I absolutely love that this channel has become so successful. Congratulations!

Kev: "wow, that's a long model number." Sony: "Allow me to introduce myself."

You know, i'm pretty sure these kind of TVs really have a market. Since it is absolutely impossible to see companies (even chinese ones) producing brand new CRT TVs for retro gamers, it should be totally possible to create SD resolution TVs like this one, without scaling and line doubling and subsequent zero input latency. I can totally see a market there. And with modern LCDs this should be possible.

Wow, "it just works." Theres a phrase we dont hear to often. Love it.

When I needed an LCD for this purpose I sought out an early DVD LCD combo TV. Those tended to be intended for children's rooms, and where therefore very defeatured. It was also the only LCD I could find at the time with the older aspect ratio screen, and analog tuner needed to run my Timex Sinclair and Atari 400, as bare metal.

Never knew they expanded into badge engineering. Would definitely be interested in finding out more about the VP mode on that Panasonic VCR. I’ve never heard of that

"You just plug it in and it works" There's something you hardly ever hear anymore. I remember getting a Gateway Astro all in one when they first came out. The best thing about it was the recovery disc, which seems like I had to use once a week. Great video!👍🇺🇸

This Gateway TV is not a gateway project, gateway only put its brand stamped on products that already existed (in the monitors and tvs sector), judging by the Main Menu, it is a rebranded LG Flatron

I own this tv with remote. I have held onto it for many years because it is very unique. LCD analog is super rare. I took it into a retro game store one time thinking they would appreciate it but they told me it was trash so I kept it. Glad to see someone else understands the usefulness. I doubt it will ever be worth more than thrift store prices though… even though useful, seems as the years go by all this old tech just is a novelty for cheap nerds like us.

I found an Emerson SD LCD display in the trash. They are great displays for analog sources without the inconvenience of CRTs' size and weight. I use that and a Commodore 1702 for my VCR, Laserdisc and retro games.

That Canon Rebel EOS was something to drool about when it came (and still are, excellent lens and features).

Wow, the response time is almost 1:1 with the CRT. I'm impressed!

I lucked across my Daenyx DN-153 at a thrift store. Not the prettiest, but it does accept 14.5-16.5KHz h-sync signals over the VGA port, which makes CGA/TGA conversion simple and easy.

Wow that computer shot of the Gateway brings me right back. That beige block was my family’s first computer, and legitimately what I played my first PC games on back in 2002. I distinctly remember the first time I had to degauss the giant monitor for my parents.

We used to have a similar LCD TV branded by Polaroid, it was good for playing GameCube games and DVDs. Gateway and Polaroid were licensing their brand in the 2000s, because they wanted to get into the growing LCD screen segment!

I actually had a 13 inch stereo TV. It was made by KTV. It was your standard 13" CRT TV with a single speaker, but it had an ATSC digital tuner built in for over the air digital broadcast. I discovered that it was a stereo set when I plugged a pair of headphones into it. I'm not talking about both speakers playing without a mono to stereo adapter, but true 2 channel stereo audio. To verify this I tuned to a music channel and heard a song that starts in the left channel and pans to the right and it was faithfully reproduced. KTV even made cable ready black and white sets with 181 channel tuner.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'd welcome seeing a video on that Panasonic VCR. It seems pretty well-optioned considering that it has HDMI, a digital ATSC tuner, and an SD card reader. I'm still kicking myself after I got rid of a similar model a few years ago that had a digital ATSC/QAM tuner built in. It doesn't seem like that big of a deal, but a VCR with an analog-only tuner is really inconvenient considering that you have to use a DTV to analog converter and then make sure that the converter is tuned to the channel you want to record. It's also really nice to be able to use a coax splitter and run a dedicated TV cable to the VCR and your TV. Then you can watch whatever you want while the VCR can do its own thing recording something else. Even though mostly everyone has moved on to on-demand streaming and DVRs, the people that are selling those VCRs online must not have gotten the memo, because they all want crazy money. People selling that Panasonic VCR online are asking $180 to around $500--there's even a few listed for almost $1000. Go figure, I must've paid no more than $10 for the one that I eventually got rid of.

There is a Gateway TV remote on Ebay now for the L30M103. My experience with other TV brands and models is that the same protocol is used over other models in the same range and over many years even. There might be a free spot on the PCB inside for a PAL oscillator. IT might be possible to add that capability by adding a crystal and enabling it in the service menu.

