Come check out my collection of CRT TVs in my retro game room! TVs model #s in order of appearance: PVM-1350 AV-36D503 (JVC D Series PVM-1953MD CT-32HXC14J (Panasonic Tau) KV-36FS13 KV-30HS420
SO true! It really is amazing to see it after having been on modern TVs for so many years. I watched through most of GOT on the Widescreen CRT and it was so great.
You don't have to go with a Trini set, Panasonic TAU, JVC I'Art, Toshiba A-Series, are all just as good, if not better in some cases, don't sleep on RCA (Thomson) either, or Hitachi, Sharp, all the Japan made CRTs are crem'da'la'crem, your main concern is getting one with as low hours as possible, if you are ok with a smaller set, PC monitor CRTs are a great option, a 17 or 18 incher can be had for a reasonable amount, and lastly, look into plasmas, they are not by any means a bad alternative to CRTs if you are after a bigger screen for your retro games, keep in mind a plasma will need an OSSC or RetroTink for the quality integer scaling they have to keep 240p games looking crispy.
@@Wobble2007 I would like to add that the Korean ones are good too, mainly LG and Samsung and even Daewoo, especially later models are comparable to Sonys, I have a 2008 Samsung that is my best CRT for sure in terms of picture quality and probably one of the last ever made and a 36inch LG FLATRON from 2006 that is great. Honestly all CRTs are good and an improvement over LCDs for retro games, if the tube is in good shape and not too dim or defective then you're good.
@Wobble2007 hi got a biggish toshiba vintage retro tv of ebay 2 years ago. It's about 32 inch...,...its definitely an upgrade from the smaller toshiba tv. The bigger one looks great on splinter cell 1 on first xbox and chaos theory. Not sure if it's a series or af or some thing.
I found a 32 inch Sony Trinitron on the curb someone was throwing away, its plugged in in my garage with a Super Nes atm where the kids are playing Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country (don't own many games atm cuz I sold all mine as a kid before they were even born), but man do those games look amazing on that thing. I think its more of a flat screen and the scanlines look incredible, even on a Composite cable the picture is so much clearer than I remember as a kid.
No motion blur is the greatest advantage CRTs have over modern displays at this point in my opinion. I have many options to play my retro consoles, but the CRT is still king.
Well that's just it. CRT's are still king in the motion clarity department, simply because they have no motion blur. And there's zero latency, although games running at 120-144fps on QD-OLED drops input lag down to 5ms, which is good enough imo. Plus 120-144fps cuts down 50-60% of OLED motion blur, which gets you into plasma motion clarity territory. The best you can do with 60fps gaming on QD-OLED like with those HD Clone FPGA consoles like Super Nt, Mega Sg, Duo(etc) or even the original consoles, is by pairing them with an expensive scaler via HDMI or component(HD Retrovision)like the RetroTINK4K, and using it's 60hz BFI(plus HDR to SDR brightness boosting trick to compensate for the 50% drop in brightness by using BFI), which will wipe out 50% of OLED motion blur. Supposedly the TINK4K adds 2ms of lag on it's own, it's 60hz BFI adds another 8ms, and you'll get a few more ms of latency from that HDR SDR brightness booster setting. So probably less than 15ms total that you'll be dealing with. Sure, QD-OLED + Tink4K has perfect blacks, higher brightness and progressive scan for retro gaming, but CRT still has zero lag & zero motion blur. ;) The problem is, finding something like a 27" Sony WEGA Trinitron CRT these days with low hours is becoming extremely difficult. These are 15 year old TV's. They won't look as bright as they once did, black levels will be lighter and the colours won't be quite as good either. A QD-OLED(Think Samsung S90D) + RetroTINK4K is the next best alternative. ;)
@@IIIISai I just rechecked my post, and holy crap that was frikkin long. That's what can happen when you're on a total caffeine kick. ;) Ramble ramble. But thanks for taking the time out of your day with a useless 'OK'. lol ;)
@@80sHolic7 Funny enough I have both the RetroTINK4k and the 27" Sony WEGA Trinitron CRT you mentioned. Both are amazing, and I move my MiSTer between the two. For the TINK the LG OLED BFI does a good job of addressing motion blur, but the nits aren't high enough on my set, and increasing them too high on the TINK I seem to lose detail and the colors look off - which is not the TINKs fault it's the modern TV. It's worth noting that motion blur only bothers me in fast paced 2D games, so N64, PSX, GameCube and other 3D console I leave BFI off and it looks close to CRT quality to me. The CRT looks great, and I know it's not as good as it was new, but I honestly can't see any color or other issues, and I accept that nothing in the analog world is perfect. I have the TINK4k because it's awesome, and while I'll never part with my CRT for as long as I live, when modern TVs improve or my CRT dies I hope to get a comparable experience on modern TVs with the TINK.
Great collection man, thanks for sharing. I can't imagine the battle that took place getting that 36" Sony to where it is now haha. The crt I'm currently using is a sony kv-32fv15 from 1999. It has svideo, component and composite inputs, and weighs in at 176lb. Boy do I have a story about how it got in my basement, but it was totally worth the struggle!
I hear ya man! Not fun moving them, but so nice once they are in their place. Sounds like an excellent TV too, having Svideo and Component is def a must!
The warm glow you refer to is the natural incandescence CRTs have, from the phosphors and electron gun, plasmas have it to a certain degree too, the phosphors get excited a different way, but it's not too far from a CRT, nothing can replace that almost three-dimensional depth of the image though imo, unless we are talking the new 16K OLED light-field displays, but there is more to it than that with CRTs, it's the natural dynamic motion they have, the greyscale performance, the shadow-detail that makes games like Doom 3 or Resident Evil pop, I think when eQD is readily available, and an 8K or even 16K RetroTink to use with it, at that point, there may be a genuine option to replace the big screen CRTs with at least, replacing PVM/BVM/PCM CRTs will be a tall order though.
4:40 really like this one, Man I miss the old Crt my family used to have when I was a child, can't even remember the brand. I don't know why, I simply like Crt.
