Nice, there really is something about a real CRT that isn't captured on camera. I have the old family TV from like 1983 and it works just fine as old as it is.
Another very interesting video coming from this channel, congratulations! Here where I live, in Brazil, it is still quite common to see families with lower incomes use CRT TVs, and there is a certain devaluation in them. I bought a Magnavox brand TV (yes, the same as the odyssey, the first home console to be sold) and it was manufactured in the 2000s, I really like it because it's better to play old video games on CRT TVs than new TVs, since New TVs distort the analog signal a lot. The TV standard here in Brazil is Pal-M, and it is very similar to NTSC, the only difference is that it has 576i, but maintains a frequency of 60Hz. Sorry my English, I used a translator to make this comment
when I was little I had a really obscure "Buxtron" brand 14" CRT at my home, and an old Sony CRT at my grandma's house. I still have the Sony there but unfortunately it doesn't longer work. I now live in a different town for most of the year where I have a dying LG LCD TV and I hope to get another CRT because their image is infinitely better Also in the country I live you can find these CRTs everywhere, often for as low as around $5 when converted from local currency. Retro gaming boomers like to jack up prices of CRTs whenever they can, so no surprise one can get massively ripped off on eBay for paying $100 on something that was likely found at the dump, or bought at a thrift store for $10 and then sold to you for ten times the price. Also I feel sorry for those few people who paid like $300 for a Sony PVM when all European TVs come equipped with RF, Composite, SVideo and even RGB and component, in the form of a SCART jack and can be found thrown into the curb and still working
1:55 im in chemistry class all over again ! but on the real...great video simon! CRT's are awesome n timeless. oh, and that 500 in 1 classic video game console is v cool ! how nice of your friend to gift you that !
Sorry I’m late but ENJOY UR REAL CRT! Also Simon, ur analog signal gave me some nostalgic ATV channels cuz before 2022 we had a Analog TV Signal that was pretty cool to see the analog quality but when December 2022 hit… they shutdown the rest of the channels due to analog tv due to other areas wasn’t watching ATV so yeah. Thx Simon For Making Me Remember The Good Old Days of Analog TV (btw I’m in Canada)
@@SimonVideoNp! and actually I wish I could do a ATV transmitter but due to the CRTC rules, I need a license that can be expensive then a Car! (between 12,000 to 70,000 $CAD I think) If I don’t have a license then the CRTC is at my door. EDIT:I'm reading the crtc rules so I can understand more but yeah imma see if I can do it in my area (Canada)
I mainly use a CRT for watching my VHS collection on these days, I’ve found they’re the best way of doing so. of course I have a digital set top box hocked up to a crappy vcr dvd combo (which I only have as a backup incase my good VCR fails) that transmits to the TV Via the RF output. Meaning I have a fully working analogue TV Setup that’s as future proof as I can get and close to actual Analogue TV as possible. (Well I could get closer but i don’t really need to). It also goes to show people that old analogue TVs aren’t really obsolete yet, there are still ways to make them compatible with modern TV Transmissions and other modern equipment.
Many many many years ago... One time I was messing around with a magnet on the family TV when everyone had gone to bed, just watching the weird patterns and colours blending. After that, panic set in. The screen was, to put it mildly, fu&*ed. Everything was distorted and weird rainbows all over. After what seemed like an eternity I figured out that waving the magnet all over the screen in different orientations may fix it. It actually worked. Still can not believe it!
I have the FD-500 and it works great. And just a side note if you do get one, don't waste money on 10 huge batteries only for them to go dead an in hour.
congrats on getting a crt tv! I think they have a picture that no other display technology can match and I've got like 5 crt's that go from being a little portable model to a giant 36" that can even display HD video from component and DVI
Also if you want to I can design a schematic for an amplifier to make a further range station. That modulator that you have is probably around -10dbm which is barely anything (100 microwatts XD) so you could think about getting a high gain broadband buffer amplifier to bring up the power a bit. Just be sure not to plug the coax back into the tv. Oh and if you want even more tandem consider building an antenna that is resonant for your frequency “range” as ntsc is astonishingly wide bandwidth. The formula for a dipole is (frequency[mhz]/300)/2) then take that length split it in half again and solder one end to the shield of your coax and solder the center conductor to the other wire and run it out in a “T” formation with the coax driving the center. That should increase your range decently.
