Nice vid! I started CRT collecting/gaming 4 years ago. I had all my old consoles in storage and hated the pixelated look on LCDs. I saw a PVM in a reddit battlestation post and I just liked the aesthetic of that "TV" so I searched about it and that's when I got hooked. I realized I've been missing that classic display. Even on PS3 era, I would play the PS1 classics on my RF 19" Daewoo. For me I need razor sharp component/RGB, I had RF from SNES to PS3 people!! I was always craving an s-video port or even composite but I was a poor kid and had a trash TV so now I can finally enjoy the insane beautiful RGB on a CRT! The vibrant and "alive" visual style of that 90s art on a CRT is just stunning. I was lucky to get some pristine condition PVMs for a decent price, yeah not free but $130 for 14" PVM and $222 for 20" medical PVM. Any CRT with component will be very good in 240p, each with their own unique look.
Those are some awesome monitors for a great price. I got lucky with my Ikegami 20 inch monitor for only $400. I use component cables with it and love how good it looks. I keep telling myself to order a set of RGB sync on composite cables to really see just how true RGB looks like in person as compared to HD Retrovision cables. I started back 6 years ago collecting, before the price increases. I tried LCD screens and yes like you said the looks was not for me.
@@JoeRetroWorld I know the feeling of wanting "true RGB" and I have SCART cables and a SCART switcher but I ended up connecting it to a RGB to component converter so I could split that signal to my PVM and a 27" FV310. So basically your HD Retrovision cables are doing the same thing, it looks identical to RGB. I wouldn't waste $$$ on more cables (well actually I did cuz I was curious like you lol) and in the end it's pretty much the same except you can't adjust the image settings in RGB mode so I kinda like component more cuz I like to adjust the color/contrast for certain games or consoles.
I would advise to focus on small/medium size quality brand ones. 13-21 inch. Sony, Philips, JVC, B&O, Loewe. Preferably with SCART RGB/s-video. Don't go too big, 20/21 inch has a manageable weight. For example the Sony KV-M1450D is easy to find, not too expensive, and a damn fine display. Don't go after PVM's as the scanlines are too pronounced on that, and you pay 5 times as much.
@@JoeRetroWorld RF only 13 inch Orion from 1999 and a 27 inch Emerson flat screen from 2005, and the Emerson has S video...and razer sharp picture quality especially on 2D games and DVDs especially cartoons look awesome as well.
@polycube868 s video shows great. I used that for the longest time with my Super Nintendo. Now I have my Saturn hooked up using svideo to my big Toshiba 36a43. That Orion is a good set, I had one for years.
@@JoeRetroWorld I'm commenting while watching the Saturn video, love the Saturn, it might be the best looking console on my Emerson via S video...I got a Saturn after I heard Sega Lord X talk about how great it was and how affordable Japanese imports are...my favorite Saturn games are Nights into Dreams, Daytona USA, Sonic Jam and Astal.
do you know of any CRTs that accept both NTSC and PAL signal? any suggestions? looking mainly for ones that accept composite and s-video, anything around or under 20 inches. i may have found one i'm interested in but i'd like to know if there's any others i should check out. thank you
All Sony's do after about 1990. Or MX4000 and up from B&O. S-video is really rare on tiny sets, but you will find it on 20 inch Sony's. They all have RGB here though.
I picked up a Sony Vega KV-36HS420 for $5 a couple weeks ago and I love it. One of the “newer” Trinitron Hi Scan CRTs with an HDMI. Everyone says hi scan models are bad for 240p retro games because it upscales the image and makes it appear blurry, which may be true if you’re using original hardware that outputs 240p. However, now that companies like Analogue make amazing retro consoles like the super nt and mega sd, this is no longer an issue. Everything has HDMI converters. GameCube, Dreamcast, SNES, you name it. I can literally play anything, even a PS5 on this CRT and it’s glorious.
the best crt's you will buy are high dot matrix screens.. best resolution likely go scart, Component , s-video other the best "visual" screen for computer graphics you will get lcd for your retro gaming fix however these days it's more like how to connected traditional AV and have it connect to hdmi without the handshake isn't the issues.. though once I went hdmi on the ps3 and 360 i haven't looked back in terms of how to connect to a modern display. I have lived on rf, composite, component, s-video and scart as av solutions for close on 30 years and still own all my my av consoles.. and still own my joytech av switches .. In 2023 I think composite and RF analog would be par on par within resolution status today vs what it was like when these consoles first saw the light of day.. my 51cm nec has the best crt res though from the standpoint of my 68cm sharp best graphical; res it had was from s-video both component and component was about the same on the 68cm and we had access 32" wide screen tv's predating digital transmission tv's same with wide screens in use if you had the finances to purchase them.. whilst i ove crt's for thier longevity (screen only) the downside i the chassis is the plastic has about25-30 year life span with constant use
I love those cute 13/14 inch Trinitrons. They seem so have a very high brightness, maybe they have less power-on hours than the bigger ones, no idea, but you can see it in your video as well.