One of my top #10 reasons for wanting to move out of my apartment and get a house is to have more room for CRTs. My 36" Trinitron is stored safely at my parents house but that thing is going to need a custom built crate for it without handles as I never want to carry it up/down stairs again without that. I do like it's flat screen for 3D gaming but for 3D/Sprite games I actually prefer my curved screens.
Yea I found a 32 inch Trinitron on the curb and I almost didn't take it as it sat there for a few days because it was so heavy, I needed to have help to lift it into my suv, and it took up the entire trunk space. A 36 inch I couldn't imagine lifting.
Very cool, personally I have 3 set up (woodgrain for my atari and intelevision, component input for 6th generation, and my childhood crt for everything else). The other 15 or so I have in storage, because as you said they aren't getting younger and once they're dead they're dead. I got most of mine for real cheap as well, most people were "free, just take it." Fun story, when my grandma-in-law moved into assisted living she had a component input 100 pound CRT in her basement. My mother-in-law was all frustrated that she'd have to pay someone to move it (because she didn't want anyone in her family getting hurt carrying it up the stairs) and then pay to dispose it. I turned it on and said "tube looks good and has the uncommon component inputs, put it on craigslist as 'free you just have to move it.'" She was skeptical that someone would want it but it was gone the next day. If it wasn't for "you are not getting another TV, you have enough already" I would have taken it.
Oh man, I am jealous that you have so many stocked away, that is awesome. I would love to get more, but they certainly take ip a ton of space. That’s nice you were able to save that CRT from going away, and helping out a fellow enthusiast at the same time. Too many being thrown away and recycled, always a sad thing to see!
@@JebberGamingJaws dare to dream. Before I got married they were all stacked up behind a false wall, after I got married they occupy half a storage locker, so yeah the space is definitely a concern.
Nice setup there, nothing beats the look of a CRT when it comes to retro gaming. And honestly, I even connected my Switch to one (standard, not some fancy 16:9 one) with a very cheap HMDI2AV adaptor. And lo and behold: It's awesome, at least I think so. Moreover, playing retro games on the Switch via the CRT feels even better. Good stuff all around! Hope these things will last some more decades - I keep my fingers crossed :)
You have all my favorite games on. I still have my Trinitron from like 99 I think. And a flat screen Samsung plus some other small CRT. I had one of those HD widescreen CRTs; I find those kind to be impossibly heavy. It was really great playing GameCube and Wii in widescreen at the time on that thing; plus with a Dolby surround sound system. Yeah, baby! I'm glad I kept a few of my old TVs. The new HDs don't always look good with the old systems.
I was never huge on how NTSC CRTs are so square as opposed to the 3:2/16:10 PAL CRTs, but I really do miss those big old things. Modern TVs and monitors just don't hit the same. Like compared to ours, US models look more like a 1:1 than a 4:3. We still have ours from the late 90's, their longevity is always understated in favour of newer tech for some reason.
Hell yeah man, nothing like being in the right place at the right time. I may have to get something like a pi3 or something similar set up on the little PVM for the basement.
I wish i had the Place for CRTs i have just Few and only 3 of 5 are Displayed. The Philips raffael Color 636 from 1976, and the SABA M4006 from 1992 and a non Wotking Philips 1956 TV in a cabinet. I never had the money for a PVM.. Thanl you for Sharing.
This is an insane collection. I actually started getting back into crts when I found a Sony 34XS955. HD crts are perfect for ps360 era stuff as well as switch and movies/anime. The only downside is the INSANE weight. I never want to move mine again lol
Beautiful collection of big screen CRTs, I feel you on e the FD Trini being heavy AF, I have a 36" Panasonic SR Acuity, and it takes me and 3 of my neighbours to lift and move it, and I have to slip them a fiver each time lol, it's in the shed at the moment, so will need to call on them all again to get it into its final spot when I've got a heavy-duty stand for it.
Amazing collection, Jaws ! Amazing tv this Panasonic in 480p. I once owned a 14l5 but the tube died, now i am in a search for something capable of 480p lagless.
Man brings back memories i got that Sony 36 inch flat screen.....i use to play nes and Playstation 2 on it.....Sony was cool cuz there tvs back then in the 2000 would come as a package deal tv and sony stand...the picture on the tv was the best.....
If you play retro games you NEED this!! I have two CRT TV's myself... One of them weighed more than Hitlers bunker, but I got it in. Picture is amazing and sound likewise! Only way to play Sega Saturn and PSX.
dang i think the hd retrovision cable finally came out, didn't it? AND the Retrotink 4k was back in stock but that's $750, ooof. I found a 32 inch Sony Trinitron on the curb just a few weeks ago (along with an RCA truflat and a Toshiba CRT) and it was made in 2006, it is beautiful. The Trinitron is definitely beat up and has some dirt but it works great. I found all 3 of these during a small town Recycling event in Wisconsin while driving my school bus route, so I got super lucky. All 3 came from nice little neighborhoods where old people just didn't want them anymore, sadly. There were SO many CRT's that were being recycled and were in hauling away boxes at the local town hall, most of them were just RF or Composite only inpuits, the ones I got all have S-Video and Component, which is awesome. Now I just need the dang consoles again, I had everything prior to 2010 but sold everything before 'retro gaming collecting' got really big. I wish I had a PVM or BVM but it seems those are still very hard to find or they're expensive. The only thing I don't like about CRT's is the whine or noise they make, but I miss the look and glow that they have, it feels like they're alive compared to flat LCD's that are lifeless and too bright.
Sweet setup! I had a D Series but it had a billion hours on it and had issues. I got a 36XBR200 that is my go to 240p/480i content. Also have a 4:3 HDCRT Sony CRT that I can't recall the model number but I use it for 480P stuff and it looks GREAT. Gotta get a 16:9 one like you have though
Very cool. About your "get them for free" comment. Good luck trying that today, at least where I live (Bay Area California). These kinds of CRTs almost never pop up for free and if they do they're gone in minutes. Word has been out for at least 2-3 years now that gamers want them, so people are typically asking $100 or more for them.
Yeah no kidding. I remember 10 years ago you couldn’t give these things away, I’d see them left in alleyways all the time. Now they’re sold as “retro gaming monitors” for pretty high prices. Same with old games themselves, it’s become a collectors market and the prices of everything have become nuts.
