A Portable CRT Combo From QVC!

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A Portable CRT Combo From QVC!

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Hi guys and welcome back to yasminecollects! We have yet another CRT TV themed video. This one is the beloved VCR/CRT TV combo type unit- typically something you see on eBay under "gaming tv". These are a great way to get familiar with analog and enjoy VHS tapes. However there are major annoyances in maintaining the VCR- hence why you'll see these listed with broken vcrs constantly. That's not the case with this one though, it's practically brand new in the box! QVC sold this Memorex MVT2090 model and likely marketed it as something family (and travel) friendly. We'll be testing this CRT extensively including performance- does it work? and comparing it to my other daily driver CRT which is a broksonic. This is also a good opportunity to compare a higher end VCR with something as truly bare bones as this. I use a very low hours Panasonic PV-V4520 VCR daily and you can really see the difference in quality.
Maybe I'll get too curious and open this CRT up to view the VCR build...and remove that automatic head cleaner!
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Timestamps
00:00 photo sensitive epilepsy warning
00:24 intro
05:09 Memorex MVT2090 unit in detail
09:26 does it work?
12:23 inside the VCR
14:16 testing a tape
18:55 crt picture settings
25:36 weird noises
27:05 video game shenanigans
30:57 memorex vs broksonic
37:28 thanks for watching!
#retrogaming #crt #retrotech

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@Ryder-888 5 ай бұрын

my favorite comfort channel.

@YasmineCollects 5 ай бұрын

This is my goal, ur comment made my whole month ❤

@FredJensen4745 4 ай бұрын

Fr this channel is the best!

@azn1011 5 ай бұрын

the moment i saw that TV i thought to myself "that thing has 2002 written all over it" 🤣

@YasmineCollects 5 ай бұрын

IT JUST MAKES SENSE

@azn1011 5 ай бұрын

@@YasmineCollects the bubbly design is what really gives it away

@howtobebasic2122 5 ай бұрын

as a new subscriber who just found this channel, I do know that these TV VCR combo units were built by a company called Funai. These tv's where the last of the line in fact Funai was the last company to make VCR's the last one was built in July of 2016, in fact i remember buying one of the last VCRs with a DVD combo i don't remember the year. but i do remember it was less that 19 Dollars brand new.

@TorontoJon 5 ай бұрын

6:14 That is a car charger unit that typically came with Sony Discman CD players (particularly if they were for use in cars), or to charge car cell phones back in the day, or rechargeable flashlights, and it also came with that Memorex TV/VCR combo unit in order for it to be powered by the cigarette lighter input jack in any car. That way, one could watch a movie while camping or to entertain the kids during road trips and to give them a "healthy" glow as they were absorbing radiation generated by CRT TV's like that. Hahaha! :)

@YasmineCollects 5 ай бұрын

I have never wanted to go camping but now I have to go and whip this bad boy out 😂

@coltongoff456 5 ай бұрын

I have a Magnavox crt tv. My mom bought it new in the early 90’s. The TV itself was from October of 1991. She had it in her apartment, and in the first house they she and my dad bought back in March of 1996. (They still live in that house) It was put into storage for a very long time in the attic of the house covered with an old blanket. I was in the attic one day and I found it, I took it out of the attic and plugged it in and the static sound and “snow” appeared. I connected a analog to digital converter. I still use it sometimes, works perfectly. I also bought a Universal Remote, because the original remote was lost a long time ago.

@josephcontreras8930 5 ай бұрын

We used that memorix tvvcr combo for 2 van trips to Disney land and later kept in kids room afterwards. It was the best little entertainment unit for the price and size. My mom still has one we gave to her as a mom days gift. We got both at wally world back in earrrrlllyyy 2000s.😅 gr8 viddie yazzy brought back memories

@purplesabbath9057 5 ай бұрын

This is a cute little TV. I had a similar one in my bedroom when I was a kid. It a Symphonic TV from the year 2001 and it too had a built in VCR. It was a little bigger than this one though, I believe it was a 13 inch model.

