kinda funny, i threw out my last :LCD in 2009, now when ever i fix any up i just shoot em for fun as i do not feel LCD's have an acceptable picture from color reproduction to the crustal delay to the viewing angle black level, list goes on, also there super fragile. you throw an LCD once its dead, i have thrown my P1110 hard enough to rip VGA cable in half and its still going string running at 2048x1536. i cant even go back to 1080p cuz i have been at this res since 2011.

I've been hunting some high-res CRTs to revamp my setup. A 4:3 would be fine for my left side monitor, but I still need 16:9 or 16:10 for my main 2 screens. So far the FW900 seems to be the perfect model for my needs, but I only even know of 2 widescreen models in the first place, hah.

also if you have a wel built CRT thats low hour and had a prober setup, mainly convergence and focus you should have a sharp and well defined picture from tv to monitor not including non trintrons or trinitron clones. i have seen some 90's and 80's crt's provide scan lines and have enough detailes to see every grain of composite artifacting. low hour Panasonic and Toshibas are likely to provide this kind of picture, we already know the trinitron is tryed and true.

and i know i keep comenting but if your having vertical deflection problems and your not sure what to do just try and replace the electrolytics on the vertical circuit. black plastic crap tv's are often made in china instead of USA or JAPAN and there electrolytics are cheep explode and drift crap caps.

an FW900 would be nice but i have yet to find one for free. i tend not to buy things, i prefer to get something broken and fix it up, its a learning experience and its about all i can afford to do. an FW900 has been a wet dream of mine for quite some time, only thing i would not like is the widescreen ratio. i like my high vertical resolution. my main setup has a p1110 and a p1130.

YEP!

And the older it is the better, as they shrunk the speakers more and more with the more modern sets.

cody kamminga It’s due to the cabinet, the additional volume of space acts like a speaker.

You should hear the speakers that came stock with the 60s-70s tv/stereo consoles.

Traevor Carlton, thats because they were used for the radio and the records played and music need a higher fidelity than what general tvs need, but as the tv is in the console, it has no other speakers to use.

That's not necessary, I'm using a CRT in my bedroom, my bedroom only because my brother, sister and other family member upgraded to flatscreen TV's, my brother being the most recent to upgrade.

I'm too poor to buy an LCD I just pick up a CRT off of the curb and I'm good to go

That’s because your poor

just wanted to say i upgraded in 2011 but remember using crt on a ps3 lol and if u think there useless try playing a light gun game on a lcd

@@removalist1995 In North America you can easily find >30" LED LCD TVs for less than 400 bucks brand new or open box.

Welllll...... LCD backlights die, my LG 32" one after about 2~3 years suddenly went black out of the blue. WHOEVER: on the exact same day (not kidding), I found the issue (one dead LED), found locally a part that I could use, fixed it, and it's back to work. Going on now for another 2~3 years or so. Plasma screens die by burning out/degrading with usage, CRTs actually do too, but way less prone to it than Plasma and OLED (OLED being possibly the worst out of them). CRT projectors were a big thing (literally as well) back in the 90s and early 2000s, and would be way more susceptible to burn in, having to replace tubes on them. Back to CRT TVs tho, seen some last decades indeed, and another Zenith 90s CRT that started to have serious color reproduction, focus AND convergence issues in less than 10 years, straight to trash. Our Philips 1080p LCD still going strong after at least some good 10 years too ~knocks wood~

90's zenith sets from what ive heard arent very reliable. Ive never had a CRT give out on me like the flat panels do. I have a 1988 RCA ColorTrak 27" still going strong without any issues. use it everyday to this day.

Tristris 389 Agreed. I had a 27" Zenith a few years ago that burned out only a couple months after I got it. The older ones are better though. Still have my dad's 1984 RCA colortrak. still works but now it's kind of like a momento..

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Yep! :D

I used to have a 2004 Sanyo CRT TV (can't find the model anymore) and it was great. I loved that TV so much because of the speakers (if you put the bass setting to the max, the ground literally vibrates), the big screen, and, of course, the fun built in submarine game that you were able to play with the remote. Sadly, my parents replaced it with an LCD TV and there was really nothing I was able to do to prevent this. *RIP* SANYO CRT TV 2004-2014

@@DoughnutMasterStudios I believe you. All C.R.T.s 17+", have good speakers, because their deep housings allow for deep cones in their speakers. For deep bass, one needs a "deep" conical sound system.

