Why would I be expressing my preference for CRT if I hadn’t already done as you suggested, years ago.
I trust your preference but as you know, they get better and better every year so may be worthwhile to revisit every so often. They do have images displayed most of us could never achieve in real use. Those 8k images are stunning but good luck getting those at home…
The still screen pic of even an old LCD or plasma is far superior to CRT. The problem with the older flat screens was switching. They couldn’t switch fast enough. That problem was solved decades ago. Gamers swear by the newer LCD screens over CRTs. You get far better resolution with LCD screens. The color pallet is significantly better in LCD screens. Contrast is far superior.
It may be you reason for liking CRT is because it’s what you’re use to as to opposed to what’s better.
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That is precisely why I prefer the image on a functioning, properly adjusted CRT set, or monitor.
It sounds like you don’t have access to good HD signals, unlike the vast majority of folks. My first HDTV, a Samsung DLP projection box, offered jaw-dropping views compared to the top-of-the-line Sony XBR tube it replaced, and things have only improved since then.
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We have good hd signals here in southern NH, but it still doesn’t compare to the HD from a blue-ray disc. Not even close. Watching a movie like Avatar on a blue-ray disc is night and day over streaming it on something like Netflix or Prime.
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The combination of fiber-optic HD service and an OLED screen produces images that are FAR superior to what one could expect in The Good Old Days.
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But I bet I’d still prefer that to a tube.
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Sometimes one gets so set in their ways, that one has blinders on and can’t see the truth in front of them…
Nothing wrong with that, to each their own, but it doesn’t make it reality…
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Some people just seem to fear/dislike changes of any sort.
Quite a few years ago, a woman (screen name “Otterhere”) posted in this forum about having to quickly buy a car because her old Suzuki Swift died.
She failed to do much due diligence before visiting the Toyota dealer–at night–and buying a new Toyota Yaris 2-door. What she had failed to realize was that she had looked online at a Yaris 4-door, and that there were some differences between the 2-door and 4-door models. Most significant (for her) were different upholstery and a difference in wheelbase.
When she drove the shorter Yaris home, she realized that it had a very choppy ride, and in the morning light she saw the upholstery pattern and decided that she “hated” it. She also came up with a niggling list of reasons why her old Suzuki was “far superior” to a new Yaris.
Forum members told her that she shouldn’t have shopped for a car at night, that she should have done a test-drive, and that she should have done better due diligence prior to arriving at the Toyota dealership. They also pointed-out that the only thing superior about the old Suzuki was that it was slightly more economical than the Yaris.
For a couple of days, she kept-up her rant about all of the reasons why the old Suzuki was “far superior” to the new Yaris, and then I posed a question to her. I asked if she was usually resistant to change, and she admitted that she didn’t like changes of any kind in her life. She acknowledged that her resistance to change was likely the biggest factor for her “hatred” of the new Yaris.
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I get a laugh out of the current interest in LP records. My Christmas present this year was a new turntable and speakers so that I can listen to records that have been stored away for 30+ years. While enjoyable, the sound (with hiss, clicks and pops), combined with having to clean and flip each side, makes it clear how superior CDs are. I’m now reading the same stuff that audio nuts put out in the ‘70s and ‘80s regarding the ‘sound’ of a record. Different? Sure. Better? Not in any objective way. Note-I’m not talking about highly-compressed MP-3 recordings.
The only good explanation I ever heard of for keeping an LP is that some LPs were never converted to a digital format (or at least not of a good quality).
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Pffftttt, I just listen to Pandora now… lol
For some of us the interest in LP’s has never gone away.
I’ll rotate turntables and receivers around periodically just for fun. There are 3 other turntables and 4 receivers floating around here.
It’s not necessarily about the sound quality. Spending a Sunday afternoon at a record shop is a relaxing break.
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My issue with the old turntables was the vibration from my type of music, it was meant to be turned up loud, so I enjoyed my killer sound system (for the time) in my car listening to cassettes more… Even the CD player would skip way back then, digital is just way better for me…
I agree 100%. Old discs bring back memories. And I could also use a record changer like yours, I’ve found a few multi-disc sets made for changers, with side 1 and side 2 on different records. I had a BIC 960 changer years ago, traded ‘up’ to a belt drive manual turntable, probably could not have noticed any actual difference in sound.
When I was growing up, our family.had a Magnavox console radio with a record changer that played only 78 rpm records. My dad ordered a record changer from Allied Radio Corporation in Chicago.to replace the 78 ram changer that was in the Magnavox console so we could play the 33 1/3 .vinyl.records which were a big improvement over the.old 78 rpm records.
I have.
And number of lines of resolution is way down my list of image quality priorities.
When I walk into a big box electronics store or Walmart, and I see the pictures on the floor models, they don’t look anything like a well adjusted tube TV.
The reason for this is something called “Retail(Store) Mode”, and it’s kind of like Dynamic or Vivid mode, but often worse.
Most flat screen TVs, be they OLED, QLED, or whatever flavor, are set up at the factory in that mode, and the majority of consumers who come into the stores make an association in their mind between that exaggerated picture and digital or HD TV.
And yes: I know why the newer flat screens have that mode: To pop out from a crowded showroom wall.
And it’s quite the obstacle to overcome when trying to get consumers to understand that their new TV is capable of a much more realistic accurate picture.
This same situation was rare back in the CRT color console days. There were no internal jacked up presets to make tube sets look all oversharpened and exaggerated, unless the sales staff at the store cranked up all the knobs that way..!
CRT picture setup and adjustment is far simpler, especially when the set in question is a Trinitron.
What does any of that have to do with which is better? You just put the HDTV in ‘cinema mode’ or its equivalent. 10 seconds to do that.
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Funny thing that you posted that picture. Way back when, Grandpa’s Sears Silvertone console quit and he went the component route, complete with a BIC 960 changer like you posted. Of course that console stayed in the dining room as a piece of furniture.
Some of the records I have now were Grandma and Grandpas. I don’t feel bad stacking them on a changer today, I figure if they survived 20 years on the old Silvertone I can play them once in a while on mine.
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