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Even the media that does support it is usually barely different from 1080p, yet it requires significantly more bandwidth (if streaming) and storage, while also requiring more processing power. So given this, it is better to just run media at 1080p. After a certain point, "upgrades" aren't even worth it other than from a technical perspective, because you just won't see them much, if at all, even if you look closely. I don't think televisions are dying out among normies unfortunately, although they resell for basically nothing if they're pre-smart-TV now, so
I have an old 4:3 Dell monitor sitting around, I may just start using that as a monitor for my laptop if I need a second monitor for whatever reason, because this laptop supports VGA cables perfectly fine.
True, true. I should probably consider getting these old TVs en masse for cheap now, then reselling them for higher prices later on. Even what isn't sold can still be repurposed as a really cheap monitor. Also, CRTs are useful if I want to resell them to soy Redditors, because they'll pay like $200 for that or whatever they feel like paying for "le accurate retro gaming experience", even though you can probably buy one for like $20 or less on eBay still.
I don't think I'd make much, in fact, it might unironically make me more money to turn all of my family and fren's old/unused devices into Monero mining machines, so unless I got these TVs for free or could bulk-purchase tons of them for very cheap of a price per TV, there wouldn't be much reason to do this. Maybe finding some 1080P television with plenty of ports that isn't a smart TV to resell to some schizo that refuses to just stop using TVs entirely would work, otherwise I won't expect to make more than a few dollars unless something crazy happens.
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