+mc140201525 Ali Kashan Hassan I know. The sad part is that I currently have a (free) HD CRT that someone wanted to get rid of, but I won't be able to keep it for long either.

+badreality2 Yeah that's what I thought. Nowadays TVs are quite slim, not having enough space for good speakers. I still miss that old TV from time to time.

midnightwolf hdmi on crt? You are very lucky

but i dont play those kind of game :P I will buy the xbox scartlett with 85 inch 4ktv

Samuel damn, you are in my mind, I say the exact things

where did this light gun games don't work with flat crts nonsense come from? of course they work! a 15khz TV is a 15khz no matter the shape!

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@Cereal Man nobody picks up on tvs all damn day or everyday. Stop the nonsense

Sadly most went in the trash :(

EposVox in my grandma’s house, in the basement, they are 3 32” Sony trinitrons and 2 32” Sony wegas and one 1998 shamrock 15” pc monitor, they are in brand new shape, except from the 15” pc monitor, it is in the sun for over 10 years now..

EposVox our pleasure 😉

Nice

YES

Hahaha so true

I know it's been 4 years - but a later (2008-2014) Plasma TV will be like a better CRT TV. They act similarly, compared to LCD's.

Be careful about the cable you get to convert its 3.5mm port to RCA connectors, though. Many of them have their ground pin in a different place than what the Pi uses. I had to go to a few computer/electronics stores with a multimeter in hand before I found one that would work with my Pi.

Google Pi2Scart for a even better pixel perfect connection :)

There aren't any 240p TVs, 480 scanlines has always been the standard in North America.

Wait till you learn about emulators have inate input lag because it has to run emulate stuff before showing you the real time game. Now you hate it i guess. Oh wait because us retro gamers dont actually care about the games. Were just in love with the aesthetic and being nerd about it.

“cord” **drinks yolk so hard body fills up with yolk**

What was the point of that comment?

I found a Toshiba tube crt tv from 2004 on the sidewalk. And I obviously kept it.

I got my hands on a 28" trinitron last year for $15. Its a 98.9 lb boy.

halo3odst nice. And since my crt tv was analog I used a converter box, and the DVD slot was jammed

Everdry Lightboost Lcd Monitors with combined Black Frame Insertion are even better. But the Contrast is not as good. And you can use a good crt filter with Retroarch.

Everdry I think another important part of getting an SD CRT is no inherent input lag, especially when it comes to playing Super Smash Bros Melee and other platformers :3

Oh no I just watch Back to the future, so my hipster level is over 9000.

But OLED does not have the retro look... In fact it's even more futuristic than LCD so why would a retro gamer want that!??. OLEDs have that extremely clean look that you wish that you could use it for browsing the web and doing PC things but sadly it cannot display still pictures for a very long time so because of that LCDs are still the most popular display tech and we are probably never going beyond it, LCD is simply immune to screen burns and this is a HUUUGE advantage over other technologies, you can use it as much as you want that it will not burn (the backlight can burn but the screen does not and backlight is easy to replace).

James Roy seriously, you are completely idiot or simply only a stupid troll

Niiice!

Nice!

When I was 11 I was collecting "old stuff" too; mostly tube equipment (e.g. oscilloscopes, TV's, radios etc.) and some solid-state gear including AM/FM receivers and amplifiers. Old tape decks (reel to reel/cassette and some early model VCR's which used a lot of belts) plus a few record players (some of them played 78 rpm) and a couple of wind-up gramophones. That was only the beginning for me. So if you're into vintage electronics of any kind - go for it. Makes an interesting hobby. :-)

Well guess what, I'm also 11 and I have recently picked up an old CRT for watching my 100 or so VHS tapes.

@@robinkhlop1977 I have lots of old stuff too I have an old VHS c camera a CRT TV and a 30 tandy laptop

@@robinkhlop1977 I'm 14 and I collect old things (mostly CRTs) 4 monitors, 1 tv, awful lot of old PCs, etc.

