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AFAIK there aren't any CRTs being manufactured anywhere on Earth anymore. It's been kinda wild seeing them go from basically free to sought after in the past f

• busterarm 3y ago
  Sony sold its Trinitron manufacturing line to a plant in India but they were only using it to recycle CRT tubes for the local market a couple of years ago and I think they shut down too since COVID. Making CRT tubes is art and skill and a lot of the technology would have to be literally redeveloped as there aren't the skilled hands left on the planet to produce the tubes we were producing in the early '00s. I have a huge desire for this kind of equipment due to my arcade/gaming hobby but it's a long-term losing play to try and maintain this stuff.
• HankB99 3y ago
  So the 21" NEC and Hitachi monitors still cluttering up my home lab might be worth something? I could never bear to dump them because of what they cost me new. They work well when I need a console on my ancient server hosts because they all do VGA.
  • EvanAnderson 3y ago
    They likely are worth something. I'm kicking myself for taking most of my VGA monitors to Goodwill back in the early 2010's (mainly for not having them now, not for the windfall I missed).
  • kcb 3y ago
    CRTs went through a phase where you couldn't give them away for the cost of picking up to now where higher quality models are becoming pretty desirable