Zez Retro | Collecting, color calibrating and repairing CRTs with Dan Mons - Cathode Ray Podcast #14 @ZezRetro | Uploaded February 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
In this series I team up with CRT shaman Steve from Retro Tech and we talk about CRTs, TVs and other retro gaming topics.
In this episode we are joined by developer Dan Mons. You may know his name as the lead developer (or "guy who pieces it together" as he likes to say) of RetroNAS, which is a great new open source solutions for storing all of your retro ROMs and ISOs.
In addition Dan is a CRT nerd from back in the day. He has a huge personal collection himself and he has worked in many VFX and production studios which used professional CRT monitors. In particular he has a lot of experience color calibrating pro monitors and we go deep into this.
Sound quality note: There is some faint feedback in the recording, sometimes it sounds like an softer echo. I tried to manually remove most of it but you can hear it occasionally.
0:00 Start
01:30 Our experiences with the RetroNAS
22:30 Dan's tutorial videos are great
27:30 Dan loves CRTs
35:00 We keep talking about how much we love CRTs
39:45 Dan's favorite CRT project
46:00 Color correcting CRTs in a production studio
01:00:15 Steve's experience providing CRTs to museums
01:06:00 Medical CRTs
01:15:00 Did CRTs just naturally reach their end of life?
01:19:00 The CRT elite club
01:20:00 What is the difference between a movie and a VR game?
01:31:30 Growing up in Australia and using BBS before the Internet
01:40:00 Australian broadband
01:46:00 Buying, preserving ROMs
The RetroNAS project: github.com/danmons/retronas
Dan on Twitter: twitter.com/_daemons
You can find the audio on the web or your favorite podcast app: https://anchor.fm/zezretro
twitter.com/louiszezeran
twitter.com/usa_retro
For all your CRT repair needs, check out Steve's channel: youtube.com/c/RetroTechUSA
Zez Retro Audio: https://anchor.fm/zezretro
Zez Retro Video: youtube.com/c/ZezRetro
Twitter: twitter.com/louiszezeran
Instagram: instagram.com/louiszezeran
In this series I team up with CRT shaman Steve from Retro Tech and we talk about CRTs, TVs and other retro gaming topics.
In this episode we are joined by developer Dan Mons. You may know his name as the lead developer (or "guy who pieces it together" as he likes to say) of RetroNAS, which is a great new open source solutions for storing all of your retro ROMs and ISOs.
In addition Dan is a CRT nerd from back in the day. He has a huge personal collection himself and he has worked in many VFX and production studios which used professional CRT monitors. In particular he has a lot of experience color calibrating pro monitors and we go deep into this.
Sound quality note: There is some faint feedback in the recording, sometimes it sounds like an softer echo. I tried to manually remove most of it but you can hear it occasionally.
0:00 Start
01:30 Our experiences with the RetroNAS
22:30 Dan's tutorial videos are great
27:30 Dan loves CRTs
35:00 We keep talking about how much we love CRTs
39:45 Dan's favorite CRT project
46:00 Color correcting CRTs in a production studio
01:00:15 Steve's experience providing CRTs to museums
01:06:00 Medical CRTs
01:15:00 Did CRTs just naturally reach their end of life?
01:19:00 The CRT elite club
01:20:00 What is the difference between a movie and a VR game?
01:31:30 Growing up in Australia and using BBS before the Internet
01:40:00 Australian broadband
01:46:00 Buying, preserving ROMs
The RetroNAS project: github.com/danmons/retronas
Dan on Twitter: twitter.com/_daemons
You can find the audio on the web or your favorite podcast app: https://anchor.fm/zezretro
twitter.com/louiszezeran
twitter.com/usa_retro
For all your CRT repair needs, check out Steve's channel: youtube.com/c/RetroTechUSA
Zez Retro Audio: https://anchor.fm/zezretro
Zez Retro Video: youtube.com/c/ZezRetro
Twitter: twitter.com/louiszezeran
Instagram: instagram.com/louiszezeran
