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The Sony GDM FW-900 is one of the greatest monitors ever made with its widescreen aspect ratio and an incredibly high rated resolution (for the time) this 20-year-old retro beast puts many modern gaming displays to shame! What makes this thing so special, and why did Linus spend so much money on it?
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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo – Supernova
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY
iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/supernova/id936805712
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Outro: Approaching Nirvana – Sugar High
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngsGBSCDwcI
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Artist Link: http://www.youtube.com/approachingnirvana
Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa https://www.instagram.com/mbarek_abdel/
Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/PgGWp
Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/mj6pHk4
Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/Ps3XfE
CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
0:58 What is a CRT?
2:53 Why this CRT?
3:32 LCD vs CRT
4:20 Flicker Warning
4:43 LCD vs CRT Cont.
8:45 QD-OLED vs CRT
10:55 Rolling around at the speed of sound
12:15 Resolution on CRTs
14:30 Trinitron
16:35 Why not to buy
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Take off that damn window tint on it
Dp-vga Running 3000×1600@ 60hz let me know if U need the adapter name
Something about the depth in the fw900 makes games feel so 3D don’t get me started with anime.. omg it looks so good. Playing dragon quest 11 at 3000×1600 on this thing makes it look like a Pixar movie (200%) super sampling.
CRT monitors also don't mess up your eyes like "modern" monitors. Why would it take 45 minutes to warm up? In my decades on CRTs, I NEVER saw one that took more than a few seconds to warm up.
Sorry for being picky, but this is a Trinitron tube. So it only has 1 electron gun.
The name Trinitron was derived from trinity, meaning the union of three, and tron from electron tube, after the way that the Trinitron combined the three separate electron guns of other CRT designs into one.
Not that it matters much in your case but it makes the explaining animation at the beginning wrong.
I want to see a new screen tech that can run at any arbitrary resolution like CRTs could. That's the biggest thing I miss.
When I was a young adult, one of the first things I bought with my hard earned money was a Sony Trinitron CRT TV. It weighed 90lbs, it was a behemoth…. And I’ve never enjoyed an image on any screen so much since. It got left at my parents and sold at some point. I had no idea that image quality would still be playing catch-up this far into the future! I miss that thing. Lights off, Doom 3 running through my 5.1 sound setup…. It was magical
I had this monitor. Sold it for peanuts 🙂
Tbh, I call these monitors and TVs “cube” tv or monitor – cuz even the young kids think “OOOOH those OLD ones!”
Man Linus creaming over the graphics is so annoyingly cringe especially with his Low-T voice jesus. How did he even reproduce?????
Made a video to show crt with its best motion clarity
Upload only in 30fps 🤡
Now that I've got this CRT obsession I feel extra stupid about every CRT we took shooting that never made it back.
Linus do you have a Sony BVM D24 or D32? You have the resources and will make your money back!
Anyone remember when computer desks were rated by monitor size?
slim and big tvs are incredible, but i loved the sounds and looks of the old devices
I remember dealing with the predecessor to this. It was a beast. I had to tell the team to never try to pick them up by themselves.
This is all very nice, but Win+Shift+arrow keys?!?! How is that not the title and thumbnail
I still have most of my crts, still cant believe they stopped making them. They would still have a large market with vintage gamers.
I've had the smaller cousin FP2141SB sitting in my attic for years (similar size but the more typical 4:3 aspect ratio… 1920×1200 capable… MAYBE 1920×1440 I don't think I ever tried)… image quality is really great on those old Trinitron's. I don't even have a card to drive it anymore but I just couldn't bring myself to throw it out.
I love my ViewSonic crt that can do 1600×1200 75hz and I still wish I had something better. At least I have a gtx 980 to connect to it properly
Anolog video is such an insane technology. If you want to learn more, some older videos by Technology Connections breaking it all down. Also just a good channel in general.
Just picked up a WEGA Trinitron 36" CRT yesterday, weighs 220lbs! about broke my back, and tried to use a dolly and blew out both tires lol. Absolutely worth the $75USD that I paid for it, plus came with original remote and manual
11:07 Instantly in my head i heard "ROLLING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND!!!"
Wow, never knew CRT displays were so cool..Cool vid, man
The record player of monitors.
window / shift and arrow key. man I just press window key arrow key.
this monitor in a library would be such a waste haha
Lol why the blue letters are green? 😂
I used to have one of these! 24 inches and 110 pounds of awesome!
Believe it or not, I owned FOUR of these at one time. I eventually switched over to LCDs to save space, power and weight, and they went into storage for the next 15 years. Finally my wife convinced me to get rid of them, and I did. Fast forward to three months later when I discovered that they were (at the time) selling for close to $5,000 each online.
4k vs 1080p never made a difference to me but knowing people who game in 4k they pointed out the same thing you did.
1:45 ya as a kid
I say as looking up at stars on ceiling
Your lucky YouTube was made ….. Cause y'all are actually just ultra nerds … And must be real here.. real gamers don't go home to play a 40-year-old video game
What's also extra funny no one notices…. This man does not play Counter-Strike…. You can tell by his movements first of all and the fact that he has never played it online anything he just uses this little setup to manipulate you
I hate the term unit. … Everything is a unit …..
3 grand to say look at this cobblestone lol
3 grand to get invisible scan lines haha
Your really running out of things to talk about huh
I still have one of these monitors. I used it back in the day when I played Quake1/2. I have lugged this thing up hills, multiple flights of stairs, driveways, you name it…when attending various LAN parties. I am shocked to see how much it's worth now and when Linus said $3k was like NFW! Sure enough I see 2 of them on ebay right now, one for $3500 and another for $4500. Insane!
I wonder if they used the technology they have today what kind of crt they could make
I bought a fw900 for a few hundreds years ago. Love playing fps games with it, theres something about CRT's for that genre makes it worth it to break your back setting it up on your desk!
like linus said a window …the art was created for crt
Why does the baby only sleep to LTT???