Thanks! I've got a bunch of videos already finished. Should be at least 1 per month coming out through 2022

@@riggel8804 they shall echo through eternity.

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Dude you can do all kinds of cool stuff with a crt. Get one! The screen goes psychedelic when you wave magnets around it and you can shoot deadly lightning bolts out of the anode cap.

@@riggel8804 it's super tempting. My spouse would not approve. 😁

@@stellarorbit1341 women hate crts. I make my wife help move my 36 inchers to remind her who wears the pants in my house

Hell yeah

Was that a euphemism?

Cool man thanks. Yeah there are a lot of bad ass consumer grade crts out there that people are sleeping on.

@@riggel8804 How many hours would you expect a tube too last? It has 14000 hours.

@@SamsungS-or1qf It's hard to say. Pro tubes are typically replaced around 30 to 40 k hours and I think they are more resistant than consumer tubes. I would guess a consumer tube starts to look tired around 20 k hours. It's not going stop working it will just start looking dim.

@@SamsungS-or1qf The FE-2 chassis is amazing, i have two Kv29ls30e, one with 14900 hours, and one with 3600; they look identical.

Cool man. That's a bad ass crt. I think I have a review of one on my channel. Any toshiba remote should work. Doesn't have to be the exact model. Just get something close.

@@riggel8804 Yeah your review convinced me to go get one! I'm about to set it up, and wow, component really is a step up from the composite format 😄

Some of this comes down to taste. I did a color calibration on a friends tv once. His white balance was WAY off. He hated it after I corrected it and I had to try and wack it out for him. I think he just got used to seeing his tv garish and grean pushed. Some consoles and even some games look better with different white balance. I like live action movies with blue push but prefer games with perfect white balance or even some red push.

thank

I've heard that gain is for the bright end before but from my experience you just have to play around with all the settings.

You're welcome :)

I've got a video on crt repairs that covers a lot of that stuff.

@@riggel8804 Oh..ok.

@@riggel8804 I didn’t know about that service menu U activated with the remote. That’s really neat.

@@chrisscott5339 yeah I don't know if the tv you mentioned has a sevice menu like that but a lot of TVs do. It's hard to find info on CRTs that aren't Sony

@@riggel8804Nah you can find service manuals online for basically any tv

im having the same issue

damn 36 down to 13. That's rough.

Ha. I'd do it for a beer. How did it turn out?

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Do you mean you turn the R, G, and B guns all the way down in the service menu?

@Riggel yes i put all colors to 0 in menu(r-drive), then adjusted according to lvl 1 on the color bars map so they all have equal intensity which should be barely visible for lvl 1.

@@SamsungS-or1qf Interesting technique. I haven't tried that. usually there are color settings for the upper and lower limits in the service menu. I believe on Sonys the drive settings are for the upper limits and bias is for the lower. Did you turn the bias down as well? Sometimes the menu calls it gain instead of bias.

@Riggel i turned it all down and adjusted only r-drives, idk if its a good technique, looks good 😁

Wow. That's an old one. I don't know what to do. Sorry.

Do you mean like an anti glare film? No. The only CRTs I have seen with those are very high end Pro monitors. The flatscreen Sonys are just a tube in a bezel.

Some flat screen crt’s do have extra glass in the front to make the tube strong enough to hold vacuum without blowing up. My fv300 seems like it’s got an extra half inch in front of where the phosphor coating is. That’s a lot of the reason why flat screen sets are heavier than curved screens. More glass in the front

@@dylanjastle trinitrons are stupid heavy. I had a kv-32fv300.i never noticed an extra layer of glass. I've seen some stylish early 90s zenith's with 2 layers of glass and wood grain. Those tvs swivel

Component. I have a whole video explaining rcut etc. Its called something like "how to adjust white ballance"

@@riggel8804 I'll watch that video. Thanks again!

@@TheMikeyb86 ye

CUT affects to colors intensity on the lower end of grey scale, DRIVE affects the higher end of grey scale. When you start playing with those settings you really need a colorimeter.

@@DrKeez that's right. I got a separate video on how to correct white balance buy eye. I think it's in the description

They all start to drift after awhile. It's amazing they look as good as they do after 25 years. I got a video on correcting white ballance that might help you.

Thanks. I tried messing with the drive setting but didn't have good results. I talked to some guys on redit who suggested I buy a probe and adjust white balance by adjusting gain/bias controls. I'm thinking about doing that

Was messing with my flatscreen xbr today and I think your right. It's too blue.

@@riggel8804 👍yeah I noticed that, My PVM wasn’t as blue for that level. I use the grey color bars to see if it looks off. It’s hard to see it if you use white screen for color correction. Color correction is one of the most important things imo, it vastly improves image quality.

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I think you just adjust to taste. Most people like it turned down but it varies from set to set. I usually have it at around 10% to 33%

I used 240p test suite.

dont know bruh. Send me a link to a vid I take a look. I got a vid on adjusting white balance....might want to turn down the contrast......?

Ya know what... I just got it. It's a little 21 inch Sony flat screen with just over 15000 hours on it. The geometry's a bit off but the colours pop and it's nice and sharp. It's got a beefy little mono speaker as well. I just played through riot city on it and it looks amazing. The more I use it the more I like it. Rather than worry about colour levels I'm better off just playin some fuckin games on it! 🤣

All the other settings I leave alone once calibrated but I constantly adjust contrast. If the movie is dark I turn contrast up. If I am playing a bright colorful nintendo game and I turn contrast down. Adjust to taste.

