tmsr - Search: trinitron

asciilifeform: lemme know when it is time to ship to mircea_popescu the trinitron.

asciilifeform: Mocky: trinitron was (imho) the acme of display

asciilifeform: Mocky: hey, at least you dun have the pain of mircea_popescu , who left a whole trinitron behind in old world

mircea_popescu: i think you conflate economics and coolness. for one thing, an original trinitron bought the year sony came out with them was like 5k ? or some shit like that. for the other thing, 1k from 1988 is like 10-15k today. so... i don't see the $100k price tag that'd merely cover inflation.

asciilifeform: old trinitron, with fade, is worth about fiddybux.

asciilifeform: elsewhere , for all of asciilifeform's gripe re the trinitron d00d -- he immediately grasped 'why FUCKGOATS named'

mircea_popescu: also trinitron more like 2000s. the 90s were atrocious, all that green.

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/xTr3N << holy mother of fuck, is that... a trinitron ? in there

asciilifeform: i, funnily enough, got a (brand-new! yes it sat in a crate for 15 years) 21" trinitron, but no free desk space yet to put it...

asciilifeform: (sit just-so or it looks like soup, and certainly doesn't beat the trinitron crt on which i originally played the classics)

assbot: Brand-New Trinitron (circa 2000) - Unboxed in 2015. - Album on Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1dFoDwJ )

asciilifeform: (what do you do when clerk drops the trinitron ?)

decimation: yeah I remember playing nintendo on an ntsc trinitron, was better than random shit tv

BingoBoingo had a nice 9" trinitron rf signal display machine with integrated optical disk player. A historical, more trusting Bingo loaned it to a neighbor and gone.

BingoBoingo: First stint of grad school I was so pissed when fucking druggy never returned my 9" trinitron

asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform shipment of small women from southeast asia ? << next best thing. sealed sony trinitron, of what i think is the largest 4:3 size that was made.

asciilifeform: (on that day, i have 1) fanless 486 2) with genuine 'sound blaster 64' 3) trinitron 4) free time.)

ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i was stuck on a monitor that was losing yellow for months << l0l! i just picked up a sealed, virginal sony 21" trinitron...

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i've a massive 'sun' trinitron here that 'needs mercy'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ever found a new 'trinitron' ?

asciilifeform: that's a bit unfair. trinitron ~= theoretically infinite contrast ratio (save the odd stray electron)

asciilifeform: the last trinitron knockoff, afaik, rolled off the conveyor in early '09.

decimation: lcds have gotten better, just about 3 times worse than a trinitron crt (in its prime) in contrast

decimation: I miss the little wire shadows on my old trinitron

decimation: asciilifeform: makes me sad I ditched my 21 inch trinitron a few years ago, but it was a heavy bitch

asciilifeform misses crt, but every time he buys 'amazing!11! well-preserved111! trinitron' - it's a faded turd.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu and all other 'trinitron' aficionados: when you get the inevitable tube fade, do you boost the electron gun voltage? or bite the bullet and somehow conjure up a new (!) tube ?

asciilifeform back from buying a back-breaking 21-inch 'trinitron', missed, as usual, all the goodstuff

decimation: I miss my trinitron with its shadow-bars; the LCDs that replaced it just don't have the same dynamic range

asciilifeform: there exists lcd that is acceptable substitute for a trinitron. $2K+.

ThickAsThieves: i got rid of my last crt a couple years ago, a huge trinitron