 1920x1200i at 100Hz, really missed it (with DP to VGA adapter). to get pure blackness though i adjusted gamma to be like 1.9 or so even compared to my friend's 240Hz gaming monitor, the crt was unbeatable even for pure game for 1200i 100Hz, let alone 720i at 160Hz. only oled for computer monitor could replace crt i would say. but getting decent sized oled monitor for good price is not a thing for now

[@Sebastian_Athea]

You can connect vga monitor to modern pc with display port to vga converter, a lot of them can work on non standard refresh rates too. Also unlike tvs, crt pc monitors are designed to trow beta radiation on the sides and top of the display and not on the front or bottom.

[@zambas8401]

There is nothing better than a good CRT,, Tops everything... I secretly hope a company brings the tech back, its impossible to think of the future without CRTs

[@berryblade1305]

😂lol, bro if the majority of the world was interested in crts still, they would be the majority of displays.

[@sonyx4500]

​​@@berryblade1305Most of the people don't know better. They choose LCD because it looks flashy in a bright room. Because of those people we lost plasma.

[@ffwast]

@@berryblade1305 Nice try dооfus,the real answer is always profit. Flat screens are just cheaper to build and ship.

[@jeffhampton6972]

This was a delight to watch and listen to, both to learn more about these monitors, and also just to hear you so head-over-heels with them. I hope they sold for a good amount!

[@techtim123]

A mad scientist invention that's what CRT is!

[@screwb1882]

Keep them. CRTs are consumable and the tube will wear out with use over the years. Have it go into sleep when you are not using it.

[@ds2x8]

Have an FW900 and C520k and love both of them. Colors, brightness, and sharpness are better on the C520 but the extra real estate is great to have on the FW900. Makes me sad that we could have had Adobe RGB widescreen CRT's if LCD's didn't phase them out when they did. I think Unkle Vito has a prototype 24" Artisan but haven't seen any pics of it. There are converters which work really well with modern GPU's. I'm using a Vention CGMHA usb C to VGA adapter for my FW900 with BNC cables and can perfectly run 1920 x 1200 @ 85hz and even higher. The Delock 62967 DP to VGA adapter is also really good and use it on the C520k. Modern games can be played at lower resolutions with all the eye candy turned up with DLSS & DLDSR (for Nvidia cards) which look and play amazing.

[@ZReviews]

I may have to look into the Vention CGMHA

[@chrisk3127]

Z will likely be waiting for micro LED before he's satisfied with anything else

[@Skylancer727]

I don't even think that will satisfy him. He said he likes the smooth milky look it has. MicroLED and OLED having defined sub pixels means it can never look like that. You'll only get this look when we have ultra dense 8K displays at say 40 inches and below. That's where you may get back to that pure smooth image look.

[@Ab-ru1ew]

Impossible cuz CRT outputs 24bit color, microled like oled and lcd only do 10bit color output.

[@chrisk3127]

@@Skylancer727 well you shouldn't be able to see individual pixels on 4k below 40 inches 8k would probably be good up to 60 inches

[@Skylancer727]

@@chrisk3127 I can... I see it fairly easily at 4K on my 27 inch monitor from about 3ft back. Been using that QLED monitor for about 4 years now. Though to be fair, I do have 20:10 vision and that's incredibly rare.

[@ianskinner1619]

I had one of those, but in the Viewsonic version. best monitor i ever had for 3D animation and compositing work.

[@Edward135i]

Zeos is so lucky to have gotten one of this $105, because they go for outrageous money now days.

[@Broadpaw_Fox]

Jesus Z - get out of my head. You keep putting my opinions into words for me, and it's creepy. I used to have something just like this - not quite this model (because I couldn't afford it), but a wide flat-screen big tube very similar. I miss it - life took it from me years ago. I promise you that you just found a good home for one of these - I need one. I miss CRT's for the same reasons you listed, and want to get one again now that I have somewhere to use it (just bought my house). So here's the deal - I want #2. I can also fix the wiring issue, but I'll be using the bnc's anyway, so that's a non issue. And as a bonus, if you'd like I can bring my new to me pair of vintage Klipsch La Scala's with so you can demo them if you'd like. The only question is timing- I'll have to schedule it since I'm busy with work, so I'll need so lead time. I'll hit you up in your telegram too - but I'm completely serious- you have found someone as excited and serious about these "old monitors" as you obviously are. I need one, and I'd rather have one of yours than try to find another one online with no history available. Let me know. **edited for spelling**

[@PedroSilva-dm4bo]

I pray someday they make a modern version of this but with blue laser raster scan and Quantum dot aperture grille. That would be hands down the best monitor ever made.

