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Anywhere in the US that still sells new CRT TVs?

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http://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/Indian-TV-market-Its-CRT-vs-LED/articleshow/25820222.cms

from that article it show 3 manufacturers but Onida brand dropped out in 2015, and could only find info on Videocon for CRT mainly do to them shutting down their line for 6 months in 2015

 

But i totally doubt the ones marketed in china or India would have any good use for Gaming as their are mainly 14-21 sets with poor scanlines

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Ideally the tuner wouldn't quantize at precise frequencies, like many of the newer CRTs appeared to do, but rather tune in to any frequency without the need of severe fine tuning. Many of the oldest consoles and home computers look terrible, if you can tune them at all, at a later SD CRT due to how the tuner handles the signal. Some people even think their system is broken, before they switch to a late 80's or even earlier TV and get a very crisp image.

 

Of course if you mod your systems for a stable composite video signal or anything better, you can get the tuner out of the equation and usually get an even better picture, though not everyone like crisp images. (not pointing at someone in particular, I've had this type of argument elsewhere before so it isn't new to me)

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Ideally the tuner wouldn't quantize at precise frequencies, like many of the newer CRTs appeared to do, but rather tune in to any frequency without the need of severe fine tuning. Many of the oldest consoles and home computers look terrible, if you can tune them at all, at a later SD CRT due to how the tuner handles the signal. Some people even think their system is broken, before they switch to a late 80's or even earlier TV and get a very crisp image.

 

The Atari 2600 allows you to fine-tune the RF frequency from the console itself. I still get noticeable RF interference patterns with my "heavy sixer", no matter what. Just to be clear, I'm not talking about static/snow like you get with a loose connection or weak signal; I'm talking about subtle, random motion embedded in the colors of the graphics, with it being more noticeable on lighter colors, and not present at all in black.

 

My TV was made in 2006 and has a digital tuner, but it isn't the TV's fault, because my Atari 7800 has far less interference patterns, and my front-loader NES has practically zero interference patterns. Of course, the front-loader NES has composite video output, so that's what I use, but I have tested it with RF on that TV, and it's almost as good as its composite output. The RF output from the NES is so good, that it's actually better than the composite output from most other consoles, such as the Sega Genesis.

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