I never realized how much I missed the sound of a CRT degaussing system when you turned it on.

@samholdsworth3957

2 жыл бұрын

Buaaanng

@sonixthatsme

2 жыл бұрын

DOING

@You_Eat

2 жыл бұрын

Tunk

@AnotherFreakingDude

2 жыл бұрын

Dzoooooom

@stevef6392

2 жыл бұрын

Steve!

Funny how we've come full circle with refresh rates, 120hz is desirable in a monitor now but pre 2000 it was fairly standard

@rzpogi

2 жыл бұрын

Because it is difficult to achieve 120hz in LCD Monitors.

@FroggyMosh

2 жыл бұрын

We traded Hertz and color vibrance for form factor and power consumption basically. They even threw in the ghosting for free.

@MuhammadIlhamuodd254512

2 жыл бұрын

And it doesn't support gsync and freesync on that monitor

@nitroxylictv

2 жыл бұрын

@@LeafTheWitch get a 90hz best of both worlds

It was a great feeling back in the day when you got a new monitor with higher resolution than your old one. I'd go straight to the resolution settings, crank it to the max, hit OK, and bask in the glory of my desktop icons being so tiny and crisp 🤓

@goeland4585

2 жыл бұрын

I'm still doing this, what are you talking about. Just got an ultra wide display, it's amazing. :)

@outatimeCAT

2 жыл бұрын

Did that with a 19" Sony CRT. It allowed me quite high res at the expense of having a terrible refresh rate. I could barely look at the screen to go back to the previous settings 😂

@GamerbyDesign

2 жыл бұрын

@@goeland4585 I doubt it dpi settings now a days make things different.

@Josh_2976

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's been 8 years now since I made the jump from 1080p to 1440p. There's not the same kind of incremental upgrades like there used to be. As much as its great getting a lot more use without upgrades nowadays, there was a special feeling chasing the dragon that upgrades were back then.

@GraveUypo

2 жыл бұрын

i jumped from 2560x1080 to 3840x2160 but screensize also jumped from 34uw to 48" so relative sizes remained very similar :p but i use my screen even further back now so windows feels a little bit small at 100% scale.

I saw that Age of Empires II icon and my brain went back 20 years. Holy crap nostalgia is powerful.

@gstrdms

2 жыл бұрын

bruh AOE I, II and II have been being re-released non-stop for years now.

@rubz1390

2 жыл бұрын

@@gstrdms Aoe1 was only rereleased once in over 20 years not, not constantly as you claim.

@VraerynDaDragon

2 жыл бұрын

Command and Conquer in the thumbnail did it to me, even though I still occasionally play it!

@AkosJaccik

2 жыл бұрын

You'd be surprised how much of a re-emergence that game saw lately, Microsoft came out with HD, then Definitive Edition just two years ago, and the game got it's latest DLC perhaps a few weeks ago? Some tourney matches such as Red Bull Wololo or Empire Wars are followed by tens of thousands of wievers of Twitch. So yeah, it's wild.

@thisaccountisntreal107

2 жыл бұрын

@@VraerynDaDragon I remember booting up the campaign for the first time and then playing it all at once

In 2002, my Sony CRT did 2048x1536 @ 80 hz, and 800x600 at 200 hz. LCDs only caught back up to that in the past few years.

@dallesamllhals9161

2 жыл бұрын

..and still you moved on... ;-P

@jabrockobiden9434

Жыл бұрын

I didnt

Groooovy! Nothing better than chit chatting with a buddy about computers and then they ask "Hey you ever heard of a show on KZread called LGR??"! "DID WE JUST BECOME BEST FRIENDS?" "YEP!"

I had a broken Sony 24 inch that cost 600 bucks to replace. The employer I worked for threw it out and I took it called Sony and it was purchased with an extended warranty. It cost me 50 bucks to ship it to them and they sent me back a brand new one. I was in heaven

@bexrayspex

2 жыл бұрын

Bargains

@supernoob17

2 жыл бұрын

wait how long ago was this

@rubusroo68

2 жыл бұрын

@@supernoob17 1974

@RUFU58

2 жыл бұрын

@@rubusroo68 😆

@supernoob17

2 жыл бұрын

@@GreatLordEli yeah if he said it happened last week i'd start dumpster diving immediately

You channel has been such an inspiration to me. About two years ago I started my own channel exclusive about the film Waterworld, and I am almost to 1000 subs, all thanks to you Clint!