I used to have a samsung galaxy s5 and it had an IR blaster on it. I used that phone a LOT to turn off or change channels on public TVs. Kinda sad that more modern phones have dropped IR.

At the beginning, regarding the wish to change the channel or volume of a random TV, there actually used to be a wrist watch that claimed to have such capability.

This somehow reminds me of when BenQ used to make TVs and laptops, among other products, before moving to just making monitor. Before moving into the current flat I live in, it was partially abandoned, and there was a room with loads of dust, and a wall-mounted BenQ TV with a warped polariser (a result of Singaporean humidity) and a remote with batteries that had leaked. That TV was thrown out before I got to move in. It appeared that the home was last lived in around the mid 2000s before we bought it at a relatively low price and moved in. I even have photos of the TV that I took during a home open!

The electric organ muzak appears again, it sounds like another track of the same record. It is so perfect for this channel!

Nice just in time for lunch time a new video from one of my favorite KZfaqr have a nice Thursday Kevin.

What's great is TVs like these can be found at super cheap prices. I have a Samsung SyncMaster 710MP that's similar (17 inch screen, 4:3 ratio with composite, RF and S-Video inputs) except it also has an VGA input. It was $15 from Craigslist. The picture quality isn't wonderful but when it comes to retro machines it's perfectly fine.

I remember as a child we had Gateway supermarkets, don't know if they were related or not to Gateway2000, but I recall the store in Peterlee here in the north east of England having the Gateway-logo'd carpet in the clothing section for years after it had been bought up and converted into an Asda store... :P

I had a similar TV a few years back, the only difference is that it had VGA instead of S-Video. Made for a good retro gaming TV and secondary monitor

To get correct color brightness with the C64 to s-video cable, you need to put a 330 ohm resistor in series with the chroma line. The commodore standard has a tendency to over saturate the chroma signal.

This is really a great video about this TV, and I'm looking forward to that VCR video I hope you'll do soon ♥

Love these TVs, had a Sylvania 4:3 480p LCD TV for the past 4 years for all of my retro gaming needs. Almost no input lag, just like a CRT, so it's great for games like Parappa the Rapper which are unbearable on modern HDTVs. It also has component input, which I use for my PS2 and Xbox 360. Still planning on replacing it with a CRT, but this has served me very well.

My smartphone has a "infrared blaster" and a remote control app. Works perfect to mess around with TVs in public 😁

At 5:10 I thought that was KZfaq messing up again. (like it frequently does even on my blazing fast connection)

honestly I'd love a video of you just watching and commenting on some tv shows.

Thanks for the video, Kevin.

Great video. I found it very interesting. I'm kind of glad the universal remote wouldn't work! 😄

"you just plug it in, and it works" man I miss those days when you would buy a working product that did what it's supposed to.. and not end up becoming a paying beta tester 😁

In reponse to your intro, I used to have a smartphone with an IR blaster (Samsung Galaxy S5). It was more of a gimmick than anything, but it did work fine. I've seen that little TV in your videos for a long time, and it looks like a standard 15 inch LCD monitor from the front, aside from the A/V input. I've been waiting for a video on this for a long time! Very shocking that it does not have a VGA input. Sound quality is ok given its small size. It would be nice to see a video on that Panasonic vintage TV if you haven't made one already.

0:17 What a TWIST!

Excellent video!

Funny thing, I have that DSLR shown in the DVD.

I hear you about that "Being somewhere were there's a TV..."... as I used to transport an elderly friend to my of her doctors and suffer the same ordeal. Thankfully, I had upgraded my Palm Pilot (Digital Personal Assistant) to a Sony Clie series model, which allowed me to download/install a universal remote control app to use on those waiting room sets! =;D

I infact do have an LG RZ-15LA70 SD LCD TV from 2005 and it's also 4:3 aspect ratio so I can use it for my PS1 and my Philips DVD player.

Not bad not bad, we used to have a Polaroid TV for years before it finally died. It worked for almost 7 years as the main TV.

Super cool

People are so into CRTs, and I love mine, but early standard definition flat screens are pretty great if you're willing to take a hit to picture quality.

Nice to see you drag out a model 1 Genesis to test it out on.

Gateway is code 1076 on my Philips universal & learning remote, model SRP5107/27. It's an older model remote no longer in stores, but a few new-old-stock units are on eBay inexpensively. Possible newer Philips universal remotes will still have it, too. Good luck!

