“your TV needs to install an update, please connect to the internet”, it says
how did it know it needed an update?
I am 60% sure I have seen this happen IRL
CRTs did break. And they did suffer from burning.
Just buy a non-smart modern TV, you won’t need a replacement and it won’t connect to the internet.
Please tell me where I can get a modern high-res TV that is NOT smart. I have tried but cannot find them anywhere
Give me one specific example of a non smart modern TV that has a decent quality panel please.
What’s a quality panel? You mean you can’t natively get clear resolution on your TV? Doesn’t sound very smart to me.
radioactive??
electron beams are ionising radiation, yes
More specifically, the (low power) x-rays that are created when the electrons hit the screen and slow down are ionizing. The tube used in an x-ray machine is technically just a simple CRT without the mask, deflection coil, phosphorus and shielding, with the acceleration voltage cranked up a lot higher.
With your normal CRT the voltage isn’t high enough to be properly really though, and lack penetration power, so you can shield the tube quite easily. Which is also why it’s not actually harmful for you to sit in front of e.g. a CRT monitor.
Incorrect. The X-rays from old TVs came from the HV rectifier, in the back of the set.
how exactly does a rectifier produce x-rays?
They are in the tube. Unless you are in the tube as well, I fail to see the problem. Do you also consider static electricity discharges radioactive?
the lead shielding can’t block all of it, or the tube would not display anything. some x-rays go through.
Are there open source TVs?
Technically, yes? But don’t expect great pictures quality or performance. But this is a good excuse to link a Ben Eater video on the topic 😄 https://youtu.be/l7rce6IQDWs?is=oMqVPCiAFgPo1Yav
Not as far as I know. But there ARE TVs that with no smart features. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJh72_O4pXE
I said to myself i’ll never have a tv
Our TV was from the early '70s and when you turned it on if you weren’t at least 10 ft back the hair would stand up on your arms. I’m sure that thing was definitely giving you a suntan.
Let’s not pretend that crts ware better than modern TVs. The picture was shit, the ratio was 4:3 and they had the size and weight of a small car. I can deal with a little upgrade once in a while. And that’s not even true as I haven’t seen a TV that needs upgrades yet.
To be honest, I prefer 4:3. I like how square-ish it felt. /srs
they were in fact not. they did produce a tiny amount of x rays.
I think that’s some major rose-colored-glasses thinking. They did break. A child with a magnet could also cause issues, at least on older ones (I say having been said child).
I had some unshielded noise speakers that would change the color when swiped across the screen in one direction. And cleared it when swiped the other direction. Fun times!
Circa late 1980s I remember our dad brought home a degauser from work, hey anyone remember what a degauser is? It was a magnetic box (VERY STRONG MAGNETS) with a tunnel to slide a cassette tape through, to erase the cassette tape. Well I don’t remember which of us family members decided its storage place should be on top of the TV but what a fun science lesson that turned out to be 😄 If you moved the magnet around the TV in all different places, the distortion on the screen would follow wherever the magnet was, and IIRC the screen distortion wasn’t permanent. The screen went back to normal when you removed the magnet from the vicinity.
IIRC It messes with the beam guides. I’m not sure if there are cases/designs in which it would cause permanent damage in color TVs, but I seem to think I managed to permanently tint our older one green somehow.
IIRC it does cause damage if done repeatedly, but doing it once or twice probably wouldn’t do much.
They’re not really radioactive, they emit some X Ray that is absorbed by the lead window that is in front, making them harmless.
Can’t believe my mother sold ours for a dollar 😭🙏
“if you go reaching inside me I might just decide to kill you” -CRT
“I accumulated a little bit of dust in me so I decided to start a fire” - my CRT 1996
must be the LG TV debacle, they are selling AI tvs now too.
i finally got mine out of storage and set up
it turned on 3 times and the kids got to see the static. they got to hear the super high pitched wine
but now it doesn’t respond to anything 😭😭
I’ll try to get it fixed one day 😓
While it may not be related I have a CRT monitor that did something kinda similar and which I think I know what it is so I’ll give a suggestion. It may legit just be one of the internal boards or whatever equivalent that controls power and may just need to be resoddered or otherwise replaced.
i hope so!
i love crt i just dont have space anymore :( i do have a few just nowhere to put it yet