I just picked up a 27" panasonic i think its a ct27e13. It has component, s-video. Now i have 2 other great crt's for sale but everyone that hits me up is like oh yuck it only has composite. Lol its hilarious how people have changed so much with that in the last 5 years. I used them forever with just composite no problems. Honestly some tv's are better like that because it's only got one input on the board. I have that same 20 panasonic but without the vcr and a toshiba flat with dvd and vhs combo.
Look up metal shelves from them like this one www.amazon.com/WDT-Commercial-Utility-Cart-Restaurant/dp/B0B891FPBY/ref=sr_1_4?c=ts&keywords=Utility+Carts&qid=1685458328&refinements=p_n_material_browse%3A515304011&s=office-products&sr=1-4&ts_id=490895011
@@JoeRetroWorld unfortunately my trinitron does not start anymore, with tears in my eyes i got rid of it. So now i have a philips 21inch flat screen crt tv. I wish the sony was still working
I use HD Retrovision for almost all of my consoles. I love how sharp everything looks, colors pop! Composite has it's benefits when it comes to being accurate video feed.
I don't see how this beats a free 42 inch Panasonic plasma with a MacMini for 25€ running RetroArch, other than on the "I live in a high wealth country and I have no idea where to spend my money on" index.
lately i had get on ebay an 14 inch pal tv with composit and scart but the image from scart was a bit on te left cuts from the image and on the right side the image has make an curve on the right upper side (o.O) so i had send it to the seller back because i dosnt know how to fix it and dont want buy some scart shifter box from china (T~T)
You will have the screen move around with different connections. You can do adjustments in the service menu to fix this. I hope you find a good television.
A 25"-27" are the best size and weight. A CRT must have multiple composite inputs, at least 1 S-Video and 1-Component input. A 32" or bigger are way too heavy even if it met all of those requirements. I recommend Toshiba or Sony brands.
I prefer 20/21. Also because the TVL count often is too high on 25" and bigger. That means horribly pronounced scanlines. 20 inch still has that nice uniform pixel blur in both directions (X&Y).
I dont want get an old TV period I use to have an old crappy Zenith TV which is only RF, so I use to get shocked since my fingertips use to sweat but I was living in florida back then and had no choice but to use that crappy TV and have to put it in channel 3 in order to play my games. I only liked the Dreamcast using VGA which gave the best signal and picture quality but it sucks I sold it when I was in highschool but a retro TV and sometimes composite looks blurry to me and I the prefer LCD transfer through HDMI but that's just me and I barely get latency. At least things dont look fuzzy to me..
There are IC's that convert RGB to S-video for close to nothing, and they fit in most DIN plugs. You can also use it to retrofit the RF socket with a S-video mini-din.
look at these tvs, they all got perfect geometry!
@@趙溫 I love my crt televisions!
Nice vid! I started CRT collecting/gaming 4 years ago. I had all my old consoles in storage and hated the pixelated look on LCDs. I saw a PVM in a reddit battlestation post and I just liked the aesthetic of that "TV" so I searched about it and that's when I got hooked. I realized I've been missing that classic display. Even on PS3 era, I would play the PS1 classics on my RF 19" Daewoo. For me I need razor sharp component/RGB, I had RF from SNES to PS3 people!! I was always craving an s-video port or even composite but I was a poor kid and had a trash TV so now I can finally enjoy the insane beautiful RGB on a CRT! The vibrant and "alive" visual style of that 90s art on a CRT is just stunning. I was lucky to get some pristine condition PVMs for a decent price, yeah not free but $130 for 14" PVM and $222 for 20" medical PVM. Any CRT with component will be very good in 240p, each with their own unique look.
Those are some awesome monitors for a great price. I got lucky with my Ikegami 20 inch monitor for only $400. I use component cables with it and love how good it looks. I keep telling myself to order a set of RGB sync on composite cables to really see just how true RGB looks like in person as compared to HD Retrovision cables. I started back 6 years ago collecting, before the price increases. I tried LCD screens and yes like you said the looks was not for me.
