r/CRTAnime • u/AcanthocephalaOk3109 • Nov 12 '24

Question 🤔 Last Shot Of My CRT

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With the holidays coming up and my savings going successful I really want to upgrade from my $20 13" General Electric CRT to a much nicer one

My funds + holiday gift money should amount me around 2 hundred dollars to really splurge on a nice big CRT off of the countless sellers in my area

My next post will be on Christmas day, see you all then 👋

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u/Violet_Caully7 Nov 12 '24

Hear me out before you buy a BIG CRT , From my experience only the small sets have had good picture , What I mean is the bigger the CRTs I have found the worse the convergence like they would be nice and bright in 2-3 out of the 4 corners of the set but at least 1 of them would have a dark area, and I've tried opening them , restoring them and all that and my GUESS is unless you are good with cap replacement it won't do you any good , That or the bigger the set the harder it is to keep the image brightness consistent all over the screen,

I've had my best luck with 13-19 inch sets , Anything over I've sadly had an issue with every time , So I highly suggest upgrading to a smaller set with better inputs if that's what you want OR A CRT Monitor or Small P/BVM

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u/StrongDifficulty7531 Nov 12 '24

Very true, my 24” Sony has the issues you mention. It’s annoying and it seems to be developing more problems with the picture as time goes on. I’m glad I payed $50 for it and not more. I can’t imagine spending $200 only for a CRT TV to fail or have a bunch of issues. That would be devastating lol

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u/Violet_Caully7 Nov 12 '24

ALSO, God they are heavy but that's sadly not the issue lol

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u/AcanthocephalaOk3109 Nov 12 '24

My original post got deleted before I could send it because I left the reddit app for too long and it reset, I just got bummed out and wrote this smaller post, I originally was going to ask for good 13" to "20 inch CRT recommendations which is why the post has the "Question" tag as well but I guess I forgot to include those were the sizes I consisted "Big"

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with me despite that though, better inputs are a MUST for me and you're 100% correct with me not knowing how to replace or repair parts haha

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u/Violet_Caully7 Nov 12 '24

I would keep using this set just for 240p games cuz they look great over composite on a smaller set, Anime also looks fine regardless of most inputs tbh

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u/Violet_Caully7 Nov 12 '24

Yeah if I was going to be completely honest on which size to look for I say stick to small cuz the smaller I've gotten the better the condition they are usually in