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Anyone still watch TV on an old Black & White television set??

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  • #32
    Old Bill
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 299 ✭✭Old Bill


    cml387 wrote: »
    No it's quite true.
    The old analogue signal reproduced a moving image far better than modern digital tv's.


    CRT TV's beat flat screen TVs in every way apart from resolution.


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
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    cml387 wrote: »
    No it's quite true.
    The old analogue signal reproduced a moving image far better than modern digital tv's.
    Depends on the refresh rate, some of the last generation CRT sets used a 100 hz refresh rate and this produced a clearer image of the movement, than the flat screen TVs of the day. The early flat screen sets used to pixelate due to the electronics not being fast enough.


  • #34
    Capt'n Midnight
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    buried wrote: »
    Whatever about black and white television sets. Some of the greatest films ever made are the Black and White ones. You'll get more entertainment watching those films than the super coloured superhero infested frat rom-com rehash muck movies made today. Had the two nephews over for Halloween, made them watch the original 'Nosferatu' from 1922. It frightened the p!ss out of them and they wanted to know could they watch the "sequels" after it.
    Is it sequels you want ?

    Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Werner Herzog working with Klaus Kinski ,
    get them to watch Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, the Wrath of God too

    Shadow of the Vampire (2000)


    And then Young Frankenstein (1974) :)


  • #35
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    Old Bill wrote: »
    CRT TV's beat flat screen TVs in every way apart from resolution.
    CRT tv's were designed to display vireo broadcasted at 625 lines, there were computer monitors that supported much higher resolutions, so if you nhad a PC with a HD tv tuner you could have watched HD on a CRT monitor.


  • #36
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Old Bill wrote: »
    You get a much better picture on an old CRT TV compared with the modern flat sceen TVs.
    No.

    Check out how much the CRT's cost in today's money. Then factor in the screens were smaller because they included the thickness of the glass too.

    In 1999 a 20" Sony Trinitron monitor cost $559 discounted (Originally $1099.)
    $559.00 in 1999 had the same buying power as $806.70 in 2016 = £633.
    Today you can get a 55" 4K TV with 24 bit colour.


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  • #37
    buried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Is it sequels you want ?

    Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Werner Herzog working with Klaus Kinski ,
    get them to watch Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, the Wrath of God too

    Shadow of the Vampire (2000)


    And then Young Frankenstein (1974) :)

    "more scary black and white movies" is what they wanted after watching it. The only other one I had was Haxan, but that could have been a bit too much for them. I didn't want to send them back to their mother with nothing but horror stories about me and my movie collection!
    Its actually funny thinking back on it now, the two of them probably never seen a black and white film before. It probably added a bit of otherworldliness to it

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



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