It's time to get rid of the 1982 CRT Monitors from the announcer's table

[RoXer]

Hello Wrestling Forum.

I don't come here often. You know why.

But I have to bring something up and this is the only place to do it. I could have gone to Wrestling Q&A, but no. This issue deserves much more exposure. And I'm sure it's been brought up hundreds of times throughout the years but it's time we finally do something about it.

Those old-ass CRT monitors that are embedded in the announcer's table have got to go. They have to. For a lot of reasons.

I have been saying this during every wrestling event I've been casually watching over the past couple years and I'm tired of making the same joke. They have to go.

It's an absurd eyesore. The juxtaposition of showing a stage with TV screens the size of Rhode Island followed by a camera shot of announcers squinting into a tiny 30 year old monitor is insane.

It's so behind the times. Like, the next step up from those monitors isn't even HDTV. It would be considered like a nice TV from the late 80's. And then the next jump might be to like, one of those flat screen from the early 00's that had a DVD/VHS combo. And then from there a 1st gen plasma where the body is a little fatter.

But now we're up to a point where paper thin 55" screens are very accessible. 3D is almost the norm. You can control a television with your voice. What the fuck.

The reason I bring this up is, I just watched MANIA tonight where Randy Orton falls on his back right onto one of those fucking monitors. Sure, it could have happened with any piece of equipment, but Fucking A it shouldn't even be there in the first place.

To those of you "in the know", the tables are obviously constructed to collapse in a certain way and to maybe even take some of the impact off of the fall. But is the CRT monitor from the 1980's really a crucial piece for this engineering feat? Can't we achieve the same thing with an updated television?

They were previewing the WWE Network app on an iPad not too long ago. A camera man went behind the announcer's table for an over the shoulder look at what Jerry "The King" Lawler was doing as he scrolled through the app. Behind this incredible groundbreaking technological device known as the iPad, was the 1980's CRT monitor spitting out what we were seeing in black and white.

It doesn't make sense.