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In the 90s big monitors had speakers on the sides. packard_bell.gif Edit: Apologies for the worst post of all time, here is a picture. 
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Feb 25, 2024 20:04
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Anyone else watched this "The Way" thing on BBC iPlayer? Some sort of revolution in Port Talbot. Michael Sheen / Adam Curtis thing. Seems a bit bonkers but I was multitasking. I think I'll have to watch it again (only 3 episodes) and concentrate.
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Feb 25, 2024 20:05
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domhal posted:In the 90s big monitors had speakers on the sides. My big 90s monitor was a 27" Sony Trinitron flat-screen CRT. If that thing had had speakers its weight would have been enough that I think it would have killed a grown man who tried to lift it. It's in the attic at my mum's house and I sometimes think about using it for some retro gaming setup, but then the thought of my mid-40s body trying to carry it down a stepladder puts that idea to rest.
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Feb 25, 2024 20:13
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NORMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NORMAN GO ON THE HOME COMPUTER AND PLACE A CLASSIFIED ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB FOR CECIL AND CECILLY'S OLD HOME COMPUTER'S VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT, NORMAN. IT HASN'T BEEN USED SINCE WILLS AND KATE WERE WED, NORMAN! ... THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH IT, NORMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS IN GOOD WORKING ORDER, NORMAN, IT IS A VISION MASTER!!!!!!!!!!! IT SHOULD FETCH AT LEAST FIFTY POUNDS, NORMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHOW IT OFF IN GOOD WORKING ORDER, NORMAN, MAKE IT DISPLAY SOME PHOTOGRAPHS FROM OUR HOLIDAYS! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/30540793...ABk9SR6SejZu8Yw crispix fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Feb 25, 2024 |
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Feb 25, 2024 20:26
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Guavanaut posted:I suppose with TV being an offshoot of radio and everyone since John Logie Baird deciding it should come with speakers inside, all the equipment and market expectation is just set up that way, even if the speakers nowadays are just the ceramic disks you got in musical cards superglued to the inside of the bottom of the case. In the TV buying thread on the IYG forum, without fail, every week someone will ask for recommendations for buying a new TV, who when presented with a bunch of options will ask "can't I just buy a TV without all those Smart Features?" The reasoning is that, logically if a TV has all these features and costs X, then a TV without them would cost less. And every time this is asked, the explanation is given that, no most manufacturers don't sell TV's without those features. The only ones who do sell them for crazy high prices (presumably to Businesses that just want to display their corporate logos on them all day) or PC Monitors. Both sets come without speakers, now that I think of it. It seems that what you want is regarded as a deluxe feature and not "can I buy a lesser version of the thing I want and also make it cheaper."
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Feb 25, 2024 20:33
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crispix posted:NORMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol incredible stuff
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Feb 25, 2024 20:38
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I believe there is actually a market for good quality CRTs in working order these days since retro gaming nerds want to use them to give their pixels that nice blurry look.
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Feb 25, 2024 20:39
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i actually happened to be looking at monitors when i checked the thread lol i want a small monitor (21" or smaller) that can sit portrait on its stand preferably white case this is hard to find :/
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Feb 25, 2024 20:43
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Nenonen posted:Good grief, what happened to making your own music while you shower?? Not all of us can have beans for breakfast every day
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Feb 25, 2024 20:48
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The Question IRL posted:In the TV buying thread on the IYG forum, without fail, every week someone will ask for recommendations for buying a new TV, who when presented with a bunch of options will ask "can't I just buy a TV without all those Smart Features?" This is what puts me off from replacing my 12 year old TV: I don't want something that's forever showing me tailored unskippable adverts, or downloading a massive update without asking, when there's something else I want to be doing with it. I just want a TV that shows me moving pictures, as and when I want it to.
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Feb 25, 2024 20:51
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Tesseraction posted:Pulling aside the curtain a little here I had a traumatic experience as a child that gives me extreme performance anxiety about being heard singing. This is exactly me. Having kids has helped me get over The Fear a tiny bit (because you aren't allowed NOT to sing Wind the Bobbin Up or The Wheels On The Bus when the occasion demands it) but I envy anybody who can belt out a tune.