[@kazaakas]

As a CRT collector I hope so as well. But it's never going to happen. The production process of these things is super complicated, and was only profitable back when we had massive factories serving many millions of units every year. Those factories, and their personnel are long gone. With the current low levels of demand for these things, it will never get to an affordable level anymore.

[@slippingjimmys]

Digital Foundry have an amazing video on CRT's and John purchased a Sony FW900, they are top tier for CRTs, amazing screens.

[@juanme555]

If you have at least a mid end CRT thats working properly, and you got a decent cpu, and you got a maxwell gpu and run your display with the classic dvi-i to vga adapter....i strongly recommend you play Resident Evil 7 on high settings, at 1280x800 , stretched, and turn all of the post-fx ON , tune the brightness properly, use REC709 color space. Nothing besides OLED comes close to that experience...i can personally confirm.

[@1stWorldProblemsSolved]

The colors come through very well watching on a calibrated LG C1, I'd say a calibrated OLED is next best thing.

[@Ab-ru1ew]

These crt monitors output 24bit color, lcd and oled monitors output 10bit color, so it's not even close.

[@kazaakas]

@@Ab-ru1ew Its not about bits per se, more about coverage of the gamut

[@horchatakevin]

Thor Ragnorok on this would be crazyyyy. With some wharfedale Linton with a tube amp 🥶

[@juanme555]

i can tell you from personal experience with CRT's .... modern games look great on them, but where CRT truly shines in modern games is HORROR and high skill ceilling multiplayers, if not horror, then games that rely on atmosphere. Bioshock 1 and all of the Metro saga, 2033, Last Light and Exodus , and specially above all...Resident Evil 7 .....ufff man i dont think those games will ever come close to look even half as good on an LCD as they did on my mid end Samsung 997MB crt , OLED could probably match it though, but not your average tn or ips panel. Resident Evil 7 has a bunch of graphical filters that add to the grim and dark atmosphere, and it also has a bunch of artistic style that kinda tries to make the game look like a VHS tape, so that game looks absolutely INSANE on CRT, i don't know what else to say, you gotta try it if you can one day.

[@ot4kon]

High end crt? Even low end crt monitor looks waaaaay better than high end modern TVs. No lag and true blacks. If you display a black picture it looks as if is turned off, the color on that electrically Excited phosphorus looks better than any kind Liquid cristal pixel.

[@i_hate_sourkraut4965]

I have a diamondtron superbright that I use for retro games and everytime I go back to my lcd I am dissapointed

[@ZReviews]

So Linus Tech Tips just whipped out one of these AND a Dreamcast... Coincidence?

[@dgregory4178]

I had a monster Sony CRT in the early 2000's for gaming. the weight actually bowed a cheap desk. Good memories.

[@ZReviews]

I left out the part in the early 2010s when I took this to a LAN party

[@dgregory4178]

@@ZReviews Haha! I almost did the same. Only reason I didn't was I didn't like the games they were playing. Was hooked on BF42 AND BF Vietnam.

[@gramblor1]

The reason I cherish my plasma TV is because it's picture is similar to a CRT's.

[@ManOfAttitudeLP1998]

Yeah also organic

[@boltvanderhuge8711]

"I love this CRT" he says as he tortures it with a static image

[@ZReviews]

You let me admire it how I want.

[@jipillow1]

I love when LGR gets confused and ends up in my Z reviews

[@jlaseter]

For big screen best in class displays that outperform anything except CRTs for motion, check out the Panasonic ZT60 plasma screens. They have much less permanent burn in risk than OLED, top-tier color reproduction, longer panel life and more brightness than the Pioneer elite (which in their final days were, interestingly, made by Panasonic). It's the closest thing you can get to a big screen CRT. And it can indeed be called the best of the plasma screens, since none are now made. They also have a 96 Hz mode, which is a sort of fast-pixel-flicker multiplier applied to give the perfect adaptation of 24 Hz film signals.