Awesome collection! Any recommendations on strong stands to hold these CRTs up? I’m definitely in need of new stands but am struggling to find something strong and nice looking.
Wow man those big TVs look superb ! At some point i owned 7 CRTs but i had to reduced to just 2 because they were breaking my back and gave me an hernia. Nowadays i own a 24" Phillips a little Magnavox 14" and one Sony 32" Plasma. I still browse CL and FB market looking for a good deal so maybe i'm addicted to these monsters. LoL
Tyler Fields from Facebook here. All these look great, and I still have my Samsung CRT that's roughly the size of your widescreen one, just that mine's 4:3 as it's from 1996. I got it from a local flea market for $20. Your overall room setup looks well done too, hope to see more videos!
I had quite an addiction (and still do) to Televisions in the mid to late 90’s through the early 00’s. Aside from the PVM’s I literally owned every TV in your room at one time or another (and several others 🤣) I’d love to get a singular 27” CRT For my game room, but I can never find one in good shape.
That’s a nice collection there man! I’m rocking a 2004 hd 32” Sony wega trinitron crt.. a decent TV but I regret selling the hd 36” Toshiba crt I used to have that is impossible to find nowadays.. the reason I get the progressive scan models is because I actually don’t like scan lines and prefer to old school game with emulation running in 480p
That guy that fixed that Panasonic Tau took it apart, did some cleaning, replaced some capacitors and tested it. Steve from Retro Tech has worked on a ton of CRTs: consumer, computer monitors, and PVMs/BVMs.
These tvs are impossible to carry because of the uneven weight distribution and shape. I carried a 27" Trinitron down the stairs without gloves and felt like my back was gonna break even though I think it's only 80lbs. With a 40" I think you would need 4 people and it's maybe 150lbs. If you carried a 36" by yourself you are a beast!
I have these TVs also I don’t play or watch on them anymore when I have better TVs like the 4K and 8K that costed $14,000 looks amazing with my PC gaming games in 8K nothing beats that
Subscribed! Any suggestions in terms of a CRT that is relatively "lightweight" but still has decent image quality? I'm setting up my new office in 2 weeks and would love me something as lightweight as my Amiga 1084S for my game development endeavors (that monitor would be perfect already, but I'm not sure it supports all the resolutions used by retro consoles, plus it's sort of flickery in interlaced mode).
I have noticed the Sony sets are generally a bit heavier than the other brands for some reason, so maybe avoid those! If you go with a 20” or a 27”, those are still a bit heavy but a lot more manageable. I certainly think JVC is a good brand, I’ve heard great things about Toshibas as well but have not tried them myself. Good luck setting up your new office!
@@JebberGamingJaws I would hold off just a bit though. TakiUdon on UA-cam is coming out with a DE-10 Nano clone board for about half the price. That should cut down the cost quite a bit.
I've been trying to find an old crt tv with hdmi and widescreen but everytime I find one they cost 5xs more than the retrotink 5x so I think I'm gonna get a retrotink 5x lol.
I grew up with crt’s and gigantic projection tv’s! Around 2004 I was rewarded a brand spankin’ new black Sharp crt tv because my mom, step dad and I lived at our apartment for one whole year lol. It must’ve been a 20 incher. I played a lifetime of PS2 on that thing. We also had a silver/gray flat teen sony Trintron crt in our living room at that time. Unfortunately I threw the Sharp tv away when I was in my mid twenties ( what a moron). I have no clue what happened to that grey sony Trintron. I believe my step pops recycled it 😥 Fast forward to today and I have slowly been growing my cathode ray tube collection 📺 I have two 20” Sony Trinitrons, a 19” Trintron, a 13” Trintron, a tiny Panasonic w/built in vcr and a big ole 27” Trintron that’s currently in a repair shop. They’re all black with rounded tube screen. That’s my ideal crt. Not a fan of the silver/gray ones. Happy hunting y’all
Great video! I have a Sony kv-34hs420. It’s been great and paid $60 for it almost 4 years ago. Have you ventured too much into the service menu of that tv by chance?
Oh nice! 34” sounds amazing for that set👌. I haven’t done too much yet, I heard you can correct the overscan, which I definitely need to spend some time figuring out! It’s not too bad with some consoles that I can resize through the console directly, but it would be nice to just adjust it at the level of the TV itself.
All the current state of the art 4k oled monitors, all the new $2K GPUs cannot recreate the happiness of these games and monitors when you were a kid ..
My Memorex just died (constantly power cycling), thinking about getting a Sony, Pansonic, or RCA. I have a backup Toshiba but it has a discolored spot on the screen, where degaussing it has failed.
I have a 32 inch Sony Wega non hd but has component and s video. A 24 JVC musee i art flat screen that has component and s video. Then my childhood 19 Magnavox that is rf only. I love them.
Big crt don’t necessarily look good compared to flat screens tv’s but there’s no denying retro games look and play best on them. We had a very good jvc crt with rgb input and my big brother gave it away free to his girlfriend. Pissed off till this day!
just getting back into retro games after my 10 year hiatus. i kept that same exact 19 inch pvm you have there though! my power button likes to pop out if you don't press it in diagonally =/ i think i may look into getting like a 27 or 32 inch crt for systems that don't do scart. i didn't even know they made widescreen crt's like that one you have here! i'd love to hook up a switch to that, does it have hdmi? great vid!
@@JebberGamingJaws i just nabbed a Panasonic CT-34WX54J tau and picking it up saturday! ahhh, it's only 30 minutes away. can't wait! so i'm reading this 34inch widescreen crt does 1080i which ps5 can do (for indies, pixel art games) but switch games will only go up to 480p and cuts the screen off some? do you get fullscreen on your sony? or do you have some kind of converter box? really want the switch on this tv somehow. thanks!
So I want to know, what would the theoretical highest resolution be that a CRT could go up to if there was still innovation in the production of CRTs? They can indeed do 1080i and higher with decent refresh rates, but what could they get to and would they still be able to have high refresh rates, maybe even higher than CRTs normally are? And also I know the monitors had to be higher resolutions to display text nicely, but why didn't they make the TVs high definition when they clearly had the technology for it?