@sotkajarvi

2 жыл бұрын

Waterworld is such an amazing movie!

@emil.soderholm

2 жыл бұрын

you gotta give some credit to yourself! you made the videos on your channel which made those almost 1000 people subscribe

@mykeljmoney

2 жыл бұрын

Just recently bought a Blu-ray of it (my laserdisc copy and player are in another state) so my wife could finally watch it! She loved it! Congrats and good luck on the channel!

@TheAtoll

2 жыл бұрын

@@trevorml1362 😂 There is actually a crashed nuclear submarine in the underwater scene!

Oh man, C&C Red Alert.... so many memories. Such a good game. Looks great on that monitor too.

@The99joce99

2 жыл бұрын

Play it today, it still so active

@RobertKliethermes

2 жыл бұрын

@@The99joce99 Active? Like multiplayer?

@Nyerguds

2 жыл бұрын

@@RobertKliethermes Oh yes. There's the Remaster, too (which is excellent), but the classic community on CnCNet is still going strong, as well.

@hazonku

2 жыл бұрын

The Remaster goes on sale on Steam pretty frequently & you can literally just turn on & off the old graphics. It's pretty sweet.

@themcfaceman

2 жыл бұрын

@@hazonku yeah it's awesome. I can't wait for Red Alert 2 remastered

I remember using Reforce Refresh back in 1999 for CS 1.3 / 1.4.... Nostalgic...

New old stock CRT....such words....they are glorious.

Man, my cousin had one of these, so many memories of playing Theme Hospital and StarCraft on this monitor

@posersk8er183

2 жыл бұрын

Many hours wasted playing c&c, theme hospital, and StarCraft ok same monitor for me as well.

@skittishgaming4279

2 жыл бұрын

theme hospital oh man you brought back a memory there

@tomyyoung2624

2 жыл бұрын

@@skittishgaming4279 Yes as an exhibitor or anything

The best thing about these old screens was that I could not see how low res and pixelated my digital pictures were. Back in the late 90ies.

@amoebavirus1508

2 жыл бұрын

@EDM & CGA DVDs were great on these screens.

@saltmiester720

2 жыл бұрын

Yea older games look better on them but when you use a newer game on them there gonna look blurry and bad

@Nordlicht05

2 жыл бұрын

Yea it's confusing. Looked pictures on an iPad... Though man they look good. But when I looked again on my pc in comparison with my camera it was false assumption. My camera pictures also looked better on the retina display. Was like 4 years ago.

@BanjoKazooie0

2 жыл бұрын

@@saltmiester720 i don't know I've been playing Destiny 2 at 1440x900 and other's at 1280x960 it doesn't seem bad. Will it have a softer look? Yes. But not any different from consoles having taa.

@BanjoKazooie0

2 жыл бұрын

@James F. Absolutely, I've had games like Serious Sam where the frame timing doesn't fluctuate. And when you're moving around it's absolutely trippy to see how smooth the image is.

Those desktop shortcuts! Damn that is a fine selection of games

4:42 - I had one of those NEC monitors after my CTX died. I, too, loved the organic flow of the case towards the back. The CTX it replaced was positively boxy. It seems like other manufacturers followed suit as the electronics around the tube got smaller and smaller.

@Spikeypup

2 жыл бұрын

Fancy bumping into you right here! I had just watched your latest Pi video about the blades...good stuff! Anyway, I looked down and your comment was right here just a few minutes ago...the universe...it's tiny. lol

@maltoNitho

2 жыл бұрын

Holy Red Shirts!! A wild Jeff appears. 👋

@razorsz195

2 жыл бұрын

I've still got my CTX colour monitor going strong, was in my nans house and previously used in Dearne Electrical Limited in Doncaster, still has the stickers in tact to show its history. The colour and Brightness is fantastic, no vignette or burn in, surprised for the amount of usage it got from my Uncle up until a few years ago. You just can't beat a CRT!

@Bob-vp3dc

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the design language change of vehicles at the time as well. I personally prefer the meaner, boxier look myself.

@eugenb9017

2 жыл бұрын

Small world, nice to see Jeff posting a comment in a LGR video.

