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Old 04-14-2009, 05:06 PM
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The CRT Whine

As more and more television sets abandon the use of the CRT for displaying images, you will no longer be able to pass a room or a house and say, hey they've got a TV on in there. The infamous horizontal oscillator whine, at 15kHz or so, is a symbol of great human innovation and creativity, if you ask me.

A complex machine which conveys a full color motion image, with sound, to an audience hundreds of miles away.

Don't know about you guys, but the CRT is dying at an alarmingly fast rate, and I'm going to have one around for the rest of my life, even if it's a late-model-BPC set.

Standard-def is fine for me, considering how little I watch.
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Old 04-15-2009, 07:24 AM
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Damn straight. Viva CRT!!!
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Old 04-15-2009, 08:25 PM
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Hey,the thing I miss is being greeted by the "Chung" sound of the degauss
coil when turn on my Sony flat screen
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Old 04-15-2009, 09:01 PM
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There are a few HD CRTs out there. Or at least there were for a while. I've seen three.
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Old 04-19-2009, 07:54 PM
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I haven't been able to hear the whine of a crt TV in years. We must lose the ability to hear high frequencies or something with age. I've mentioned that whine to people in the past and no one has ever seemed to know what I was talking about.

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As more and more television sets abandon the use of the CRT for displaying images, you will no longer be able to pass a room or a house and say, hey they've got a TV on in there. The infamous horizontal oscillator whine, at 15kHz or so, is a symbol of great human innovation and creativity, if you ask me.

A complex machine which conveys a full color motion image, with sound, to an audience hundreds of miles away.

Don't know about you guys, but the CRT is dying at an alarmingly fast rate, and I'm going to have one around for the rest of my life, even if it's a late-model-BPC set.

Standard-def is fine for me, considering how little I watch.
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Old 04-19-2009, 07:58 PM
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There are a few HD CRTs out there. Or at least there were for a while. I've seen three.
we have an HD CRT set. not bad at all, but heavy as all hell.
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Old 04-19-2009, 07:59 PM
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15, 575 Hz. I can hardly hear it anymore :-(
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Old 04-19-2009, 08:07 PM
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It's not all bad news. LCD is no CRT replacement, but OLED might be. And CRT's do have their drawbacks.

Still, CRT's are built sturdier. They have to be. :P
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Old 04-20-2009, 03:18 PM
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15, 575 Hz. I can hardly hear it anymore :-(

actually, it is 15,734.
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actually, it is 15,734.
15,734.264
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the "Chung" sound of the degauss coil
So that's what makes that sound. My trusty Sony KV-1311CR rings like the Liberty Bell when I turn it on.

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Old 04-21-2009, 01:03 AM
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I could hear it till i turned 30 something, In my late teens i could hear a operating tv monitor at over 20 feet away. It sucks to get old.
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Reading this I realized I can still hear something from my TV in the dead quiet. This is funny to me as I have trouble distinguishing speech/music in situations with moderate background noise - been that way since my mid-20's.

When I was a kid, I could hear the whine as soon as I walked in a house with a TV running.
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Old 04-21-2009, 11:45 PM
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In a department store I could tell when there was a TV section close by!
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Old 04-22-2009, 12:36 AM
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Good riddance! I hate that whine. I'm the only one in my family who can hear it, they are oblivious to it. Sometimes I come into the room with the TV and its blank but still on, no one else would notice since they can't hear that it is still on.

And then they complain to ME about sometimes hearing my music a little bit.
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