[@chopinhoven]

input lag not good for gaming

[@clipse85]

You should really see an OLED in a dark room. I bought the cheapest LG A1 TV several weeks ago and it has the BEST picture I have EVER seen, and I've seen almost every CRT in my time. The more expensive models are even better. Then there's QD-OLED - even brighter and with even more color volume. The new Alienware QD-OLED monitor promises to be rather affordable too at $1300, compared to $3000+ for previous offerings. IMO if you buy the Alienware, you will have your new endgame for now (until directly stimulated quantum dot displays make it to market :)

[@Cinnabuns2009]

I'd say $1000-1200 for a 32" would be reasonable but of course they're bringing out the paltry 27" and price gouging.

[@clipse85]

@@Cinnabuns2009 Um, not sure what you mean. The monitor in question is 34" and it's an ultrawide... It has quite a curve but IMO that is fitting for an ultrawide.

[@LegacyIvyTerascale]

you can put a lamp or any light source behind the TV/monitor it will light the room, but not reflect on the screen 🙂

[@robertfarquhar2780]

I have a 34 inch crt 4:3 tandberg rebadged monivision that does 1024X768, will also do 16:9 resolutions up to 1366x768 and 1080i and it will also do 1920x1440i, it's surprisingly sharp. I love playing emulators on it, melee looks glorious and the colors just pop I love the way it glows and this is why I love plasma displays because they get the closest to crt and I've actually compared the crt to my plasma and colors and black levels are near identical, plasmas tend to glow like crts so I love em.

[@crtautist220]

thanks for the 4:3 upload. looked great on my own crt.

[@ChrisoneillART]

I owned a flat Trinaton for years, mind you it was only a Dell, but I have fond memories of it. I only "upgraded" away from it because of it's enormous size and weight, It was literally warping and breaking my desk.

[@saiprasad8078]

Just do a 360 spin on a CRT and see LED LCD fanboys DIE. 😂

[@webdigo]

I used to have an fw900 for 9 years. Bought it used of course. The weight and power consumption was madness. But oh boy the picture quality was good.

[@aarongarabedian2941]

$3800 on eBay currently lol

[@mechanicbot2834]

$12000 now

[@fishtailfuture]

Isn't the 16:9 Sony the GOAT? Does this have better color and resolution. Another one I'm talking about was good because it was flat screen and 16 x 9. I forget the size. But that doesn't necessarily mean it was the best picture.

[@stevenmichael7770]

Looking at a CRT on my LCD monitor is like listening to a sound demo of La Scalas on my RP600ms, lol. Great vid - CRTs definitely had advantages, unfortunately size wound up outweighing all of them.

[@ZReviews]

pun

[@HoLDoN4Sec]

oh man, i used to have a Sony Trinitron CRT and used it for sooo many darn years. i replaced it with a LCD in 2013 because when i first got prescription glasses i was effin shocked at how blurred the image it was producing was... in a sense, the reason i got prescription glasses was most likely BECAUSE i used it so much i probably got used to that blurry image. i feel sorry for doing that now that i know it probably was just a bad DVI-I cable... it was probably the best pc monitor i ever had, 1920x1200 85hz and 22"... i replaced it with a 1920x1080 60hz 24" display and while the image was a lot clearer, the Trinitron has a MUCH more realistic image and the colors it produced were AMAZING compared to the LCD i bought, and that was a pretty "high end professional graphics design LCD"... man i miss the old days when things just worked perfectly... right now i'm using an AW3420DW monitor, and to be honest if i still had my good old Trinitron around i'd rather use it instead of my current main monitor lol

[@Justin.HeterodonHome]

Damnit dude... I was trying to psych myself up to sell my PVMs and BVMs and now you're making me want to keep them! You are 100% correct. There is nothing like a good CRT display when it comes to colors, contrast and smoothness of motion. I bought a Sony A1E OLED back when it first release and it's still a damn good OLED TV even compared to today's beasts, but I hooked it up to an HDMI splitter, pushed an old flat panel, 32 inch, 200lb monster of a CRT underneath it, and played Horizon Zero Dawn on both at the same time. The OLED didn't even come close. Colors were fantastic on both, but the CRT's lack of motion blur when panning 100% clinched it for me. I gave the OLED TV to my parents and have used the CRT ever since. When the consoles stop supporting 1080i or 720p I suppose I'll have to make the switch again.

