It's worth noting that there's really high voltage driving that tube; it's a domestic unregulated particle accelerator. Be careful when touching that area to not die electrocuted. Even after turning it off, it can hold a dangerous charge for multiple minutes.
Why Do I Even Look At The Comments It’s funny you mention that, the music does feel sad or at least to me whenever I listen to the track. Maybe it’s just nostalgia hitting me 😅
I missed your vids Pogo. From your vlogs from 5+ years ago to the "recent" game reviews. Keep putting out more stuff you find interesting, doesn't matter what it is, you always seem to make it grasp my attention.
That noise on startup, god, that takes me back. I used to work in a TV repair shop in the early 2000s, saw the innards of these things all the time. Pain in the arse to carry around, especially as they got bigger, and the extra glass of the flat screen models made them even heavier. Dropped, I think it was a 90cm flatscreen on a finger while helping carry it once. I was lucky I didn't lose the fingernail and very lucky not to have broken my finger.
Glad to see another king appreciating CRT's, I had a Trinitron KVHR36M31 a while back that I absolutely loved, unfortunately it carked it about a year ago and honestly I needed more space in my room so I took it to the tip, but i'm glad to see other people keeping the spirit of these things alive.
It's videos like this that remind me of why I'm so grateful to emulator developers to begin with. The physical media we ran our childhoods on will die before we do, but they will not become unplayable thanks to emulators. Emulation may be an imperfect representation of what it was _really_ like, but paintings from hundreds of years ago have cracked and yellowed too, yet we still put them in museums, because it's about more than just getting "the flawless experience", it's about preserving important history. One day, "close enough" is the best I'm gonna get, and as I get older and lose more things to time, I appreciate the "close enough" more and more.
Through out most of this video, I had no idea what you were talking about. But I didn’t care. You were clearly passionate about talking about this subject and that’s what I really enjoyed. Your passion is contagious, don’t ever change.
I remember watching a clip of Bjork back in the 1990s looking inside a TV and being amazed at the very detailed complexion. Interesting, amazing how these were made!
I started my gaming on a black and white television, hooked up to a console that had one hardwired game, pong. I've enjoyed watching the technology progress - and have had versions of all of it !!! I did not know that my older CRT televisions had so many adjustments possible deep within... had I known!!!! My final comment... I love your sweater!
Oh man. You should see it with an RGB signal plugged in. Comparable to OLED, honest to God. But lining up the color channels using the yoke rings is an absolute bastard of a job. I guess that's what you mean -- you appreciate things more when you have to work for them, haha.
@@Pogomix Definitely! And you make it your own too. Nick -- really love this video, man. Especially the fact that you opened it with the Hospital theme from EB. I used to have that as my ringtone on my Razr flip phone.
Ahhh a CRT, they don't make them like they used to. Even just tapping the glass on one is amazing. You can hear a ringing sound when you tap the glass...it's beautiful almost...
Pogo could make a video about anything - even an old television - and it would be fascinating and beautiful. His eye for lighting and cinematography surpasses anything I’ve ever seen.
It is mind-blowing to consider that this 2002 CRT television was advanced technology when the original SNES was released. Thank you for a wonderful nostalgic trip. Sometimes it’s actually kind of fun to feel old. 😉
My god you are an incredibly capable dude who leaves no stone unturned when he studies things. Retrospectively reducing HDMI and refresh rates What a Brilliant mind you have. If you move to the UK there are still thousands of these old tellies regularly being given away because we remain a very lazy load of brits here. I personally have ditched about 5 in the last 3 years and when I got to the waste site I was not alone, loads of em in a pile. V sad I think. Used to keep the room warm lol
You could always stack your garden shed with old CRT TVs (the humidity should not be not too high). Some CRTs will (unfortunately) loose vacuum over time, but others will maintain. As long as you have enough spare parts, you can keep going.
Thanks! I got as far as tweaking the picture knobs inside the TV, but to make real improvements I would need to physically shift the whole yoke system which is extremely dangerous and very very tedious. I kind of gave up in the end.
