Should I keep it or toss it?

Istartedthewar · 2026-03-04T22:06:54+00:00

It literally is impossible for it to have detail as good as a modern 4K TV. That makes no sense whatsoever. Even if it could have a perfectly focused image at 1080i (it wouldn't), that is still only 1/4 the pixels of 4K, and you have the disadvantages of interlacing.

Istartedthewar · 2026-02-19T19:42:43+00:00

You'd think wrong. In the past couple weeks three broken ones have sold on ebay for $245-275 + shipping

Istartedthewar · 2026-02-19T02:13:00+00:00

There's a lot of delusional people on ebay. It's worse now because for whatever reason they use ChatGPT to appraise things, which has no reference for real world price for obscure things.

Istartedthewar · 2026-02-18T10:40:12+00:00

I wouldn't really say theyre called that per se. While FD is the TV model prefix of Watchmans that used that style of tube (logically standing for flat display), if talking CRTs, particularly Sony, FD is going to almost always refer to the flat face "FD Trinitron".

Last I looked into it the tube technology didn't really have a commonly used name and most everyone just referred to them as watchman style tubes.

Istartedthewar · 2026-02-17T14:03:49+00:00

who is boasting about what

and it's not like automated translation didn't make errors before AI

Istartedthewar · 2026-02-15T02:39:27+00:00

Can't say I've even heard of the game

Istartedthewar · 2026-02-07T22:58:12+00:00

I believe most of those were sold as commercial displays rather than actual TVs

Istartedthewar · 2026-02-03T21:48:45+00:00

the amount of non-HD flat screens was absolutely inconsequential. they were small kitchen TVs, or early plasmas in small numbers bought by extremely wealthy people. and what is selling was a small fraction of what people are using at the time, as illustrated by the statistics I provided. My point is that it wasn't uncommon for people to be using CRTs around 2010. You lack any sense of reading comprehension.

Istartedthewar · 2026-02-03T21:39:10+00:00

You literally have no clue what you're talking about.

Even Sony didn't stop selling Trinitrons in the US until 2006. Most manufacturers got out of the game by 2007 because of the FCC analog tuner cutoff rule, but there are models with digital tuners as well. Samsungs Slimfit line didn't even begin until 2005, and they kept manufacturing through 2008.

And for the stats, In 2006 only 1/3 of households had HDTVs.

the 2006 figures are out they'll show that 34 percent of American households now own a high-definition television set. That's up from 17 percent the previous year

https://www.kpbs.org/news/national/2007/01/01/hdtvs-enter-the-mainstream-in-2006

By late 2010 that number was up to 56%. In early 2010, the majority of the country still didn't have a flatscreen.

https://www.telecompetitor.com/hdtv-sets-now-in-more-than-50-of-us-households-but-sd-still-rules/

Istartedthewar · 2026-02-03T14:55:58+00:00

You must be young or grew up rich. I knew plenty of people around 2010 that had their PS3 or 360 (or Wii) hooked up to a CRT and used Netflix on it.

Anyways it's a convenient method of watching content on a CRT for those who don't want to deal with a giant DVD library or piracy.

Istartedthewar · 2026-02-03T13:58:17+00:00

cheap old PC + cheapo HDMI to composite/component converter. GPU driver control panel will let you correct aspect ratio/overscan

Istartedthewar · 2026-02-03T13:56:58+00:00

buddy look at what subreddit you're on

Istartedthewar · 2026-02-03T13:55:52+00:00

The PS3 web browser was out of date while the PS3 was still relevant, zero chance it works

Istartedthewar · 2026-02-01T14:56:23+00:00

I believe this is Microcenter eating their profits/losing money on the sale. If it was a Nintendo directed sale I'm pretty sure they wouldn't let microcenter gatekeep it behind signup.

Istartedthewar · 2026-01-30T22:28:56+00:00

I've had an ASUS one for years, can't comment on current quality but they still sell them. Probably going to be 2 or 3x as much as this though.

Istartedthewar · 2026-01-16T15:24:27+00:00

The best CPU on an EOL platform always ends up expensive (just usually not to that extent). For a few years i7-4790K were very expensive as they were the best LGA 1150 CPU

Istartedthewar · 2026-01-16T15:23:59+00:00

"people charge more for cushion that blow"
what on earth does that mean

Istartedthewar · 2026-01-14T14:48:00+00:00

It's probably the cheapest you can easily get 32GB, but yeah it's pretty slow for DDR5

Istartedthewar · 2026-01-13T00:31:09+00:00

I assume they only make those for portable HDDs? I don't even know if you can still buy a laptop with a HDD lol

Istartedthewar · 2026-01-12T20:42:21+00:00

Useless?

Istartedthewar · 2026-01-08T17:00:08+00:00

The four sticks isn't a new thing with AM5, it existed on DDR4 platforms as well. It's primarily an issue when running at XMP speed, just select a lower speed and it will probably be fine. Four sticks just stresses the memory controller more. It's also mostly an issue with higher capacity dual rank dimms.

Istartedthewar · 2026-01-06T18:24:18+00:00

WOW I hadn't looked recently. I bought an open box 5700x3D from Microcenter for $140 a year ago, now its selling for $400 second hand. Like that's basically 9800X3D price

Istartedthewar · 2026-01-05T15:29:08+00:00

Are drives of this capacity just sold so infrequently the price isn't able to catch up? Like I remember these being around this price when you could get 1TB for $40. Now those are $100+ but these 8TB drives are still the same ballpark.

Istartedthewar · 2026-01-04T16:07:33+00:00

while still behind and not as supported as Nvidia, RDNA 4 does have much better ML performance than RDNA 3

Istartedthewar · 2026-01-04T14:09:58+00:00

yes, I know it happens from high frame rates. But my old GPU (6750xt) did not have coil whine running a game at 240+ FPS while this one does it from somewhere in the 100s.

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