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39's Giving Day

Nice, I miss my old CRTs. I was made to get rid of it when I was moving and did not realize they stopped being produced by time I had moved. A little tip though you need to watch in VHS or betamax or at least official DVD according to this one guy in Japan I talk to sometimes. Make sure you get a player that is not region locked. He swears the quality is much better than digital rips. That said when there is no physical media go for old vocaloid videos for sure. As for anime shows well depends what you're into but I like Serial Experiments Lain, Kino's Journey, Boogiepop Phantom, Digimon, and anything CLAMP did as some of my favs and there is a lot I need to watch still that is older. For live action films watch Godzilla stuff and I recommend the Ichi Zatoichi blind swordsman films too and it also had a TV series I had not seen before still. That's just what I have personally seen.

First thing I watched on my "new" CRT a decade ago was Di Gi Charat.

I've got a CRT that belonged to my deceased grandfather, which still works and I have it in my room. But it displays stuff in black and white and if my memory serves me right it was a color TV.

>>2966
What connections does it have? If it was color it might be faulty on some inputs so try a different connection if it has any.

>>2967
Not sure what you mean by connections. It has the typical red, white and yellow cables if that's what you're talking about.

>>2968
That is component cables. There also is composite and S-video.

>>2963
This

>>2964
>He swears the quality is much better than digital rips.
That's just wrong. Magnetic tape degrades and DVD is only 480p at 30 fps. Unless you're trying to evoke nostalgia, or you desire the low quality fuzziness, a high resolution film transfer displayed on an LCD is almost always the superior viewing experience. There is a case to be made for retro games with pixel art looking better on CRT.

>>2988
It depends on the condition of the VHS tape itself. Magnetic tape is so reliable for storage big tech companies use magnetic tape for backup cold storage. He mainly was talking about artefacts and color distortions and other things that appear with digital conversion and compression especially if it is a copy of a copy of a copy. It isn't about resolution. HD VHS did exist a while too and so have HD CRT screens.

>>2988
One thing I forgot to add. LCDs especially playing compressed digital media have major color banding issues even on the best ones. On CRT it isnt an issue.

>>2989
>Magnetic tape is so reliable for storage
That's only for formats specifically designed for that purpose. VHS is notorious for is degradation which causes all kinds of visual/audio artifacts and color distortion. Optical media is also subject to disk rot, and if it is digitally encoded, when it degrades, the data simply cannot be read. Digital files can be perfectly copied over and over after an initial transfer. But yeah, obviously if the original conversion is bad, or if it has been compressed to potato quality, it will look like shit.
>>2990
>major color banding issues
The problem comes from how color is stored in digital media; it's encoded as linear while your brain interprets things like brightness and loudness exponentially. This can be helped by adding some noise, like film grain, and viewing it in HD with minimal compression. The reason that you don't see it on a CRT, when watching digital media, is because the display doesn't have pixels, so the colors tend to bleed together.

>>2963
That makes me curious, have they ever released any Miku concerts on VHS or just DVD / Bluray?

>>2992
No but someone did make a bootleg that you can get on Etsy
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4402667970

>>2993
This is what the box looks like

>>2994
This is the type of VHS tape they write horror stories about on the internet. Why is it just a box with 'Vocaloid 2 Hatsune Miku' and a drawing of Miku on it and the actual VHS just has the V4 art.

>>2962
You knoe what to do

>>2995
This tape contains behind the scenes development footage of a cancelled Miku V5 voicebank. It is said that two workers lost their lives working on this voicebank. Ultimately, CFM made the decision to scrap the voicebank entirely.

>>3016
I like the part where Miku comes out of the screen with hyperrealistic blood and red eyes and starts killing people