Ok, GOOD pics of my setup...

PC/Music Studio

Wii/Living Room

I'm surprised by the number of people who still have CRT screen.

LCDs are expensive. CRTs do the trick. Why upgrade when you have no real need to and it's purely a luxury, and an expensive one at that?

CRT's can still kick a surprising amount of ass.  I have a 7 year old HD CRT (87cm) and 2 year old Hitachi 97cm TV (1080p) and until recently I had been gaming on the latter.

Since I got a few new games over the last couple of weeks and I felt guilty for hogging the LCD in the living room I decided to hook the Wii up to the CRT in my bedroom (via VGA) and I was quite shocked. It is still surprising to me how good 480p can look on the right TV and particularly when not subject to scaling of any kind. 

The picture is just so much cleaner (than the LCD), it's sharper, it's jaggie free, has more natural colours, fab contrast and blacks that would make an LED TV quiver. My CRT is also huge, clunky, tempermental, very user unfriendly and subject to geometry issues but in terms of picture quality for sub HD resolutions in particular, it's hard to beat. 

- CRT input lag is near zero.

- Colors do not change if you change view angle.

- More vibrant colors.

- Sharper image.

- More options for resolutions.

- No dead pixels. (Basically they work or do not work. Mine is about 7 years old.)

- They don't cost a fortune. (Sure you can get some crappy lcds that can't even show all colors with price of crt.)

Sure they are big and clunky, but I can live with that especially when they have traits mentioned above.

Yeah, I love my digitech gear, they make great products. Upgrading my mixer next week to an 18 channel firewire one

Exactly. Plus, I feel bad when I think of replacing my CRT tv, Ive had it since 1992. Thats older than a good chunk of the users here. It's like part of my family now.

Every Sega Fanboy's dream storage

My favorite item in my collection is this Sega rotating shop stand I got on Ebay. Holds 140 mega Drive/ Master System games (160 if you count the very top which could hold games too) and is currently full up. Couldn't even fit this in my old room.



Dreamcast games take up all of that blue shelf with some of the PAL games in racks you could buy from GAME when the console was around. That cabinet with the sliding doors is the perfect height for PAL and US Sega Saturn games, I'd like to find more cabinets like that. Below that is my biggest cabinet full of games for the Wii, Gamecube, DS (GBA boxes are in loft) PS1, PS2, SNES, some loose carts and Blu-Rays.

@nordlead

you missed some xbox360 games there...