Naturally... in colour, a look inside a color picture tube factory.

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Marcel van Grinsven - Marcels TV museum

2 жыл бұрын

The story of the color tv picture tube.
Film was made in the late 1970s, to see the in-line picture tube.
Commissioned by Philips The Netherlands.
Telecine : Ronald van Grinsven, source 16 mm film.
www.marcelstvmuseum.com
Marcel van Grinsven The Netherlands Europe 2022.

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@erikziak1249 Жыл бұрын

Back in the days, where every household had a sophisticated linear particle accelerator. Some had even two or more.

@digitalradiohacker Жыл бұрын

Honey, he's teasing you -- Nobody has two television sets!

@erikziak1249 Жыл бұрын

@@digitalradiohacker I know, from a rerun.

@video99couk Жыл бұрын

I still use one, but for a very specific reason rather than nostalgia.

@renvilsekawan Жыл бұрын

I still keep it

@OficinaSRMK-2 Жыл бұрын

Very good news!

@brasilianguy5437 Жыл бұрын

I can feel the smell of 70's by watching this movie. It is amazing.

@unlokia Жыл бұрын

Sadly the music is shite. And depressing

@benmcreynolds8581 Жыл бұрын

This is a million times better than "How it's made" ~That TV show is so boring. And I love learning about how things are made, and how things work.

@SpeakerFreak95 Жыл бұрын

The amount of production that went into this, let alone the subject matter, is mind boggling for the time this was filmed and released.

@Owlero Жыл бұрын

This video only solidifies the fact that the CRT is one of the most complex and sophisticated inventions in human history. Every part, the tube, the shadow mask, the electron gun, the deflection yoke. All works of art. And they did it at a price and scale that nearly everybody could afford one. Now they're left to rot on roadsides and considered worthless. What travesty.

@CalviusSignatis Жыл бұрын

You'll be happy to know there's still a large group of retro gamers and enthusiasts rescuing, restoring and enjoying these CRT displays. I've got 5, with 3 in regular use and 2 as reserves 😊

@nuassul Жыл бұрын

Yo tengo tres de estas televisiones guardadas en mi casa ya que se las quiero mostrar a las futuras generaciones sobre esta tecnología extinta y que fue de ella.

@draalchemist 2 ай бұрын

Yo estoy aprendiendo a repararlas (tengo libros de circuitos) y este año me construiré el aparato para revivir los cátodos. Se pueden hacer funcionar hasta 10-15 años más con un mantenimiento de cátodos

@demisemedia 6 күн бұрын

Nice! I currently have 6 crt’s and my gf is super annoyed but that’s ok! A 27”, 19”, 13” and two 20” Sony Trinitrons. The 6th crt is a tiny little Panasonic Roadshow crt and vcr combo. 📺 To me, nothing beats playing SNES or watching a classic movie on a good ole cathode Ray tube television!

@jayc2469 Жыл бұрын

I worked for Philips (formerly Mullard Tubes) up until the early 2000's making 21" CRT's in the UK and this brought back memories!

@Remi_Jansen 5 ай бұрын

my B&o mx4000 has a 21 inch philips tube made in the uk, maybe you made mine!

@erwinvb70 7 ай бұрын

I still have a large Philips television from 1980 in working condition, great to see how it was made.

@rknud007 Жыл бұрын

Definitely the most complete look at how colour CRTs were manufactured, and no surprise that it came from Philips. My family had a Philips TV from 1977 that was still working in 1997. Quality, engineering and craftmanship of which we will likely never see again.

@fokinDim Жыл бұрын

филипс уже давно не тот.

@ElectronicInspiration Жыл бұрын

What type of tv was it?

@rknud007 Жыл бұрын

@@ElectronicInspiration A very similar model to this kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h79yl7J81b24mmg.html

@rknud007 Жыл бұрын

@WirelessNut Yup, I've got a couple of those too. The only things that ever needed replacing were the belts.

