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Re:The journey to save the last known 43-inch Sony CRT by dekhn on Monday December 23, 2024 @04:10PM (#42497638)
Me too. It was an anchor. I had a couple of movers nearly drop it once. Getting it out of my house was a great accomplishment (I felt like a great weight had been lifted). At the time it was a definite improvement in video quality (IIRC my first real 1080p, coupled with HDTV) and I still find it crazy I can buy larger, better screens that are lighter and cheaper. Clearly, you can scale up tubes but it's just not going to win against LCD or LED.
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Re:The journey to save the last known 43-inch Sony CRT by Eisenstein on Monday December 23, 2024 @04:43PM (#42497846)
It wasn't actually 1080p but 1080i, meaning it interlaced each field. It worked well for CRTs because of the way they operated, but it is a different standard.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FD_Trinitron/WEGA

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