Sorry another tangent but 3 years back freshman year of high school me and a friend built a big 500w transmitter and transmitted on the low end of the vhf spectrum like channel 1 and we specifically timed it so that it corresponded with a sporadic E layer ionospheric opening (which happens a bunch in the spring and winter) and we sent a tv signal all the way from Washington to California. 😂
I haven't heard of the red pitaya before, thank you for bringing it to my attention! That amplifier would be cool, and thanks for the tip with the antenna. I'm not all to familiar with RF stuff, so I appreciate it. Also WHAT.. 500 watts is crazy! How did it get that much range though... was that 500w ERP?
i have a lot of memories whit analog tv well crt tvs in fact all my tv always where crt my first monitor that i fond in the trash, my granpa had like a 32 inches crt monitor was like going to the cinema, i bought my first lcd tv last year, obviously i use a lcd monitor since 2011 but i dont know why really love analog things
If you are gonna try and find old crt tvs, i would recommend going to your local goodwill. This is because i got 2 old crts from goodwill for only 25 dollars (one tv was $15, while the other was $10)
@@SimonVideo They're pretty common at goodwill or thrift stores. The 15 dollar one was made in 1995, while the other one was made in 2003. If you check like every 2-3 weeks, there will probably be one there.
When I uplouded my VTT caption file to UA-cam with changed color to Yellow, my font was still white on UA-cam, what can I do to make my font yellow on UA-cam?
It looks like youtube doesn't support color with VTT. I personally use STL, but you can find a supported one here: support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734698
I looked around for a while. If you search "vhf behind the set antenna" into Google shopping, you'll find stuff like the MANT-50 but it doesn't have a coax lead. The one I got was from Amazon and it's long gone :/ I don't even know what to search and Reddit doesn't even seem to have an answer. I think I found your reddit post haha
@@SimonVideo it really did.. it also shows you how relatively well we had it in some countries that would go for tons of money whether it is scrap here I couldn’t even give it away.
@@SimonVideo keep up the good work can I ask you what got you interested in some of this older tech? I love when I see a new generation interest is a different different generation time
I used to be watching cartoon network every 10pm with the lg crt tv inside my grandma's bedroom in 2016 (I was in 3rd grade at the time). Sadly, my family gave the tv to other people and later, it died
Yeah, putting magnets up to the screen isn't a great idea - it can "permanently" leave some distortion on the screen that may require degaussing to correct (I know a lot of CRTs came with a degaussing wire built in and I think they would run at start up, but I have no idea if that is enough to correct it). On a related note, apparently if you take a CRT far from its intendid market, you will notice some artifacts resembling what you get whej playing with magnets: I remember hearing that these TVs would in some way be adjusted to compensate for earths magnetic field in the area they were being sold in (I'm not sure, but I suspect such "adjusting" might just amount to more degaussing). I get a kick out of your enthusiasm for this tech (to be sure, it is a really cool technology) - its interesting how one generation can appreciate a particular technology in ways that those who grew up with it generallu do not (for me, I have a quirky appreciation for earlier computer tech - with a special fondness right now for monochrome serial terminals: granted, I did use monochrome displays in elementary school, but I hated them then, but now that they are largely gone... I've grown a certain fondness for them). Mind you, I am developing a bit of a hankering for a CRT like what I grew up using (though one even more analogue in its controls and with more faux wood paneling). If you ever delve into the history of computing, there are a lot of cool and wild technologies that came and went over the years (one of my favorites being core memory - little magnetic toroids woven into strands of copper wire that could be used as RAM by magnetizing and demagnetizing them).
Yeah, probably wasn't the best idea with the magnet. Funny, I was literally just looking into serial terminals the other day 😂 That core memory thing is really interesting, thanks for sharing. I'll have to look into that more
i have a grundig CRT that doesn't even have an analog (coax) cable on it and that makes it useless! bc i live in Greece and all channels are on cable (analog) so bc that is digital (pretty sure released in 1989 rlly old tv) it just shows static so i have to buy (i don't remember its like a black box thing) i think its a transmitter but it works in another roadstar crt we have and its in my village cuz who needs crts when u got samsung 32'' tvs!
I viscerally cringed when you held the magnet up to the screen. I wonder if your TV has a degaussing feature... As memory serves, degauss was more common on PC monitors than TVs. Would still be helpful in situations like that, though.
Nice, there really is something about a real CRT that isn't captured on camera.
I have the old family TV from like 1983 and it works just fine as old as it is.