Non-flat Trinitrons are great. They are the perfect match with the Playstation (a.k.a. PSX or PSOne) and looks great with any 5th gen and earlier console games. Bubble screens are also great. I love the look of them when playing certain games (otherwise I couldn't care less whether it's a bubble Sharp/Panny/etc. or a cylindrical Trinitron as long as the picture is great). The only bubble screen I know with component input is the JVC D-series. If you want the best picture quality out of 240p in North America without having to do RGB modding, then an emulator over component is the best choice. But personally I find composite and S-video to do just fine, let alone the overpriced PVMs/BVMs.

Thanks :)

I hope so.

If so it would be interesting for my arcade project. But honestly for PC monitors I would prefer something immune to screen burns. Right now there is only LCD, it's the only non-emissive technology besides e-ink.

Far as people wanting them it sure is, but far as a CRT being made today outside of special use cases, then no they are not sadly because of all the new environmental laws

Here is what I think why couldn't they bring them back since we have lcd now we have technology to improve crt tvs we can make weight less like lcd TV and give them more modem inputs like hdmi also when it comes res we could make them go to 4k if done right yes this would be hard but it can be done in general we have no reasons not bring them back they have better color and better blacks and if you get HD crt TV good resolution so who here would not mind have crt TV and lcd and led TV with oled have all tvs so there is more options as far as crt tvs looks they will stay pretty much same they will have modem twist to them but nothing crazy kinda of like what Samsung slimfits this was HD crt TV that looked like lcd but have cool look of crt tvs are know for this modem twist

I really hope so.

I sorta just want old lcds to come back. Give me my washed out blacks but super good brightness for my anime

remember this crt tv use alot more power then led 4ktv and there bulb tend to die quickly.

@@topsesXD There is a bulb inside whatmakesthis to see the picture?

@@topsesXD yesiguess

@@topsesXD thosecrt use alot ofpower then a 40 inchtv led

Damn, my dad changed our trinitron back in 2007, I was 6 years old but I loved it, still miss it

Thanks dude!! :D

:D

@Karlis Berzins I miss Plasma televisions which I felt was the best successor to CRT's.

Dude, I thought I was the only one! And I also watch old movies on them!

ShutUpAndListen79 parents want to upgrade that old 2007 Sony Bravia that we own, before that it was a glorious trinitron but they sold it like 14 years ago... Today, I am trying to explain that even though it is an old tft that has high power consumption, it has plenty of analog ports that none of any of these new crappy televisions have It has 4 hdmi ports 1 DisplayPort 2 or 3 scart ports Component 2 vga in ports 1 usb 1.1 port Analog speaker ports Analog video in And some other ones Unfortunately I do remember the ports that I use, they are some other ones, and most of them are on any high end CRT, even though it is a very old flat screen that was about 3.000 something euros back then

O_O yeah no thanks. holy crap

I got a 36" one. 2 BB guys could barely get it in my truck. I got home and rolled it in the house still boxed through 3 doors alone. I then drilled a hole in the ceiling for a come along and put it up on a 40" dresser. It has a much richer picture than anything I have now but don't use it cause of 250 watts.

:D

not to mention having like 25 CRT tv including 2 HD CRTs is nice. and dual Trinitron displays on my pc

Main reason I dont use CRT is because they give me headaches whereas LED doesn’t. But that’s because CRT looks more realistic , but lower resolution at the same time. So its a double whammy for headaches, for me

Just gotta keep an eye out :)

Are trinitrons still worth looking for on ebay?

If you can find local pickup in your area - but otherwise prices get way too skewed and shipping is nigh impossible for any decent-sized ones

thats a great point, since they weigh so much.... I can't imagine how gnarly the costs would be

Always better to deal locally so you can see it and test in person too

Niiice! Yeah they last a hell of a long time.

Yes

Heck off of monstercat

​@@EposVox Based

TN0wl thats why i like to call RGB SCART.

Thanks! Never before has someone's work made me wanna go out and buy a bunch of stuff I know nothing about to try to make it myself as your CRT video art has, hahaha.

I don't know about the Goodwill locations in your area, but if they are anything like mine, then they just about give them away at this point pricing them at $5, just take something with you when you go to test the TV like a plug, and play game that runs off batteries, and just tell a store employee what you are doing, and most of them won't care once they know what you are doing, because it means they finally have someone who wants at least one of them.