Could be bad components. Hard to say without a video to look at. You could try adjusting the white balance on video 3. I have a video on white balance. Good luck!

Cables probably are plugged in wrong

@@Darian-mk1bw nah bro that's not the issue... I wish lmao

git u sum crtemudriver boi!

Purchase a dark blue theater gel to get a blue screen. Look up my "how to correct white balance" video for more detail on how to adjust R, G, and B guns.

@@riggel8804 Allright, thanks :)

@@Melibond64 ye

Now you're ready for Crystal Pony

I hot a video on white balance that goes in detail

I think I mention it in there somewhere...probably towards the end...anyways, you want to turn it up. Once your color/chroma, tint/hue and brightness are dialed in you leave them alone. Adjust contrast and brightness to taste. It's the only thing you adjust from now on. I adjust it from game to game and movie to movie. Some like it dark some like it bright.

@@riggel8804 you're absolutely right you did mention it later on. I've watched this video countless times and somehow missed that every time. Sorry for that and thanks for the video! You're doing gods work! Cheers

I agree the color was too blue on the tate tv. I have a link in the description of this video where I demonstrate how to set white balance. I set the white balance on the tate tv in that video and the tv is now less blue.

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@@riggel8804 no for real 😂 Is there like a DVD I can buy? Or a program on a game console?

@@superlink235 google search smpte color pattern. That's what it is. I use a program called 240p test suite. It's free to download. It runs on video game consoles like snes nes tg16. You can also load it from an emulator.

@@riggel8804 oh awesome dude! Thank you

@@superlink235 ye

Haha, is that old xbr48 worn out?

@@riggel8804 no I still haven’t found one yet you said in this video yours was and I just was wondering just Incase mine is

@@Caleb-fv5fp I've heard people say the old curved screen consumer sonys have a dimmer image. I don't know if this is by design or from being old and worn out. My hunch is that its just from being a 30 year old crt. You can theoretically rejuvinate them. I borrowed a rejuvininator but I couldn't get any of the neck board adapters to fit my tv. Plus I think the rejuve is really for tvs in really bad shape where one of the color guns is almost non functional. You always run the rusk of bricking your tv when you do a rejuve. I chickened out.

@@riggel8804 yeah it just kinda scares me when people say stuff like the tube is worn out cause we might run out of CRTs in good condition one day

@@Caleb-fv5fp I'm sure we will run out. No big deal. There are some really good lcd solutions out there.

fuckin pat told me I should use my BVM1911 as a boat anchor. Dude doesn't use pro monitors. He just pokes around in them. Sometimes you have to bury your dead.

It's a Trinitron and they're all pretty similar so try this. With TV on standby use the remote and press in order - Display --> 5 --> Vol. Up --> Standby/Power. Write down original values in the service menu before changing anything. You''ll want to look for RDR(Red gain or drive) and RCT(Red Cutoff). My Trinitron also had far too much red. I reduced the RDR and all is good.

Yes what model trinitron do you have?

@@riggel8804 Sony KV-27FS100

@@SlickEd91 watch my video on how to adjust white balance. It gives detailed instructions. That tv might not have red gun controls in the service menu i. E. Rcut, rdrive. If not, what you do is adjust the bdrive and gdrive in concert. I. E. If you want to turn the red gun down 5, on the high end, you turn the gdrive and bdrive UP 5. Same thing goes for the bcut and gcut on the low end. If the color is really bad you probably need to "rejuvenate" the tv which is problematic to get done these days and didn't work all the great in the best of times.

@@riggel8804 ok I just got into it and it does have those settings I noticed the the default factors on the gdrive were 63 and the bdrive the same 63 but the rdrive was 100 so what can I do if it's that high?

@@SlickEd91 okay. So you are in luck. Having a rdrive makes it a little easier. I can't tell you where to set the numbers. You have to figure it out by eye. You need a reference monitor and test patterns. Do you have test patterns available? Most lcd screens have excellent white balance and work well as reference monitors. Have you watched my video on white balance?

check out my vid on correcting white balance.

@@riggel8804 I will try tomorrow and will post the results

@@azariayehezkel9064 coo

Would a universal remote work?

@@charcoalcharizd just buy any sony remote on ebay. All sony remotes work on all sony tvs. my 1980s pvm remote works on my 2020 lcd consumer tv.

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Trinitone adjusts white balance to make it more blue. Color correct adjust white balance to make it more red.

@@riggel8804 Then start from a level playing field - turn it off in the user menu(it's right there!) - and then do grayscale. That goes for all such "enhancers". Why wouldn't you?

@@Zickcermacity Trinitone is what plants need to grow. It's got electrolytes.

@@riggel8804 I know you're just joking

@@Zickcermacity Ha ha yeah. Probably should have turned the trinitone off. I do that in my white balance correction video don't know why I didn't do it here. Honestly, I don't know if it makes much of a difference. Trinitone affects white balance and if your white balance is off you can't really correct it by adjusting contrast, hue, brightness and color. You need to do a white balance correction for that and that's a whole other can of worms.

Haha. Yeah. Tmnt is really good and not to hard. I'm super nostalgic for genesis xmen games so I'm biased. Clone wars is really hard and long

Very good

Any sony remote will work. I've used a 1990s pvm remote on a 2010 lcd.

Fuckin' buy one

@@efuuu hey bro

@@verdantmischief7092 What?

Too bad, using front on/off button every time degrade tube 10 times faster.