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error1 posted:Millennials will never know the joy of degaussing a CRT Degaussing is awesome. I had a nice Trinitron about a decade ago that got shocked by a lightning strike that caused the gun to get way out of alignment. To straighten the beam, I used old hard drive magnets across the top of the screen to bend the electron beam back into shape. When I hit degauss, the magnets would fly into the air and smack together in a big lump. They would go high enough to hit the ceiling. Fun times.
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People buy these all day long for retro consoles. Trinitrons are worth their weight in gold.
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Dec 14, 2015 00:45
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Philthy posted:People buy these all day long for retro consoles. Trinitrons are worth their weight in gold.
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Dec 14, 2015 00:59
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I had a 30" HDTV Sony for same for 50bux no one wanted it. I didn't want to move the fucker it weighed god drat 187lbs.. Ended up taking to dump.
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Dec 14, 2015 01:24
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haljordan posted:The heaviest thing I've ever had to move remains a 37" Sony Trinitron tv my parents used to have. Thing was like a bunch of cinder blocks with plastic over them. It was actually big lead plates
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Dec 14, 2015 01:28
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Actually the heaviest tv made I believe was the Sony 40" xbr 800 hdtv.. 40 loving inches of thick rear end glass 304lbs. I hated when the owner of the store I worked at made us move it.. gently caress that tv
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Dec 14, 2015 01:36
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Bill Barber posted:I paid $999 for my CRT and I still use it and it weighs 400lbs and when I move out whoever moves in after me gets it for free. I paid something like $1700 for a fancy Sony CRT back in 2002 and when I sold it in 2010 I got $75 for it. It had a great picture but it was huge and would probably kill someone if they slipped while moving it. People who only remember CRTs though the fog of nostalgia also forget just how blurry text is compared to an LCD running at native resolution and how it was basically impossible to have straight lines on larger ones because the earth's magnetic field would distort the picture.
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Dec 14, 2015 01:41
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I don't care what you guys say, I'm not getting rid of my old CRT TV.
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tater_salad posted:Actually the heaviest tv made I believe was the Sony 40" xbr 800 hdtv.. 40 loving inches of thick rear end glass 304lbs. EDIT: It was a non-widescreen HDTV, such a weird beast. Bill Barber fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Dec 14, 2015 |
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Dec 14, 2015 01:46
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lol she put an apostrophe in "TV's" when it should just be TVs
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Dec 14, 2015 02:12
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she's not delusional op, she literally has no clue that they are worthless
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Dec 14, 2015 02:14
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this is pretty much the equivalent of walking into the last remaining used bookstore in town and trying to sell them all your Stephen King paperbacks
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Dec 14, 2015 02:19
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Bill Barber posted:I paid $999 for my CRT and I still use it and it weighs 400lbs and when I move out whoever moves in after me gets it for free. It's usually frowned upon to leave garbage in your apartment when you move out
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Dec 14, 2015 02:23
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JnnyThndrs posted:I don't care what you guys say, I'm not getting rid of my old CRT TV. Wow nice picture of your grandparents living room.
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Dec 14, 2015 02:23
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OP needs to buy a TV and take a poo poo on it for Internet cred. It's no PS1 but still...
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Dec 14, 2015 02:41
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Fun fact: if you drive to a grocery store that still has outdoor recycling bins in the middle of the night you can unload any old CRTs/Monitors or whatever and you can save a bundle on getting rid of them
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Dec 14, 2015 02:53
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A Stupid Baby posted:Fun fact: if you drive to a grocery store that still has outdoor recycling bins in the middle of the night you can unload any old CRTs/Monitors or whatever and you can save a bundle on getting rid of them Another good lifehack is if you wait till the middle of the night you can just throw them in any dumpster or just push them out your door while you're driving down the highway
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Dec 14, 2015 02:57
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Aralan posted:Another good lifehack is if you wait till the middle of the night you can just throw them in any dumpster or just push them out your door while you're driving down the highway If ur not part of the solution ur part of the problem m8
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Dec 14, 2015 02:59
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Aralan posted:or just push them out your door while you're driving down the highway I see you live in my city
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Dec 14, 2015 03:04
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Julie And Candy posted:Bullshit. You're just adding extra letters to make it seem fancier, like Ashly > Aisleigh is your username a boards of canada reference? That Robot fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Dec 14, 2015 |
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Dec 14, 2015 03:25
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Honestly I'm one of those RGB CRT videophile spergs and I still wouldn't take any of those even for free. The CRTs people really go for are those professional PVMs that they used in broadcasting and video production.
