CRT Fight!

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

A recent conversation reminded me of a comparison I did a while back on three different CRT screens that I owned.
I think it's interesting to see picture display preference, albeit your eyes/brain doesn't even notice any difference when playing!

No shenanigans (although no.2 is a bit less bright) – photos of the actual screen captured by my camera

Thoughts on preference if anybody is interested

 

[2DForever]

Good use of Dan. Those pinks really help those scanlines shine

1 and 3 are pretty similar and what I’d like to see. But 2 having the stronger horizontal lines is certainly more nostalgic!

 

[RygarR]

Good use of Dan. Those pinks really help those scanlines shine

1 and 3 are pretty similar and what I’d like to see. But 2 having the stronger horizontal lines is certainly more nostalgic!

These days, I kinda like the scan lines. Thinking back, however, I don't remember them from the early days of home computers or arcades. In my memory, everything was more like 1.

 

[neo-geo-mvs]

These days, I kinda like the scan lines. Thinking back, however, I don't remember them from the early days of home computers or arcades. In my memory, everything was more like 1.

1 looks good to me 👍

 

[Max...]

1 for sure IMHO.

 

[eliotcole]

I was 1 & 3 ... until I zoomed the page WAAAAAAAY out ... then 1 was the clear winner.

 

[cools]

#3

 

[John Bennett]

You'd have been lucky to see a monitor that looked like 2, as that's got a much higher dot pitch than a standard arcade monitor (either a BVM or one of those 29" Tri-Sync thingies, I'm guessing).

1 is probably how most monitors would've looked if they were reasonably well set-up.
As I'm a CRT projector bore:
Toshiba 43VJ33Q:


Ampro 3600 CRT Projector


You may notice there's no RGB dot mask. That's the joys of overlaying the pixels from three tubes on top of each other.

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

 

[big10p]

Just to mix it up a little, my 21" Toshiba TV actually has a Philips tube in it. Philips seems to be strangely underrated, for some reason. I've always found them to be excellent CRTs.

 

[Max...]

I didn’t know they were underrated, Phillips made the B and O top end CRTs IIRC. I’ve always been very pleased with my Panasonic CRT. Still soldering on after 35 years since I bought it for my then new SNES.

 

[Stokers]

Damn I've had 2 KV-21X5Us and I sold (or traded) them both. What a moron, one of the best consumer sets of it's time.

 

[big10p]

I didn’t know they were underrated, Phillips made the B and O top end CRTs IIRC. I’ve always been very pleased with my Panasonic CRT. Still soldering on after 35 years since I bought it for my then new SNES.

I didn't know about any connection to B&O. Just doesn't seem to be much praise for Philips in the CRT world. I noticed that several ICs in my Sony Trinitron TV are Philips.

Our first colour TV back in the 80s was Panasonic. Quintrix tube and built like a tank. It was a great TV.

 

[Max...]

I didn't know about any connection to B&O. Just doesn't seem to be much praise for Philips in the CRT world. I noticed that several ICs in my Sony Trinitron TV are Philips.

Our first colour TV back in the 80s was Panasonic. Quintrix tube and built like a tank. It was a great TV.

I think the B and O tubes (Phillips) were made to a higher spec, better components, graded etc and on a separate production line.

 

[John Bennett]

I do get the argument that the Trinitron dot mask is a bit intrusive and not super authentic.
This is an MS9. Not up to the geometry or sharpness of a Trinitron but the pixels did flow into each other nicely

 

[John Bennett]

That maybe sounds harsh - Trinitrons are great, it’s just there’s so many different things people want out of CRTs. I’d still love a BVM. (But not at today’s used prices!)

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

Damn I've had 2 KV-21X5Us and I sold (or traded) them both. What a moron, one of the best consumer sets of its time.

Good work ! Toshiba > Sony 😃

 

[Stokers]

Good work ! Toshiba > Sony 😃

What are you smoking?

 

[Stokers]

Speaking of the crazy second hand market, check out this description on eBay!

 

[John Bennett]

So when these £500 second-hand, 35 year old monitors pack in, where to people send them to?