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The Impending CRT Display Revival Will Be Televised (hackaday.com)
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[โ€“] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A good gaming monitor with something like the Framemeister, RetroTINK, or OSSC can give properly unnoticeable amounts of input lag.

Ok, so wait a second here. You're suggesting that buying a "good" gaming monitor (hundreds to thousands of dollars) and an upscaler (the cheapest of the options you mentioned I found for $369 USD is a better option than buying a CRT?

I found a perfectly good 28" Panasonic CRT on Kijiji for $200 CAD.

It makes the retro noises, it displays the games the way they were meant to be displayed, and there's no perceptible input lag. It also just fits the visual aesthetic if you have a retro gaming area/room in your house. There's no way I'm paying anywhere near 5-600 USD (up to 1k CAD, basically) to play retro games on a modern monitor when I can have a setup faithful to the experiences I had as a kid in the 90s for $200 CAD.

[โ€“] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Good gaming monitors are not expensive. Anything that supports G-sync should be fine. I picked one up off Craigslist for like $100. New isn't much more.

CRTs are not going to stay cheap for long. They're slowly dying to attrition. If nothing else, the phosphors are dimming over time. In fact, we might be getting towards the end of cheap garage sale pickups already. Especially ones that can be easily RGB converted.