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protip: don't buy anything ever, the upgrade cycle means eventually something better will come along, possibly within months of your purchase, and then it will be completely useless
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infernal machines posted:protip: don't buy anything ever, the upgrade cycle means eventually something better will come along, possibly within months of your purchase, and then it will be completely useless Pile Of Garbage posted:i've still got the dell u2711 i bought back in 2012 (27" 16:9 IPS 2560x1440@60). it was mad expensive but super nice and it still works perfectly. stupid huge number of inputs on it as well. 
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Aug 28, 2020 14:05
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look at this idiot who thinks their purchase of obsolete technology is serving their needs.
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Jimmy Carter posted:yeah OLED looks great but just buy a laser projector and a 120" ambient-light-reflecting screen because just fill your entire wall with Trailer Park Boys in a couple of years once ultra short throw projectors improve a bit and get down in price its gonna own.
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infernal machines posted:look at this idiot who thinks their purchase of obsolete technology is serving their needs. certainly serves me better than your posts!!!
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Aug 28, 2020 14:13
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Crime on a Dime posted:1084S god i wish they'd made bigger models. imagine a 17" 1087 or 19" 1089 with the same pin sharp tube and every input you'll ever need i keep thinking about buying a sony BVM / PVM but everybody knows about them now so the prices got stupid 
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Aug 28, 2020 15:17
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i have a 65" panasonic plasma still. looks great because i never use it also has 3d haha lol
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Aug 28, 2020 18:10
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Sweevo posted:i keep thinking about buying a sony BVM / PVM but everybody knows about them now so the prices got stupid prolly the fault of the MLiG dudes who made the most comprehensive video about them some 5 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAi8AVj9GV8 i can't think of any reason to own one today beyond novelty. the ubiquity of HDMI mods for retro systems has crushed the need for super special composite CRT viewing
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Aug 28, 2020 18:42
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i wouldnt mind a crt but then i remember they weigh 1000lbs
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people are giving away the top of the line sony wega 36" crts on craigslist. those were like $3k tvs back in the day. they're still the best tubes you can get. and they weigh like 250lbs, so they sit and moulder until they finally get thrown out
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Aug 28, 2020 19:42
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there still remains little to no compelling reason to get a CRT in 2020 beyond either nostalgia or esoteric audiophile-but-for-video poo poo and for the latter you'd get a BVM/PVM as mentioned.
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Pile Of Garbage posted:there still remains little to no compelling reason to get a CRT in 2020 beyond either nostalgia or esoteric audiophile-but-for-video poo poo and for the latter you'd get a BVM/PVM as mentioned. i have a 20" crt that i keep around because it supports a bunch of different signal formats and sync on green etc., also there's nothing better for cga/ ega era sprite based games
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audiophile-but-for-video people would claim they can see ultraviolet light, or that wrapping their $4k power cable around a $2k block of wood eliminates parity errors from their VIC-20
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Aug 28, 2020 21:39
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So where's the yesteryear discount monitors outlet store? You know, one step above ebay and six steps below $800 to read forums users tell me I'm stupid
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Aug 29, 2020 00:34
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retail is dead, but i'll tell you you're stupid for only $600 venmo me
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Pile Of Garbage posted:prolly the fault of the MLiG dudes who made the most comprehensive video about them some 5 years ago: CRT screens are still better in some metrics around motion and response lag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8BVTHxc4LM In a retro context, I've got an original arcade CRT in my Blast City and it is very satisfying seeing it hit the native resolution of a game - most LCDs don't scale up from 256x192 very well unless you get an expensive converter. Happy to admit it is an aesthetic thing for the retro context but I'd rather spend $500 on the CRT than an OSSC + a screen. Edit: re reading I think it sounds like I'm trying to defend CRT as a value thing - it isn't, it's absolutely a luxury to try to get things to look a certain way in exchange for non trivial amounts of money. It's just my preferred dumb way of spending money on aesthetics. Trimson Grondag 3 fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Aug 29, 2020 |
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Pile Of Garbage posted:i can't think of any reason to own one today beyond novelty. the ubiquity of HDMI mods for retro systems has crushed the need for super special composite CRT viewing nah, HDMI upscaling really doesn’t preserve the feel of the old systems back in the 90s, I played a lot of Genesis, Jaguar, and PlayStation games on a 9in Sony TV so I picked up an 8in portable PVM with carry case and tuner a couple years back; it’s been extremely needs-suiting for everything from Atari 2600 through original PlayStation the PlayStation generation is the dividing line, where it works well with both PVM and our old 42in Westinghouse LVM-42W2—we use the PlayStation with the Sony but the N64 with the Westinghouse we’ve thought about a bigger PVM but we really like the small amount of space, and the inherent ecrappiness of NTSC means everything is still quite legible on an 8in screen
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infernal machines posted:people are giving away the top of the line sony wega 36" crts on craigslist. those were like $3k tvs back in the day. they're still the best tubes you can get. and they weigh like 250lbs, so they sit and moulder until they finally get thrown out if we ever get the out-of-the-way estate, we’ll probably get one of the Sony 37in WEGA CRTs for the game room the reason they’re free on Craigslist is because they cost $TEXAS to recycle
