I don’t understand why no company wants to get back in the CRT business; they would make an absolute killing off the retro gaming market (and nerds like me). I, for one, would love a modern widescreen 4K 240Hz Trinitron CRT with an analog RGB input and HDMI 2.2. Every game from past to present would look amazing on such a TV. Just don’t fuck it up and introduce input lag like early HD CRTs did.
Same goes for cassette decks. Modern cassette players all use the same crappy Chinese design for the mechanism. Mono audio and no Dolby noise reduction. Yuck. Somebody needs to make a modern design that was as good as 80s and 90s cassette players were.
I’m gonna guess that the scale you’d need to make a profit would be way over what you could actually sell unfortunately. CRTs are very different to modern manufacturing processes, you’d need a dedicated factory for a fair bit of the process.
That being said, cassette decks I could absolutely see working. The tech is barebones af, and the rest of it can probably be put together with existing audio hardware.
I don’t understand why no company wants to get back in the CRT business; they would make an absolute killing off the retro gaming market (and nerds like me). I, for one, would love a modern widescreen 4K 240Hz Trinitron CRT with an analog RGB input and HDMI 2.2. Every game from past to present would look amazing on such a TV. Just don’t fuck it up and introduce input lag like early HD CRTs did.
Same goes for cassette decks. Modern cassette players all use the same crappy Chinese design for the mechanism. Mono audio and no Dolby noise reduction. Yuck. Somebody needs to make a modern design that was as good as 80s and 90s cassette players were.
I’m gonna guess that the scale you’d need to make a profit would be way over what you could actually sell unfortunately. CRTs are very different to modern manufacturing processes, you’d need a dedicated factory for a fair bit of the process.
That being said, cassette decks I could absolutely see working. The tech is barebones af, and the rest of it can probably be put together with existing audio hardware.