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
@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)
@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)
@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
@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
@noiob @trwnh that's still not actually quite right since color CRTs are built differently than black-and-white ones; they don't have continuous phosphor over the whole surface
the backwards compatibility is by lighting all three of the phosphors at once, just like how an lcd panel illuminates all three subpixels at once to do greys and whites