I have two decent 32" CRT TV's. One is a Sanyo and the better one is a Phillips. Both have composite,S-video,and component, everything I need basically. Have all my old systems running to both of those. Including a good VCR for my old VHS collection. But... My Phillips has developed a thing where the right side dims and the color warps after a little while being on. Is there a fix to that, or are it's days at a close end? Mostly happens more/faster on static scenes than fast moving high action scenes in games.
I assume there isn't a speaker to the right of the Philips (not the TV's own speaker)? I expect you know, but for anyone that may not, speakers generally have large magnets inside which don't get on well with CRTs (distorting color). Probably not the issue, but just in case!
Remember to always clean the inside of those CRT TVs or they'll explode inside. It unfortunately happened with my families Magnavox got too dusty and set a spark killing the motherboard inside.
Having CRT's to close to each other can be bad in the long term, especially if speakers are on the side like your wide-screen. The magnets in the speakers will over time start to stretch the picture of the screen sat next to it. While both screens are there you won't see the distortion, but 5-10 years from now and if one dies and is moved having been stood next to each other that long the image will slowly pull towards where the magnets were on the removed screen... Try to get 1/2 a meter gap between CRT's. Move the wide-screen slightly away more from the other screen, and think about moving the white, and smaller black one on top of the other screen.
Good info, thanks. I actually don’t usually have them as close as in the video, was just trying to have everything together and on for easy filming. I am glad to know this though, and will def try to spread my regular set up a little more than I generally have it. Thanks!
Hey, Not sure exactly which one you are talking about, but here are the games: JVC: Castlevania Bloodlines on Genesis. White PVM: Super Castlevania IV on Super Nintendo. Sony Trinitron: Castlevania Symphony of the Night on PS1.
I actually did have a PS4 hooked up a little while ago, thought it was great. Really love the way Series S games play on it as well. I don’t have a Steam Deck unfortunately, but maybe I’ll give the PS5 a whirl…
Hell yeah man, that is definitely a bit more reasonable than this madness 😆. I really do love it though, so it is worth it for me, but I can def see how it is not for everyone. Thanks for stopping by 🤙.
I have a bang & olufsen mx4000 but the geometry sucks. On every other console it varies and cant get it centre. Looking for a new CRT. Do you have any recommendations of a sony trinitron?
That is a bummer about the geometry issues, that is definitely a downside to a lot of tube sets :/. In general I would just try to shoot for a trinitron that has component inputs, or at least s-video. And also just make sure it is a standard definition set, not an HDCRT. They can be really hard to tell from just looking, so if you are able to get the model # ahead of time and make sure, that’s a great idea! Good luck finding one!
@@JebberGamingJaws thanks for your reply. At the moment looking for a sony trinitron and found a kv-28fx65b. I am in the Europe so they also have a scart input and i am mainly using scart because i have a scart switcher. Is this a good solution?
@@JebberGamingJaws oh thats a bummer for you guys there… there are a lot series of a sony trinitron. Does it matter which one i get? Sorry i am a newbie to the CRT world
@@ym6297 I don’t really think so. There are people that say the FV300 and FV310 are the best, but in my experience they are all so good that I wouldn’t turn down any of them. As long as it is a standard definition set, and in good working condition, it should give a really nice image.
the panasonic looked so amazing
The depth on a CRT is unreal. I've also been enjoying watching movies and TV shows as well. Sin City was incredible.
SO true! It really is amazing to see it after having been on modern TVs for so many years. I watched through most of GOT on the Widescreen CRT and it was so great.
Yes approx 3 feet ;)
I miss tube TVs . I wish i could afford the HD Trinitron tube TV
You don't have to go with a Trini set, Panasonic TAU, JVC I'Art, Toshiba A-Series, are all just as good, if not better in some cases, don't sleep on RCA (Thomson) either, or Hitachi, Sharp, all the Japan made CRTs are crem'da'la'crem, your main concern is getting one with as low hours as possible, if you are ok with a smaller set, PC monitor CRTs are a great option, a 17 or 18 incher can be had for a reasonable amount, and lastly, look into plasmas, they are not by any means a bad alternative to CRTs if you are after a bigger screen for your retro games, keep in mind a plasma will need an OSSC or RetroTink for the quality integer scaling they have to keep 240p games looking crispy.
@@Wobble2007 I would like to add that the Korean ones are good too, mainly LG and Samsung and even Daewoo, especially later models are comparable to Sonys, I have a 2008 Samsung that is my best CRT for sure in terms of picture quality and probably one of the last ever made and a 36inch LG FLATRON from 2006 that is great. Honestly all CRTs are good and an improvement over LCDs for retro games, if the tube is in good shape and not too dim or defective then you're good.
@Wobble2007 hi got a biggish toshiba vintage retro tv of ebay 2 years ago. It's about 32 inch...,...its definitely an upgrade from the smaller toshiba tv. The bigger one looks great on splinter cell 1 on first xbox and chaos theory. Not sure if it's a series or af or some thing.
@@AJ-po6up 100%, in fact, I rate the Hyundai ImageQuest Q995 one of the best CRTs ever made.
I found a 32 inch Sony Trinitron on the curb someone was throwing away, its plugged in in my garage with a Super Nes atm where the kids are playing Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country (don't own many games atm cuz I sold all mine as a kid before they were even born), but man do those games look amazing on that thing. I think its more of a flat screen and the scanlines look incredible, even on a Composite cable the picture is so much clearer than I remember as a kid.
Symphony of the Night on a CRT, what a Dream ❤❤❤
I played it on a CRT back in 2000s in a friends home
@@zephyrr108 Just like me. ^^
I really like the internal heating setup you got going on there. Nice CRT's by the way!
Man, watching this reminds me when I was gaming in 90s as young boy again. So nostalgia and best decade ever!
No motion blur is the greatest advantage CRTs have over modern displays at this point in my opinion. I have many options to play my retro consoles, but the CRT is still king.
