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[–] • 3 pts

"It looks awesome on a CRT," he said, as his audience watches it on an LCD panel.

The only real thing CRTs had going for them is you could calibrate the colors to be true, and real phosphors are nice n bright.

[–] • 1 pt

Ummm phosphorous. Like that time I had an unlimited supply of 32” Toshiba real tubes. Bussy was remodeling Hollywood videos all over the country. All those TV’s hanging in the ceiling built ins he got to keep. Had a trailer full of them, like 30-40 at one point. This was when HD was rear projection dlp shit. I had one in every room.

[–] • 0 pt

The phosphors on television CRTs weren't phosphorous. They were just illuminated by excitement. For example, the red usually came from Europium mined from Mountain Pass in the Western USA.

I'd love to have a chunk of the raw ore since they are mining again.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

Interesting video. But a few things stand out.

First, the guy making the video wears glasses. So his vision isn't pixel-perfect to begin with.

Second, even perfect human vision isn't good for much more than 1080p at standard viewing distances. HD can be okay for desk monitors (when we're viewing much closer), but the moment you add motion to whatever you're watching, your visual acuity drops by about half.

That massive 4K screen you have on your living room wall? Looks great with a static picture or when standing 2 feet away. But sitting on a couch 8-10 feet away from it, watching a movie? Yeah, it might as well be a 1080p screen. Your eyes can't tell the difference. Not really.

I sit at an 8-foot wide desk (I built myself), and I run 3 32" LG HD monitors. And I occasionally play games. They aren't the best monitors, and maybe have a bit of motion blur. Can I REALLY tell? No, not really.

The monitors each weigh about 19 pounds. So that's nearly 60 pounds of monitors. On the lighter side of things, a CRT monitor of this size would weigh about 120 pounds, and possibly a lot more if it's a good quality monitor. So, maybe 400 pounds of monitors on my desk? That's ridiculous.

I'll take the flat panels any day. They look and work great.

Also, PRO TIP: If you run a large array of monitors (3 or more), use a TRACKBALL instead of a mouse. Takes up far less room when moving the pointer across the screens, and can be much faster side to side. I use a Kensington Slimblade Pro and I've upgraded the bearings to silicon. Works great, worth every penny (once you upgrade the bearings).

[–] • 1 pt

Wouldn’t his vision with glasses be actually perfect? I mean people don’t get glasses that are less than 20/20.

And in reality only about 40% of the population have 20/20 anyway, so more than half have a chance to have potato eyes.

That said, I find 4k looks fake. Almost like ai, and it was before ai was good, so I’ll call it “to real to be real”

I mean I can go outside and it don’t look as real.

[–] • 1 pt

Sort of. I wear glasses for distance and when corrected I allegedly have 20/20 vision at distance. At arm’s length and closer my vision is near perfect. Glasses don’t get things perfect. So if he has potato eyes to begin with, I doubt his vision is perfect even with glasses. Also, lenses impart a lot of weird effects so they might actually be enhancing his experience with CRT monitors.

I agree that 4K monitors can look really fake. Remember when TVs first came out with 120Hz scanning? That looked ridiculous.

But for desk work, I like using HD monitors. For watching movies from a couch? It doesn’t really matter. 1080p is fine.