| JackHandy said: While I understand the reasoning behind it, it does feel strange when you're playing a game one a modern HDTV and it looks far worse. There's this moment of weird disconnect where you're like, wait... why did we think liquid displays were better again? When a TV that was manufactured in 1999 looks and performs better than a TV made in 2021, something is wrong. Clearly, the people designing these things didn't take any of this into consideration. |
People wanted bigger TVs, but can't carry bigger CRTs. I think my 34" one is 160 pounds, actually 175 pounds
https://www.cnet.com/products/panasonic-ct-34wx53-tau-34-crt-tv-1080i/
It's a great tv and could do split screen between different inputs. I could play Gears of War on 360 with component cables while my wife could watch tv on the same screen, evenly split. No clue why that isn't possible anymore.
Btw analog tv looked better than HD tv lol. HD cable was better when they introduced it in 2004. Since then they have reduced the bandwidth while still sticking to mpeg-2. So now it's 6 to 7 mbps mpeg2 720p / 1080i. It's a bit more bandwidth than Netflix 1080p, yet one day when out cable was out, we watched tv on our old analog set. There were still a couple over the air channels and wow, better colors, no compression artifacts, stable PQ in fast moving scenes / strobe lights / confetti etc. Sure it was lower res, but also a much nicer picture to look at.
Anyway the general public was all about bigger and flatter, while watched badly compressed 4:3 SD programs stretched wide to 16:9. (The digital quality of SD channels is awful). Analog tv had its problems, but if you did your cabling right with the right splitters and amplifiers, beautiful picture. It did take a bit of improvisation to watch DVR recorded programs in the bedroom. Or rather just switch the cable before going to the bedroom and use a infrared relay transmitter. It worked better than streaming!