Well that's just it. CRT's are still king in the motion clarity department, simply because they have no motion blur. And there's zero latency, although games running at 120-144fps on QD-OLED drops input lag down to 5ms, which is good enough imo. Plus 120-144fps cuts down 50-60% of OLED motion blur, which gets you into plasma motion clarity territory.
The best you can do with 60fps gaming on QD-OLED like with those HD Clone FPGA consoles like Super Nt, Mega Sg, Duo(etc) or even the original consoles, is by pairing them with an expensive scaler via HDMI or component(HD Retrovision)like the RetroTINK4K, and using it's 60hz BFI(plus HDR to SDR brightness boosting trick to compensate for the 50% drop in brightness by using BFI), which will wipe out 50% of OLED motion blur.
Supposedly the TINK4K adds 2ms of lag on it's own, it's 60hz BFI adds another 8ms, and you'll get a few more ms of latency from that HDR SDR brightness booster setting. So probably less than 15ms total that you'll be dealing with. Sure, QD-OLED + Tink4K has perfect blacks, higher brightness and progressive scan for retro gaming, but CRT still has zero lag & zero motion blur. ;)
The problem is, finding something like a 27" Sony WEGA Trinitron CRT these days with low hours is becoming extremely difficult. These are 15 year old TV's. They won't look as bright as they once did, black levels will be lighter and the colours won't be quite as good either.
A QD-OLED(Think Samsung S90D) + RetroTINK4K is the next best alternative. ;)
@@80sHolic7 ok
@@IIIISai I just rechecked my post, and holy crap that was frikkin long. That's what can happen when you're on a total caffeine kick. ;) Ramble ramble.
But thanks for taking the time out of your day with a useless 'OK'. lol ;)
@@80sHolic7 Funny enough I have both the RetroTINK4k and the 27" Sony WEGA Trinitron CRT you mentioned. Both are amazing, and I move my MiSTer between the two. For the TINK the LG OLED BFI does a good job of addressing motion blur, but the nits aren't high enough on my set, and increasing them too high on the TINK I seem to lose detail and the colors look off - which is not the TINKs fault it's the modern TV. It's worth noting that motion blur only bothers me in fast paced 2D games, so N64, PSX, GameCube and other 3D console I leave BFI off and it looks close to CRT quality to me. The CRT looks great, and I know it's not as good as it was new, but I honestly can't see any color or other issues, and I accept that nothing in the analog world is perfect. I have the TINK4k because it's awesome, and while I'll never part with my CRT for as long as I live, when modern TVs improve or my CRT dies I hope to get a comparable experience on modern TVs with the TINK.
This looks fantastic. Thank you for showing.
That's an excellent collection of CRTs 👌❤️
thanks for sharing your setup man, puts a smile on my face seeing ppl having a great time with retro gaming on crts!!
Great collection man, thanks for sharing. I can't imagine the battle that took place getting that 36" Sony to where it is now haha. The crt I'm currently using is a sony kv-32fv15 from 1999. It has svideo, component and composite inputs, and weighs in at 176lb. Boy do I have a story about how it got in my basement, but it was totally worth the struggle!
I hear ya man! Not fun moving them, but so nice once they are in their place. Sounds like an excellent TV too, having Svideo and Component is def a must!
The warm glow you refer to is the natural incandescence CRTs have, from the phosphors and electron gun, plasmas have it to a certain degree too, the phosphors get excited a different way, but it's not too far from a CRT, nothing can replace that almost three-dimensional depth of the image though imo, unless we are talking the new 16K OLED light-field displays, but there is more to it than that with CRTs, it's the natural dynamic motion they have, the greyscale performance, the shadow-detail that makes games like Doom 3 or Resident Evil pop, I think when eQD is readily available, and an 8K or even 16K RetroTink to use with it, at that point, there may be a genuine option to replace the big screen CRTs with at least, replacing PVM/BVM/PCM CRTs will be a tall order though.
I'm so glad there is a video on this topic
4:40 really like this one, Man I miss the old Crt my family used to have when I was a child, can't even remember the brand.
I don't know why, I simply like Crt.
I understand completely, there’s just something about ‘em!
Very nice. I lugged three CRT TV's and two CRT monitors on my move from NJ to NC. Gotta hang on to these!
Absolutely! The JVC I actually brought from Michigan to Pennsylvania, my family all thought I was nuts 😆.
@@JebberGamingJaws Haha, join the club. My family has no respect for CRT's!
I use to have a 36 inch Sony Wega with a 2 tuner PIP that tv was great for gaming while watching tv at the same time 😂 Those were the days !
One of my top #10 reasons for wanting to move out of my apartment and get a house is to have more room for CRTs. My 36" Trinitron is stored safely at my parents house but that thing is going to need a custom built crate for it without handles as I never want to carry it up/down stairs again without that. I do like it's flat screen for 3D gaming but for 3D/Sprite games I actually prefer my curved screens.
Yea I found a 32 inch Trinitron on the curb and I almost didn't take it as it sat there for a few days because it was so heavy, I needed to have help to lift it into my suv, and it took up the entire trunk space. A 36 inch I couldn't imagine lifting.
I bet those bad boys generate a lot of heat!
DAYUM. This is a very nice collection. Great video, man!
Nice!
Probably the biggest fat back TV collection seen this side of 1990 ! 👌
Very cool, personally I have 3 set up (woodgrain for my atari and intelevision, component input for 6th generation, and my childhood crt for everything else). The other 15 or so I have in storage, because as you said they aren't getting younger and once they're dead they're dead. I got most of mine for real cheap as well, most people were "free, just take it."
Fun story, when my grandma-in-law moved into assisted living she had a component input 100 pound CRT in her basement. My mother-in-law was all frustrated that she'd have to pay someone to move it (because she didn't want anyone in her family getting hurt carrying it up the stairs) and then pay to dispose it. I turned it on and said "tube looks good and has the uncommon component inputs, put it on craigslist as 'free you just have to move it.'" She was skeptical that someone would want it but it was gone the next day. If it wasn't for "you are not getting another TV, you have enough already" I would have taken it.
Oh man, I am jealous that you have so many stocked away, that is awesome. I would love to get more, but they certainly take ip a ton of space. That’s nice you were able to save that CRT from going away, and helping out a fellow enthusiast at the same time. Too many being thrown away and recycled, always a sad thing to see!