[@32krod]

The aspect ratio. Quality.

[@ZReviews]

It SERIOUSLY might stay this way.. Works so much better for headcam perspective.

[@aUPSdriver]

Awesome finds, I nearly had one for cheap on craigslist a couple years ago but somebody got there before me. Now I've got a Sony CPD-G520 which is super nice, got it brand new for $500 so more than I would like to pay for old tech but it's just so good. Startech DP2VGAHD20 is the DisplayPort to VGA adapter I use, it has a high bandwidth but not enough to quite saturate my monitor. I think it can go up to 360 MHz ish.

[@fmbroadcast]

Woooooooow I realy dream to buy this GDM-FW900 !!!!

[@modemlaugh]

TYPING FIRST SENTENCE IN ALL CAPS TO BE AS SPAMMY AS POSSIBLE. Z, the adapter you want is the Startech DP2VGAHD20. That one works at 1900x1200@85Hz without any glitches. All credit to the folks on the HardForum thread for finding that. I use it on my gaming PC with the VGA to BNC breakout cable and it looks amazing! Also you may want to keep one of those bad boys in case the flyback or something goes out. My fingers are crossed that mine lasts the rest of the LCD dark age! QD-OLED sounds promising but I don't know if it will beat CRT motion resolution. Cheers and thanks for helping make sure the world doesn't forget about these!

[@notmynamethanks9219]

It's been a long time since unreal 2, what a throwback

[@ZReviews]

I bought the EVERY UNREAL PACK EVER back in like 2014 and never played most of them.

[@kornar]

I am still looking for a good CRT but they are insanly expensive these days.

[@ACallander22]

I miss my NEC multisync CRT.

[@by_niizan.]

とても良いビデオですね very nice!

[@nihilitrix9913]

Glad to see you here.

[@ENNEN420]

This is a pretty degenerate room especially paired with those wallpapers Godspeed. Keep going. Might i recommend some touhou or tsukihime wallscrolls?

[@Mr.Hatchet_]

Cant wait for the new quantum oled tech displays. Hope they are going to be the new kings.

[@Skylancer727]

Well they do get better motion than LCDs without the blur, but while they do have less input lag they do not compete with CRTs having 0. CRTs only have it because they're analog while OLED is a progressive scanned image that needs to be loaded in full to render. OLED also lacks that pure smooth look this will have as it has actual sub pixels. CRTs combine the colors together, they don't sit next to each other as sub pixels. QD-OLED will be the king of movie watching, though I'm not so sure about gaming. Using a filter for red and green light makes me wonder if it's going to have a slight blur that existing OLED displays don't have. Though being that each color is combined like a CRT it might have that smoother look. depends if there's a gap between pixels.

[@Mr.Hatchet_]

@@Skylancer727 Only future will tell. cant wait untill dell/ samsung releases the first panels for gaming. wanne see the reviews. I seezthe point of good old crts.. its just not my world. If i ever would get one. it would be for retro game consoles just to have tee feeel on point. But its an intresting topic anyway.

[@SKY11211213]

I completely feel you. Previously i thought my NEC / Mitsubishi Diamondtron FE2111SB was too dim but actually the white balance changes all electron gun settings and the only seeing that's good is sRGB with a max brightness of 10 set by sRGB too. Crts are such a great window to the content. It feels like you could touch it and then suddenly you come back to the realisation when you touched the tube. I would rather sell everything first before i lose my Sony OEV 143 and FE2111. The speed in any content is awesome. OLED can not get the fluidity. It's like the colour gets cut off due to the speed without what crts do best where the light decays smoothly

[@vinlingur]

I mean, tbh picking up at Zeos sounds like it would be worth more, how much extra to include some listening time on headphones?

