Yeah, after five years of helping move my 32" CRT to and from dorms twice a year my grandmother finally told me she'd buy me a flat panel just because she was sick of dealing with it. I would certainly not own a 32" CRT today. Anything over 30 lbs, forget about it (which generally rules out S-Video, but I always hated those stupid fucking connectors with their EZ-Bend pins anyway).
This thing fits easily in my arms, doesn't weigh enough to strain my back, and doesn't take up enough room that I'd have to seriously plan around it the next time I move.
Has anybody started making high-end but tiny CRTs for this kind of thing yet?
I think high-end is exactly what we don't want; NES games may look better on a hi-res CRT than on a hi-res LCD, but they still look pretty crummy.
Now, if you start talking about fancy European shit like the SNES SCART adapter, that's another story, but that's hardcore-enthusiast stuff with a niche-of-a-niche-of-a-niche audience. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a burgeoning market like that start to rise up (especially in Japan), like how vinyl records are selling better now than they have in 20 years, but I don't think we're there yet.
(I'd like to make the argument that nobody will ever be nostalgic for VHS, but I've seen enough people sing the praises of the Clone Saga to know that no matter how legitimately goddamn awful something is, a few years down the road there will be people looking back on it with unironic fondness.)
(Also, the Clone Saga looks better in hindsight because it was a much less stupid way of getting Peter Parker's marriage out of the way than the one we finally got.)
(And it was, of course, still fucking stupid.)