I love the enthusiasm you show in your videos, I hope you continue making content and that your channel grows!
Thank you!
Hey congrats on getting your hands on one of these bad boys, love CRTs!
Great video showing them off!
Thank you! Yeah I love CRTs..
Another very interesting video coming from this channel, congratulations! Here where I live, in Brazil, it is still quite common to see families with lower incomes use CRT TVs, and there is a certain devaluation in them. I bought a Magnavox brand TV (yes, the same as the odyssey, the first home console to be sold) and it was manufactured in the 2000s, I really like it because it's better to play old video games on CRT TVs than new TVs, since New TVs distort the analog signal a lot. The TV standard here in Brazil is Pal-M, and it is very similar to NTSC, the only difference is that it has 576i, but maintains a frequency of 60Hz. Sorry my English, I used a translator to make this comment
Thank you :) CRTs are awesome for games.. That's interesting they use more lines but the same 60hz.. didn't know that was a thing!
@@SimonVideosame here that's interesting
when I was little I had a really obscure "Buxtron" brand 14" CRT at my home, and an old Sony CRT at my grandma's house. I still have the Sony there but unfortunately it doesn't longer work. I now live in a different town for most of the year where I have a dying LG LCD TV and I hope to get another CRT because their image is infinitely better
Also in the country I live you can find these CRTs everywhere, often for as low as around $5 when converted from local currency.
Retro gaming boomers like to jack up prices of CRTs whenever they can, so no surprise one can get massively ripped off on eBay for paying $100 on something that was likely found at the dump, or bought at a thrift store for $10 and then sold to you for ten times the price.
Also I feel sorry for those few people who paid like $300 for a Sony PVM when all European TVs come equipped with RF, Composite, SVideo and even RGB and component, in the form of a SCART jack and can be found thrown into the curb and still working
Thank you for your comment! I hope you can get another one.. That's interesting how cheap CRTs are though.. sucks they're being marked up so much
1:55 im in chemistry class all over again !
but on the real...great video simon! CRT's are awesome n timeless.
oh, and that 500 in 1 classic video game console is v cool ! how nice of your friend to gift you that !
LOL great comment 😂😂
Thank you!
Sorry I’m late but ENJOY UR REAL CRT! Also Simon, ur analog signal gave me some nostalgic ATV channels cuz before 2022 we had a Analog TV Signal that was pretty cool to see the analog quality but when December 2022 hit… they shutdown the rest of the channels due to analog tv due to other areas wasn’t watching ATV so yeah. Thx Simon For Making Me Remember The Good Old Days of Analog TV (btw I’m in Canada)
THANK YOU! Yeah, that sucks they got rid of analog.. I'm surprised they kept it going that long actually !
@@SimonVideoNp! and actually I wish I could do a ATV transmitter but due to the CRTC rules, I need a license that can be expensive then a Car! (between 12,000 to 70,000 $CAD I think) If I don’t have a license then the CRTC is at my door.
EDIT:I'm reading the crtc rules so I can understand more but yeah imma see if I can do it in my area (Canada)
I find it amusing that someone is excited about a CRT TV. I used to repair these as an apprentice back in the 1990s.
Yeah.. that's awesome. We had CRTs for a while but never cared about them and we got rid of them :/
@@SimonVideoGot a few here. Dad and I won’t get rid. Ever.
I mainly use a CRT for watching my VHS collection on these days, I’ve found they’re the best way of doing so.
of course I have a digital set top box hocked up to a crappy vcr dvd combo (which I only have as a backup incase my good VCR fails) that transmits to the TV Via the RF output. Meaning I have a fully working analogue TV Setup that’s as future proof as I can get and close to actual Analogue TV as possible. (Well I could get closer but i don’t really need to).
It also goes to show people that old analogue TVs aren’t really obsolete yet, there are still ways to make them compatible with modern TV Transmissions and other modern equipment.
Many many many years ago... One time I was messing around with a magnet on the family TV when everyone had gone to bed, just watching the weird patterns and colours blending. After that, panic set in. The screen was, to put it mildly, fu&*ed. Everything was distorted and weird rainbows all over. After what seemed like an eternity I figured out that waving the magnet all over the screen in different orientations may fix it. It actually worked. Still can not believe it!
😂 that's awesome.. glad you fixed it!
Did it have a degauss button? That's what it's for
@@purplrshadowyay No lol, I would have used it in that case!