Those NEC monitors back in the day were the gold standard. I had 13" multisync I pulled out of a dumpster with a broken VGA pin. Fixed it and used it for years!

CRT @100+ Hz was great. On LCD the higher Hz is good also, but even best LCDs have bad ghosting...

@fazejohncenachristogamerfaze

2 жыл бұрын

True

@Decenium

Жыл бұрын

time to jump to Oled

@adaptiveaussie2216

22 күн бұрын

​@@DeceniumOLED is still not up to crt levels yet.

I love your channel, the nostalgia for retro tech that I get from your videos is just great. So, I just want to say thank you

Clint, I love how you smell everything as you're unboxing. I got myself a nice new old stock 19'' CTX CRT last year and I did exactly the same thing. Savoured every smell lol. It's a nerd thing 😎😂

@fastica

2 жыл бұрын

My wife says I’m crazy because I sniff new electronics (and books.) I’m glad I’m not alone.

@sassymenses

2 жыл бұрын

It's fetishist pervert thing.

@kattihatt

2 жыл бұрын

@@sassymenses no its not. Its not sexual.

@sassymenses

2 жыл бұрын

@@kattihatt sometimes I think it is...

@legal040

2 жыл бұрын

@@sassymenses you're creepy

I got this model CRT for christmas in 2001! Had it for about 2 years until I got a 21" Sony trinitron , that was my final CRT monitor I owned...

@Blasterxp

2 жыл бұрын

Trinitron is best!!!

@firenado4295

2 жыл бұрын

i how you still have that Trinitron cuz they are still good by modern monitor standards (well probably not so much anymore but they where tuperior to all oem flatscreens for over a decade)

@AllboroLCD

2 жыл бұрын

@@firenado4295 It was a nice model, DELL branded from Sonys final CRT line. My trini met its fate while moving in my 20's. Drunk ass friend dropped it on me. It still worked but the color was off, and yes I do know thats an easy repair. Though at the time I didnt and left it behind : ( All of my CRT's are gone now, in all honesty I never liked CRTs even as a kid. Id like to obtain an nice beige LCD for my vintage rigs and ill be content with that.

@firenado4295

2 жыл бұрын

@@AllboroLCD ah thats pretty sad but fair enough, i only have a couple of CRTs cuz we stoped using them as they just went off one day and never switched back on however it was just a blown fuze. i replaced it and boom they are like new again, and one of them is really nice the colours are super deep and vibrant and the blacks are so dark. wich is way better than my main lcd screen that has very Muted colours and alot of backlight blead through. its a samsung syncmaster753dfx i think

Thank you for demoing Red Alert. Seems like that game isn't shown off by a lot of retro PC people. RA defined my Saturday mornings as a kid.

@leigel3

2 жыл бұрын

I absolutely loved C&C and Red Alert as a kid but whenever I revisit them I am bored.

@plumcakey

2 жыл бұрын

There is an open source modern version, openRA

@cougar2k720

2 жыл бұрын

I actually beat the Allied campaign eating a big plate of spaghetti, and cheering with my fork when I get to the cut scene. Lol

@Megatog615

2 жыл бұрын

@@plumcakey there's also an official remaster

@bryants6938

2 жыл бұрын

Waiting red alert 2 remastered

8:10 nice voodoo 3, brings back memories, I will NEVER forget loading up quake 3 first time with Voodoo 3 and my jaw hitting the floor

@BlackWolf42-

2 жыл бұрын

Ditto with me. It was a Voodoo2 with Quake2. That dynamic lighting was the 1st thing that caught my eye. Coming from 'software mode' rendering, I was all giggly and sweating with a permanent grin afixed.

@dallesamllhals9161

2 жыл бұрын

You're both wrong! IT'S UNREAL and Voodoo²(12MB) SLI in 1024x768 = when jaw hits stuff ;-P ALL in 1998 of course!

@BlackWolf42-

2 жыл бұрын

@@dallesamllhals9161 Well, I'm still recovering to this day from my experience. I had only 1 8MB V2 and it messed me up.

