anyone in the Tuscaloosa/Birmingham AL area looking for a decent quality CRT by any chance? Goodwill won't take CRTs and it's a shame to let them go to the dumpster since no one makes them anymore
Might as well ask here before going to craigslist, but I don't think we've seen a single other person on here from around here in the first place so.... not really expecting any answers
@Felthry oh right you're in Tuscaloosa
@Felthry what kind of crt is it, and how far are you willing to travel to meet for it?
@trwnh How far? I dunno, really. Could probably go to birmingham or something
As for the type of CRT I posted out it in a follow-up just now, can get more details if you want (it''s out in the car right now)
@Felthry would you want anything in return for it?
@trwnh We have no idea what it's worth, were probably only going to ask like $10 for it on craigslist if we went that route
I should note, while it turns on, we do not know whether it actually works. we don't have anything to give it a signal; don't have anything that outputs s-video (or at least don't have cables for it)
@Felthry can you find a model number on it anywhere?
@trwnh Yeah but I forget what it was, give me a minute to go out to the car and check--i'll measure the screen size too
@trwnh it's a panasonic CT-2010Y, and it's a 21" screen so I had overestimated the size
@Felthry ah okay, that's far more manageable. let me look at any specs that i can find, and maybe we can coordinate a meeting time and place?
@trwnh sure!
@Felthry hmm, doesn't seem terrible, but maybe not so great either: https://www.broadcaststore.com/store/prod_detail_generic.cfm?model_id=8435
450 horizontal lines is not very high but should be roughly enough to not be fuzzy -- pic 1 attached is 250 TVL vs 450 TVL. pic 2 is 350 vs 600 vs 800.
@trwnh I'll be honest, we don't know a ton about this stuff; I thought the number of horizontal lines was fixed by the NTSC standard?
@trwnh oh hold on I see it; it's the *horizontal resolution*, aka the number of vertical lines; the number of horizontal lines is the vertical resolution and is relatively fixed