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A place to discuss Cathode Ray Tube displays, especially with respect to retro (and modern) gaming. Upscalers, cabling, homebrew software, and related analog technology discussions are also encouraged!

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What's the furthest you've traveled to acquire a CRT? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by bozo@kbin.social to c/CRTs@kbin.social

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Curious just how far some of you have gone for a CRT, and why!

For me, it was about 300 miles round trip to rural central Wisconsin to pick up a free Dell D1626HT. The guy really didn't want to pay the $20 ewaste fee to dispose of it so he had it listed on eBay for local pickup.

It turned out to be completely worth the trouble - not only was it a rebadge of the excellent Sony GDM-500PS (Trinitron PC monitor), it was in near mint condition too. Still gets regular use today 6 years later.

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[–] Wavebeam@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I drove about 150 miles to pick one up from the city I go to regularly to vacation in anyway, so it wasn’t out of my way, but was a distance I drove with the intent to pick up a CRT.

What was awesome is that I got super lucky and managed to find 2 32” AA-2D chassis Trinitrons within a week or so of each other including the above 150 mile trip and picked them both up with the intent to RGB mod them both, sell one and keep the other. Worked out as planned for me. Learned a lot and still loving the one I kept!

In fact, here’s the one I kept: