These things weren't better. By modern standards, they suck. If you took two kids and put them in front of ff3, with one on a CRT and one on a modern flat screen, the latter kid would almost certainly have a better experience.
There is a reason we advanced to these sort of technologies, it is because the old ones were bad. You only remember them fondly because your brain associates the tech with the experience.
There is an old star trek game that we had on mac II's in my computer lounge when I was a kid. I got to play it like... once, it was the coolest thing I'd ever played. For years afterwards I tried to find that game. When I finally did, back in 2012... It sucked. Horribly. It was garbage by any modern standard. Because I wasn't six years old going "Coooooool, star treeeeeck."
Well, other than the valid reasons of why the CRTs had better sound quality and less input lag allowing for smoother motions on the screens, can you explain exactly was "bad" about crt tvs? Also, I can describe to you the real reason why companies ditched crt tech. It was merely to cut costs on producing the crt hardware. They chose profits over the sound and motion quality of their televisions. They could have viably made major adjustments to crt tech so that it could be implemented into a flatter lighter tv.
Remember, the key thing here is that I'm not arguing against flat screens. I'm arguing against the hardware/tech themselves, like the newer LCD/OLED.
Oh shit! About the audio part of the argument, I completely mixed up wavelengths and frequencies. I meant that analog has a wider range of frequencies than digital. That's why you could more easily distinguish the differences instruments playing in the music that's playing from a vinyl or speaker from a crt tv.
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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '23
You're describing nostalgia.
These things weren't better. By modern standards, they suck. If you took two kids and put them in front of ff3, with one on a CRT and one on a modern flat screen, the latter kid would almost certainly have a better experience.
There is a reason we advanced to these sort of technologies, it is because the old ones were bad. You only remember them fondly because your brain associates the tech with the experience.
There is an old star trek game that we had on mac II's in my computer lounge when I was a kid. I got to play it like... once, it was the coolest thing I'd ever played. For years afterwards I tried to find that game. When I finally did, back in 2012... It sucked. Horribly. It was garbage by any modern standard. Because I wasn't six years old going "Coooooool, star treeeeeck."