@dallesamllhals9161

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlackWolf42- It's okay! Graphics are pretty 'okay' nowadays too ;-)

@SimonBauer7

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlackWolf42- try rtx next makes your jaw hit the floor aswell

Loved this video! I've always had huge nostalgia for NEC monitors from this time period. I still have my NEC LCD1765 from when I worked at a computer shop and was blessed with wholesale pricing. The picture still holds up to this day for retro applications.

Clint: such smooth scrolling. Me (on a 60Hz PLS display): 👀

These high refresh rate CRT monitors were great for stereoscopic 3d with active shutterglasses. I still have a Geforce 2 GTS with shutter glasses to play Half-Life 1 in stereoscopic 3d, with EAX surround sound through a Soundblaster Live 5.1. Good times.

The the good ole' olden days of CRT monitors. The Energy Star logo does it for me every time.

Thank you for letting me know about the Vintage Computer Expo! I had no idea that was going on and since I live in the Chicagoland area I will be making a stop to see you and 8-bit-guy!

Ah yes - back when hardware was loud enough to provide a kind of “white noise.” At 35, I’m old enough to remember using these in grade school - also my grandpa had an old pc with a massive crt on which we would play Jack Nicklaus’ Greatest 18 or something like that. It used several 5.25” floppy disks.

@Roninkinx

2 жыл бұрын

I’m 27, I used one of these until highschool in 2009 as well lol

@gillespriod5509

2 жыл бұрын

Im 31, same! my first pc we had in 97 had 64 mb ram and 7 gb HD, LOL when i played it smelled of melted plastic, i recall as a kid putting in a seconary board to upgrade the ram to 128...the smell of childhood and teenage gaming, today PCs dont smell anymore! I still play all the late 90s early 00s games, i just love them

I had an /NEC 21" and a Nokia 19" back in the day, they both were amazing in terms of sharpness and color for the day. What a treat to see this old beauty again!

@coolelectronics1759

2 жыл бұрын

nokia the same guys that made the indestructable cellphones back then? I wonder if the tube and electronics were made by someone elce like philips, NEC or sony and they just put there name on it. I know that was practiced a lot and still is today, sometimes for the better, more often than not for the worst today. I had a consertmate keyboard that was actually just a rebranded casio. Today you can find a magnavox, philips, RCA or fisher consumer electronic and most likely its a crap chinese inferior rebadged product out of the funai plant in china.

@Spikeypup

2 жыл бұрын

@@coolelectronics1759 It's possible it was an OEM, most displays are OEM/ODM as CRT's, tubes, or even today's panel's are only really manufactured by a small handful, literally like one for each finger. If I had to guess I'd say the tube was most similar to a Diamondtron Mitsubishi, but could very well have been siemens or NEC, back then there were more CRT/Tube manufacturers than today, there was probably 50 quality CRT manufacturers, maybe more. These days there are probably less than 10, I could be wrong. Anyway back to what you were saying, it's possible, that Nokia OEM'd the display, but it was a very unique chassis as well as tube, so I'm not sure, like I said, Mitsubishi would be the closest. Nokia is a huge company, besides cell phones they make lots of things, like enterprise and carrier equipment for telco including switching and firewalls, I used to service their firewalls a lot for some big customers running SSL VPN's way back in the day for hundreds of users, a big task back then. Typical prices were anywhere from $10K up to hundreds of thousands for a single unit (although a single unit could comprise almost an entire telco rack!) Nokia was a telecom equipment powerhouse... but not all good things last forever!

The two things I miss from old monitors are... - The degauss button for the noise - Auto calibration to make things magically look better

great to see this! I used to work at NEC (in Japan) so this really brings me back

Great video on this beautiful old CRT monitor! That manufacture date of April, 2004 was really surprising to me as well! Have fun at the show!

the good thing with old CRT monitors is that all resolution can be native resolution. it's only up to your preferred refresh rate would be the next preference.

I keep expecting to see Clint sniffing PCs in an episode of My Strange Addiction.

@letthetunesflow

2 жыл бұрын

One of the only times I have literally laughed out loud at a comment! 😆

Such high quality uploads Clint, thank you so much! These games bring me so much nostalgia, you're a master of your craft :-)

I had this EXACT same monitor back in the day - LOVED IT!!!! Thank you for jogging old memories :)

My old boss gave me a LG CRT from around 2003 It's 22' I think and supports up to a resolution of 2304x1440 it's really sharp, the colour range is just really wide and vibrant and it has 80hz refresh rate It was made for design proposes and costed 1000€ + at the time so yeah it was a great gift

I bought a 19” or 21” flat crt 100Hz monitor in 2000/2001. It was actually quite the dfference compared to 60Hz.

