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 favourite 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: https://github.com/danmons/retronas

Dan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_daemons

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