@IN-rf1pv 5 ай бұрын

No one should be getting mad at you for anything! Although not gonna lie the occasional stark difference in audio volume might MIGHT get me there now and then 🤣. Your remote doesn’t have a backlight but rather just a simple glow in the dark material charged by light. That unit definitely is LOW hours to virtually NO hours because that glow section would be a gross shiny yellow by now if the remote had had a lot of use. This is a 2 head VCR that were the most durable at the end of the line, you probably don’t need to worry about the head cleaner for a long time. Neat find for 50 bucks. I smell your first Trinitron around the corner…

@YasmineCollects 5 ай бұрын

Now that’s a very fair point, I have this problem where I literally scream at the camera if im excited 😂 you can tell I’ve simmered down in the voiceovers bc those happen a couple days after LMAO. will keep the volume levels in mind. Thanks for explaining the remote situation, I really think it’s the worst remote I’ve used. That video will surely come, and I will definitely be screaming 😂😂😂

@EmperorKonstantine01 5 ай бұрын

Nice looking CRT, picked up a very good one indeed. The whistling or high frequency sound is nothing to be alarmed about, it’s the high voltage anode going into the fly back transformer, it’s common with these oldest CRT’s. how ever the expensive ones have suppressors and regulators which reflect the price. The auto head cleaning mechanism doesn’t necessarily clear the tape oxide however it is a catchment device and regular service can keep it clear. The brightness indicates low hours of use. I serviced CRT’s and electronics for almost 38 years so this should last you many years on moderate to average use. A gold find indeed, happy retro venturing 📺

@TorontoJon 5 ай бұрын

36:15 The reason there is a stark difference in image quality when you hit pause, fast-forward, or rewind, is because your Panasonic VCR has 4 heads while your Memorex VCR has only 2 heads most likely. As a budget brand, Memorex is akin to Citizen, Emerson, etc. while Panasonic is a better quality brand (with Quasar being an offshoot of Panasonic, so also good quality, not to mention Technics which is also part of the Matsushita family) akin to Sony, Yamaha, JVC, etc. and my favourite VCR brands overall in terms of reliability are either Panasonic or JVC with JVC having been the inventor of VHS in the first place. :)

@TheComputerGuy24 5 ай бұрын

Fun fact, I believe the Broksonic and the Memorex were both manufactured by Orion, they were like Funai in the early 2000's making electronics under big names. The way I noticed is the Broksonic and the Memorex both have the same TV On Screen Display menu. The Memorex VCR menu is also similar to my 2004 Toshiba DVD/VCR combo that was made by Orion. And yes that TV does have a Auto Head Cleaner, although it's probably a soft piece of white styrofoam, and not a squishy yellow piece of foam like your Magnavox (Funai made unit), so hopefully it will give you less trouble. I so badly want to info dump my knowledge about the units but I'm holding myself back. 😁😂

@rertnerfurtheng3771 5 ай бұрын

my funai tv (Sylvania branded 27 in) drives me nuts, because there's no way to adjust the picture without the exact OEM remote, even a universal remote I tried can't bring up the picture settings.

@YasmineCollects 5 ай бұрын

Info dump away bc I live for this!!

@TomIannucci22 5 ай бұрын

Great video! That's a car cigarette lighter adapter at 6:18. You're so much like me, it's crazy!

@dannymcelroy4046 5 ай бұрын

This is a cool video I love your new CRT TV you got off of Facebook marketplace, my 2000 RCA CRT built-in VCR combo player is still working great! I haven’t used it much, but I love the CRTs, though. They’re much better than the flatscreen TVs and they last longer too! Originally when I got my RCA, I opened up the inside of it and it was very clean, but I cleaned it and polished it. I also blew it out with my air compressor too. 😃📺

@MarcelVanHoekElvis 5 ай бұрын

Very Cool Combo Tv/Vcr👍🙂. Greets from Marcel The Netherlands Europe 👍👍👍👍

@trr5291 5 ай бұрын

I never had a VCR tv but I've had two Emerson DVD TVs. One was a 2004 model. Unfortunately lighting took it out In 2011. I still have my 2013 Emerson DVD player TV in the bedroom. It works great still. I wish they still made them.