@@xenorac Lmao rip
Hay, if you are interested in some smaller CRT tvs I would strongly recommend the Sony Maga watchman.
I have the FD-500 and it works great. And just a side note if you do get one, don't waste money on 10 huge batteries only for them to go dead an in hour.
@stask4499 That actually looks awesome! I'll have to look into it... Thank you for the recommendation!
* FD-510
congrats on getting a crt tv! I think they have a picture that no other display technology can match and I've got like 5 crt's that go from being a little portable model to a giant 36" that can even display HD video from component and DVI
Woahhh that's crazy! That 36 inch one sounds AWESOME
How much does the crane cost to hire? 😛
I have an old 1985 tv, i think its quite cool tbh
I hope to get one
I got a symphonic st131d crt from goodwill for only 6 dollars. And it was just like the one in the video but smaller.
Had several of these growing up used to watch videos on one and play my ps2 on the other.
You should build a a digital ntsc modulator using gnu radio and a red pitaya. There’s probably a pre built one out there.
Also if you want to I can design a schematic for an amplifier to make a further range station. That modulator that you have is probably around -10dbm which is barely anything (100 microwatts XD) so you could think about getting a high gain broadband buffer amplifier to bring up the power a bit. Just be sure not to plug the coax back into the tv. Oh and if you want even more tandem consider building an antenna that is resonant for your frequency “range” as ntsc is astonishingly wide bandwidth. The formula for a dipole is (frequency[mhz]/300)/2) then take that length split it in half again and solder one end to the shield of your coax and solder the center conductor to the other wire and run it out in a “T” formation with the coax driving the center. That should increase your range decently.
Sorry another tangent but 3 years back freshman year of high school me and a friend built a big 500w transmitter and transmitted on the low end of the vhf spectrum like channel 1 and we specifically timed it so that it corresponded with a sporadic E layer ionospheric opening (which happens a bunch in the spring and winter) and we sent a tv signal all the way from Washington to California. 😂
I haven't heard of the red pitaya before, thank you for bringing it to my attention! That amplifier would be cool, and thanks for the tip with the antenna. I'm not all to familiar with RF stuff, so I appreciate it. Also WHAT.. 500 watts is crazy! How did it get that much range though... was that 500w ERP?
there was a store called Montgomery Ward that sold the Admiral Brand. the store went out of business in 2001
:(
i have a lot of memories whit analog tv well crt tvs in fact all my tv always where crt my first monitor that i fond in the trash, my granpa had like a 32 inches crt monitor was like going to the cinema, i bought my first lcd tv last year, obviously i use a lcd monitor since 2011 but i dont know why really love analog things
That's awesome! Yeah I love analog things
If you are gonna try and find old crt tvs, i would recommend going to your local goodwill. This is because i got 2 old crts from goodwill for only 25 dollars (one tv was $15, while the other was $10)
Oh wow! I'll have to look
@@SimonVideo They're pretty common at goodwill or thrift stores. The 15 dollar one was made in 1995, while the other one was made in 2003. If you check like every 2-3 weeks, there will probably be one there.
Him saying “my first” just made me feel old as sh!t.
😭
Hello, what a great television. I also want to purchase such televisions from 80s and 90s. From where did you purchase this exclusive old crt?
I got it from a friend.. not sure where he got it though
I have a Sylvania CRT TV and has RCA and S-video Jack’s
Also big fan👍
Thank you :)) And that's awesome!
When I uplouded my VTT caption file to UA-cam with changed color to Yellow, my font was still white on UA-cam, what can I do to make my font yellow on UA-cam?
It looks like youtube doesn't support color with VTT. I personally use STL, but you can find a supported one here: support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734698
2:35 if you have a language selection for english and chinese, and you get a rabbit in the background afterwards then you have EXACTLY the one i have
Nice!
Where did you find that antenna? I cant find one that i can put into that hole for the life of me
I looked around for a while. If you search "vhf behind the set antenna" into Google shopping, you'll find stuff like the MANT-50 but it doesn't have a coax lead. The one I got was from Amazon and it's long gone :/
I don't even know what to search and Reddit doesn't even seem to have an answer. I think I found your reddit post haha
i just had to get rid of my storage which had in it my 30th b day present to myself. RCA 36" screen tv. No one wanted it. So hard to see it go, truly
Aww that sucks :(
@@SimonVideo it really did.. it also shows you how relatively well we had it in some countries that would go for tons of money whether it is scrap here I couldn’t even give it away.