I can't help but feel a certain sense of melancholy knowing the age of CRT technology is over and with it, all the childhood memories I had growing up playing those consoles you showed in the video. I think the worst part is even if I had the perfect CRT setup and all the carts with the consoles, there would not be a way to re-experience those same emotions and feelings of *first* playing iconic games during that time period. Take me back to a simpler time! I miss it a lot.
What a great video! Thanks for celebrating the old craft of CRT, and with a Sony WEGA! I used to sell these in a retail store. After your adjustments, you should get another 10+ years of good service out of it before you have to adjust or repair it again. Why worry about 2030 when you can enjoy it now, especially after all the work you've put into obtaining and using it? BTW, I've enjoyed your music for many years, thanks for making something so special. You are an excellent creative craftsman.
Loved this! I'm unfamiliar with the subject but the videography is so beautiful. The close up shots looked like a dusty satellite floating through space!
I always love to see new enthusiasm for CRTs. As for your dilemma of choosing between sending a PC signal or using flashcarts, I want to posit a third option. Flashcarts are generally used if you're a diehard for original hardware, but if you're fine with continuing to emulate, a homebrewed Wii is one of the best solutions. It's cheap, component/RGB cables are not hard to come by either, and the process of installing homebrew is very streamlined. You can continue to use Retroarch as well, if you like the convenience of a combined emulator front end. This should cover all of your options prior to gen 5, where instead I would recommend original hardware with modchips to play burnt discs (some consoles like the Dreamcast have no copy protection at all in early production units). I'm also very glad you're appreciating the worth of a good TV instead of springing for a professional/broadcast monitor like so many now do. As pro monitors have higher "resolution" tubes, they lose the subtle softness that a well calibrated TV provides, not to mention their lack of good speakers.
I do love these random videos you do. You're better at making these than you think, I am captivated by what you have to say and explain in these videos because of the way you present it so professionally and the fact it's so easy to watch. Keep up what you do best Nick, just being you, doing whatever you feel.
My grand dad was a TV repair man. After he passed (1987), I remember seeing all the vacuum tubes and spare parts in his shop. Really cool stuff. I wonder what he would think of todays TV's...
Thats such crazy timing for this video. I JUST bought myself a Sony KV-21X5U a couple weeks back and have been meaning to open it to adjust the focus on the flyback TX. The death of CRT upsets me greatly. Such amazing technology and it will be lost to time. Great video and great job explaining to people about the benefits of a CRT over modern panels.
This video feels like a love letter to CRTs. You found a way to make the nightmare inside the box look beautiful. Well done man. And hey, here's hoping that behemoth sticks around for a while longer.
Dude! The production. Everything about this Nick. It's so calm and collected. When I make music with a DAW/hack my way through lighting and video production, it doesn't have this level of natural giftedness/skill. I've missed you for the last few months! You should start a patreon man! Have monthly chats with subscribers or something to that effect. It would be lovely to chat with you. If not, please come to Toronto soon! I'd love to get to meet you. ❤️
I have a similar CRT to yours (maybe the same model). Its a Sony KV-36FV310. I got it for $20 a state away and the thing weighed 275lbs. We had to carry it down a long narrow staircase and every time I hit a bump on the road driving 80 miles home... I felt like I was going to break some internals as there was no real padding in the SUV. When I got it home and in the house, and had similar picture quality issues and was able to get it to a tolerable level using the remote, but I'm not brave enough to crack the thing open and do any sort of internal adjustments (I also don't want to get fried by touching the wrong thing). It's in pretty good external shape and it even came with the OEM wooden/glass stand which is a nice touch. I'd love to pay someone to do a professional tune up on it... recap the whole damn thing and make any sort of magnetic corrections normal maintenance adjustments can't fix... but sadly, I'd have to: 1. Find someone who actually does this kind of work and is reputable. 2. Drag this monstrosity out of the house and deliver it to them. 3. Pay an arm and a leg for the surface. 