Even from the video looks awesome. I can't imagine how good it looks from up close. I love CRTs!

It warms my heart to see a crispy new CRT being turned on for the first time. NOTHING beats CRT!

@SimonBauer7

2 жыл бұрын

unless you hear the high pitched sound of the flyback then it becomes a terrible experience i am sensitive to that frequency and i can tell you i am glad that crts arent mainstream anymore

@jason4663

2 жыл бұрын

Lol. Poor Simon.

@ManOfAttitudeLP1998

2 жыл бұрын

@@SimonBauer7 Not on Monitors

This brings back memories. Back in those days, or even earlier, computer fairs were still a thing. An uncle of mine had a stand with 2nd hand parts and I was allowed to sell my own stuff there. After a day of selling my stuff, I had enough money to buy a new 17” at the fair. I was the boss. This particular monitor would do great for a diy arcade machine.

I was watching this exact listing lmao. Super nice monitor, NEC is one of the best desktop CRT manufacturers imo, was really cool to see this unboxing!

@AquaSeaWings

2 жыл бұрын

Only second to Sony

I love the care you take for the subtitles 😆

That's so awesome Clint, I'm very close in age to you and my brother and I grew up smelling EVERYTHING new as well.. From CD booklets, magazines, school stationary and of course ELECTRONICS, especially electronics. I used to love the smell of brand new NES catridges in the 80s'. Your channel brings such nostalgia sometimes my eyes start to water. thank you.

I love this channel, just makes me so happy

Wow, that brings back good memories. That's pretty much was my Window's screen looked like in the early 2000's.

Wow! I recovered this very same monitor from an automotive test lab console we're rebuilding at work. It's black in color and shows some wear, but the screen still works great! Nice to see how a fresh one looks and behaves!

Met you today and saw the monitor in person. Thanks for talking MIDI gear with me!

120HZ CRT : oh okay... 120HZ OLED : UuuuuUUuHhhh smoooootthhhh....

@dallesamllhals9161

2 жыл бұрын

Hush now! Don't scare the kids!

I remember having a view sonic 120hz crt monitor back in the early early 2000s. Well let me rephrase…My parents had. But I used it constantly for gaming when homework was finished. I specifically remember setting it to 120 Hz but not knowing anything about it just for the simple fact that it was a higher number and in my mind as a wee lad, i figured it would be best. Now grown up, knowing full well what i high refresh rates are…i was doing the right thing from the get go! Thanks LGR for the nostalgic and interesting content! Cheers

@goeland4585

2 жыл бұрын

High good, low bad. Return to monkee

@asdadfafafafffallslsldd8068

2 жыл бұрын

Setting it to 120 hz even if you don't have 120 fps was a still a massive advantage. Pro players from back in the day didn't exclusively use 120hz in cs 1.6 with 100 fps for no reason. The reason why people think it's bad to do this is because you can get screen tearing. I never experienced screen tearing by using a higher refresh rate compared to my fps and it wasn't competitive to not run 120hz even back in the early 2000s. This is even demonstrated on linustechtips by testing reflexes on different refresh rates with the same fps. So ye LGR is wrong here.

@goeland4585

2 жыл бұрын

@@asdadfafafafffallslsldd8068 he was talking about older game that have a fixed or maxed fps locked at 60 or 75

@asdadfafafafffallslsldd8068

2 жыл бұрын

@@goeland4585 Well that's not correct. Half life is in his list etc. And what I'm saying is that you should still set your refresh rate as high as you can. If the screen tearing is bad, you can turn it down, but you don't ever want to set it to 60 or 75. That's awful regardless of the fps you get from your game. Half life has a hard cap of 100 and you still want to set freq 120. Maybe it's correct for some games to not do that, I have no idea. All I know for a fact as that it's not correct for half life or red alert.

I love your videos, Clint! I get excited every time a new one is posted. I remember when your channel did nothing but review games!

Such a joy. I remember having a 75hz and it was awesome. So smooth. Can’t imagine 120hz smoothness. Great video!

