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1.CRT's are a great conversation starter!
2.Heat generated by it makes me feel good.
3.Wave your hand on the glass... static!
4.I have absolutly nothing on my desk, it fills the empty void!
5.I paid $1,000 for this bohemith 24" moster back in 1999!
6. Have you ever seen windows NT4.0 in 16bit color THIS awesome?!? Who needs all them colors...
7.it still works!
8.its got image burn of a games high score for ever lastig proof of my lifes greatest accomplishment!!!
9. I find it reminds me of my grandma's house.
10. I find them all the time in the trash!!

Just some off the wall humor.... Mostly cause my S6 hasnt upgraded my box yet!!
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Don't forget that it is also fun to hit the degauss button.
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SN Greg Wright
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The blacks on CRTs are still much better than LED's, even today. I don't have one, though.
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MSgt Doug P.
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Primarily for the deep, true black it can produce while I'm editing/mastering videos. LCDs still allow some light through where it should be true black and that skews the image quality. Plus the color output is different (gamut, contrast, temperature, etc.) from LCD/LED monitors. Plasma monitors were closer to CRTs re: black depth/color range but were heavy and way too hot for daily use.
Another reason I keep one around is for a backup monitor I can put in the rack in case I need to look at the servers directly (if the KVM fails).
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If you still have a CRT computer monitor, why?
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SGT (Join to see) I still have one and it was in use until last year. My wife was still using a CRT monitor when she and I moved in together. She had it because it was still working, and she does not use a computer as often as we do. She used it until she got a good tablet. She has not touched a laptop or a her desktop since. So we donated the system to one of the local schools.
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PO1 Brian Austin
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I think i still have an old HP CRT gathering dust somewhere in the nether regions of my garage.
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PO1 Chad Alcock
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Ditto
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If anyone can define CRT.... Id be surprised. Dont go googling that now.... Read more to see....


Cathode ray tube
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SN Greg Wright
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SSG (Join to see) - No, they're acronyms. (Most people don't know that.)

Radar: Radio Detection and Ranging.
Laser: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
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SONAR uses sound, Sound Navigation And Ranging
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SN Greg Wright lol... Wasnt even thinking of that... But where does that fit in with the topic of the orignal post?
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SN Greg Wright
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SSG (Join to see) - Well you busted out the CRT acronym definition. Figured I'd throw in.
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Are there still some around?
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Oh yeah. I've seen quite a few. People sell them online often.
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Wow. I haven't seen one in a while.
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I've NEVER owned a CRT monitor, LOL...
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SGT (Join to see) - 8 Floppy Disks to play through a whole game
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SSgt (Join to see) - What game? OMF 2097, Gateworld, and Monster Bash were all on one 3.5. I think Alien Carnage took two.
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SSgt Mark Lines
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SGT (Join to see) PO1 John Miller - Don't feel too bad, I know I am old. The Pentium was the first computer I actually built myself. My best friend and I won TSR-80's from a raffle, in 1987, when our Junior High School replaced the Principle's and Secretary's computers. Since my name was drawn first, I chose the TRS-80 with the hard drive. My friend got the one without. We felt that we were the "Kings of Nerdom"!
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Phantasmagoria? Don't remember off the top of my head
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I just got rid of my sony 21 inch crt , 140lbs of pure sexiness that went to the trash after i did my first big move.
I miss it the colors and blacks were awesome compared to lcds..
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Does it count if it's collecting dust in the basement?
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SGT Laura Delgadillo
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I have one in my office because I'm so used to 3 screens and supply wouldn't give me another one and this one was just given to me. But everyone that walks in always comments on it
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Are you using a Triple-head or does the GPU support that natively ?
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SGT Laura Delgadillo
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Natively so to say. Laptop screen, vga, and display port.
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Crt's good fuse for Semtex (die hard)
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I guess I don't know the difference. What's on my laptop?
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LCD. CRT is the older bulky stand-alone monitors.
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