4. Lug the thing all the way back home. By that point, I'd be better off just finding another $20 set that had a better picture. I was lucky enough to find an affordable PVM, but it's pretty small. Its a 14" Olympus OEV143 (rebranded Sony Trinitron). This was a backup monitor in a hospital that was used for Endoscopy. It can do any of the analogue signals including RGB through BNC connections which lets me use RGB euroSCART. It had some use, but was barely used. The guy I purchased it from said it was one of the best conditioned one's he'd ever seen, and when we looked inside it barely had any dust in it. The picture is fantastic, and while the jump from component to RGB isn't as big of a jump from say, composite to S-Video, the picture is breathtaking. Only downside is it's only a 14" set and it's mostly good for things up to 480i. It's sweet spot is anything that is 240p, and thats what I love the most (SMS, NES, Genesis, SNES, TG16/PCEngine and Neo Geo). While I have all the consoles from my childhood generation of video games (1983-1995), I most often use this contraption called a MiSTer. You mentioned in your video you used an FXPAK to play SNES games. That is an incredible device that can play all the roms from your RetroArch as if it was just a cartridge, but what makes it an exceptional piece of hardware is that it has an FPGA chip that can supplement all the cartridge enhancing chips in later releases such as the FX chip found in StarFox... so that it can play those rom files without the additional chips that can't be replaced in a simple ROM file (Emulation can emulate those chips, but you have to deal with cycle problems and input lag). The MiSTer is just one big FPGA chip. People have painstakingly reverse engineered all the chips of retro hardware and put it into machine code which can be flashed onto the FPGA chip, and the MiSTer becomes a near 1 to 1 simulation of the hardware that is cycle accurate for both Digital and Analogue displays and can even do both at the same time (no input lag outside of any you introduce yourself through say... a wireless Bluetooth controller). When you flash the chip, you flash it with a "core" which is the compilation of all the hardware in a console, computer or arcade PCB. So this includes all the additional sound and graphics chips they might have had on it. Right now, there are cores for almost anything from the SNES back including the Neo Geo, all the handhelds, tons of 1980's computers such as the Amiga and Sharp X68000... even older PC platforms that run Windows! Dozens of arcade PCB's have had cores made from them including the popular Capcom CP1 platform. Anyway... you seem pretty tech savvy and plugged in and you knew all this already, but maybe someone else reading this will take something helpful and worth exploring out of it. Once I got the MiSTer, it became far more convenient and less messy than having 12 cubicles with consoles in them all individually wired for video/power and the controllers/light guns. It's a real retro gaming game changer, and it's the driving force of retro gaming preservation... as we experienced it as kids.
I have internet hooked up to old 5 inch CRT color TV. Yes, it's aging, but I like visual imperfections. Shows in 4:3 that I used to watch in the 90's I enjoy most watching on the CRT, because it resembles the original experience. I don't know what's worse, outliving the retro collection, or have the retro collection outlive me, like Jay Leno's garage.
I'd forgotten how heavy these things were ! I had a 32" CRT and it weighed around 200lb or 100kg. It needed 2 people to lift and even then it was a struggle. We're so spoiled with flatscreens :)
Having watched the video, GOD I absolutely loved it! The way it's all shot, orchestrated, paced is so immersive and compelling, and even tho I couldn't connect with a lot of the jargon being said your communicated all of it so methodically and relatable. I really think your video making talent is close to catching up to your music making talent!
This reminds me of an interview with Bjork back when she was with the Sugarcubes and was talking about the inside of a TV and how she imagined it being a little city. Trippy stuff.
Damn I remember the old days of explaining component video and coaxial cables to my friends and family. Also why “there’s two black bars on my dvd movie” 🤣
I had a big ass Sony TV too and it was like lifting a giant tombstone. I think I paid some guys to come pick it up. So damn heavy. It took at least 2 grown men to lift it.
It's worth noting that there's really high voltage driving that tube; it's a domestic unregulated particle accelerator. Be careful when touching that area to not die electrocuted. Even after turning it off, it can hold a dangerous charge for multiple minutes.
I loved this so much. Missed you pogo, hope you're doing okay.
Alberto Balsalm 😀
LET'S HAVE SOME APHEX ACID
RICHARD, YEPPP
i actually thought he was dead. i’m so glad to see he’s ok. i didn’t even realise he had numerous accounts.
@@link9790same
This reminded me of when bjork said "it looks like a little city" taking apart her television
Hers was interesting but not the best review of a TV in hindsight..
I can ever heard the icelandic accent.