@@JebberGamingJaws dare to dream. Before I got married they were all stacked up behind a false wall, after I got married they occupy half a storage locker, so yeah the space is definitely a concern.
Nice setup there, nothing beats the look of a CRT when it comes to retro gaming. And honestly, I even connected my Switch to one (standard, not some fancy 16:9 one) with a very cheap HMDI2AV adaptor. And lo and behold: It's awesome, at least I think so. Moreover, playing retro games on the Switch via the CRT feels even better. Good stuff all around! Hope these things will last some more decades - I keep my fingers crossed :)
You have all my favorite games on. I still have my Trinitron from like 99 I think. And a flat screen Samsung plus some other small CRT. I had one of those HD widescreen CRTs; I find those kind to be impossibly heavy. It was really great playing GameCube and Wii in widescreen at the time on that thing; plus with a Dolby surround sound system. Yeah, baby! I'm glad I kept a few of my old TVs. The new HDs don't always look good with the old systems.
Super cool collection!
I was never huge on how NTSC CRTs are so square as opposed to the 3:2/16:10 PAL CRTs, but I really do miss those big old things.
Modern TVs and monitors just don't hit the same.
Like compared to ours, US models look more like a 1:1 than a 4:3. We still have ours from the late 90's, their longevity is always understated in favour of newer tech for some reason.
I recently got a crt free from work. I hooked it to my pi3 and it's such a great set up. A little old and new tech gaming
Hell yeah man, nothing like being in the right place at the right time. I may have to get something like a pi3 or something similar set up on the little PVM for the basement.
Great TV Collection 🔥🔥🔥
I wish i had the Place for CRTs i have just Few and only 3 of 5 are Displayed. The Philips raffael Color 636 from 1976, and the SABA M4006 from 1992 and a non Wotking Philips 1956 TV in a cabinet. I never had the money for a PVM..
Thanl you for Sharing.
You are living my dream mate, fucking beautiful image quality on these sets. Greetings from England!
This is an insane collection. I actually started getting back into crts when I found a Sony 34XS955. HD crts are perfect for ps360 era stuff as well as switch and movies/anime. The only downside is the INSANE weight. I never want to move mine again lol
crt is the way to play retro games
Great video man. You know I love my CRT’s and PVM’s. Still always chasing my white whale BVM.
Beautiful collection of big screen CRTs, I feel you on e the FD Trini being heavy AF, I have a 36" Panasonic SR Acuity, and it takes me and 3 of my neighbours to lift and move it, and I have to slip them a fiver each time lol, it's in the shed at the moment, so will need to call on them all again to get it into its final spot when I've got a heavy-duty stand for it.
That’s one of the best crt edtv!
Amazing collection, Jaws ! Amazing tv this Panasonic in 480p. I once owned a 14l5 but the tube died, now i am in a search for something capable of 480p lagless.
Man brings back memories i got that Sony 36 inch flat screen.....i use to play nes and Playstation 2 on it.....Sony was cool cuz there tvs back then in the 2000 would come as a package deal tv and sony stand...the picture on the tv was the best.....
Oh crap, welcome back dude! I just saw your video pop up in my feed and i was shocked to see it
Thanks, feels good to be back, been too long for sure!
Damn that's a nice collection, I wish I had a setup like that, well at least I have my commodore 1701 for now.
Yall are so lucky when it comes to CRT’s. I just got lucky with a Panasonic Quinteix SR Acuity. EDTV with the best pq I have ever seen.
nice collection bruh.
i have only a 32 inch hd crt but i love it.
hunting a sd crt right now
Looks good
If you play retro games you NEED this!! I have two CRT TV's myself... One of them weighed more than Hitlers bunker, but I got it in. Picture is amazing and sound likewise! Only way to play Sega Saturn and PSX.
dang i think the hd retrovision cable finally came out, didn't it?
AND the Retrotink 4k was back in stock but that's $750, ooof.
I found a 32 inch Sony Trinitron on the curb just a few weeks ago (along with an RCA truflat and a Toshiba CRT) and it was made in 2006, it is beautiful. The Trinitron is definitely beat up and has some dirt but it works great.
I found all 3 of these during a small town Recycling event in Wisconsin while driving my school bus route, so I got super lucky. All 3 came from nice little neighborhoods where old people just didn't want them anymore, sadly.
There were SO many CRT's that were being recycled and were in hauling away boxes at the local town hall, most of them were just RF or Composite only inpuits, the ones I got all have S-Video and Component, which is awesome. Now I just need the dang consoles again, I had everything prior to 2010 but sold everything before 'retro gaming collecting' got really big.
I wish I had a PVM or BVM but it seems those are still very hard to find or they're expensive.
The only thing I don't like about CRT's is the whine or noise they make, but I miss the look and glow that they have, it feels like they're alive compared to flat LCD's that are lifeless and too bright.
Sweet setup! I had a D Series but it had a billion hours on it and had issues. I got a 36XBR200 that is my go to 240p/480i content. Also have a 4:3 HDCRT Sony CRT that I can't recall the model number but I use it for 480P stuff and it looks GREAT. Gotta get a 16:9 one like you have though
Just replace the capacitors on the Panasonic tau.
Very cool. About your "get them for free" comment. Good luck trying that today, at least where I live (Bay Area California). These kinds of CRTs almost never pop up for free and if they do they're gone in minutes. Word has been out for at least 2-3 years now that gamers want them, so people are typically asking $100 or more for them.
Yeah no kidding. I remember 10 years ago you couldn’t give these things away, I’d see them left in alleyways all the time. Now they’re sold as “retro gaming monitors” for pretty high prices. Same with old games themselves, it’s become a collectors market and the prices of everything have become nuts.
Awesome collection!
Any recommendations on strong stands to hold these CRTs up? I’m definitely in need of new stands but am struggling to find something strong and nice looking.
