End of the arcade CRT monitor

[RCM]

I got the following release the other day and thought you arcade guys would be interested.

"It's the last call for a piece of history at Dream Arcades: The oldest arcade technology, the CRT monitor, is almost out of stock -- and gone forever!

"We have only about thirty Vision 29 arcades, which come with the CRT monitor, in stock. After that, there will be no more big-screen CRT
arcades," says, Michael Ware, Founder & "Head Geek" of Dream Arcades. "By the end of the year, we'll be forced to discontinue using CRT
monitors all together, even in our smaller cocktail systems."

This is due to the fact that in recent years nearly every major CRT manufacturer has gone out of business or moved to newer technologies,
meaning the days of CRT monitor are numbered.

Besides the old-school feel, there are other benefits of CRT technology over the newer monitors. "For retro gaming the advantages
of CRT over LCD are numerous," Ware says. "Refresh rate, supported resolutions, and pixel blur are just the big ones. LCD monitors just
weren't made for retro gaming."

To own a piece of history, get your Dream Arcade Vision 29 before they're sold out -- forever."

[jb143]

The thing is though, people that aren't already used to the games on a CRT probably won't even know what they're missing. I mentioned to someone once that I was putting a CRT in a MAME cabinet and they acted like I was crazy for not using LCD. But if I wanted to stare at little square pixels I'd just play on my PC.

[Esquire Fox]

Luckily, arcade chassis are still plentiful and certain CRT television tubes can be used in arcade cabinets if you know what you are doing.
Inevitably, the remaining CRT televisions will start to die out though as the tubes develop problems such as burn in, cathode poisoning, and weak color guns.
The best we can do is to take care of our old displays so that we can extend their life as much as possible.

[kedawa]

It's just a shame that large CRT computer monitors are so scarce these days.
They make great screens for any arcade game that supports VGA,

[ACiD]

It is sad indeed, CRT is the cherry of an experience kids today will simply not know. Once I get a job I may try and find a decent sized CRT Computer Monitor for my fix.

Edit: Wanted to add that it could be possible a Manufacturer may come along to support the niche market.

[kedawa]

Sadder still is that most gamers have never even seen a vector monitor.

[Leo_A]

Wanted to add that it could be possible a Manufacturer may come along to support the niche market.

If there was money to be made, companies that were supporting the already "niche" arcade marketplace wouldn't of shut down their existing production lines to start with

Arcade CRT monitors once the last one leaves the manufacturing floor (if it hasn't already) aren't ever going to come back. Manufacturing them is far out of reach for hobbyiest, designing and arranging the manufacturing of them is expensive, etc.

What we have is all we'll have.