@@SimonVideo keep up the good work can I ask you what got you interested in some of this older tech? I love when I see a new generation interest is a different different generation time
I used to be watching cartoon network every 10pm with the lg crt tv inside my grandma's bedroom in 2016 (I was in 3rd grade at the time). Sadly, my family gave the tv to other people and later, it died
That's awesome! Too bad it stopped working
Plug in nintendo Wii with homebrew and enjoy all older consoles.
Yess for real
Yeah, putting magnets up to the screen isn't a great idea - it can "permanently" leave some distortion on the screen that may require degaussing to correct (I know a lot of CRTs came with a degaussing wire built in and I think they would run at start up, but I have no idea if that is enough to correct it).
On a related note, apparently if you take a CRT far from its intendid market, you will notice some artifacts resembling what you get whej playing with magnets: I remember hearing that these TVs would in some way be adjusted to compensate for earths magnetic field in the area they were being sold in (I'm not sure, but I suspect such "adjusting" might just amount to more degaussing).
I get a kick out of your enthusiasm for this tech (to be sure, it is a really cool technology) - its interesting how one generation can appreciate a particular technology in ways that those who grew up with it generallu do not (for me, I have a quirky appreciation for earlier computer tech - with a special fondness right now for monochrome serial terminals: granted, I did use monochrome displays in elementary school, but I hated them then, but now that they are largely gone... I've grown a certain fondness for them). Mind you, I am developing a bit of a hankering for a CRT like what I grew up using (though one even more analogue in its controls and with more faux wood paneling).
If you ever delve into the history of computing, there are a lot of cool and wild technologies that came and went over the years (one of my favorites being core memory - little magnetic toroids woven into strands of copper wire that could be used as RAM by magnetizing and demagnetizing them).
Yeah, probably wasn't the best idea with the magnet. Funny, I was literally just looking into serial terminals the other day 😂
That core memory thing is really interesting, thanks for sharing. I'll have to look into that more
I’m getting one tomorrow!
Niiice!
Where did you buy the crt?
Neat video 👍
HECK YEAH!!!
dude we have the similar profiile pic wtf
@@SrNumsei noodle
i have a grundig CRT that doesn't even have an analog (coax) cable on it and that makes it useless! bc i live in Greece and all channels are on cable (analog) so bc that is digital (pretty sure released in 1989 rlly old tv) it just shows static so i have to buy (i don't remember its like a black box thing) i think its a transmitter but it works in another roadstar crt we have and its in my village cuz who needs crts when u got samsung 32'' tvs!
Interesting!
I stole my grandparents crt tv that they were gonna throw in the dump, I absolutely adore the tech
Quite the vibe to it indeed
LOL glad you saved it!
Do you have a discord fan channel where your fans are so thy can send in pictures from any analog devices such as televisions or computers😅😊
Unfortunately I don't! At some point I'd love to, but I don't have enough time rn
@@SimonVideo okay 😞
Just dont fall victim to the CRT hoarding habit!! Many people who get one and love it end up with 7-8 !
How many do you have
What do you mean victim? Its great to have many
if you get the RGB mod you can get read the letters.
Never thought of doing that. Good idea!
@@SimonVideo ua-cam.com/video/DLz6pgvsZ_I/v-deo.html
@@SimonVideo you can get star for get a video game console, and get the program 240p test suite
Lol aww I love this
It happened !!!
Yeah !!!
I viscerally cringed when you held the magnet up to the screen. I wonder if your TV has a degaussing feature... As memory serves, degauss was more common on PC monitors than TVs. Would still be helpful in situations like that, though.
😂 yeah.. I figured that would happen.. The TV degussed after being unplugged for a couple of minutes
consumer CRT TVs usually degaus once it gets plugged in, or sometimes when it turns on
Congrats!
I got 6 at home ! My girlfriend is about to leave me !
😂😂😂
tv
that's a good point
This is the most zoomer video I've ever seen.
😭😭
I got about 4 portable analog tvs and 3 digital portable tvs I like the analog because I grew up in analog
get out haha throw Gen X in there we represent! great comment. keep these videos going kid
I’m a zoomer raised on CRTs…
Literally me lmao
Got my first analog in September 1999
You got a discord sever or something?
Unfortunately not... I might make one in the future!
@@SimonVideo Make it! Make it!