@mattpat25 Жыл бұрын

Have multiple Sonys working 20+ years later

@manonmars2009 Жыл бұрын

I never knew that it took 24 hours to make a color television in this factory. That is very labor and materials intensive.

@BLKBRDD 6 ай бұрын

I find it amazing how sophisticated CRTs are. The fact that it was developed to a reliable point before LCD screens is mind boggling.

@EustaH Ай бұрын

That's only because LCD is even more sophisticated ;) With more screen layers, advanced molecular chemistry needed for efficient subpixels, electronics components printed directly in the screen surface and much more complicated control circuitry, not to mention advanced lighting like compact fluorescent or even mindblowingly hard to build properly marvel - white LED.

@cosmicsvids 27 күн бұрын

@@EustaH Yeah the reasons tvs were crt in the first place is because yeah cheap microcontrollers is what made lcd and o led tvs possible. Modern tvs basically have computing in them.

@EustaH 27 күн бұрын

@@cosmicsvids That’s true, but my point is we made our current tech so cheap and so abundant that it seems easy and simple, so we are astonished how complicated and precise some things were 50 years ago. In reality the 1$ crap from china requires far more precise and complicated parts than this CRT - we’ve just got that good in making stuff. It’s like watching a true master playing an instrument - when he does it it looks effortless, while in reality a regular person wouldn’t be able to even position his fingers that way, let alone do it fast ;)

@henningokholm7912 Жыл бұрын

Funny to have a look back at what I learned to repair. I do actually miss it.

@MoNsTeRiSkIcKaSs Ай бұрын

this video is a great lesson as to why these screens will never be made new again

@repairitdontreplaceit Жыл бұрын

i worked in the tv repair game when valve colour sets came out , always wondered how they made the tubes and this was mazing to see . thank you very much for posing this marcel :)

@khoroshen Жыл бұрын

What an engineering feat, at a time where you could not design and simulate everything on a computer at your desk.

@minirock000 Жыл бұрын

Didn't need artificial computers, they had slide rules. How those things work will be lost to time.

@zsoltcseri9011 Жыл бұрын

high-quality color picture tube with a long service life and excellent image quality, it is no coincidence that several European manufacturers have installed it in their devices, e.g. Grundig, Siemens, Zanussi, etc

@juliangerardcascio1111 Жыл бұрын

That's when a TV 📺 was a TV 📺 😊and a wonderful picture 📸!!!!

@somecuntxxx Жыл бұрын

Is nobody going to talk about that absolutely stupendous intro

@qwertykeyboard5901 4 ай бұрын

No.

@devjock Жыл бұрын

I miss old Philips.. They had such a good run with the cassette tape, the cd, and many more innovative inventions.. Truly a company deserving the Netherlands' pride.. What happened? :(

@BlondieSL Жыл бұрын

And their TVs. They were one of the first to bring out modular sets. Those were the easiest to fix. There were 4 modules and in the service truck, we'd just carry the modules. Go into the house, analyze the issue, change the faulting module, take the old module as "trade-in" and head back to the shop. There, we'd pop the failed module into our jig, troubleshoot and repair the issue for the next call.

@devjock Жыл бұрын

@@BlondieSL Aaah I love that! It's the best of both worlds. Efficient fast turnaround fixes, and serviceability that honors knowledge and expertise. Back when Philips wasn't on the planned obsolescence bandwagon. Good times!

@pyeltd.5457 Жыл бұрын

what happened? Nothing. Philips is still there as it was in the 1970s

@devjock Жыл бұрын

@@pyeltd.5457 Philips completely got rid of their consumer tech department. They mostly do medical tech now, and right now they're in hot water due to that decision.

@a4andrei Жыл бұрын

@@pyeltd.5457 Philips as it stands today, is only a shadow of its former self. It has sold the rights to its brand name to Chinese companies, which are the ones designing and manufacturing the TVs and home entertainment systems sold under the Philips name. The real Philips mostly produces medical equipment and LED lightbulbs (although I'm not entirely sure of the lightbulbs either). So it's a completely different company today, compared to the one in the 70s and 80s.