@XMguy 5 ай бұрын

I too have Autism. I love that TV. I have a few variants. I even had a 20” that had a Hi-FI Stereo VCR, and tuner made by JVC. The tube developed an internal arc. So it had to be disposed of.

@_axetrax1 5 ай бұрын

this crt is so cute!!! despite this being branded as a mini one it doesnt actually look much bigger than my trinitron vcr crt :D

@tommylambert 5 ай бұрын

So my feelings about it are just this. I want it. I need it.

@halenmartini6705 5 ай бұрын

i really should get one of these TVs, i love the 13 inch ones for the novelty factor and the 9 inch ones are even more of a novelty good stuff!

@josephcontreras8930 5 ай бұрын

I have and still use a memorix tv DVD combo with a flat screen that I use to play my Nes snes genesis and plug n play games. Great little unit after all these years.

@vinnyfanneran3116 5 ай бұрын

You can always check if the remote is working by pointing it at your phone camera. The infrared should be visible on your phone as a fetching purple. Or for my TV and my current phone combo, a feching electric lilac.

@YasmineCollects 5 ай бұрын

Will it work on a Nokia flip or iPad?

@vinnyfanneran3116 5 ай бұрын

@@YasmineCollects Absolutely will work on 2 Fab 2 Flippy. I don't have have any puns for iPad, but it will work on that too.

@YasmineCollects 5 ай бұрын

@@vinnyfanneran3116yassss 😂❤ thanks

@XMguy 5 ай бұрын

Love the use of the Windows XP install music.

@tookeydookey 5 ай бұрын

23:03 Mass-produced tapes have that sometimes. I have a copy of Disney's Sing-Along Songs: The Bare Necessities from 1997 that has 90 minutes of film on it whereas the program itself is only 30 minutes long. That's what we call a "recycled copy" where a tape like that could possibly be recycled from another tape. Disney's not the only video company that does this. I owned a lot of pre-recorded SpongeBob and other Nickelodeon tapes that had nearly two hours of film on it, those tapes being from Paramount. Your Cat In The Hat tape looked like it was recorded on a nearly 50-minute tape (I got a good freeze-frame of it BTW LOL) so that's another good example! What I kinda like to do on the static parts of recycled tapes is to record videogame footage on it ROFL🤣🤣🤣 Nice TV BTW, I kinda want one myself! As several people mentioned, this VCR is made by Orion which is a bit better than Funai, although I've never owned an Orion-made VCR so i wouldn't be able to tell you my experience with them. There are plenty of Canadian-exclusive VCRs that I've seen online that have an Orion mechanism so maybe I'll get one of them down the line!😉👌

@josephcontreras8930 5 ай бұрын

Those little tape collection were great for keeping kidlits happy for a while either at home grand parents home or the office when me and kidlits met mom/nana at her little office job. Good mems of rugrats and early spongebob toons.😉

@themaritimegirl 5 ай бұрын

Most TV/VCR combos were made by Funai, and the VCRs always die on them. Memorex stuff is usually made by Orion, and is much better quality, so not too surprising that this one still works :)

@JuanNunez2023 5 ай бұрын

I miss glow in the dark remote controls like this TV has. Back in the 90's, that was a very neat quality of life improvement.

@antonioal-sudeste1632 5 ай бұрын

Good machine!!! Greetings from Argentina!

@paulyh4531 5 ай бұрын

If you ever need to check a remote works ,use your phone camera press the remote facing your camera and you'll see the infra red light up as your press the buttons. 😊

@ExiledMSH 5 ай бұрын

The crappy things about the TV/VCR combos are that most of them (well, the VCR parts) are not hi-fi stereo, and that they're more difficult to repair than if they had been stand-alone units. But at the same time, I had thought, in the '90s, it would have been the greatest thing to have if I was on a long distance trip in a bus.

@michaeldemers2716 5 ай бұрын

The small adapter you were confused about is for DC power for your car cigarette lighter port.