When I had my first phone with a ir controller (Sony Xperia something) I couldn't stop muting public TV's in bars and restaurants...

I have a similar set built by sharp in 2003-2004. Free from freecycle, 20inch, no HDMI inputs, stereo speakers with an external "brick on a leash" power supply as you call it, carying handle and two nice trap doors on the back for cable management with the buttons on the top. It is silver and it is from the aquos line of flatscreens by sharp. You can even rotate and flip the image in mirror modes. Speakers have a great sound for there size.

I remember that at one point we had this old LCD TV which was completely unresponsive to the remote Edit: it was also not very responsive to the buttons on the top of it (it had no buttons on the front, all the buttons were on the top) Fortunately the only button i really ever needed to use was the power button, as we just left it on the same input all the time And we currently have a very small TV which is even smaller than that one, but at least it works properly with the remote, and it has pretty much every type of input apart from S video (including VGA, HDMI, and Scart)

"I won 'Classic Concentration' and all I got was this Yugo"

I have that on my PALM PILOT IIIC UNIVERSAL CONTROLLING IT WILL COMMUNICATE TO ANYTHING EVEN TO MY CAR STARTER IT'S ALL DEALS WITH INFRARED

Nice TV, and great to see a Commodore 64 in one of your videos :)

thats a cool tv

Wait the cowbrand computers made a tv!?

If you like retro-stuff and hate the high pitched noise of crts this is the way to go. It won´t work with light guns but other than that it´s much more space saving and convenient than a crt.

Just looks similar to my Philips CM8833 monitor originally used for computers but now I use it for retro gaming. Do you still have your Commodore 1084 monitor around? This is a nice and compact TV made!

Nice that reminds me of a Panasonic that have that is the same sizes

If you ever want to annoy people, there is a Kit called the TV-B-gone. You solder it together, and it turns off every TV I have ever tried. Restaurants, Airports. Walk down the sidewalk and turn off TV's.

I have that same DVD player

I keep a couple of this type of TV for my older gaming consoles, the picture and colour quality is great compared to and older CRT. Mine is a UMC brand, my gateway is a TV with VGA but it's wide-screen I wish it wasn't but it's a handy secondary screen in vertical for arcade boards mind you.

title implying that a lcd tv might me suitable for retro gaming is one of the strongest clickbaits i encountered

Ah! You need a Ninja Remote! Once I was able to map the buttons on all my old equipment (including my Betamax player whose remote was lost when I was a kid over 30 years ago) I was able to clone the buttons onto the correct button layout in my Sony RM-VL 7620 universal learning remote. Now I can literally do anything with this remote by combining it with the Ninja Remote to clone the signal itself. It’s a wonderful life hack, I hope maybe I’ve inspired you to make a movie about it lol…

Never understood the obsession over CRTs. They’re neat but not strictly necessary. I have one in storage purely for old light gun games like Time Crisis and House of the Dead.

Nice video and TV. The slow motion part with the CRT hurt my eyes. I don't have epilepsy but that sort of stuff sometimes gives me a headache. It might be a good idea to put a epilepsy or flashing warning before showing that in the future since some people could have epilepsy.

good video I still use the sony mavica

you can get an universal remote that supports almost all devices ever made, mine can control almost every tv and even hi fi stereo and vcr, it has an auto search feature to detect the device automatically

I've recently found a Samsung TV B2430HD from a thrift store it got a lot of ports to play with lol

On my old Xiaomi Phone which has an ir port is an option for a Gateway TV in the MI Remote app

Handy I have a Philips monitor from that time a little later that also has those options Composite and svideo and even a hdmi connection whether it can handle NTSC I do not know never tested. They are getting harder to find these days. But is very nice thing I have an Ultimate 64 (C64) connected to it with scanlines on and is like a Crt very nice picture. Which I also connected to a real CRT at the same time that you can use at the same time. Thank's for showing

Excellent video sir. BTW, what was that music at the end?

I don't have much space where I live to have a CRT TV so I just use CRT shaders in retroarch, this would be pretty cool to watch VHS and DVDs though.