@@JoeRetroWorld I know the feeling of wanting "true RGB" and I have SCART cables and a SCART switcher but I ended up connecting it to a RGB to component converter so I could split that signal to my PVM and a 27" FV310. So basically your HD Retrovision cables are doing the same thing, it looks identical to RGB. I wouldn't waste $$$ on more cables (well actually I did cuz I was curious like you lol) and in the end it's pretty much the same except you can't adjust the image settings in RGB mode so I kinda like component more cuz I like to adjust the color/contrast for certain games or consoles.
I would advise to focus on small/medium size quality brand ones. 13-21 inch. Sony, Philips, JVC, B&O, Loewe. Preferably with SCART RGB/s-video. Don't go too big, 20/21 inch has a manageable weight. For example the Sony KV-M1450D is easy to find, not too expensive, and a damn fine display. Don't go after PVM's as the scanlines are too pronounced on that, and you pay 5 times as much.
my man has the monopoly on crts. crts are going up in price rn
Lol, I sold 1.
Nice CRT collection sir! I only have 2 of them.
I started with just 1, and now I have 5. Lol. What sizes do you have?
@@JoeRetroWorld RF only 13 inch Orion from 1999 and a 27 inch Emerson flat screen from 2005, and the Emerson has S video...and razer sharp picture quality especially on 2D games and DVDs especially cartoons look awesome as well.
@polycube868 s video shows great. I used that for the longest time with my Super Nintendo. Now I have my Saturn hooked up using svideo to my big Toshiba 36a43. That Orion is a good set, I had one for years.
@@JoeRetroWorld I'm commenting while watching the Saturn video, love the Saturn, it might be the best looking console on my Emerson via S video...I got a Saturn after I heard Sega Lord X talk about how great it was and how affordable Japanese imports are...my favorite Saturn games are Nights into Dreams, Daytona USA, Sonic Jam and Astal.
@@PaperBanjo64 I love playing on the Saturn. The games look so good. I wish I had more games. I need to get a DVD burner.
20 inches seems to be the sweet spot for PS1 and earlier.
20 inches fits on a small desk or table easily. Plus, it is not heavy to move.
I recently picked up a 27 inch sony Trinitron for my ps2 and super Nintendo its glorious
It's crazy how good they look. HAPPY GAMING
Love the videos pimp✌️
Thank you, Happy Gaming
do you know of any CRTs that accept both NTSC and PAL signal? any suggestions? looking mainly for ones that accept composite and s-video, anything around or under 20 inches. i may have found one i'm interested in but i'd like to know if there's any others i should check out. thank you
I will ask some friends, they know more about those types.
@@JoeRetroWorld would like to know if you can get back to me on this. thanks
@@ShermleyCollege someone said that a pal television excepts both ntsc and pal. A ntsc television will not. That's all they told me.
All Sony's do after about 1990. Or MX4000 and up from B&O. S-video is really rare on tiny sets, but you will find it on 20 inch Sony's. They all have RGB here though.
I picked up a Sony Vega KV-36HS420 for $5 a couple weeks ago and I love it. One of the “newer” Trinitron Hi Scan CRTs with an HDMI. Everyone says hi scan models are bad for 240p retro games because it upscales the image and makes it appear blurry, which may be true if you’re using original hardware that outputs 240p.
However, now that companies like Analogue make amazing retro consoles like the super nt and mega sd, this is no longer an issue. Everything has HDMI converters. GameCube, Dreamcast, SNES, you name it. I can literally play anything, even a PS5 on this CRT and it’s glorious.
I completely understand where you are coming from. I had one , they are cool. The picture looks great. Happy gaming
the best crt's you will buy are high dot matrix screens..
best resolution likely go scart, Component , s-video
other the best "visual" screen for computer graphics you will get lcd for your retro gaming fix
however these days it's more like how to connected traditional AV and have it connect to hdmi without the handshake isn't the issues..
though once I went hdmi on the ps3 and 360 i haven't looked back in terms of how to connect to a modern display.
I have lived on rf, composite, component, s-video and scart as av solutions for close on 30 years and still own all my my av consoles..
and still own my joytech av switches ..
In 2023 I think composite and RF analog would be par on par within resolution status today vs what it was like when these consoles first saw the light of day..
my 51cm nec has the best crt res though from the standpoint of my 68cm sharp best graphical; res it had was from s-video both component and component was about the same on the 68cm and we had access 32" wide screen tv's predating digital transmission tv's same with wide screens in use if you had the finances to purchase them..
whilst i ove crt's for thier longevity (screen only) the downside i the chassis is the plastic has about25-30 year life span with constant use
I love those cute 13/14 inch Trinitrons. They seem so have a very high brightness, maybe they have less power-on hours than the bigger ones, no idea, but you can see it in your video as well.
