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not to be all pretentious about it but i think one underappreciated thing about crt tvs was the way pure noise looks. like when it wasn't tuned to anything and everything on the screen is noise. it simply looks completely different from noise on any lcd and i can't convey it
more of a portal into a dreamworld than a monitor displaying an image
i think a lot of this is because of the varying intensity of the beam and the fact every single frame is completely different, with no transition (instant response time); your persistence of vision is all that provides continuity, and that also breaks down with pure noise
remembers she literally has a crt tv in the other room she can stare at hmmm
the effect would be stronger on a black-and-white tv, the shadow mask creates a screen-door effect
holy shit if i stare at it with my glasses off (blurring away the shadow-mask screen-door) i start to see really clear patterns in the noise. and… those patterns aren't actually in the noise. they're defects of my own vision, things i can't normally clearly make out. holy shit
holy shit the intensifying dizzying patterns it's actually terrifying how much the eyes can make out that Isn't There
or actually maybe it is there in the signal but you have to stare at it long enough to begin to see it it's genuinely trippy
(totally sane person voice) yea so it turns out if you stare at an analog tv that's not tuned to anything and you defocus your eyes you will immediately start being terrified by the rapid swirling and dancing and flashing and the insides of your eyes that you can see in the noise
can't emphasise enough how sober and if anything unusually “sane” i am rn. i think this would be tremendous fun to repeat under the right intoxicants or while sleep deprived or something
yelling from the car i totally have yooo hop in we're gonna go listen to white noise and stare into the analog tv snow for an hour
@hikari portal into the cosmic microwave background!
@hikari Have you ever seen a LCD monitor fail to negotiate HDCP properly? Depending on what the monitor should've been showing, it's not that different from analog TV snow (though usually more colourful).
@jernej__s it happens to me occasionally! i think it's its own experience though
@hikari I've had it happen a few times in the past, but since I bought a new monitor (Samsung S90PC) it's been happening often enough (not quite daily, but several times per week) that I'm seriously considering returning it (I already updated the firmware, which did not help).
@jernej__s yikes yeah don't tolerate that
@hikari This monitor is cursed – I already had the panel replaced twice, first time because it had two black spots (I don't think they were dead pixels – looked like there was something inside the screen), and second time because they packed it wrongly when returning from service and the panel got broken during shipping.
Unfortunately there are currently no other 5k PC-compatible displays on the market.