Ah my NEC monitor went on to have a green tint, and funnily I always fixed it by hitting on it like old TVs, and it worked

FINALLY a new video. I LOVE LGR!

The best channel on KZread for chilling years in a row! Keep it up lgr

Oh man, this takes me back. In my previous life as a retail slave, my chain went from a DOS based POS to Win2k, and every computer that was not front of house had one of these attached to it. I spent so many hundreds of hours looking at it that the trio of panel buttons looked instantly familiar. Thanks for the blast from the past!

Nice pick up! Haven’t finished the entire video yet but I recently picked up a well cared for, low hours 19” NEC of similar vintage that looks just amazing with everything I’ve hooked up to it. Compared very favorably beside my 17” Sony (sadly, there was also recently a minty barely used FW900 available locally that I missed out on by a couple of days.)

I still have several of those boxes from 2001. They make great moving and storage boxes.

Thanks as always for the entertaining conversation Clint. It’s always right up my alley! I hope you have a good time at the event.

DUDE! I had TWO of these back in the day, extremely good displays and just worked...I miss mine.

Man the CRT monitors are cool with a XP gaming setup!

NEC made some amazing CRTs, especially in their professional brand

THAT brings back memories, back in 1999 i bought a "Medion" monitor at the "Aldi" discounter in Germany and it looked very similar to your NEC, even the on screen menu was familiar. I used it until 2009 when my wife decided to surprise me with a bigger (20" instead of 17") flatscreen from LG. And surprisingly it is 2021 and my LG Flatron is still alive and kicking, not a single failure.

That's very cool that you go to vintage computer festivals... Its important people remember what computers were like 20 years ago, for those who are late teenagers now they grew up with iphones. Its amazing how far things have come along over the last 20 years, just think iphones are now coming up on 15 years now, kids have no idea what it was like back then so that's pretty awesome. Its our youth that remembers these time so thank you for bringing back all these memories...

I remember the odd resolution 1152 x 864 very specifically, because that was the maximum resolution my old Sony monitor was able to run at 100 Hz. Any lower refresh rate made me notice the CRT flicker, and tired my eyes out, which they apparently are sensitive to. That was also the unfortunate reason I never could like Plasma TVs although they were superior to LCDs in many ways. I immediately noticed the Plasma flicker, and could never look at them for prolonged periods. Good old days.

@cjshields2007

2 жыл бұрын

85hz was my minimum. The 60hz at school at the time used to annoy me but AFAIK no-one else was bothered or even noticed it

@DriantX

2 жыл бұрын

@@cjshields2007 I had the exact same experience, everyone I knew was ok with 60Hz, which was confusing. It seems we're the minority who has overly sensitive eyes or something. 85Hz was where I could tell there was flickering, but I'd not get eye strain because of it unless I spent the whole day staring at the monitor. 100 was the sweet spot, and I could not tell the difference between 100 and 120.

i had this monitor as a kid, complete with the built in speakers on the monitor base

This is giving me the ultimate warm and fuzzies. Especially being someone who started out playing PC games in the mid-80s. Great stuff

It was great meeting you at the VCF! Hope you enjoyed your time there, me and my friend sure did. Seeing the Cig Lighter PC in real life was a trip haha.

@LGR

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it, it was a lotta fun!

We need an ASMR of LGR smelling old computers, and computer hardware while describing the scent in a duke nukem voice.

@kle1n

2 жыл бұрын

That scent brings back memories. They don't smell like they used to.

@warrax111

2 жыл бұрын

you would die of too much nerdiness.

Nec made a version of this with speakers in the monitor stand, they were surprisingly decent for how small they were

This is one heck of a treasure! I was really young at the time of all this old tech so I never really got a chance to appreciate it as well as I'd like to have in retrospect.

6:11 - "Make sure you're sitting in front of it, and not behind it". Great tip!

Love this

2001: A CRT Odyssey

Watching LGR i have a feeling of Time machine is exist. Enjoy unboxing decades-old devices in brand news box when having coffee in pandemic is a experiment never forget.

I've been watching LGR videos late at night/early in the morning. I like the relaxed vibes.

