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I'm rather disheartened that CRT televisions were so quick to make an exit over the last few years. The image on a plasma or LCD flat television just isn't the same. It's too smooth, too over saturated, and too smeary. Viewing a program from a digital source such as digital cable or satellite on a CRT television looks far better than the current flat panel televisions. The only non flat panel system left that makes the content bearable to my eyes is a DLP projector.
I think those who maintain and preserve these vintage sets are in an extra special category. Someday there will be a generation of people who will have never seen images from a CRT based television, nor will they have experienced watching a movie at a cinema projected from real film.
While I don't yet own any vintage televisions, I do have good quality CRT sets throughout the house. I also have a fully equipped 35mm and 70mm theatrical projection system in my house that fills a 12 foot wide screen. I collect film prints of titles that are near and dear to my heart. Despite some of my friends not being able to tell any difference in the visual texture of television reproduced on a CRT versus an LCD or plasma flat panel, all of them have confessed to me that watching a movie from a film print brings about a quality and texture that cannot be matched by any electronic reproduction. It definitely makes me feel happy when my friends and family are continually excited to come over to watch a print of a film and can clearly appreciate the difference instead of lounging at home in front of their Vizio televisions.
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