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Are there any CRT manufacturers left?
by Keyframe 1y ago
Are there any CRT manufacturers left?
- supportengineer 1y agoI have a brilliant idea. Let's bring manufacturing back to America, but let's exclusively build "vintage" technology.
- Keyframe 1y agoThing is, probably a ton of manufacturing gotchas and even know-hows of technologies of ye olde are already lost to time.
- knowitnone3 1y agoThing is, if they can engineer it then, we can certain engineer it now.
- bitwize 1y agoYes. https://www.thomaselectronics.com/ https://www.thomaselectronics.com/ But they're only building them for specialty niche military and industrial applications (e.g., replacement parts for old fighter jet HUDs). You could ask them about building one for your SNES setup or old arcade machine, but it'll cost you call-for-pricing dollars (tens or hundreds of thousands, perhaps?)
- Keyframe 1y agointeresting! Somehow it doesn't seem those are at fidelity what sony was producing, since it doesn't need to be - requirements are different. Maybe we can have US army order a few for us SNES guys, since they're also SNES guys? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-purpose_Arcade_Combat_Simulator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-purpose_Arcade_Combat_Si...
- bitwize 1y agoReminds me of how the actual Marines modified Doom with realistic weapons, locations, and enemies to turn it into a simulator for drilling fireteam tactics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Doom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Doom