CRTs did break. And they did suffer from burning.
Just buy a non-smart modern TV, you won’t need a replacement and it won’t connect to the internet.
they were in fact not. they did produce a tiny amount of x rays.
radioactive??
electron beams are ionising radiation, yes
Are there open source TVs?
Not as far as I know. But there ARE TVs that with no smart features. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJh72_O4pXE
I said to myself i’ll never have a tv
Our TV was from the early '70s and when you turned it on if you weren’t at least 10 ft back the hair would stand up on your arms. I’m sure that thing was definitely giving you a suntan.
Let’s not pretend that crts ware better than modern TVs. The picture was shit, the ratio was 4:3 and they had the size and weight of a small car. I can deal with a little upgrade once in a while. And that’s not even true as I haven’t seen a TV that needs upgrades yet.
To be honest, I prefer 4:3. I like how square-ish it felt. /srs
They’re not really radioactive, they emit some X Ray that is absorbed by the lead window that is in front, making them harmless.
Can’t believe my mother sold ours for a dollar 😭🙏
must be the LG TV debacle, they are selling AI tvs now too.
I think that’s some major rose-colored-glasses thinking. They did break. A child with a magnet could also cause issues, at least on older ones (I say having been said child).
I had some unshielded noise speakers that would change the color when swiped across the screen in one direction. And cleared it when swiped the other direction. Fun times!
Circa late 1980s I remember our dad brought home a degauser from work, hey anyone remember what a degauser is? It was a magnetic box (VERY STRONG MAGNETS) with a tunnel to slide a cassette tape through, to erase the cassette tape. Well I don’t remember which of us family members decided its storage place should be on top of the TV but what a fun science lesson that turned out to be 😄 If you moved the magnet around the TV in all different places, the distortion on the screen would follow wherever the magnet was, and IIRC the screen distortion wasn’t permanent. The screen went back to normal when you removed the magnet from the vicinity.
IIRC It messes with the beam guides. I’m not sure if there are cases/designs in which it would cause permanent damage in color TVs, but I seem to think I managed to permanently tint our older one green somehow.
IIRC it does cause damage if done repeatedly, but doing it once or twice probably wouldn’t do much.
i love crt i just dont have space anymore :( i do have a few just nowhere to put it yet
“if you go reaching inside me I might just decide to kill you” -CRT
“I accumulated a little bit of dust in me so I decided to start a fire” - my CRT 1996
i finally got mine out of storage and set up
it turned on 3 times and the kids got to see the static. they got to hear the super high pitched wine
but now it doesn’t respond to anything 😭😭
I’ll try to get it fixed one day 😓
While it may not be related I have a CRT monitor that did something kinda similar and which I think I know what it is so I’ll give a suggestion. It may legit just be one of the internal boards or whatever equivalent that controls power and may just need to be resoddered or otherwise replaced.
i hope so!
The only thing that modern TVs beat CRTs on is weight.
I’d rather have my 200lbs behemoth CRT back, than to have a smart TV thats just gonna die in 3 to 5 years, just like the last one, and the one before it.
This is just stupid. Size, weight, picture ratio, picture quality, sound quality, compatibility, functionality. A modern TV is better at literally everything. Don’t just blindly agree with something just because it’s on a meme.
Size is also one. Modern tv can scale the length and height up without scaling much of the width. Dumb TV also doesn’t need internet to update. Pretty sure smart tv doesn’t need update as well. It’s not that CRT is the best, we just forgot how to make a good LCD tv.
I’m sure manufacturers remember pretty well too, they just don’t want to.