@davidbowie2046 10 ай бұрын

Even with this informative video I am still in disbelief how a TV works. What an amazing invention.

@videolabguy 2 жыл бұрын

That was excellent. Detailed and very accurate information for a change. Thanks!

@Kaelidoz Жыл бұрын

What a vibe this documentary is...eerie at times. Your channel is awesome just discovered it, your website is pretty neat too.

@1sonyzz Жыл бұрын

but all of this is useless now because imagine carying smartphone with picture tube... Last TV with picture tube stopped working back in 2011 by that time nobody from family was watching the TV but rather using an internet, thus haven't been watching TV since that time nor do need one at home.

@patrickmurawski400 8 ай бұрын

Still have a tv with Philips picture tube in it! Think picture quality is still better then ones today!!!!!

@kkteutsch6416 Жыл бұрын

Between feb.1976 to aug. 1977 I was a technician in an Authoized Philips Service point at Brazil, where I could take the first color television service contact, that point was a Philco and Telefunken authorized service, also...

@ok-xx1wy Жыл бұрын

This is actually insane and probably one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in awhile

@akshayoval5476 Жыл бұрын

Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) that's what my daddy had taught me when I was in 5th grade ....now I'm 33 years old ....miss u daddy....🥲🥲

@spacecitysprockets 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for transferring this crazy film!

@MrSoundman1955 Жыл бұрын

Insatlled quite a few of these when I was 17 - but only after "rejuvenating" the old tube had failed! They represent most of the weight of the TV set. Good old Radio Rentals would squeeze the last hours out of a tube before replacing it. Tubes were also dismantled and "re-gunned" to give them a second life. It's a good job this documentary was made on 16mm film which has outlived this whole technology. Now we can still watch that film, scanned to video and delivered down an old phone line to appear on you tube. A lot of very early video tape "films" are now lost and those that remain are very low resulution.

@SpacePortArcade Жыл бұрын

At 20:26 he says "from now on the shadow mask and the screen stay together for all remaining stages of production" and then almost immediately after at 21:02 "the screen and the shadow mask are separated".

@pe1dnn Жыл бұрын

They are not bonded yet but will be handled as a pair from now on. The shadow mask uniquely belongs to this screen and non other. You can't swap them as each have unique placement and the screen will get the florescent stripes to match. So they stay together, meant for each other but not yet married.

@tonytrade 6 ай бұрын

19:57 there is still the distance piece between the glass and the mask to remove, and coat the screen so obviusly the screen and the mask are separated but handled like a pair.

@bamaslamma1003 Жыл бұрын

Best video of how a CRT is made I've seen.

@lucasrem Жыл бұрын

What is it? Philips Belgium? You should watch the Trinitron content here, way more informative than this 1970 promo crap video

@TimPerfetto Жыл бұрын

@@lucasrem Yeah I agree all this taught me was nobody should miss anything about the 70s

@TimPerfetto Жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jZl3asVeqcmzf2g.html

@miloud-en Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this precious documentary

@netowork3d Жыл бұрын

Muita mão de obra especializada e equipamentos... muito treinamento, muitas pessoas... Uma Tv tinha o seu alto preço...

@jamespassas9441 3 күн бұрын

I love to see the familiar blue Philips electrolytic capacitors going into the PCB..

@barriewright2857 6 ай бұрын

Watching the way of assembly, how Labour intensive it is just shows how far automation has come. And it's amazing how much the technology has come now we can build really large TV for indoor or outdoors and really thin practically like a wall picture frame amazing ! .

