It's your vote! Newer flat screen HD sets or older crt sets.

[pac.attack76]

Which do you prefer for daily use? Today's newer flat 1080p sets including the 4k line, or older crt sets?

[Phototone]

I prefer newer HD capable flat-screen sets for watching modern movies and television programming. I actually prefer video projection on a big white screen.

[Adam]

Never owned a flat screen set, never will. That said, I watch tv on the lcd screen on my computer all the time.

I sort of have 4 TVs set up as daily use sets right now. I'm currently using my 74 Zenith 25" color as a living room set, 84 Zenith 13" color as a bedroom set, 69 22" Zenith b/w as a basement set, and a 71 Zenith 12" b/w on my desk.

[TUD1]

I was given a flat screen Vizio thing several years ago. I hated it so much that I gave it to somebody else. I will only watch TV on a proper CRT television. I would rather have a Zenith roundie with Space Command 600 than one of those Samsung Super Ultra Mega Crazy High Def pieces of junk.

[Electronic M]

I'm still all CRT with the newest in the main cluster being a 1971.

The folks got a LCD set this Christmas that I'll occasionally watch a little....It is making me want a Sony Super-Fine-Pitch CRT HD set for myself more and more...

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

I'm still all CRT with the newest in the main cluster being a 1971.

Good for you!!!

CRTs are the best,always have been!!

[sampson159]

i would rather watch a zenith chromamcolr or a sylvania with the dark matrix crt over any flatscreen.ad a good rca or zenith roundie to the mix while we are at it

[Chip Chester]

4k display, but only feeding it HD at the moment.

OTA, BluRay, or local file playback results in nice-looking HD. Cable, satellite, and other "managed bandwidth" sources are less appealing.

I often see free CRT HD sets on CL. Next one I see I'm going to call up a strong friend and go get it.

Chip

[CoogarXR]

I used to be of the "either one is fine" crowd- but now it seems like most newer shows and movies are shot in a way that you almost have to have a bigger TV. Ever notice that? Like they incorporate a lot of scenery, like it's not zoomed in as tight. When I watch modern content on our tiny 19" CRT in the bedroom, I about can't see anything, especially if it's widescreen, lol.

[Olorin67]

Depends on what I'm watching, modern wide format stuff (don't have any digital sources except internet), I watch on an Apple 23" cinema flat panel display (Circa 2001). Don't really care for having the sides of the picture cut off. For older 4:3 content, either my 1968 23" B&W Wollensak (Setchell Carlson)- For B&W movies and old Tv), or my Sony 32" WEGA CRT set for DVD and color VHS tapes). By switching Monitors/TVs, I can avoid most letter-boxing or having the sides cut off. The Sony WEGA still looks good with letter-boxed DVDs. I really prefer my Wollensak B&W set for monochrome stuff, gives a sharp picture with great contrast and brightness, it's a low hour set. I don't have any HD sources, except my computer. Dont watch much on that, except Dr. Who and a few netflix shows.

[Chip Chester]

re: Coogar's comment about widescreen... On the films, they were framed up and shot wide-screen originally -- at least for the past 40-50 years or so. Things were cropped or "pan 'n scanned" on film-to-tape transfer. Now HD will allow display in a way that is closer to original screen layout.

Chip

[ChrisW6ATV]

I am glad to see some people in this discussion who do prefer modern high-definition displays for their regular viewing. My regular viewing is on a 46-inch LCD set, and movies/football are on a 92-inch screen fed by an Epson 1080P projector.

Originally Posted by Chip Chester

re: Coogar's comment about widescreen... On the films, they were framed up and shot wide-screen originally -- at least for the past 40-50 years or so. Things were cropped or "pan 'n scanned" on film-to-tape transfer. Now HD will allow display in a way that is closer to original screen layout.

Chip

Very good points. People may not think about or be aware of the major differences between movies (made for large, wide screens, especially after 1953) and TV programming (made for small screens that were all 4:3-ratio until a few years ago). If you look carefully at TV shows from the late 1950s or early 1960s, you will probably find that they were even formatted not just for 4:3 screens, but actually for the "roundie" color CRTs. Look at the credits, for example, and see if there is any text at all anywhere near the corners of the picture in shows of that era, even black-and-white shows.

Content created for TV broadcasts also always had to be careful of things like fine-striped suits causing "moire" or other patterns on the screen, certain color combinations being blurrier than others, and so on.

Now that I am getting more of my early TV sets restored to good, reliable performance, I plan to enjoy actually using them to watch older shows more, just for fun.

[Titan1a]

A TV picture is only as good as the source. For what I watch I prefer a CRT. None of this HDTV or 4K is really worth watching. Give me a good John Wayne or Jimmy Stewart picture!

[Phototone]

Originally Posted by Titan1a

A TV picture is only as good as the source. For what I watch I prefer a CRT. None of this HDTV or 4K is really worth watching. Give me a good John Wayne or Jimmy Stewart picture!

Well those older movies are HD quality on their original film form, and many after 1953 were Wide Screen, so you aren't seeing them the way they were created if you watch them on older standard definition non-wide-screen TV's.

[andy]

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