r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Inside-Size-8253 • 6h ago

Video PlayStation 5 with HDMI 2.1 to a 1949 black-and-white television

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u/chubbyurma 4h ago

Film and CRT are overall so good that in the process of going digital we basically went backwards for a LONG time presentation wise

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u/tandpastatester 4h ago

Yeah I remember sticking with my CRT for years while everyone around me switched to LCD’s. I just hated the lag and refresh rates on those early LCD monitors. I played a lot of Q3A and instagib UT, counter strike, etc. These games were terrible on early flat screens. I happily kept my big chungus monitor for a long time.

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u/iamemperor86 4h ago

Instagib UT man there’s a core memory unlock

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u/tomjone5 4h ago

Zooming around facing worlds with the shock rifle is the last time I had the reflexes and reaction times to be properly good at online FPS games.

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u/Mundane_Crazy60 3h ago

CoD world at war multiplayer was the best of all time, and I will fight and die on that hill…with a type 100, artillery and dogs.

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u/1HappyIsland 3h ago

Those huge old CRTs were SO heavy it was a 2 person job to set up workstations. I still have a scar on my foot where one dropped on it.

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u/Bozee3 2h ago edited 1h ago

I'm surprised you still have a foot. CRTs would reach hundreds of pounds and the bottom of them could be quite sharp. At least my old Sony 32" flat front Trinitron met all that criteria.

Correction I had a 32", that's what get for typing before my become unblurred in the morning.

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u/El_Giganto 1h ago

I guess we're both speaking anecdotally but my CRTs were nowhere near that heavy. Still heavy, but damn, in the hundreds? That's crazy. I guess they do exist, though, but most of the ones I've seen were a lot smaller.

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u/NickRick 1h ago

i dont think most people had 33" computer monitors.

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u/pimpledsimpleton 1h ago

i only got rid of my 19" CRT when it popped. 1600x1200@100hz was unachievable on anything but a CRT until wellll after most people swapped to LCD, and the latency is still unmatched.

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u/mitchandre 3h ago

Q3A?

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u/tandpastatester 3h ago

Quake 3 arena

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u/Salty-Pack-4165 1h ago

Ditto. I kept my ancient 32 inch Panasonic monster until it died 10 years ago. I didn't have cable so I used it for over the air antenna, VHS and DVD movies.

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u/Averse_to_Liars 1h ago

Flat panels were more expensive for a long time so it was easier to resist getting one.

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u/tandpastatester 1h ago

Also, with so many people switching to flat panels and trying to get rid of their crt displays, it was easy to find decent ones for cheap, or even for free. Making it a great time to upgrade to a better one and waiting it out until the latencies on lcd got better.

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u/yoweigh 3h ago

Streaming still looks like ass a lot of the time, especially in scenes with gentle color gradients that turn into giant compression artifacts. I also notice a lot of frame jitter even though I've got gigabit fiber.

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u/mekamoari 3h ago

In many regions you can't even get more than 1080p streams, not to mention that most streams just don't output it

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u/pulley999 2h ago

Frame jitter/judder might be a 60hz pulldown problem, especially on 24fps content like movies and animation. You need a 120hz TV in order to evenly display the frames, and then make sure everything is configured correctly for the TV to be doing 5:5 pulldown with that sort of content.

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u/scalyblue 44m ago

Yup just last month I had to educate someone on Reddit about why their movies “lagged” because they were in 3:2 pulldown

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u/yoweigh 5m ago

Hm, my TV is a 5 year old 60Hz Hisense, so you might be onto something. Would that problem also apply to blu-ray content? I don't notice it when I'm watching something like the new Dune on physical media.

I actually might be using the wrong term now that I've looked into it. It's more of a stutter, I guess. I notice it most when I'm watching sci-fi and there's a big ship moving slowly across the screen. Its motion is not smooth. It feels like the stream and not the display to me, but I could be wrong for sure.

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u/whooptheretis 3h ago

I always find it funny when people don’t believe old photos are real because the resolution is too good!
Bitch, it was analogue, it was infinite DPI!

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u/oldsecondhand Interested 1h ago edited 1h ago

There's film grain though. But that was kind of random.

High quality 35mm film's resolution is somewhere between 4k and 8k.

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u/vishli84000 3h ago

Holy shit instagib. Haven't heard that from another person I think ever

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u/dBlock845 2h ago

As long as I didn't have to carry around a CRT to LAN parties anymore.

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u/OverHaze 2h ago

Yep, I was playing FF12 when I moved from CRT to LCD and was shocked by how much worse it looked on my new flat panel.

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u/oldsecondhand Interested 1h ago

You couldn't even play games on early laptop LCD screens because ghosting was that bad.

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u/ThisSiteSucks8485 2h ago

Nah film has a really bad 24fps frame rate

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u/Firewolf06 4m ago

film has whatever framerate you spin it at