I came here to watch Red Alert

@windows_2000

2 ай бұрын

Same

@JayEmGe

Ай бұрын

​@@windows_2000Username and profile pic checks out lol

Man, I remember these old chonkers. Had to have a pretty big desk to set it on…I have memories of fiddling with the settings every time it started going funny, trying to make the picture look….bearable, tbh.

Learn something new every day. Had know idea that monitors could reach 120 HZ back then. All so looking forward to the VCF footage.

So awesome, man those were dream monitors back in the day.

I remember having an CTX 17" Flat Panel CRT 1280*1024@100 Hz (max res. was 1600*1200@72Hz) monitor. It was a quite rare model in my area. With my main PC (AMD Athlon XP 3000+/ 1 GB DDR 400/GF FX 5600 256 MB VGA ant 120 GB HDD) it was a quite good pair. Eh, good old times.....

@Samopal.VanoZz

2 жыл бұрын

Impressive

Nice! I'm hoping to find a good condition used CRT for my dosbox battle station setup and a real model m of course

I saw Red Alert and I’ve never clicked so fast in my life. I spent soooooo many hours on this game. Great memories. I still have the whole C&C series on my current gaming PC and play it every so often.

Even in the video it looks super sharp! 👍

Something about NEC feels so premium regardless of what it's stamped on.

@shant-o

2 жыл бұрын

One of the coolest logos

@SKY11211213

2 жыл бұрын

NEC has the best OSM imo. Never have I seen better ones also seen in his vids when he uses these LCD NEC monitors. It is the same one used in the high end CRTs.

@JeordieEH

2 жыл бұрын

I felt that way about my viewsonic and quite enjoyed the quality of high end view sonic, i guess the lower end people cried about. Then I got a sony trinitron 24" and reached the pinnacle of the last of CRT's with a nice trinitron.

@MrDuncl

2 жыл бұрын

NEC were around for a long time. In 1989 our MCAD engineer got a 20" NEC which cost a small fortune at the time (over £1000 or a month of my wages). A man from the supplier came to set it up and found that it wasn't compatible with the video card so that had to be upgraded as well. It was a week, several visits from the supplier, and a couple of £Thousands before it was all working to the engineers liking. I'm guessing this was all on an HP Vectra 286 PC which was our standard PC at work back then.

@messagedeleted1922

2 жыл бұрын

NEC made good equipment.

LGR: the man that can make even a CRT monitor unboxing entertaining.

Oh my god that is beautiful. How lucky you guys surrounded by great gadgets in a great nation

Nostalgia overload for CRT monitors. I'm glad to see that kind of monitor display is as great as I remember it being.

i have a monitor very similar to this. even new games look great on crts

@Krutonium

2 жыл бұрын

And you can get great framerates because lower resolutions don't look bad on them!

Only LGR can make an old monitor I had as a kid fascinating.

Had a 36" Nec Multisync XP37 Xtra and it was awesome as this one. Crisp, geometry nearly perfect and it also had component inputs.

Watching the base being fit brought back memories of unboxing & setting up hundreds of CRT & workstations in university PC labs 20yrs ago, my first job in IT and still in the industry now albeit with less CRT’s these days 😁

Damn, I miss the old days :(

@JoeNerdShow

2 жыл бұрын

get them back you can buy it back

Omg dude I had this exact monitor on my old pentium 4

Great content as usual! Stay safe at the event!

That was the same monitor my High School had! The entire school had them! Beautiful displays! :) Takes me back to my AP Computer Science and Digital Photo classes lol I graduated in '08, so they lasted quite awhile!!

You need to do a Windows 10 build with a CRT and 980ti and cyberpunk 2077 at 1280 X 1024 😀. Show the people the alternative.....

I picked up several monitors like this back when they were dirt cheap at thrift stores for about $5 each. While others liked their then hi-res modes, I always preferred the high refresh rate at low resolutions instead. Anything at 85 Hz or higher is perfect for me.

This is so relaxing and soothing to watch and listen to, aaah... those were the days... "The grass was greener, the light was brighter"...

Ah the sites and sounds of an old PC and Monitor booting up. I built computers in the mid to late 90's and the one aspect of a 17' I DO NOT miss was the sheer weight of one. I recall delivering a few systems and having to lug that heavy box all the way to the unit I was to do the set up in. I think we finally go a hand cart just before I ventured off into the land of Cable TV installations. Great blast from the past LRG! I hope your show is going well!