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Broken Machine posted:i have a 20" crt that i keep around because it supports a bunch of different signal formats and sync on green etc., also there's nothing better for cga/ ega era sprite based games eh, CRTs for workstations have a certain aesthetic and if I had the room I might still get them, but other than specialized displays (Symbolics, HP 9000, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, Amiga) I’ve been willing to pass on them an NEC MultiSync LCD1990SX will do sync-on-green and can handle virtually all of the workstation resolutions you throw at it through 1280×1024 without, even oddball ones like NeXT (1132×832), just not the 15KHz ones if you want 1600×1200 then I think the LCD2090 series has a model with sync-on-green and “native” (unsealed) resolution support too also my Lisp Machine consoles are pretty awesome, I have both a 3600-series and XL-series console since we haven’t finished development of a console emulator see, the Symbolics console uses a 160MHz balanced ECL signal and Manchester encoding for its 1150×900 video, which doesn’t sound like a big deal for an FPGA—except you can’t use the FPGA’s built-in Manchester decoder for this purpose because Symbolics decided to signal horizontal and vertical sync via intentional violation of the encoding rather than separate signals,so you need a much better FPGA than you otherwise might to do full sync separation it might literally be easier to tap the video signals on the I/O card that feed into the encoder (via test clips) and run those through some high-speed transistors to create RS-170 compatible signaling that can be fed to an LCD, but that’s not exactly plug-and-play, and it still leaves out the keyboard, mouse, serial port, and CD-quality stereo digital audio that these early-1980s systems have in their consoles…
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eschaton posted:the reason they’re free on Craigslist is because they cost $TEXAS to recycle in ontario and possibly the rest of canada, e-waste fees are charged at time of purchase, so it doesn't cost anything for consumers to recycle e-waste. they still weight a ton though, curbside pickup or no
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infernal machines posted:in ontario and possibly the rest of canada, e-waste fees are charged at time of purchase, so it doesn't cost anything for consumers to recycle e-waste. they’ve been charged at time of purchase for quite a while here too, but these predate that, so there are recycling fees
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that is weird. i've never been charged for recycling equipment that predates the fees, and certainly they don't discriminate when it comes to curbside pickup*, so i was unaware that was a thing anywhere *case in point, i've seen several tube tvs curbside in the last month alone. they always get picked up though
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did anyone get the LG 38WN95C-W (38 inch 3840x1600 144hz)? its coming to Australia soon and I'm never going back to an office so maybe it's like saving money by buying it?
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i have an acer x203w and x193w+ because uh i think the bigger one was out of stock once i was able to afford a second monitor? 20" 16:10 is a very comfortable size imo. honestly the biggest problem is that the color management suuuuuuuucks, they've never matched each other very well. i had a dell 2415q at the office and running it at 1.2x or so (some weird resolution 2308x...something) looked extremely nice but the hidpi definitely spoiled me. so i guess i want nicer monitors at home but any 16:10 screens i can find are 22-24" 1920x1200 which is almost exactly the same dpi as what i have now, so what's the point.
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~Coxy posted:I almost bought a 65" plasma at an auction recently buying an plasma sight-unseen seems risky as if it came from an old person's home it probably has a cable news logo and ticker burned into it
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akadajet posted:va is trash garbage idk it's not 2017 any more
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bump ya'll got any thoughts on displays with wide color gamut? i've seen some people complain about colors being oversaturated. is this worth worrying about at all? some wide gamut monitors have an sRGB mode if you don't like it but a bunch don't.
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work just bought a u3219q, its needs suiting
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So now that hdmi 2.1 cards are coming out we’re going to start getting good monitors, right?
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PCjr sidecar posted:work just bought a u3219q, its needs suiting that's the one i bought a few months back, it is pretty good!
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just checked this thread and there are still no good monitors, drat!
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Actually the best moniteur is the lg 34gk950f. We can close this thread now
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my favorite monitor is the acer yytydklfjhdfghfkgbjbhdrfgd 31.69"
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I just received an Amiga A1080 that was sold as working it was shipped in nothing but foam peanuts (at least they were cornstarch which are anti-static) and has something that goes ka-chunk inside when I tilt it so I suspect it actually needs work as a result what makes it good is that it has only Amiga badging rather than being Commodore badged
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Sagebrush posted:Actually the best moniteur is the lg 34gk950f. We can close this thread now i've never used a curved. how is it
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i have one at work and it’s pretty good. my work monitor is 34” super wide (like me). The curve on it feels nice, like you can take more of the screen in at once
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i have a curved 55" samsung for a monitor and the curve is mostly irrelevant. there's no appreciable difference as far as i can tell
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got a Dell S2721DGF recently. it's good, i'll be keeping it, but let's revisit some old posts!SO DEMANDING posted:my current desk is a piece of poo poo that i'll be replacing soon, allowing me to have room for dual monitors. i'm probably just going to get another 27" 1440p screen, but a high refresh rate one, and run my current monitor on the side. i dunno if that will exactly be ideal, but i'm not sure if "perfect" really exists here. SO DEMANDING posted:ya'll got any thoughts on displays with wide color gamut? i've seen some people complain about colors being oversaturated. is this worth worrying about at all? some wide gamut monitors have an sRGB mode if you don't like it but a bunch don't. swear to god choosing an LCD was easier 10 years ago
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