On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 09:10, James Knott via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2020-11-10 9:56 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > My second thought was: They removed the composite port. I probably > > would never personally use it, but I could imagine there are some people > > that like attaching things to old CRTs for gaming that would miss it. > > But perhaps most people like myself just don't care about analog video > > anymore so they probably made the right call on that. > > A CRT monitor would have to be pretty old. I bought my first LCD > monitor almost 15 years ago and even then it was a refurb. Then we get > to wasted space and power.
And let's not forget weight: a 17" CRT was 20kg. They're freaking brutal to move. All that lead shielding and a huge glass tube ... The death of the CRT is mourned by very few indeed. -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected] --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