Mr Sparklepants That's sad to hear man. Sorry.

That's just sad

Thank you!

Damn that would be good! That's a t.v. I'd put my money on!

I won't judge.

13in is not a bad choice if you don't sit too far back from one, and they are easy to store as well. I remember Samsung back in the 90's had some stupidly expensive 13in CRT units with swing out stereo speakers that also acted a cover for the CRT itself along with a wack ton of input options, and was marketed as a gaming monitor more then a TV under the Samsung GXE brand. here is one I just found on eBay, and not a bad deal all things considering, and the Sub woofer would not be too hard to fix with a speaker rewiring job. www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-GX-Gaming-TV-Vintage-13-inch-Television-/263473581836?_trksid=p2349526.m4383.l4275.c4

Emerson FTW.

DriveinFreak modern Emerson = Funai = shitty QC on most of their CRT TV's that I try to avoid unless I score one in really really good condition for less than $5.

I'm so jelly.

Thank you!!

Doughnut Master Studios Yeah I got a Sylvania srt4127p and the speakers rattle the plastic outer cover. It also has component inputs so text doesn't flicker when I use my Xbox on it.

Don't know where you live, but in Europe HD CRTs are something ultra-rare. Most people have never seen one in person (me included). So no, they're not an option.

if you want phosphor go with plasma

And they're built a hell of a lot better than today's junk.

BilisNegra ...They're quite rare over here too. There were a few built, but it was very late in the game as well as after the build quality of electronics took a serious nosedive, thus most of them wound up in the landfills.

Been Dead Since 2012 some are small,mine is pretty small and I use it for my n64 and ps1

odeiup , people are giving away for free but they mostly heavy one

Some have carrying handles. Thats why I favorite the modern Sylvania CRT televisions. They have component inputs as well.

Holy hell I can believe it. My Trinitron's just a 27 inch and it was crazy heavy.

Yep!

You bet me to it. :)

The photo itself is from a Geek article specifying he was coding Quake. Doesn't mean they were right - and he may have still used it on Doom development too! www.geek.com/games/john-carmack-coded-quake-on-a-28-inch-169-1080p-monitor-in-1995-1422971/

EposVox maybe he was replying to emails?

Thanks for watching!

I'm running mine at 1440x1080@120Hz (alongside my two 144Hz BenQs) for desktop use and 1024x768@160Hz for CS:GO. A CRT monitor is imo the better choice as they are a lot more versatile than TVs. When I whip out my controller and start up my emulator I'll just switch my CRT to 240p@160Hz and I'm greeted by those sweet sweet scanlines which is the only way to play retro games like you remember them from back in the day. Bonus: You won't need to heat your room during winter, your monitor will do the job for you ;)

wow

you're missing out in life, dude. LCDs have much better video quality for HD content. thought I assume you watch everything on computer screen and don't use the TV

God right

The highest resolution I've seen is 1080p and the lowest is 480i.

@@NintendoDude888 Well, I guess there are good and bad CRTs and good and bad LCDs, I'm not going to argue which technology is superior, LCD has no distortions, CRT has better viewing angle and so on. The real question is, do they even make 1080p CRTs? And it does matter because most people confuse sharpness with contrast, some CRTs may have better contrast than some LCDs, but the details aren't there. A low resolution image will appear sharper with boosted contrast and a high resolution image less sharp at low contrast, yet low contrast high resolution image carries more information and carries more visible detail than the high contrast low res version where at first glance the image looks sharper but actually the fine details are missing. So what I mean is that if they still make highend 1080p TVs then the guy's TV may actually be as good or potentially better than an LCD TV, but lower resolution means detail is always lost even if better dynamic range and contrast make it look sharper. Of course there is more to image quality than resolution, and high dynamic range and contrast can be more pleasing to look at than a 1080p bland low contrast image. When I did my original comment I assumed Doctor Feinstone is using is using one of those old 576i TVs which by today's standards are beyond awful independently how good and highend everything else is

Glad to help! Thanks for the kind comment :)

Rescue one!

I once saw a 1988 Emerson model 755 VCR left outside an apartment which somebody that moved out left behind, I took it. I don't have it anymore because it eventually developed a problem which made it so it couldn't be repaired.

Nice!

xD

Me too....and I miss doing it.