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[Holammer]

Went to town and visited the landfill to fetch a 300'ish liter bag for garden waste. Obviously I had to check out the e-waste stuff and there was a heartbreaking graveyard of CRTs, two Sony monitors, couple of TVs and a big attention grabbing chonker of a CRT which looked like it was newly unboxed without any yellowing, scuff-marks, dirt or scratches. In oddly immaculate condition on the outside and it's a Samsung Syncmaster 959NF.
I consider asking/begging the guys working there if I can take it, but chicken out. They'll think I'm a weirdo, maybe there's a policy which forbids it? Break my back for something which might actually be broken?

When I get home I start googling.

It's Samsung's CRT from 2003, a 4:3 19" beast capable of 1920x1440@73Hz. There's not much info about it, two Russian videos on YT showing machines on the fritz. Just look at the size of that thing! It would have been beautiful for retrogaming with RetroArch, this is going to bother me for a long time. I should've taken the chance.

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

If you lived near by I would have went with you. We could have both made terrible choices for our backs...but we know the truth...the glorious CRT TRUTH.

 

[Rentahamster]

I consider asking/begging the guys working there if I can take it, but chicken out.

wut.

You can always ask. That piece of hardware is sweet.

 

[dave_d]

Went to town and visited the landfill to fetch a 300'ish liter bag for garden waste. Obviously I had to check out the e-waste stuff and there was a heartbreaking graveyard of CRTs, two Sony monitors, couple of TVs and a big attention grabbing chonker of a CRT which looked like it was newly unboxed without any yellowing, scuff-marks, dirt or scratches. In oddly immaculate condition on the outside and it's a Samsung Syncmaster 959NF.
I consider asking/begging the guys working there if I can take it, but chicken out. They'll think I'm a weirdo, maybe there's a policy which forbids it? Break my back for something which might actually be broken?

When I get home I start googling.

It's Samsung's CRT from 2003, a 4:3 19" beast capable of 1920x1440@73Hz. There's not much info about it, two Russian videos on YT showing machines on the fritz. Just look at the size of that thing! It would have been beautiful for retrogaming with RetroArch, this is going to bother me for a long time. I should've taken the chance.

So go back and see if it's still there. Couldn't hurt and you never know how often they come by to pick up that stuff.

 

[TintoConCasera]

OP reads like a love story.

Go back there man, make her yours!

 

[ClosBSAS]

Op, you dumb nuts. Go get that shit

 

[kruis]

OP is not responding of course, he's on his way back to the landfill to pick up that bad boy.

 

[cireza]

Bro. Go back there. CRT are only going to diminish in numbers as time passes.

You know it, deep inside your heart. Every time you see that UFO test from Blur Busters on whatever modern TVs, LCDs OLED and shit.

People looking at it and saying "Wow, that's actually incredibly sharp, almost no blur at all !". But inside your heart of heart, you tell yourself this "What the fuck is this blurry shit? Do people don't have standards nowadays or what? Are they all blind? OLED? Lol come on, that's still incredibly worse than the worst CRT we had back then!".

Because you know the right answer. Yes, you knew all this time. There is NO blur AT ALL on CRT. And this is why you know you need to own this awesome CRT that has been waiting for you there.

You can save it. Do it.

 

[Super Lemon Drop]

OP is not responding of course, he's on his way back to the landfill to pick up that bad boy.

If this story ends without him at least making the journey, I am unfollowing and unsubscribing.

 

[CJ_75]

I like Big B**** and I cannot lie.

 

[LordOcidax]

I remember when i got my first LCD screen after having a 22 Inch 1080p CRT screen… My first thought was, something is wrong here… Tech moved backwards with LCD.

 

[Dacvak]

Can you go back?

 

[Magic Carpet]

The only CRT left in the house, (Or rather garage) is a small 13" with a built in VCR.
Currently covered in spiderwebs, I don't want to touch it, but would like it out of the garage.

 

[Paasei]

Came for this:

 

[Holammer]

Can you go back?

I had my chance, I live in the sticks and it's a 70 minute trip there. I don't have a drivers license so I'd have to beg for a ride again. If I had a car I would have gone back before I wrote the thread. I did some research and it's considered stealing (shoplifting if it's metal) taking stuff from trashcans & landfills without permission and permission is seldom granted (some landfills sell good stuff for charity, but not this one).