I have Logik TV which uses hisense panel + hardware. Supports both PAL & NTSC video, albeit the firmware was borrowed from portable tv along so that might explain it

The comparison of composite vs S-Video quality will vary by the TV you are connected to. When using S-Video output from a VCR you are using the VCR's own comb filter versus letting the TV use its own comb filter on the composite output. since VHS is encoded in composite quality anyway, the quality of S-Video VHS is entirely dependant on how good the comb filter is that processes the signal. S-Video from a VCR will only look better than composite when the VCR's comb filter is nicer than the one in the TV. In most cases this will be true until you get into prosumer and industrial/broadcasting TVs.

our Gateway computer last a long time

5:05 - Ah, Fox-body Mustang, Olds Cutlass Ciera... Is that a Nissan Stanza?... Nissan Pathfinder, Subaru GL, Toyota Corolla, Toyota Tercel, Yugo. All, except the Yugo, were pretty decent vehicles.

i can't believe there is a american tv show where you can win a Yugo! a Yugoslavian classic. there are a lot of people still driving those in ex-yugoslav countries and they all seem to be in good shape and working fine. really funny seeing one being given away on AMERICAN TV!

I can imagine that Gateway display being used for CCTV systems.

There're apps for your phone which allow you to control devices with remote controls, even very old ones. A friend of mine currently uses his phone to control a Sansui vintage amplifier. Search for it.

well looks like the logitech harmony remotes control this tv.

okay wtf is the song playing during the slowmo footage? it was pretty good

“Well, with this device, you CANT.” 😂 how would that device even work without programming it to each and every device, what a gyp

I would like to see plugging that into that Video Toaster if you still have it from 9 or 10 years ago.

"Only in America", hahaha! But yeah, I think I remember something similar to this back when I was young.

Xiaomi's phone builtin IR remote control application supports Gateway TVs, but I don't know for sure if it is compatible with this model.

I remember these early flat Standard Definition Televisions. Yeah the sound was the worst on these flat speakers but the picture looked pretty swell on these. And then slowly widescreen came around and i remember some TVs even being 16:10 first before 16:9 then became dominant. My best buddy's grandparents had such a TV. The early 2000s really were absolutely all about ditching CRTs and going all flat and i always looked with envious eyes to the flat PC TFT screens. But back then CRTs still had the best response time and flatscreens still suffered from slow responding LCDs which lead to image ghosting.

LCD panels have progressive scan, so deinterlacing should be here

What is the panel used? I don't see any viewing angle testing. For me for now the Samsung 213 and 214 are the best, as those are using high quality VA panels with great colors, viewing angles, and S-video/composite/VGA input. Also easier to find than this in the EU.

I own an Acer AL1511 which I use for an Opteron 165 PC running Windows XP

Gateway has been revived and is now selling laptops.

I honestly might have to look into something like this, I dug out my old PS2 recently and have been wanting to play through all the hit games I missed out on growing up and currently I'm having to play on a more modern Vizio E321VL LCD which to be fair, does look pretty good when using a component cable like I've been doing (might have to look into S-video as well). The issue is that the PS2 was made for 4:3 ratio screens, and its native resolution is either 480i or 480p. I would prefer to have a CRT like I did growing up but they are getting harder to come by and as far as I know, there's no real good place to look for them in my area, but earlier LCDs like this one might be a little easier to find hopefully.

If you're looking to get a remote control for this TV, try an old One For All remote like the Cinema 6 or 7.

Have a nearly identical TV I kept around for the same purpose. IIRC its some generic brand like Sylvania tho.

Another good vid, but I am still not sure you know what beige is ! PAL was 629 when I was at school or maybe I think of the frequency

Cool TV. Haven't seen a 4:3 LCD TV in years. Almost looks like a late model Trinitron with the back chopped off. Though the Trinitron would probably have a bit of a better picture. With the C64 in front of it, I see it's a lot smaller than it appeared at first, wow.

Yeah but where can I find one in Australia?

Later on ebay: RETRO GAMING GATEWAY LCD TV $500 Don’t lowball me I know what I have!

i thought there was an app you could get that works as a universal remote. sad to hear this doesnt work. nice tv. i used to see them in Walmart as late as 5 years ago.

5:39 Yes please make a video about the proprietary recording speed. Kind of like how most Betamax VCRs couldn't record B1 speed, even tho B1 recordings played back just fine.

I never encountered a LCD TV which wasn't multi system (PAL/SECAM/NTSC).

I've developed a much more intuitive method to compare TV input latency: point a video camera at the screen. The speed of the trails indicates the amount of latency. Note that this also depends on the latency of the camera. The first-gen Digital8 camcorder I was using appears to output exactly one frame (or field, I don't remember) behind the action.