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Dec 14, 2015 03:40
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I had a Sony GDM-FW900 for an all-too-brief period of a couple of years. It's an actual widescreen CRT monitor, and performed like a champ. It also weighed an ounce or two under 99 pounds. http://www.amazon.com/Sony-GDM-FW900-Widescreen-Trinitron-Monitor/dp/B00004YNSR/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8 
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Dec 14, 2015 03:43
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Ein cooler Typ posted:check out this flier someone put up at work where do you work? Idiot inc?
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Dec 14, 2015 04:20
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I like how it's implied that the Magnavox TV is black and white.
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Dec 14, 2015 04:21
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nomadologique posted:she's not delusional op, she literally has no clue that they are worthless That's what "delusional" means
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Dec 14, 2015 04:37
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If you want to see people who are REALLY delusional about resale value, look up HD motorcycles on craigslist. $15k+ for ten year old second hand machines. Yeah loving right buddy, you think that stupid pipe and chrome is going to keep value?
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Dec 14, 2015 04:40
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that's ignorance. i don't believe she's been confronted by any contrary that could test her belief in these prices, i think she just thinks that's what they're worth. perhaps if you kindly let her know, you could test her delusional state: if she refuses to believe you, you have better grounds to consider her delusional. at that point you can start gaslighting.
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Dec 14, 2015 04:41
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I got a 32" flat Trinitron just for the retro games, paid $6 and the requisite pain in my rear end carting it away, and still get a better picture than people who spend hundreds of dollars on upscaler boxes. That said, these TVs, even the nice ones, still aren't worth poo poo.
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Dec 14, 2015 04:42
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$6 for a vacuum tube that could potentially kill me you say???
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Dec 14, 2015 04:42
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not a bad investment in a potential unusual suicide imo
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Dec 14, 2015 04:43
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My old 19" Toshiba lasted years. Used to play Halo 3 on it cause I did way better on that lovely tube than any other tv I ever played on
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Dec 14, 2015 04:59
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gary oldmans diary posted:when i worked at compusa a woman came in asking for something to connect her sons xbox 360 to the screws on the back of their tv ahh memories, I used a TV like this for dreamcast and original Xbox. I remember the day we had enough money to get a then-modern flatscreen for the basement and just the experience of using AV cables like a normal person was exciting to me. I'm pretty sure that TV still works though. The one in the pic looks even older though, the one I used didn't have dials I think, just a thing you pulled to turn it on I didn't even know they made RF adapters for the 360/PS3 generation. grading essays nude fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Dec 14, 2015 |
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Dec 14, 2015 05:02
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Fredrik1 posted:Using an emulator for retro gaming is just bad. Retrogamer spotted. They're the vidya version of audiophiles and $3000 cables.
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Dec 14, 2015 05:03
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Bill Barber posted:I like how it's implied that the Magnavox TV is black and white. Michaeljax TV, if you will
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Dec 14, 2015 05:03
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My Brother had one of those old cabinet TVs taking up a bunch of space. He only kept it because they can be made into a decent drink cabinet. Ended up getting rid of it and three other TVs when the local council offered to recycle them for free.
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Dec 14, 2015 05:09
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Guys should I buy these HOME COMPUTERS I found on Craigslist. I hear Home makes some drat good computers, especially that Computer model. Plus it's in excellent condition!!!  http://tucson.craigslist.org/sys/5351794305.html
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Dec 14, 2015 05:10
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one hundred for a printer that will jam every third print? sign me up
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Dec 14, 2015 05:11
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I had a Sony GDM-FW900 for an all-too-brief period of a couple of years. It's an actual widescreen CRT monitor, and performed like a champ. It also weighed an ounce or two under 99 pounds. I got one of these for free a few months ago and it's amazing. 2k resolution too.
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Dec 14, 2015 05:30
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lol, i remember hauling my loving crt and tower to and from LAN parties god bless 
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Fetus posted:I got one of these for free a few months ago and it's amazing. 2k resolution too. It's such a good monitor I actually looked into repairing it when mine died. A few pages of "be careful or you will literally x-ray yourself to death" made me abandon the idea, however.
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