[@shotgunmasterQL]

Acksually: CRT TVs are still "being made" despite all the factories being shut down for years, but not for consumer use! I remember there was this short doc about CRTs when they were just recently getting more and more popular in the retro scene/with the retro scene getting bigger. There's still one person capable of making single CRT tubes, but he pretty much exclusively offers his services for museums and such, that want working and new CRT displays for historical value. Obviously, the dudes old, the tubes are extremely expensive since there's no capacity to mass produce them, and I'm not sure if they are "best of the best", but they should be pretty good. And I would also argue about VCRs, the best ones probably were already made decade or two ago, so any of the more recent modern ones still hanging on by a thread, probably aren't trying to be the best but just use the advanced late VCR technology as the basis. Since there's no more competition on that field, "good" will suffice.

[@0megalul309]

This is how I feel with my kuro 60"

[@ZReviews]

The Kuro.. I never got to see one IRL

[@0megalul309]

@@ZReviews My roomates still can't believe its 1080p, half the time they think we are watching shit in 4k ahah. Great Tv from the times where companies listened to engineers and not businessmen.

[@RathOX]

imo i prefer the dell p1230

[@blendernoob64]

At this point I’ve accepted that I will never own an FW900. I am pretty happy with my Sun GDM 5410 and it has almost all the same specs as the fw900 but in 4:3. I would only trade it for a Mitsubishi diamondtron with a 140khz scan

[@kostasmav7896]

This is the best thumbnail you have made

[@ZReviews]

Probably because I didn't make it. I gave the task to my patrons chat

[@TravisLohmannMusic]

Owner of LaCie Blue Electron IV 19"! I hope one day to get an FW900!

[@i_hate_sourkraut4965]

Also there are still a few crts being made by hand in the us but there for art installations

[@luxetveritas777]

There was that time, when I calibrated my crt monitor with a colorimeter, these looks awesome

[@Slay3rOne]

Omg I got my Sony GDM-FW900 back in 2015 and was absolutely blown away by it. I spent the time to calibrate it as well as I could. Back in the CRT days I had smaller lower end CRTs, and almost completely forgot how great those could look. Since then I started a small collection with a few LaCie Electron Blue IV 22", Iiyama Vision Master 514 among others. Last week after looking for years I finally got my hands on a couple Sony GDM-F520 and once again I got blown away. Absolute masterpieces!

[@ManOfAttitudeLP1998]

Damn I have an Pro 514 with u3 tube electronics fine but all the guns worn out sadly bought it like this and did not see the issue at first. Do you have a spare 514 with other issues than the tube

[@Slay3rOne]

@@ManOfAttitudeLP1998 No, I only have a single 514.

[@ManOfAttitudeLP1998]

@@Slay3rOne Ah shit

[@TheGreatEL]

I still have THE ultimate video card for those, modded 780TI. No analog conversion necessary, straight up plug-and-enjoy, but by the time I realized the joy of CRTs(~2020) - those GDM-FW900 were already impossible to come by. Found a somewhat worse, but still a higher-end crt. DAMN those things are amazing. No native resolution means even lowres looks crisp, and those that can drive over 1080p are

[@rcdarkangel]

You can get 980TI's with analogue output.

[@W00DGR0USE]

Necropost but baller man. I just picked up a SUN gdm 5410 new inbox. The 9300k default mode is too bright for my eyes so she healthy lol. Didn't know what I was purchasing and the seller didn't know what he was selling, got it for 50 dollars.

[@PixelGod240]

i cant wait to play eiyuden on my fw900 when it comes out

[@mikv8]

Lovely monitor but get rid of that anime bullshit.

[@shortnow]

I had one for many years. Blew my savings to pay full price for the lovely beast when it came out. Even paid to have it repaired, at one point. It died when two moving guys dropped it. I cried. Their bodies have not been found. /just kidding /maybe Anyone who wants this, you need a strong table/desk. It is no joke heavy. But, it is beautiful!

[@KareezyG]

The mini oled monitors seem to be the new thing coming which is exciting.

[@B.D.B.]

VGA is RGBHV, it's just a different connector. VGA has some additional wires, but the video signal being passed is the same.

[@alexbaker3958]

Where did you get these?

[@MrLonelie]

I have a viewsonic E70 and it is my daily driver. My ultimate endgame monitor. I'm glad to see others appreciate CRT's as well.

[@OfficialUknow]

This pc monitor is worth 3k now lol

[@stacywilliams6965]

I have 2 diamondtrons and one of them is a 2070s died it's the equivalent of that Sony wish I knew someone who could fix it

[@marcparsons1726]

Where do park you're DeLorean Z!