@B1-Han 6 ай бұрын

Manufacturing CRTs today would still be labor intensive, regardless of how far automation has advanced. This is because CRTs have many individual complex components that require great precision to manufacture. Modern TVs (LCD, OLED) are completely different technologies, which in many ways are much easier to manufacture. Light and cheap plastic defeated heavy and expensive glass. New TVs (LCD at that time) literally immediately gained an advantage over CRT in such characteristics as dimensions, weight and energy consumption. But in terms of overall picture quality (not just pixel detail), LCDs and OLEDs have only recently begun to approach CRTs. And in some aspects of the image, modern TVs still cannot surpass CRT. For roughly the same reason, PDPs (plasma) also left the market. It was a very high-quality, but too complicated and too expensive technology compared to new plastic panels (which are basically just a lot of tiny LEDs).

@agl3083 6 ай бұрын

@@B1-Han ... Absolutely right, you correctly stated the essence of this topic !!! 😮

@radornkeldam Жыл бұрын

Sadly, a perfect demonstration of why there won't be any new CRTs made ever again. Recreating all this just isn't feasible within the industrial ecosystem today, and there's no way a single company could possibly manage it alone. CRTs are highly complex old high-tech.

@nuassul Жыл бұрын

A parte ya es tecnología obsoleta a pesar de su complejidad.

@cosmicsvids 27 күн бұрын

Yeah but the only reason theres any need for them is cause old video game consoles don't display well on newer tvs. Yeah old game consoles look great on crts but new consoles look crap on them they are obsolete for everything except old consoles but emulating those fixes those issues.

@Hassen78 6 ай бұрын

كم أحب ذلك الزمن الجميل يا ليتني كنت أعيش هناك

@i.c.a.productionsbyr.p. Жыл бұрын

Very exhaustive and interesting documentary. Now my knowledge of the television is finally complete! This is the best documentary on YT!!!!

@pon2oon Жыл бұрын

Humans are such unique, and clever creatures1

@jaapaap123 Жыл бұрын

I think this video gives a pretty good answer to the question why TVs were expensive. What I don't get is how not every TV from the same era cost about as much. I mean, in this production line not much seems to change when you make a tube only half the size.

@imeakdo7 Жыл бұрын

It's for market differentiation, exploiting the perception that a bigger tv costs equally as much to make, so larger tvs had more profit margins for shareholders

@imeakdo7 Жыл бұрын

It's for market differentiation, exploiting the perception that a bigger tv costs equally as much to make, so larger tvs had more profit margins for shareholders

@hornox4life 6 ай бұрын

Maybe one of the tubes visible here became one of the tvs I watched.

@barrybretz6073 Жыл бұрын

I remember installing black matrix picture tubes in some of the t.v.s who's tube got dim.

@EustaH Ай бұрын

Wow I never knew shadowmask is used not only as a component but also as a tool to build the screen! That's very clever way to ensure perfect match between mask and subpixels for every tube. I love it :D

@zhaohaigaogu7821 7 ай бұрын

そこまで詳しい映像は少ないので大変素晴らしいと思いました。👍👏👏👏👏

@BIGD-gj1vb Жыл бұрын

Absolutely astonishing. So the saying goes: "they don't make em like they used too". Hopefully someday a CRT rebuilding station can be resurrected to operation for us vintage tv collectors. Sadly, construction of the guns will be obsolete if not already for the most part. Cool video. Thanks for posting.

@GUILHERME-CRUD-4K Жыл бұрын

OLED screens are the only ones that come close to CRT screens don't have much lag

@imeakdo7 Жыл бұрын

There is one, at the early television museum

@robertonery8358 Жыл бұрын

Excelente postagem vale milhões de likes!!!

@hotgta Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing this video with us!!

@vasilis8208 Жыл бұрын

I recognise those blue Philips capacitors..

@jorgeandrade20 10 ай бұрын

Fascinating how it all came together!, I wonder if there's ANY company still producing CRTs in the world. I watched this and kept thinking: It's a lot of machinery to dispose of!

@cll1out Жыл бұрын

Would love to see one of these tubes made in this factory carefully disassembled and looked at (a failed tube of course) particularly in the area of the shadow mask and whatnot

@ashave9100 Жыл бұрын

Thank you-very enjoyable !!

