I don’t mean BETTER. That’s a different conversation. I mean cooler.

An old CRT display was literally a small scale particle accelerator, firing angry electron beams at light speed towards the viewers, bent by an electromagnet that alternates at an ultra high frequency, stopped by a rounded rectangle of glowing phosphors.

If a CRT goes bad it can actually make people sick.

That’s just. Conceptually a lot COOLER than a modern LED panel, which really is just a bajillion very tiny lightbulbs.

  • @john117
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    229 days ago

    YOOOOO that purple one! I wonder how hard it would be to do this to mine… time to add this to the Christmas list lol

    • @TriflingToad@lemmy.world
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      129 days ago

      best of luck! the one in the photo is from the company JSAUX but I don’t know much about it, just thought it looked pretty