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Amazon gave everyone in my school 100 dollars to spend on the store. Most people thought it was a scam, but I gave it a shot. I still have that 19" CRT TV I go

Amazon gave everyone in my school 100 dollars to spend on the store. Most people thought it was a scam, but I gave it a shot. I still have that 19" CRT TV I got for ~50 bucks out of pocket.

amelius 5y ago
Was that part of some kind of growth hack?
yumraj 5y ago
I'm more curious/surprised about the fact that you still have a 19" CRT TV ..
- laumars 5y ago
  Why is that a surprise? I still have my old childhood 15” CRT and in fact still regularly use it to play old games consoles. The picture looks as good as the day I bought it so why would I throw it away?
  - KptMarchewa 5y ago
    Because it didn't look good at the day, even if it was state of the art.
    - OGWhales 5y ago
      For old game consoles, CRTs can actually look better than a modern day LCD. Edit: https://imgur.com/a/JGr57WE https://imgur.com/a/JGr57WE
    - fourteenfour 5y ago
      Games then were designed to be displayed on CRTs.
    - laumars 5y ago
      That’s oxymoronic. It clearly looked good when it was state of the art, it is only when compared to more modern technologies that CRTs look bad. But even by modern standards, CRTs are widely considered better looking for games. Not just retro consoles where the sprites were designed to take advantage of the blurring effect (thus using the limitations of the display to create new colours and emulate alpha blending) but also many modern gamers are starting to see the appeal of CRTs too because it means they can run their games at lower resolutions without them looking pixelated and turn all the rendering effects up to max.
- johncessna 5y ago
  Well, it's currently embattled in a domestic dispute and is hiding under some clothes in the basement. I don't have a great reason for keeping it to be honest. It's probably a dash of the memories it triggers when I look at it, a dash of respect for its ability to have survived multiple moves and 20+ years of not getting thrown away, and a dash of not being an inconvenience to keep around. It came in handy a few years ago when I was testing the coax cables/attic antenna network I ran in the house. Much easier to carry around than the 50" lcd mounted on the wall.
- bluedino 5y ago
  They are worth $100 now because people use them to play $150 16-bit consoles

Amazon gave everyone in my school 100 dollars to spend on the store. Most people thought it was a scam, but I gave it a shot. I still have that 19" CRT TV I got for ~50 bucks out of pocket.

amelius 5y ago

Was that part of some kind of growth hack?

yumraj 5y ago

I'm more curious/surprised about the fact that you still have a 19" CRT TV ..

laumars 5y ago
Why is that a surprise? I still have my old childhood 15” CRT and in fact still regularly use it to play old games consoles. The picture looks as good as the day I bought it so why would I throw it away?
- KptMarchewa 5y ago
  Because it didn't look good at the day, even if it was state of the art.
  - OGWhales 5y ago
    For old game consoles, CRTs can actually look better than a modern day LCD. Edit: https://imgur.com/a/JGr57WE https://imgur.com/a/JGr57WE
  - fourteenfour 5y ago
    Games then were designed to be displayed on CRTs.
  - laumars 5y ago
    That’s oxymoronic. It clearly looked good when it was state of the art, it is only when compared to more modern technologies that CRTs look bad. But even by modern standards, CRTs are widely considered better looking for games. Not just retro consoles where the sprites were designed to take advantage of the blurring effect (thus using the limitations of the display to create new colours and emulate alpha blending) but also many modern gamers are starting to see the appeal of CRTs too because it means they can run their games at lower resolutions without them looking pixelated and turn all the rendering effects up to max.
johncessna 5y ago
Well, it's currently embattled in a domestic dispute and is hiding under some clothes in the basement. I don't have a great reason for keeping it to be honest. It's probably a dash of the memories it triggers when I look at it, a dash of respect for its ability to have survived multiple moves and 20+ years of not getting thrown away, and a dash of not being an inconvenience to keep around. It came in handy a few years ago when I was testing the coax cables/attic antenna network I ran in the house. Much easier to carry around than the 50" lcd mounted on the wall.
bluedino 5y ago
They are worth $100 now because people use them to play $150 16-bit consoles