I really like the 36 Sony Trinitron
Wow man those big TVs look superb ! At some point i owned 7 CRTs but i had to reduced to just 2 because they were breaking my back and gave me an hernia. Nowadays i own a 24" Phillips a little Magnavox 14" and one Sony 32" Plasma. I still browse CL and FB market looking for a good deal so maybe i'm addicted to these monsters. LoL
I know the feeling, I think I’m slightly addicted too 😆.
Tyler Fields from Facebook here. All these look great, and I still have my Samsung CRT that's roughly the size of your widescreen one, just that mine's 4:3 as it's from 1996. I got it from a local flea market for $20. Your overall room setup looks well done too, hope to see more videos!
Heck yeah, a quality CRT for $20 is absolutely a win 👌! Thanks for swinging by, I’m hoping to start posting a bit more regularly again.
I had quite an addiction (and still do) to Televisions in the mid to late 90’s through the early 00’s. Aside from the PVM’s I literally owned every TV in your room at one time or another (and several others 🤣)
I’d love to get a singular 27” CRT For my game room, but I can never find one in good shape.
That’s a nice collection there man! I’m rocking a 2004 hd 32” Sony wega trinitron crt.. a decent TV but I regret selling the hd 36” Toshiba crt I used to have that is impossible to find nowadays.. the reason I get the progressive scan models is because I actually don’t like scan lines and prefer to old school game with emulation running in 480p
One CRT is missing bro, Commodore c1702! It’s to be the cherry on your collection. ✌️
Nice! What would be the best crt for gaming?
Crt's were awesome by the way what is holding up the floor in that bedroom? Those things are heavy
Ficou muito bom ter essas Tv para a coleção de video games ficou muito bacana
That guy that fixed that Panasonic Tau took it apart, did some cleaning, replaced some capacitors and tested it. Steve from Retro Tech has worked on a ton of CRTs: consumer, computer monitors, and PVMs/BVMs.
These tvs are impossible to carry because of the uneven weight distribution and shape. I carried a 27" Trinitron down the stairs without gloves and felt like my back was gonna break even though I think it's only 80lbs. With a 40" I think you would need 4 people and it's maybe 150lbs. If you carried a 36" by yourself you are a beast!
I have these TVs also I don’t play or watch on them anymore when I have better TVs like the 4K and 8K that costed $14,000 looks amazing with my PC gaming games in 8K nothing beats that
Might be time to pass them on to someone who will enjoy them!
JVC the best!
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Any suggestions in terms of a CRT that is relatively "lightweight" but still has decent image quality?
I'm setting up my new office in 2 weeks and would love me something as lightweight as my Amiga 1084S for my game development endeavors (that monitor would be perfect already, but I'm not sure it supports all the resolutions used by retro consoles, plus it's sort of flickery in interlaced mode).
I have noticed the Sony sets are generally a bit heavier than the other brands for some reason, so maybe avoid those! If you go with a 20” or a 27”, those are still a bit heavy but a lot more manageable. I certainly think JVC is a good brand, I’ve heard great things about Toshibas as well but have not tried them myself. Good luck setting up your new office!
For your 13" PVM, grab a MiSTer FPGA and connect it up. Super simple, accurate, and tons of selection for games.
That is actually a great idea, thanks, I’ll look into that!
@@JebberGamingJaws I would hold off just a bit though. TakiUdon on UA-cam is coming out with a DE-10 Nano clone board for about half the price. That should cut down the cost quite a bit.
Love these
Thanks man, I really love them as well, CRTs are the best!
Great video sir. Working on the same low key, haven't made any post yet.
I've been trying to find an old crt tv with hdmi and widescreen but everytime I find one they cost 5xs more than the retrotink 5x so I think I'm gonna get a retrotink 5x lol.
I went retrorink a couple years ago and don't miss anything about crt. Get one. You won't regret it.
Man of culture here
I grew up with crt’s and gigantic projection tv’s! Around 2004 I was rewarded a brand spankin’ new black Sharp crt tv because my mom, step dad and I lived at our apartment for one whole year lol. It must’ve been a 20 incher. I played a lifetime of PS2 on that thing. We also had a silver/gray flat teen sony Trintron crt in our living room at that time. Unfortunately I threw the Sharp tv away when I was in my mid twenties ( what a moron). I have no clue what happened to that grey sony Trintron. I believe my step pops recycled it 😥 Fast forward to today and I have slowly been growing my cathode ray tube collection 📺 I have two 20” Sony Trinitrons, a 19” Trintron, a 13” Trintron, a tiny Panasonic w/built in vcr and a big ole 27” Trintron that’s currently in a repair shop. They’re all black with rounded tube screen. That’s my ideal crt. Not a fan of the silver/gray ones. Happy hunting y’all
Great video! I have a Sony kv-34hs420. It’s been great and paid $60 for it almost 4 years ago. Have you ventured too much into the service menu of that tv by chance?
Oh nice! 34” sounds amazing for that set👌. I haven’t done too much yet, I heard you can correct the overscan, which I definitely need to spend some time figuring out! It’s not too bad with some consoles that I can resize through the console directly, but it would be nice to just adjust it at the level of the TV itself.
All the current state of the art 4k oled monitors, all the new $2K GPUs cannot recreate the happiness of these games and monitors when you were a kid ..
My Memorex just died (constantly power cycling), thinking about getting a Sony, Pansonic, or RCA. I have a backup Toshiba but it has a discolored spot on the screen, where degaussing it has failed.
I've got the 36" sony wega high def wide screen. All 200lbs of it. Got a 27" jvc i'art too.
36” widescreen sounds amazing 🤤. I have heard great things about the i’art as well.
I have a 32 inch Sony Wega non hd but has component and s video. A 24 JVC musee i art flat screen that has component and s video. Then my childhood 19 Magnavox that is rf only. I love them.
Big crt don’t necessarily look good compared to flat screens tv’s but there’s no denying retro games look and play best on them. We had a very good jvc crt with rgb input and my big brother gave it away free to his girlfriend. Pissed off till this day!
just getting back into retro games after my 10 year hiatus. i kept that same exact 19 inch pvm you have there though! my power button likes to pop out if you don't press it in diagonally =/ i think i may look into getting like a 27 or 32 inch crt for systems that don't do scart. i didn't even know they made widescreen crt's like that one you have here! i'd love to hook up a switch to that, does it have hdmi? great vid!