@aiyanaenterprise6543 Жыл бұрын

thanks for upload...i was in manufacturing cpt & crt ( heds) singapore pte 1990--2001--under screen coating process/mixing

@arepadetrigo 7 ай бұрын

Fantastic technology and production techniques.

@DemonKingOFFICIAL Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, I looked at this tech as uninteresting. Now though, as an aspiring electrical engineer, I am captivated by these sorts of things. I really wish I had held on to our family’s old tv’s and such.

@minimaxxl8 2 жыл бұрын

Mooie video. Nog opvallend veel handwerk. Jammer dat deze high-tech met de komst van de flatscreen binnen 15 jaar compleet verdwenen was. Nu staan er huizen op de plek waar dit ooit gefilmed is. Alleen de straatnamen herinneren nog aan de onderdelen van een beeldbuis

@mjouwbuis Жыл бұрын

Het zou ook in Aken gefilmd kunnen zijn, ik weet eigenlijk niet wat er verder met die fabriek gebeurd is. Het handwerk is later wel wat meer geautomatiseerd, maar in Heerlen werd het in elk geval voor kleine series ook grotendeels nog met de hand gedaan.

@TimPerfetto Жыл бұрын

O mae dy wallt mor deg ac rwy'n ei fwyta drwy'r amser gyda fy nannedd a llwybr treulio yn cael eu tagu a dwi'n pesychu peli o dy wallt ac o fy oh oh o o

@gustavoleguizamonmunoz6365 6 ай бұрын

Una maravillosa obra de alta ingeniería producto de la inteligencia humana,asombroso,un acelerador de particulas,como funciona el cañón de la pantalla es sencillamente asombroso.Great Job, Greetings.

@ShannonWare Жыл бұрын

Television about television is the best television possible.

@pitkinek007 Жыл бұрын

thx PHILIPS

@realzneo Жыл бұрын

Fantastic film!!

@intel386DX 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the upload ! Fantastic video :)

@johnpenner5182 Жыл бұрын

this is fascinating! thxu for the upload.

@rafaelasuncion7075 Жыл бұрын

Unos de los inventos más maravilloso e ingenioso de este mundo... hecho en USA.

@WinrichNaujoks Жыл бұрын

Now I really want one of those TVs!

@lillyclarity9699 8 ай бұрын

did you know that it's one of the most successful color picture tubes in Europe?

@lillyclarity9699 8 ай бұрын

did they say that that often to be funny, or was it an earnest attempt to make sure that everyone *knew for sure* that Phillips was at the top of the market? almost 50 some years later it just feels goofy lmao

@ahyonvlogs Жыл бұрын

So astinishing to see !!!

@stephmaccormick3195 Ай бұрын

29:47 Love the 70's comedy relief.

@michael_mouse Жыл бұрын

... excellent video!

@A3Kr0n Жыл бұрын

I doubt we'll ever get one of those color TVs. All we have is a black and white set. Takes forever to warm up, too. -me as a kid

@madigorfkgoogle9349 Жыл бұрын

well as a kid a one school year lasted.... for EVER. Now forever doesnt last a school year at all.

@MehdiGuizani 5 ай бұрын

Best video ever

@tony--james Жыл бұрын

YT Video, "The Craft of Picture Tube Rebuilding " brought me here!, awesome stuff!

@esunayg Жыл бұрын

greatly informative!

@JohnPlant90 Жыл бұрын

All that amazing equipment suddenly became obsolete

@keyewhoknows2409 Жыл бұрын

I have learned that in the mid 80's and was 20 Years at this business as Radio and TV-Engineer.....time flies- meanwhile i develop Wiring harness at a germany car manufacturer. Good old repair times

@ReinKayomi 6 ай бұрын

The fact it's made by the same guys who made lightbulbs and the Hue system surprises me

@johnnycab1000 Жыл бұрын

Just found your channel and watched this. Brilliant! A big Philips fan and yes I used to service their sets for friends back in the early 80s when needed, The G11, 22 along with ITT CVC 7 and 9 and Decca series as well, they had excellent Philips tubes in them. I loved TVs for the tech inside them and this video answered a good few of my questions as to the production techniques of the Tubes. What I enjoyed most is the people who were properly skilled built these, not a robot in sight. Thanks very much for putting it up here.