The 2 on the left are a different brand. The far right is a 13" Sony Trinitron. I turned one of those smaller sets into a Playstation 2.
I just picked up a 27" panasonic i think its a ct27e13. It has component, s-video. Now i have 2 other great crt's for sale but everyone that hits me up is like oh yuck it only has composite. Lol its hilarious how people have changed so much with that in the last 5 years. I used them forever with just composite no problems. Honestly some tv's are better like that because it's only got one input on the board. I have that same 20 panasonic but without the vcr and a toshiba flat with dvd and vhs combo.
Some people get obsessed with getting a better picture. They forget what it was like in the beginning. Happy gaming
I had that 9" sylvania loved it
It is a cool tv, stereo speakers is a cool feature.
I have a 25 inch trinitron. But i am desperately looking for a shelf or unit from ikea that can carry that weight
Look up metal shelves from them like this one
www.amazon.com/WDT-Commercial-Utility-Cart-Restaurant/dp/B0B891FPBY/ref=sr_1_4?c=ts&keywords=Utility+Carts&qid=1685458328&refinements=p_n_material_browse%3A515304011&s=office-products&sr=1-4&ts_id=490895011
@@JoeRetroWorld unfortunately my trinitron does not start anymore, with tears in my eyes i got rid of it. So now i have a philips 21inch flat screen crt tv. I wish the sony was still working
@@karwankarwanko6603 I am sorry
Ikea and carry a 25 inch CRT don't go well in one sentence. Cut that plywood yourself!
I love the sega hd retrovision cables but i use composite on crt for the dithering
I use HD Retrovision for almost all of my consoles. I love how sharp everything looks, colors pop! Composite has it's benefits when it comes to being accurate video feed.
What tv is that In the middle playing rise of the robots on the left on DK
That's my Ikegami TM20-90RH Master Monitor, they where built to replace a Sony Trinitron BVM
I got a KV-36fv310. I think that's as good as it's gonna get.
Any 14 inch tv should do
I dont plan to marry a big CRT. That is why i went with a 42" OLED with a mister FPGA/ retrotink 5x
Retrotink changed the way retro gaming is played now. Before you had to use a crt for best results. That is a thing of the past. Happy gaming
I don't see how this beats a free 42 inch Panasonic plasma with a MacMini for 25€ running RetroArch, other than on the "I live in a high wealth country and I have no idea where to spend my money on" index.
lately i had get on ebay an 14 inch pal tv with composit and scart but the image from scart was a bit on te left cuts from the image and on the right side the image has make an curve on the right upper side (o.O) so i had send it to the seller back because i dosnt know how to fix it and dont want buy some scart shifter box from china (T~T)
You will have the screen move around with different connections. You can do adjustments in the service menu to fix this. I hope you find a good television.
@@JoeRetroWorldthe remote only had the settings for brightness, sound and aspect ration but no image shifting , but i use an ossc now
The tiny Sony's I get often have slight problems, but the service menu is excellent and helps you with most issues.
A 25"-27" are the best size and weight. A CRT must have multiple composite inputs, at least 1 S-Video and 1-Component input. A 32" or bigger are way too heavy even if it met all of those requirements. I recommend Toshiba or Sony brands.
Perfectly said, I second this!
I prefer 20/21. Also because the TVL count often is too high on 25" and bigger. That means horribly pronounced scanlines. 20 inch still has that nice uniform pixel blur in both directions (X&Y).
I dont want get an old TV period I use to have an old crappy Zenith TV which is only RF, so I use to get shocked since my fingertips use to sweat but I was living in florida back then and had no choice but to use that crappy TV and have to put it in channel 3 in order to play my games. I only liked the Dreamcast using VGA which gave the best signal and picture quality but it sucks I sold it when I was in highschool but a retro TV and sometimes composite looks blurry to me and I the prefer LCD transfer through HDMI but that's just me and I barely get latency. At least things dont look fuzzy to me..
That's because you had an old crappy Zenith TV.. buying a sony or Toshiba Is a better experience
I don't get to choose. i can't just pick any CRT I want, there's barely any of them around.
I am so sorry, I hope you will find one.
Genesis is SO bad on composite like you said. That's the only reason I went down the RGB rabbit hole, bc it doesn't support s-video haha
My sega looks crispy AF on RF no joke lol
There are IC's that convert RGB to S-video for close to nothing, and they fit in most DIN plugs. You can also use it to retrofit the RF socket with a S-video mini-din.