I’ve got a Sylvania TV I bought in early 05 that has a game mode, and it’s just some pre baked output settings as far as I can tell. And not one I like much either, but then I’m the sort that always has to tweak my TV settings to where I like it.
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Yeah, I have a tv from around that same time with almost the exact same front panel layout of buttons and inputs and “game” is just a brightness/tint/contrast preset along side “sport” and “movie.”
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my first job out of college was basically working as a “sysadmin” for a guy who had a setup like that
he was Pakistani and had a team of developers back in his native country who were simultaneously trying to run every adwords scheme imaginable, just whatever opportunistic shit he could think of, and he hired me because, quote “all the students from this university are worthless and I had the good sense to lie about knowing how to use vim”
I quit after like 3 months to go to grad school and he wasn’t even mad, he was like, hey, 3 months, not bad!
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it was like 20 or 25 bucks an hour, more than I’d made before, and I felt bad for the guy, obviously he moved to a college town trying to get cheap labour but he picked a prohibitively shitty one
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I had 3 similar jobs (others involving light web programming and database stuff) before, during and right after college. I think this is specific to our microgeneration that first dipped our toes in the job market prior to 2008. They didn’t seem like particularly great gigs at the time, but in hindsight it’s hugely fortunate to have lived in a world where such jobs were abundant
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yeah, I was actually fortunate to get the sysadminning experience in hindsight, because prior to that all I’d been able to establish was that I didn’t really like webdev, I wasn’t patient or mathy or competitive enough for an engineering education, and I’d already done my fill of support, and this was the one thing I managed to teach myself to a degree that I didn’t hate which basically undergirded a lot of my career since, even as I’ve still mostly stayed out of tech due in part to my demonstrated inability to escape the most cynical gigs.
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Wow.
Looks like he might send it to Clint at LGR, eventually, for a closer look.
another different example from the comments
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Dotronix/Dot-X DNR-series 27" monitors displaying video works of William Wegman via s-video in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s long under-construction and recently opened and beautiful Kinder Building; which I visited for the first time last week.
These are manufactured ‘new’ from old-stock tubes and according to a 2019 post on Fudoh’s shmups forum thread quoting a email from Dotronix will run you about $2500.
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William Wegman is pretty wild. You could have a whole career as a conceptual artist in the 70s-80s just by taking pictures of your dogs
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I love museum TVs
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo & Dia Beacon, I don’t remember the artist’s names, I liked the one with the mom though
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I’ve seen that one in the DiA Beacon. Good stuff
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love the bezels on these museum monitors, giving me the same vibe as darkroom prints done with filed-out negative carriers
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I am again looking at a picture again, this one, and I am noticin: is that…an Aura Interactor subwoofer backpack mounted to this guy’s office chair? Wow.
I had one of these, it was not good.
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UN Squadron is at least partially responsible for me thinking cops were cool as a kid
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someone linked me this and I’ve been thinking about it for three days Sony Trinitron CRT TV * retro gaming vintage * | Other | Richmond | Kijiji
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They’re up on a ladder to try to make that thing look like you can carry it up stairs or fit it in a trunk
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