Like the “DK - Aquatic Ambiance” track playing while showing the inside of the CRT 😁👍🏽
Why Do I Even Look At The Comments It’s funny you mention that, the music does feel sad or at least to me whenever I listen to the track. Maybe it’s just nostalgia hitting me 😅
Holy S!! That's what it is! It was driving me nuts cause I knew I knew it. Thanks.
dark hurrikane Of course! 😃
@Why Do I Even Look At The Comments I don't think its sad, for me its mysterious just like a water level should be.
AQUATIC AMBIENCE! The greatest piece of video game music EVER created.
Seconded.
Wow, your camera work, lighting, and use of music (great use of DKC and Earthbound). Thanks for the video.
Pogo And Earthbound = god.
was looking for this comment!
I missed your vids Pogo.
From your vlogs from 5+ years ago to the "recent" game reviews.
Keep putting out more stuff you find interesting, doesn't matter what it is, you always seem to make it grasp my attention.
If only my GPS had ur voice, we be set!
It's like a spaceship. There's a beautiful aura to old electronics, especially with your immaculate production, Pogo!
That television is old enough to vote
@Gary McMichael go back to facebook
@Gary McMichael You're delusional.
@Gary McMichael You're delusional.
@@samp6162 Your choice.
@@samp6162 this comment aged like milk
I never threw out my old TV in fear I'd never get the same experience in gaming. Love the video!
your videos are next level nick
I recognize the SCART cable from our old cable drawer. Nice knowing that my dad sprung for the best back in 2002.
That noise on startup, god, that takes me back. I used to work in a TV repair shop in the early 2000s, saw the innards of these things all the time. Pain in the arse to carry around, especially as they got bigger, and the extra glass of the flat screen models made them even heavier. Dropped, I think it was a 90cm flatscreen on a finger while helping carry it once. I was lucky I didn't lose the fingernail and very lucky not to have broken my finger.
Glad to see another king appreciating CRT's, I had a Trinitron KVHR36M31 a while back that I absolutely loved, unfortunately it carked it about a year ago and honestly I needed more space in my room so I took it to the tip, but i'm glad to see other people keeping the spirit of these things alive.
Wow I didn't know I would be so interested in old TVs but your delivery makes it so peaceful and informative to watch.
Camera work and lighting in video so gorgeous.. With this ambient on background it reminds me of Star Trek '79
I absolutely love the “Star Trek” lighting. This video incredible.
Don’t know why, but I was getting a 2001: A Space Odyssey feel looking through the inside of your TV.
Yup, samw here
It's videos like this that remind me of why I'm so grateful to emulator developers to begin with. The physical media we ran our childhoods on will die before we do, but they will not become unplayable thanks to emulators. Emulation may be an imperfect representation of what it was _really_ like, but paintings from hundreds of years ago have cracked and yellowed too, yet we still put them in museums, because it's about more than just getting "the flawless experience", it's about preserving important history. One day, "close enough" is the best I'm gonna get, and as I get older and lose more things to time, I appreciate the "close enough" more and more.
Through out most of this video, I had no idea what you were talking about. But I didn’t care. You were clearly passionate about talking about this subject and that’s what I really enjoyed. Your passion is contagious, don’t ever change.
Thanks! Yeah, it's very technical. That's been my only gripe with this video. But I'm glad you still enjoyed it!
I remember watching a clip of Bjork back in the 1990s looking inside a TV and being amazed at the very detailed complexion. Interesting, amazing how these were made!
Macro photography reveals hidden worlds. Very cool
This is so pleasing to watch. Thanks Nick
Oh good! I'm very happy. Thank you!
You absolutely melted my heart as soon as the underwater donkey kong level music came on. This was unexpectedly moving... The nostalgia.
I started my gaming on a black and white television, hooked up to a console that had one hardwired game, pong. I've enjoyed watching the technology progress - and have had versions of all of it !!! I did not know that my older CRT televisions had so many adjustments possible deep within... had I known!!!! My final comment... I love your sweater!
Dude I hope you're doing alright. Also hope to see you come back and be able to do more vids like this. Easily one of favorite people on this site.
Thanks! We’re OK here in Perth. For now. Keeping my head down as always!
@@Pogomix good to hear brother. All you can do is keep on keeping on.
nick really did a great job getting rid of the flickers of the crt
Technology like this I feel made us appreciate living in the moment more while using it. Superior quality, but you know it won't last forever.
Oh man. You should see it with an RGB signal plugged in. Comparable to OLED, honest to God. But lining up the color channels using the yoke rings is an absolute bastard of a job. I guess that's what you mean -- you appreciate things more when you have to work for them, haha.
@@Pogomix Definitely! And you make it your own too. Nick -- really love this video, man. Especially the fact that you opened it with the Hospital theme from EB. I used to have that as my ringtone on my Razr flip phone.
The quality of your videos are so good they rival latest documentaries.its awesome!!!
Ahhh a CRT, they don't make them like they used to. Even just tapping the glass on one is amazing. You can hear a ringing sound when you tap the glass...it's beautiful almost...
Pogo could make a video about anything - even an old television - and it would be fascinating and beautiful. His eye for lighting and cinematography surpasses anything I’ve ever seen.
It is mind-blowing to consider that this 2002 CRT television was advanced technology when the original SNES was released.
Thank you for a wonderful nostalgic trip. Sometimes it’s actually kind of fun to feel old. 😉
Super fascinated by this. Also, your cinematography skills are top notch.
Love the Earthbound tunes in the background. Mess with that Pogo. Surely magical.
Amazing soundtrack!
I miss your video-game reviews, your music, lives... and this kind of content is great too!
My god you are an incredibly capable dude who leaves no stone unturned when he studies things. Retrospectively reducing HDMI and refresh rates What a Brilliant mind you have. If you move to the UK there are still thousands of these old tellies regularly being given away because we remain a very lazy load of brits here. I personally have ditched about 5 in the last 3 years and when I got to the waste site I was not alone, loads of em in a pile. V sad I think. Used to keep the room warm lol
What a fantastic video. Definitely not what I expected, but absolutely great!
What IS this channel? The quality here is breathtaking... The cinematography, the mixing, the the storytelling. Crazy good.
Björk did a video like this
🤔 must be an artist thing
man its good to see ya and hear yer voice. What an amazing insight to how far we've come to get so so far...
As truly fascinating as the rest of the video is, my favorite part is Nick's buttery speaking voice.
Oh wow, i had one of those! Such a trip down memory lane. Nice comfy video Nick :)
Amazing video Pogo! Beautiful music, great shots and a great production
You could always stack your garden shed with old CRT TVs (the humidity should not be not too high). Some CRTs will (unfortunately) loose vacuum over time, but others will maintain. As long as you have enough spare parts, you can keep going.
Super interestig! 👍 Would also have been nice to see some before/after comparisons of all your tweaks.
Thanks! I got as far as tweaking the picture knobs inside the TV, but to make real improvements I would need to physically shift the whole yoke system which is extremely dangerous and very very tedious. I kind of gave up in the end.
I haven't seen a CRT since I was in grade school, takes me BACK. Thanks for the nostalgia bomb, Nick.
Turning the banal into a work of art
I can't help but feel a certain sense of melancholy knowing the age of CRT technology is over and with it, all the childhood memories I had growing up playing those consoles you showed in the video.
I think the worst part is even if I had the perfect CRT setup and all the carts with the consoles, there would not be a way to re-experience those same emotions and feelings of *first* playing iconic games during that time period.
Take me back to a simpler time! I miss it a lot.
What a great video! Thanks for celebrating the old craft of CRT, and with a Sony WEGA! I used to sell these in a retail store. After your adjustments, you should get another 10+ years of good service out of it before you have to adjust or repair it again. Why worry about 2030 when you can enjoy it now, especially after all the work you've put into obtaining and using it?
BTW, I've enjoyed your music for many years, thanks for making something so special. You are an excellent creative craftsman.
Seeing Pogo in my sub box makes life worth living! 😊
Loved this! I'm unfamiliar with the subject but the videography is so beautiful. The close up shots looked like a dusty satellite floating through space!
I always love to see new enthusiasm for CRTs. As for your dilemma of choosing between sending a PC signal or using flashcarts, I want to posit a third option. Flashcarts are generally used if you're a diehard for original hardware, but if you're fine with continuing to emulate, a homebrewed Wii is one of the best solutions. It's cheap, component/RGB cables are not hard to come by either, and the process of installing homebrew is very streamlined. You can continue to use Retroarch as well, if you like the convenience of a combined emulator front end. This should cover all of your options prior to gen 5, where instead I would recommend original hardware with modchips to play burnt discs (some consoles like the Dreamcast have no copy protection at all in early production units).
I'm also very glad you're appreciating the worth of a good TV instead of springing for a professional/broadcast monitor like so many now do. As pro monitors have higher "resolution" tubes, they lose the subtle softness that a well calibrated TV provides, not to mention their lack of good speakers.
I do love these random videos you do. You're better at making these than you think, I am captivated by what you have to say and explain in these videos because of the way you present it so professionally and the fact it's so easy to watch. Keep up what you do best Nick, just being you, doing whatever you feel.
You never know what to expect here. Except some sort of interesting content.
How can a video about a TV be THIS entertaining? This is quality!
My grand dad was a TV repair man. After he passed (1987), I remember seeing all the vacuum tubes and spare parts in his shop. Really cool stuff. I wonder what he would think of todays TV's...
Thats such crazy timing for this video. I JUST bought myself a Sony KV-21X5U a couple weeks back and have been meaning to open it to adjust the focus on the flyback TX. The death of CRT upsets me greatly. Such amazing technology and it will be lost to time. Great video and great job explaining to people about the benefits of a CRT over modern panels.
This video feels like a love letter to CRTs. You found a way to make the nightmare inside the box look beautiful. Well done man.
And hey, here's hoping that behemoth sticks around for a while longer.
I'm clueless about this sort of stuff but found this video so interesting. You're a bloody clever chap, Pogo!
This was so calming and exactly what I needed tonight
Hey! This video was so nostalgic and freaking delightful!!
I love your voice. Thank you for a wonderful video as always.
Dude! The production. Everything about this Nick. It's so calm and collected. When I make music with a DAW/hack my way through lighting and video production, it doesn't have this level of natural giftedness/skill.
I've missed you for the last few months! You should start a patreon man! Have monthly chats with subscribers or something to that effect. It would be lovely to chat with you.
If not, please come to Toronto soon! I'd love to get to meet you. ❤️
I have a similar CRT to yours (maybe the same model). Its a Sony KV-36FV310. I got it for $20 a state away and the thing weighed 275lbs. We had to carry it down a long narrow staircase and every time I hit a bump on the road driving 80 miles home... I felt like I was going to break some internals as there was no real padding in the SUV.
When I got it home and in the house, and had similar picture quality issues and was able to get it to a tolerable level using the remote, but I'm not brave enough to crack the thing open and do any sort of internal adjustments (I also don't want to get fried by touching the wrong thing). It's in pretty good external shape and it even came with the OEM wooden/glass stand which is a nice touch. I'd love to pay someone to do a professional tune up on it... recap the whole damn thing and make any sort of magnetic corrections normal maintenance adjustments can't fix... but sadly, I'd have to:
1. Find someone who actually does this kind of work and is reputable.
2. Drag this monstrosity out of the house and deliver it to them.
3. Pay an arm and a leg for the surface.
4. Lug the thing all the way back home.
By that point, I'd be better off just finding another $20 set that had a better picture. I was lucky enough to find an affordable PVM, but it's pretty small. Its a 14" Olympus OEV143 (rebranded Sony Trinitron). This was a backup monitor in a hospital that was used for Endoscopy. It can do any of the analogue signals including RGB through BNC connections which lets me use RGB euroSCART. It had some use, but was barely used. The guy I purchased it from said it was one of the best conditioned one's he'd ever seen, and when we looked inside it barely had any dust in it. The picture is fantastic, and while the jump from component to RGB isn't as big of a jump from say, composite to S-Video, the picture is breathtaking. Only downside is it's only a 14" set and it's mostly good for things up to 480i. It's sweet spot is anything that is 240p, and thats what I love the most (SMS, NES, Genesis, SNES, TG16/PCEngine and Neo Geo).