Yep, has HDMI port all ready to go! They are amazing sets.
@@JebberGamingJaws i just nabbed a Panasonic CT-34WX54J tau and picking it up saturday! ahhh, it's only 30 minutes away. can't wait!
so i'm reading this 34inch widescreen crt does 1080i which ps5 can do (for indies, pixel art games) but switch games will only go up to 480p and cuts the screen off some? do you get fullscreen on your sony? or do you have some kind of converter box? really want the switch on this tv somehow. thanks!
Please please please tell me, what causes breathing of the picture with bright scenes, and what can be done about it?
Console Collector has a room full of CRTs in one of the rooms in his lower level. It’s right off his game room, kiosk corner and video rental corner.
Oh absolutely, I love his CRT collection video! I also loved his video telling how he got his 310. Great stuff!
I'm in Australia work at a rubbish dump we used to throw out 5 a day 10 years ago and we barely get any now there's not that many out there these days
So I want to know, what would the theoretical highest resolution be that a CRT could go up to if there was still innovation in the production of CRTs? They can indeed do 1080i and higher with decent refresh rates, but what could they get to and would they still be able to have high refresh rates, maybe even higher than CRTs normally are? And also I know the monitors had to be higher resolutions to display text nicely, but why didn't they make the TVs high definition when they clearly had the technology for it?
I would recommend checking out Digital Foundry’s video on the FW900. It’s the Lamborghini of CRTs, and they cover it in detail.
Perfecto ❤❤❤ crt🤤🤤🤤🤤
I have two decent 32" CRT TV's. One is a Sanyo and the better one is a Phillips. Both have composite,S-video,and component, everything I need basically. Have all my old systems running to both of those. Including a good VCR for my old VHS collection. But... My Phillips has developed a thing where the right side dims and the color warps after a little while being on. Is there a fix to that, or are it's days at a close end? Mostly happens more/faster on static scenes than fast moving high action scenes in games.
I assume there isn't a speaker to the right of the Philips (not the TV's own speaker)? I expect you know, but for anyone that may not, speakers generally have large magnets inside which don't get on well with CRTs (distorting color). Probably not the issue, but just in case!
Always been “Philips” now. Mandela Effect.
@@nyccollin 😉
@@rosstee I definitely remember it as Phillips as well.
@@rosstee Why did you edit your comment? Haha it was PHILLIPS. I know the spelling changed retroactively but I remember what it was just like you do.
Wow nice.
Looks expensive to run all that.
Cooool 🤙
How many years ago did you get that D Series with the matching stand?
I believe it was 2016.
holy moley i cant even imagine what your electric bill was after filming this video having all those crt's on 🤣
Lol, just filmed it this morning, so I will have to wait and see 😅😱.
This is also a game room tour.
Remember to always clean the inside of those CRT TVs or they'll explode inside. It unfortunately happened with my families Magnavox got too dusty and set a spark killing the motherboard inside.
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Hell yes
i remember my first television is sony trinitron
hell yeah
you ever considerd bang olufsen? biovision or other ones
Absolutely, if I ever were to come upon one, I would love it. Their design is super cool, and they have RGB on board if I’m not mistaken?
Fucken beautiful man
Thank ya, they’re a ton of fun to use!
Having CRT's to close to each other can be bad in the long term, especially if speakers are on the side like your wide-screen. The magnets in the speakers will over time start to stretch the picture of the screen sat next to it. While both screens are there you won't see the distortion, but 5-10 years from now and if one dies and is moved having been stood next to each other that long the image will slowly pull towards where the magnets were on the removed screen...
Try to get 1/2 a meter gap between CRT's. Move the wide-screen slightly away more from the other screen, and think about moving the white, and smaller black one on top of the other screen.
Good info, thanks. I actually don’t usually have them as close as in the video, was just trying to have everything together and on for easy filming. I am glad to know this though, and will def try to spread my regular set up a little more than I generally have it. Thanks!
Hey anyone know what that second castlevania game was it looked like aria of sorrow but it looked like alucard as the playable character
Hey, Not sure exactly which one you are talking about, but here are the games:
JVC: Castlevania Bloodlines on Genesis.
White PVM: Super Castlevania IV on Super Nintendo.
Sony Trinitron: Castlevania Symphony of the Night on PS1.
Try playing the Steam Deck and PS5 on that Sony HD CRT.
I actually did have a PS4 hooked up a little while ago, thought it was great. Really love the way Series S games play on it as well. I don’t have a Steam Deck unfortunately, but maybe I’ll give the PS5 a whirl…
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Nice, but it takes up a lot of space. I use Batocera and have an emulator for 100 consoles on Led TV.
Hell yeah man, that is definitely a bit more reasonable than this madness 😆. I really do love it though, so it is worth it for me, but I can def see how it is not for everyone. Thanks for stopping by 🤙.
I have a bang & olufsen mx4000 but the geometry sucks. On every other console it varies and cant get it centre. Looking for a new CRT. Do you have any recommendations of a sony trinitron?
That is a bummer about the geometry issues, that is definitely a downside to a lot of tube sets :/. In general I would just try to shoot for a trinitron that has component inputs, or at least s-video. And also just make sure it is a standard definition set, not an HDCRT. They can be really hard to tell from just looking, so if you are able to get the model # ahead of time and make sure, that’s a great idea! Good luck finding one!
@@JebberGamingJaws thanks for your reply. At the moment looking for a sony trinitron and found a kv-28fx65b. I am in the Europe so they also have a scart input and i am mainly using scart because i have a scart switcher. Is this a good solution?
@@ym6297 Oh that is great, even better! I’m jealous that you guys have SCART on most CRTs. A lot more complicated over here in the states.
@@JebberGamingJaws oh thats a bummer for you guys there… there are a lot series of a sony trinitron. Does it matter which one i get? Sorry i am a newbie to the CRT world
@@ym6297 I don’t really think so. There are people that say the FV300 and FV310 are the best, but in my experience they are all so good that I wouldn’t turn down any of them. As long as it is a standard definition set, and in good working condition, it should give a really nice image.