[@ZReviews]

I keep it in hover mode above the house with all my Gold and Presto-Logs

[@Notshaner]

How was somebody selling this for mere hundreds of bucks only a couple of years ago? That's outrageous. They've climbed dramatically into the upper thousands the past year.

[@Ricelord4]

I had a Viewsonic 19" flat panel CRT monitor in 4:3, and I loved that thing. Brought it to college and beyond. My nephew, who got into retro gaming, wanted it a few years ago, so I gave it to him. I'm glad he's enjoying it even to this day. But damn... I miss that thing. I know these Sony models are legendary, and ugh I will have a CRT again.

[@robertfarquhar2780]

I have a 32 inch 4:3 crt monitor that does 1024x768 flat tube and it looks glorious but I really want a xbr960.

[@wg8561]

@@robertfarquhar2780 I have one that unfortunately I have to get rid of. If you are anywhere close to las Vegas and want it, you can have it.

[@robertfarquhar2780]

I live in Texas but otherwise I would get it.

[@RYTHMICRIOT]

Sony professional reference monitors today cost as much as $30k, for a 30 inch screen. The model I'm referring to is BVM-HX310

[@crcarta]

I will not be able to afford whatever this goes to. But I hope one day to grab one of these wonderful displays

[@dacasman]

I had one of these in probably 2007-2008 when I bought my first gaming PC at a pawn shop. I had no idea it was special and threw it in the dumpster and replaced it with some shitty 19" LCD monitor.

[@mr.b111]

Contrast looks really good, it looks it lacks brightness tho.

[@malcolmogilvy4885]

Awesome ima scored the ThunderPower 30/1920 card that was demonstrated with the first ever Sony 1080p 16/9 monitor would totally love our Father to manifest me one of these monitors for the card Pure Awesome ima have the Phillips CRT 17" 170Hz monitor not wide screen though

[@alan2698]

Damn, Z. Finally showed up on my recommended again after 10 months? What the hell? The old CRTs lol. My favorite TV was the Sony 34" wide-screen crt. Back in 2002 or 03? 2000 chickens that baby costed. 234 pounds it weighed! Lost it to flooding from a tropical storm back in 2009. I miss it and I don't lol.

[@lordzed83]

O man I remember when my CRT died i cried cause knew i wont be able to replace it with another one. Shiet last year I finally retired my Panasonic plasma and SOLD IT so someone could enjoy that image. This Year is year OLED monitor finally lands and i can dump this lcd shite...

[@jamesbittle9789]

I'm rolling with my Pioneer Elite plasma tv until it dies.

[@LegacyIvyTerascale]

19:23 that sounds like the 32'' LCD ( non-LED ) TV my family had 'bout a decade ago image was so Clear Nice and HARMLESS that made my mom's brother move from CRT's

[@haudiweg]

if you hate compression give us a way to download the original videos via torrent or file sharing

[@ZReviews]

As a KZbinr that's a security risk as people can reupload the original content.

[@haudiweg]

@@ZReviews that woold happen?

[@FabioRigokimbaorso]

I think LGR would be interested.. But he is not located in your state..

[@realspeedghxst]

Too bad FED and LPD displays got nerfed, otherwise CRT and phosphor displays would've been the best for years to come

[@theOneRizzolliMick]

That sh*t looks like oil-on-canvas, my man! 😵‍💫🤯👉👉

[@normalguygaming7911]

No, CRT's are not good, I have a CRT and Plasma Tv's are far more superior

[@backinthegame34]

I have 2 of these in the garage. Need to calibrate them however for which there must be some software ?

[@whatsup89100]

Christ the boys on 4chan are gonna love thisbl

[@oneMurilognt]

Having one of these has been my dream for a long time now, I really want one 0_0, I live in Montreal which is about 7h of driving and I'm an international student coming from Brazil, so yeah I guess I`ll die without accomplishing this one dream of mine on this life, but maybe.. maybe... I will be able to watch some anime and play games on it someday, praise Kiss-Shot BTW 0u0

[@NewsBroadcasting]

cool there is a GDM-FW900 for sale on Abdou Express !