2017 end of year teaser
Posted: 04 Dec 2017, 20:32
I didn't post the last few teasers on here, but this one is quite special, so I'm making an exception for this one.
$150.purdobol wrote: ↑I'll give you 100$ for it. And consider yourself lucky for getting that much!
Can add some 60% booze to sweeten the deal.
Bingo! I was looking into vintage computer terminal simulators to do the video with, but couldn't find any, and then I remembered I had the 5155 which is even better .depletedvespene wrote: ↑The first ~40 seconds of the video are quite probably Chyros' 5155's screen.
Did you see this one?
Almost there! My beef with it is that it depicts sharp, almost square pixels. They've way overdone the glow around the letters, but left all the pixels sharp and clear. Maybe CRTs looked better when new — I've never had a new CRT in my life. I certainly never saw the individual pixels like that on any 80s CRT, which is why 2 bpp dithering was almost practical.
Because it's the holy grail of rareness, not feelings.wobbled wrote: ↑I fail to see why an overrated linear board is referred to as the 'holy grail'
It isn't though, there are probably custom made keyboards out there that were built in extremely small batches for the military or government that are just as rare if not more so. Some beamspring variants are probably just as rare as well. The whole hype behind these is completely ridiculous tbh.
To properly simulate CRT screen, very high resolutions are needed. 4K and up.Daniel Beardsmore wrote: ↑
Almost there! My beef with it is that it depicts sharp, almost square pixels. They've way overdone the glow around the letters, but left all the pixels sharp and clear. Maybe CRTs looked better when new — I've never had a new CRT in my life. I certainly never saw the individual pixels like that on any 80s CRT, which is why 2 bpp dithering was almost practical.
Not only that, but when I switched to LCD I got far better colour, too …
Yes, but unlike what I presume to be everyone else here, I'm not a programmer, so I use Windows, and neither Swordfish nor Cathode (another one) is available for normal operating systems :p .
Originally I intended to stop at the end of this year, actually :p . But then again, I thought the same last year xD .Starck wrote: ↑I read the title on Youtube wrong and it gave me a little scare, i thought Chyros was announcing his last (for ever) review. :/
But luckily i was wrong
Well, to be honest, I don't think I have ever seen a monochrome CRT IRL, apart from old TVs. The oldest CRT I can remember using was already a colour CRT with at least 800×600 resolution, I think. I guess I'm too young for this, so I have no idea how accurate that representation is.Daniel Beardsmore wrote: ↑Almost there! My beef with it is that it depicts sharp, almost square pixels. They've way overdone the glow around the letters, but left all the pixels sharp and clear. Maybe CRTs looked better when new — I've never had a new CRT in my life. I certainly never saw the individual pixels like that on any 80s CRT, which is why 2 bpp dithering was almost practical.
Not only that, but when I switched to LCD I got far better colour, too …
Chyros wrote: ↑Yes, but unlike what I presume to be everyone else here, I'm not a programmer, so I use Windows, and neither Swordfish nor Cathode (another one) is available for normal operating systems :p . […]
off-topic-f10/keyboard-enthusiast-age-s ... 13274.htmlLustique wrote: ↑[…] Well, to be honest, I don't think I have ever seen a monochrome CRT IRL, apart from old TVs. The oldest CRT I can remember using was already a colour CRT with at least 800×600 resolution, I think. I guess I'm too young for this, so I have no idea how accurate that representation is. […]
Lustique wrote: ↑
The oldest CRT I can remember using was already a colour CRT with at least 800×600 resolution, I think. I guess I'm too young for this, so I have no idea how accurate that representation is.
Yay, part of the 20% (barely)!kbdfr wrote: ↑off-topic-f10/keyboard-enthusiast-age-s ... 13274.htmlLustique wrote: ↑[…] Well, to be honest, I don't think I have ever seen a monochrome CRT IRL, apart from old TVs. The oldest CRT I can remember using was already a colour CRT with at least 800×600 resolution, I think. I guess I'm too young for this, so I have no idea how accurate that representation is. […]
Yeah, I think at first I liked my last CRT better than my first LCD (colours, contrast, etc.). But at the time I got my first LCD, I had visited some kind of occupational safety exhibition with my school, where I learned that apparently CRTs give you eye cancer. So when I told my parents about this, knowing how much time I spen{d,t} in front of those things, my father got his third LCD and I got his second.andrewjoy wrote: ↑[…]
Check out you and your fancy pants high resolution display!
The thing is, at that time the consumer CRT monitors got pretty terrible with crappy tubes from china, and early on they also sacrificed colour for resolution. So you could have high res OR high colour. But this is for digital CRTs like PC monitors, they fall short in clarity of low resolution text and images in the same way as LCDs do.
Real analog CRTs do not have a pixel to pixel mapping the "resolution" of a CRT is in scanning lines and TV lines ( or lines of horizontal resolution). The more TV lines you have the higher your horizontal resolution, so say a consumer grade TV is going to have about 300 TVL and look also pretty terrible where ass high end video monitors have 600-900 TVL, in fact sonys incredible BVM-A32E1WU and BVM-A24E1WU are 1000TVL !
So CRTs are not terrible, just most people had terrible CRTs
This was (and still is) a widespread but wrong belief. Not CRTs, but what they display, cause eye cancer,Lustique wrote: ↑[…] at the time I got my first LCD, I had visited some kind of occupational safety exhibition with my school, where I learned that apparently CRTs give you eye cancer. […]
Looking at the size of her head, she probably has more than just eye cancer.kbdfr wrote: ↑[…]
This was (and still is) a widespread but wrong belief. Not CRTs, but what they display, cause eye cancer,
and this of course equally applies to other visual devices.
Spoiler:
They do?andrewjoy wrote: ↑But this is for digital CRTs like PC monitors, they fall short in clarity of low resolution text and images in the same way as LCDs do.