I will admit I did buy my mom a flatscreen for Christmas against her will because I was embarrassed, but in my defense her old cathode tube had got to the point of showing false-colored bars over the picture at the top and bottom of the screen, so it was time. (Also she is richer than me, just bad at buying herself things). And I took her shopping with me, so we could get the one she hated least, and talked to the sibling about it first.
(It was also getting harder to watch DVDs, because so many of them assume you have a widescreen display now, and the letterboxing, if they even bother, is bad. Not that she watches DVDs either.)
Good news if you have visitors though! You can totally stream to a CRT, you just need the right cables and converters to hook it to a laptop as an aux monitor, and they exist. It's even hip and vintage to do that so you can probably find the cables.
(Which is what we do if we want to stream to mom's new flatscreen anyway, because connecting it directly to the internet itself is just SO MANY ADS FOR STREAMING SERVICES, so we keep it disconnected and dumb. I have a pre-smart-TV flatscreen from a thrift shop myself for the same reason.)
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(It was also getting harder to watch DVDs, because so many of them assume you have a widescreen display now, and the letterboxing, if they even bother, is bad. Not that she watches DVDs either.)
Good news if you have visitors though! You can totally stream to a CRT, you just need the right cables and converters to hook it to a laptop as an aux monitor, and they exist. It's even hip and vintage to do that so you can probably find the cables.
(Which is what we do if we want to stream to mom's new flatscreen anyway, because connecting it directly to the internet itself is just SO MANY ADS FOR STREAMING SERVICES, so we keep it disconnected and dumb. I have a pre-smart-TV flatscreen from a thrift shop myself for the same reason.)