@andrewlankford9634 Жыл бұрын

This sort of manufacturing wizardry is now in Asian factories where they make flat screens.

@dw8840 Жыл бұрын

So when the vacuum is pumped, do they attach a suction tube to the stem while in the oven?

@fmbroadcast Жыл бұрын

Wooow beautifull

@TheOpticalFreak Жыл бұрын

Prachtig stukje technologie! Es war einmal! 😌

@omsingharjit Жыл бұрын

Crt was built by these Beautiful lays !! Nyc

@hopelessnerd6677 6 ай бұрын

Ah, the days when we let our kids sit on the floor with their faces stuck in front of an X-ray source for hours. Life was better then.

@maksimb1853 6 ай бұрын

На некоторых участках на заводе конкретно экономили на освещении.

@kabitaniasaas3368 6 ай бұрын

Philips oyeeeee ❤

@devananadmandal8607 Жыл бұрын

Ver good video is good

@thindarogiancola9358 2 жыл бұрын

2:53 ... TRC 's facctoring .Philips Cores Sempre Vivas ! 80's

@BenderMartinez Жыл бұрын

Bravo bravo bravo

@Sloposse Жыл бұрын

#29:50 worker busted watching soft core lol

@pizzablender Жыл бұрын

We wouldn't have that in today's business promo films, would we? How far we have fallen...

@statiz23 5 ай бұрын

Good memories with crt tvs i see them dying between 2008-2010

@Fernando-Rodriguez 9 ай бұрын

no wonder CRTs won't make a comeback as nobody will invest billions of dollars on rebuilding these factories

@zorkonthegreat5879 Жыл бұрын

And for the most part assembled by pretty girls.

@omergebes6105 Жыл бұрын

Eski tüplü tv miz hala duruyor. Artık saygıyla bakıyorum. Muhteşem bir emek ve teknoloji ürünüymüş. 😌

@luispr512010 Жыл бұрын

It became a animation in the 80s

@JosephJoseph-vb1jb 10 ай бұрын

I stop use it for long time but I'm sure it was working good that time but when I tried turning it again the screen is not working

@telocho Жыл бұрын

model type A66-510X

@digitalblasphemy1100 Жыл бұрын

I didn't realize how late these were hand made.

@h0ll0wm9n Жыл бұрын

Thx for sharing this superb, comprehensive documentary! My only question is why Philips chose to use crappy 16mm film to photograph a short documentary about COLOR PICTURE tubes? If Philips -- given their deep pockets in 1970s -- had used the best quality 35mm film (and camera systems), this documentary would have looked much more professional. Not like some college film project.

@filmpjesman1 Жыл бұрын

Arguably, it could be an issue with this scan of the film. 16mm isn't bad per se with a good scan, and direct projection would probably have been easier with 16mm

@netowork3d Жыл бұрын

👌🏽

@netowork3d Жыл бұрын

A Philips tinha uma qualidade de imagem muito avançada...

@marconoboa1154 Жыл бұрын

Back when companies were proud and happy to share their matured developments instead of safekeeping to even costumer services technicians

@madigorfkgoogle9349 Жыл бұрын

well, it was patent protected and no one else could make it without license anyway, so why would they hide it? And just a small hint from another non native English speaker, you did mean CUSTOMER services, costumer is making clothes...😉

@hvoltage1524 5 ай бұрын

It baffles me that we as humans figured out how to firstly, harness electricity and use it for lights, but then figured out a way to project images on a screen like this. Even just in black and white is crazy.