News Faux-CRT monitor designed to pair up with retro mini PCs to recreate CRT feeling — cute 8-incher puts retro design first by shoving a 60 Hz LCD pan...

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Japan’s Mizuki Co. is crowdfunding a monitor to match its attractive X68000 Z Super and X68000 Z XVI miniature retro reprint PCs.

Faux-CRT monitor designed to pair up with retro mini PCs to recreate CRT feeling — cute 8-incher puts retro design first by shoving a 60 Hz LCD pan... : Read more

 

[chaz_music]

Hmm. They could also make an IBM XT compatible ... and somewhere I have my DOS diskettes ...

 

[Dr3ams]

I really don't miss those bulky CRT monitors. You either needed a really deep desk, or the desk had to be far enough away from the wall to give the monitor's butt some room. The biggest one I ever owned was a 21" Samsung SyncMaster. I replaced it with my first TFT display, an Eizo L565 17" that I bought in 2002. All the sudden I had all this room on my desk for my various figurines. 👀

 

[Kindaian]

The trick was to have an L shaped desk and place the monitor in the angle... That way you saved some space.

In reality, what i would like would be a monitor that could receive from composite video, scart and plain rgb. That would help with the retro stuff a lot.

 

[JohnyFin]

Death end of design. Worst idea ever. Nobody miss CRT.

 

[Evildead_666]

The trick was to have an L shaped desk and place the monitor in the angle... That way you saved some space.

In reality, what i would like would be a monitor that could receive from composite video, scart and plain rgb. That would help with the retro stuff a lot.

I'm pretty sure the checkmate LCD can do all of that :
https://www.checkmate1500plus.com/IntroductionDisplays.aspx

😉

 

[rbanffy]

I'd be far more interested in buying the keyboard and mouse separately. The main unit isn't uninteresting, but it's overengineered where a small ARM board running emulation software would suffice.

 

[ripbeefbone]

Death end of design. Worst idea ever. Nobody miss CRT.

naive and uninformed

 

[theverge]

Death end of design. Worst idea ever. Nobody miss CRT.

I'm guessing you've never used a CRT before.

 

[Neilbob]

Death end of design. Worst idea ever. Nobody miss CRT.

I kind of miss CRT, in the respect that I could play antique DOS games with a 320x200 resolution on my 2048x1536 CRT monitor without them being a horrific mess of blur and fragmentation. And any other resolution in between didn't suffer from nasty interpolation artifacts.

For the life of me, I can't remember the brand (I vaguely recall it being a Philips), but I loved being able to run Windows at 1800x1350 85Hz (it could only manage 2048x1536 at 60Hz, which could be a bit painful to look at for too long).

What I didn't love so much was the sheer weight of the thing. I almost did my back in one time trying to move it.

I also miss 4:3 aspect ratio, but that's not specific to CRT.

 

[Dr3ams]

What I didn't love so much was the sheer weight of the thing. I almost did my back in one time trying to move it.

Forgot about that, but very true.

 

[SonoraTechnical]

I literally had 2 x 21" Dell Trinitron 21" D1626HT @ 1600x1200 used monitors on my desk up until about 2008. Then I found 2 x 24" Dell UltraSharp 2407WFPB @ 1920x1200 used monitors. The difference was incredible in terms of ergonomics. I had soooo much space on my desk again! I loved the limitless connections those monitors had (S-video, composite, DVI, VGA, DP, HDMI, don't think I missed anythinge else). Now, I'm using 2 x 32 LG 4K LCD monitors, and I'm blown away by how much lighter these were than the UltraSharps... Eventually these are going on Monitor Arms to get them completely off my desk altogether.

(Later, I ended up donating those Ultrasharp LCD monitors for audio/video support for large auditoriums where you were patching in allot of old equipment with a variety of different physical interfaces. And yes, those folks were delighted by the amount of space freed up on their setups as well.)

I can never imagine going back to bulk CRTs.