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Feb 25, 2024 20:52
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My friend had a 17" one of them is about 1996. Was attached to the fastet PC i'd ever seen at the time. Pentium 166MHz. 32MB RAM!. Can't remember the Gfx card, might have meen a Matrox Millennium. So many fps in top-down gta.
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Feb 25, 2024 20:56
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Pistol_Pete posted:This is what puts me off from replacing my 12 year old TV: I don't want something that's forever showing me tailored unskippable adverts, or downloading a massive update without asking, when there's something else I want to be doing with it. I just want a TV that shows me moving pictures, as and when I want it to. You don't have to connect your smart TV to the internet
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Feb 25, 2024 20:57
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Pistol_Pete posted:This is what puts me off from replacing my 12 year old TV: I don't want something that's forever showing me tailored unskippable adverts, or downloading a massive update without asking, when there's something else I want to be doing with it. I just want a TV that shows me moving pictures, as and when I want it to. I'm buying a TV to display PlayStation images and nothing else. (Well also Nintendo Switch images.) No need to care if it has other streamy weamy poo poo I just use my PC for that.
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Feb 25, 2024 21:02
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big scary monsters posted:I believe there is actually a market for good quality CRTs in working order these days since retro gaming nerds want to use them to give their pixels that nice blurry look. You can actually hack the old NES lightgun games to work on a flatscreen, because all they do is replace the duck with a white box, so all you need to do is account for the time delay flats introduce, but those new fancy SNES and Mega Drive lightgun games actually rely on an electron beam sweeping back and forth thousands of times a second, so there's no way I know of to do them on non-CRTs.
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Feb 25, 2024 21:03
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Going to sell add-on electron beams for your flatscreen TV. Will make millions and I am sure there can be no downsides.
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Feb 25, 2024 21:06
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crispix posted:i actually happened to be looking at monitors when i checked the thread lol This is my solution to the exact same dilemma but with a 23" monitor.  A tabletop easel (£7.99 IIRC) that if I need the monitor portrait, I just turn it and put it on the easel. It was considerably cheaper than buying a monitor that could do landscape or portrait. (Last bought a monitor 8 years ago).
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Feb 25, 2024 21:13
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The Question IRL posted:In the TV buying thread on the IYG forum, without fail, every week someone will ask for recommendations for buying a new TV, who when presented with a bunch of options will ask "can't I just buy a TV without all those Smart Features?" I would be asking for the tv that lets me disable as many features as possible while still being a tv.
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Feb 25, 2024 21:17
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A lot of modern Dells rotate for the ease of plugging cables in, so there's always that. Not that you go to Dell for high quality monitors, but they're decent enough. Actually now I think about it how old is my computer monitor? Oh 2018. Meh, it's kinda lovely but I'll keep it for now. Part of the problem is I don't care about going above 1080. I'm not using a gently caress-off huge screen so I won't notice and frankly it's a waste of resources to get to 4K let alone 8K and the main thing that doing so will cause is your FPS to drop below 60.
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Feb 25, 2024 21:19
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Just Another Lurker posted:I would be asking for the tv that lets me disable as many features as possible while still being a tv. Technically any rectangle displaying an image is tele-vision. So printing something on A4 and sticking it on the wall across the room suffices. You're welcome for the savings I have provided you.
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Feb 25, 2024 21:20
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The Question IRL posted:It seems that what you want is regarded as a deluxe feature and not "can I buy a lesser version of the thing I want and also make it cheaper." No sound: Something wrong with the stream or media file Sounds like someone attempting to play Bach by way of a whistle up their arse: Soundbar disconnected and switched to internal speakers But yes if the manufacturers could save a penny by not fitting speakers they would, so I think the main reason must be that everyone expects speakers. It may change, as when everyone expected a tape cassette radio in a car.
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Feb 25, 2024 21:24
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I have never had a smart tv that threw a bunch of bullshit in my face unless someone accidentally hit one of the giant streaming service branded buttons on the remote, which understandably does it because it thinks you want to see a bunch of streaming service poo poo. People wildly overstate how in-your-face smart tv poo poo is imo.
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Feb 25, 2024 21:25
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And frankly you're more likely to get the unpleasant poo poo by using a web browser without an adblocker. YouTube without adblock is loving interminable.
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Feb 25, 2024 21:27
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Tesseraction posted:Technically any rectangle displaying an image is tele-vision. So printing something on A4 and sticking it on the wall across the room suffices. You're welcome for the savings I have provided you. But if i do that the tv license man will get me!!! 
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Feb 25, 2024 21:28
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I have no intention of replacing my 12 year old TV, mostly because it's a 3DTV and I am apparently one of the few people that seemingly enjoys 3D content still.
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Feb 25, 2024 21:32
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Guavanaut posted:And lightgun games. There’s no satisfying way of doing it with original hardware but emulation or FPGA poo poo can use these which are a lot of fun. They basically mount a camera in the gun and put a border around the display so it can calculate the angle you’re aiming along. Way better than the competing Wii-pointer style bullshit where you’re not aiming the gun but instead basically just driving a cursor around the screen.
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Feb 25, 2024 21:34
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My eyes have built in antialiasing so I don't need more than 1080 ps.
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Feb 25, 2024 21:40
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Anyone else watched this "The Way" thing on BBC iPlayer? Some sort of revolution in Port Talbot. Michael Sheen / Adam Curtis thing. Just saw the first episode. Thought it was p. Good. I liked the despair in the dad as poo poo got more and more out of control. Adam Curtis style archive footage being cut into it was nice visually too
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Feb 25, 2024 21:43
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OwlFancier posted:My eyes have built in antialiasing so I don't need more than 1080 ps. Is there anyone in this thread who isn't four-eyed? I figured it was a pre-requisite for being a goon.
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Feb 25, 2024 21:46
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There's a small window every day where I have perfect unblurred vision
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Feb 25, 2024 21:49
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just stay there and look through it all the time then, bing bong so simple
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Feb 25, 2024 21:50
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Tesseraction posted:Is there anyone in this thread who isn't four-eyed? I figured it was a pre-requisite for being a goon. Technically I don't need glasses, but I am slightly short sighted.
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Feb 25, 2024 21:52
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NotJustANumber99 posted:There's a small window every day where I have perfect unblurred vision Is this part of your groverhaus recreation?
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Feb 25, 2024 21:53
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I’ve needed glasses but I don’t wear them because I have a giant head and they’re uncomfortable. I just learned to read blurry instead 
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Feb 25, 2024 21:54
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Pistol_Pete posted:This is what puts me off from replacing my 12 year old TV: I don't want something that's forever showing me tailored unskippable adverts, or downloading a massive update without asking, when there's something else I want to be doing with it. I just want a TV that shows me moving pictures, as and when I want it to. It feels somewhat silly to have to solve the problem with another box, but I plugged my smart TV into an Nvidia Shield TV Pro and use that as my interface rather than whatever the TV runs. TV doesn't need an internet connection to phone home with since it's now just a dumb screen, and the Shield runs Android so you can do basically what you like with it.
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Feb 25, 2024 21:55
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The old 1080p Nvidia Shield is what I used for box in the makeshift bedroom TV. Gets netflix, gets youtube, can connect to plex server. Don't really need more than that.
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Feb 25, 2024 22:08
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DreddyMatt posted:You don't have to connect your smart TV to the internet Some will automatically piggyback on any wifi signal in range, or at least that's what YOSPOS tells me
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Feb 25, 2024 22:53
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Guavanaut posted:Maybe if they called them 'big monitors' instead. It also helps I’m a big enough nerd that my gaming PC is hooked up to it and does all the living room media rather than any actual live TV input.
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Feb 25, 2024 23:45
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get a samsung tv because the bespoke software on it is such garbage it’s too much effort for endless app updates unlike android tvs
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Feb 25, 2024 23:47
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I like it when the motion smoothing and adaptive brightness poo poo is in some counter intuitive place that takes ages to find and disable and every few weeks the iPlayer app crashes the TV and it forgets all its settings and you have to do it all over again. Wait no, I hate that. Not replacing it though I only upgrade these things when they break, and "technically it never really worked" doesn't count
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