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[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chinesium devices, anyone?

[–] planish@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have a device not made in China?

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a tv built in 1978, it was made somewhere in Michigan dont know where the sticker is faded in that part.

[–] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool. 500W worth of lamps for (maybe) 32" of terrible quality picture?

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its actaully widescreen and the picture quality is surprisingly decent.

[–] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except that old CRT cannot display modern digital images.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was making a joke. Do love that bastard though, also its fun to daisy chain adapters and run firesticks and shit on it. Good for old movies and games that were intended for CRT.

[–] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I tried to make that shit work with Raspberry pi. All attempts were futile.

Here it is: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/2626604