@mcmoofin4928 5 ай бұрын

hey so the sound could be the sound of arcing, in a dark room if you see what looks like a purple glow somewhere in the tv inside around the top. (along the anode cap down to the flyback). If its not, awesome. New tv!

@Fuzy2K 2 ай бұрын

My Sansui VCR from 1999 had the same remote! BTW, there's no backlight. The buttons glow in the dark like those old glow in the dark stickers, if I remember correctly.

@FredJensen4745 5 ай бұрын

I’m pretty sure if you have cable you can just plug it into a CRT and it’ll play without a DTV box! You’ll need one though if you just wanna watch local channels!

@YasmineCollects 5 ай бұрын

I do have a coax cable hooked up to my Roku, might be fun to try

@terrylockwood9176 5 ай бұрын

Someone probably already said this, but that remote had no backlight. It's glow in the dark. I have a few like that. I collect vintage electronics and I have probably 60 remotes or more floating around lol

@RobbieCupples 5 ай бұрын

I feel like we would be great friends, considering the fact that we both like tech like these TVs and VCRs lol 😅

@qwertykeyboard5901 5 ай бұрын

"But unfortunately for them, I'm autistic" Same lol.

@YasmineCollects 5 ай бұрын

every day 🎉😂

@XMguy 5 ай бұрын

Same too. They’re often like ok, heard enough. I’m like I haven’t.

@user-uh4gd4od9y 5 ай бұрын

god i miss the 90's cartoons and video games were my world no worries for the future you didn't have to work just enjoy life

@TheSocialGamer 5 ай бұрын

Such a cute tiny tv but the remote didn't have a alight, those buttons just glowed in the dark... lol That was modern tech before actuali lights in remotes. hahaha

@dominicus9891 5 ай бұрын

18:54 That's really strange. All tvs in the US were legally mandated to have a closed caption decoder chip starting when the Americans With Disabilities act was passed.

@StephenFinkNRP 5 ай бұрын

The remote likely doesn't have a backlight. The middle section looks to be glow in the dark material. Also you have a rabbit ears antenna that mounts to the top of the tv and a 12v plug to plug it into your car. I am sure this is all in the manual. Manuals were better back then.

@YasmineCollects 5 ай бұрын

Like a true consumer, I ignored the manual LOL

@maiconvengrzennunesbusolog4864 5 ай бұрын

Muito legal essa tv 🧐😃

@juantwothreegoretro 5 ай бұрын

$50?! What a haul!

@iviedbymightymt 2 ай бұрын

8:53 Active Energy is an Aldi store brand.

@nogginonyoutube7520 5 ай бұрын

in the first part of this video when you are wearing the flowered dress, why do you rollover the bottom hem of the dress showing the inside of the hem? just curious.

@jamesstout3430 5 ай бұрын

About time... lol I bet some grandma bought it on qvc for when the brats came over. Remote likely is glow in the dark...

@bobandrewmusix 3 ай бұрын

I wanna one

@berechoumohamed7732 5 ай бұрын

❤

@mellowc 5 ай бұрын

the Inappropriate plug was for car charger

@afriend9428 5 ай бұрын

*SNOY has the same one or unit Did they copy it?!?* 🤔

@shmehfleh3115 5 ай бұрын

Ugh, eBay and its plague of "gaming" TVs. I've seen people try to sell B&W sets with no external antenna connections as "gaming" TVs for hundreds of bucks. It's ridiculous.

@plainsabertooth7828 5 ай бұрын

I think the term your looking for is new old stock.

@lukasgayer5393 5 ай бұрын

OMG...somebody, who doesn´t recognize a standard 12V car cigarette lighter plug. Sigh...these young people. :) :) Anyway - sweet set. I wish we had more of these here in Europe. They are pretty rare. I´ve got 2 or 3 but none of these this new. Mine are early 90s. Most of therm here were made by Philips and they are SUPER prone to malfunctions and nightmare to fix. Sony sets are very rare here. Ultra, ultra, ultra rare and Panasonic ones are non-existent.