unironically thought about getting a SpongeBob TV like this to replace my busted one. it was $20 new, but i didn’t have enough room to set it up. those things have a really thick back.
Also as CRTs become more and more rare as more of them die off and new ones typically aren’t manufactured anymore, it’s not surprising that the prices are just skyrocketing lol
For some reason I find it weird that Shrek coincided with CRTs. Not sure if it’s because I tend to think of Shrek as being more recent than he is, or that I think CRTs stopped being used earlier…
I think it’s because CRTs seem like such a thing from the 80s, and Shrek is more recent than that, but Shrek and CRTs were both fairly common in the early 2000s.
Why would anyone want a CRT TV though? We used to prefer CRT monitors for gaming because they had faster refresh rates, but that’s not really an issue for television, and gaming monitors have superior refresh rates now.
For older retro-style game consoles, a CRT still provides a better display experience, on LCDs you get smuging/bluring that just wasn’t present on CRTs for these older consoles. An LCD etc just doesn’t do them justice the way a CRT does.
They’re not really rare. For example, here in Brazil, it’s just a common thing in houses to have an old crt lying around, sometimes, still in use. People sell them for really cheap, or just give them away (since they’re heavy, a lot of people will gladly give you one, or two, for free if you simply go there to take it). Even in a country where crts are rare, a collector could simply import one from a place where it costs almost nothing.
Crts may be old, but they were manufactured in millions, making them not really valuable, because they’re not rare. Same goes for things like floppy disks or coins from periods of huge inflation. It will take a loooong time until we see crt prices skyrocketing due to scarcity. Prices may have gone up a little in some places, but not that much.
As for the shrek one, like people said, it’s because it was a limited model.
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