The guys working there might be flexible. If there's a next time I'll ask.

 

[spookyfish]

I like Big B**** and I cannot lie.

I like big TUBES I cannot lie.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

Missed Connections

 

[Liopleurodon]

Just use shaders.

 

[Holammer]

Just use shaders.

I do, but as some pointed out in the thread, the motion stability of a real CRT is still unbeatable.

 

[rabbity-thing]

Watch out for roaches.

 

[Rentahamster]

I do, but as some pointed out in the thread, the motion stability of a real CRT is still unbeatable.

Would you have used a CRT to play retro games?

 

[cireza]

The guys working there might be flexible. If there's a next time I'll ask.

My opinion is that a quick phone call never hurts.

 

[Mithos]

 

[BlackTron]

What kind of story is this?

 

[Connificent]

Plies will pick you up in his chopper, no worries.

 

[Deerock71]

OP reads like a love story.

Go back there man, make her yours!

 

[Deerock71]

Came for this:

Thank Dog I'm not dyslexic.

 

[El Muerto]

I drive around on big trash day in my pickup looking for stuff. I get some weird looks lol. I dont care though. I find some decent stuff sometimes. Go get it, i'm sure they deal with crackheads wanting to come in and find copper or metal there so you would look pretty normal.

 

[Calverz]

Iv been in the CRT game for around 5 months now. I currently have 4. The one thing I have learned is, you can't hang around if you see something that even ticks a few boxes. It will be gone before you know it. You need to get it quick, and then worry later.

 

[dave_d]

I do, but as some pointed out in the thread, the motion stability of a real CRT is still unbeatable.

Well until we have 960hz screen with rolling scan. (Which is pretty much what the blurbuster thing is.)

 

[Plies]

Plies will pick you up in his chopper, no worries.

 

[simpatico]

I'd take that over any TV at my local Best Buy. Those are all replaceable. What you passed up today is irreplaceable. You'll rue this day for the rest of your natural life.

 

[sachos]

Man you made me remember how my hunt for a working CRT went. I watched all those Digital Foundry videos gushing about how good CRT looked and i told myself i had to go hunt for one. Went to my local e-waste place, there were a lot of CRT in sight but they did not let me take one out, i was so fucking angry, what a waste! Thankfully i found a relative friend that had a working one they wanted to get rid of, a Samsung SyncMaster 793s, it can do 800x600@110hz and 640x480@135hz. The motion clarity is sooo good, and the black levels surprised me too, it had been so long since i watched a CRT in person.

 

[jshackles]

The eWaste section of my local dump even has a sign put up that's basically "take whatever you want if you'll use it". As such, I've never found anything close to this good in there.

 

[kevboard]

Hey there CRT screen, don't you worry about the distance
I'm right there, if you get lonely, give this song another listen
Close your eyes
Listen to my voice, it's my disguise, I'm by your side!

Oh, it's what you do to me
Oh, it's what you do to me
Oh, it's what you do to me
Oh, it's what you do to me, what you do to me!?

 

[//DEVIL//]

Went to town and visited the landfill to fetch a 300'ish liter bag for garden waste. Obviously I had to check out the e-waste stuff and there was a heartbreaking graveyard of CRTs, two Sony monitors, couple of TVs and a big attention grabbing chonker of a CRT which looked like it was newly unboxed without any yellowing, scuff-marks, dirt or scratches. In oddly immaculate condition on the outside and it's a Samsung Syncmaster 959NF.
I consider asking/begging the guys working there if I can take it, but chicken out. They'll think I'm a weirdo, maybe there's a policy which forbids it? Break my back for something which might actually be broken?

When I get home I start googling.

It's Samsung's CRT from 2003, a 4:3 19" beast capable of 1920x1440@73Hz. There's not much info about it, two Russian videos on YT showing machines on the fritz. Just look at the size of that thing! It would have been beautiful for retrogaming with RetroArch, this is going to bother me for a long time. I should've taken the chance.

think of it this way. you saved yourself from breaking your back from carrying it. So u did good.

 

[Hoddi]

think of it this way. you saved yourself from breaking your back from carrying it. So u did good.

Me and the boys picking up a CRT from Craigslist