While I have all the consoles from my childhood generation of video games (1983-1995), I most often use this contraption called a MiSTer. You mentioned in your video you used an FXPAK to play SNES games. That is an incredible device that can play all the roms from your RetroArch as if it was just a cartridge, but what makes it an exceptional piece of hardware is that it has an FPGA chip that can supplement all the cartridge enhancing chips in later releases such as the FX chip found in StarFox... so that it can play those rom files without the additional chips that can't be replaced in a simple ROM file (Emulation can emulate those chips, but you have to deal with cycle problems and input lag).
The MiSTer is just one big FPGA chip. People have painstakingly reverse engineered all the chips of retro hardware and put it into machine code which can be flashed onto the FPGA chip, and the MiSTer becomes a near 1 to 1 simulation of the hardware that is cycle accurate for both Digital and Analogue displays and can even do both at the same time (no input lag outside of any you introduce yourself through say... a wireless Bluetooth controller). When you flash the chip, you flash it with a "core" which is the compilation of all the hardware in a console, computer or arcade PCB. So this includes all the additional sound and graphics chips they might have had on it. Right now, there are cores for almost anything from the SNES back including the Neo Geo, all the handhelds, tons of 1980's computers such as the Amiga and Sharp X68000... even older PC platforms that run Windows! Dozens of arcade PCB's have had cores made from them including the popular Capcom CP1 platform. Anyway... you seem pretty tech savvy and plugged in and you knew all this already, but maybe someone else reading this will take something helpful and worth exploring out of it.
Once I got the MiSTer, it became far more convenient and less messy than having 12 cubicles with consoles in them all individually wired for video/power and the controllers/light guns. It's a real retro gaming game changer, and it's the driving force of retro gaming preservation... as we experienced it as kids.
Unexpected, but super awesome. Those shots of the tv hardware were amazing.
I have internet hooked up to old 5 inch CRT color TV. Yes, it's aging, but I like visual imperfections. Shows in 4:3 that I used to watch in the 90's I enjoy most watching on the CRT, because it resembles the original experience. I don't know what's worse, outliving the retro collection, or have the retro collection outlive me, like Jay Leno's garage.
I'd forgotten how heavy these things were ! I had a 32" CRT and it weighed around 200lb or 100kg. It needed 2 people to lift and even then it was a struggle. We're so spoiled with flatscreens :)
Oh wow, that sound at the end...now I remember it.
Only you could make this video and make it very interesting. Great editing man, and narration as always.
Still bloody clever tech for its time
Nick! I need more Radio Pogo in my life! Please! Also, really interesting video!
NEW VIDEO FROM YOU!!
I love you Pogo!!!
I'm excited for the Old TV sounds Pogo Remix
It's quite depressing thinking about all the old CRT's I got rid of just because the size or what not over the years growing up.
Damn Nick, love seeing you having Bubsy in there!
Your voice is wonderfully warm, makes me feel very chilled. Hope you are doing well out there :3
Good to see you again Nick! This was great!
Looks like a big box of nostalgic inspiration to me!
The end sounded like an allegory for attempting to fix a broken relationship or coping with one's death.
I thought this channel was only for music. Apparently there's also high quality and informative videos aswell!
I like this new type of content on your channel, you should do more.
1:16 Quite the artistic capture of a TV’s guts. 🌝
POGO CONTENT OF ANY SORT LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Having watched the video, GOD I absolutely loved it! The way it's all shot, orchestrated, paced is so immersive and compelling, and even tho I couldn't connect with a lot of the jargon being said your communicated all of it so methodically and relatable. I really think your video making talent is close to catching up to your music making talent!
All things are temporary; savor each moment.
You know what? The guts of that TV look pretty good considering its age!
And it's nice to see a video from you Nick!
Hope you're doing well!
This reminds me of an interview with Bjork back when she was with the Sugarcubes and was talking about the inside of a TV and how she imagined it being a little city. Trippy stuff.
I think it’ll be better if the high pitched noice from the CRT fades out and in gradually
That sound at the end really brings back memories
Loved my Super Trinitron.
Just got a cabinet arcade machine, CRT TLC - so cool.
I keep one too, I love how you can hear the high pitch sound through the video lol
Amazing! No wonder, that Lofi keeps growing.
this gives very nostalgic vibes
Thank you good sir!
Oh it’s one of these pogo vids?... hell yeah
Not at all the type of content i would have expected from you, but im definitely not complaining.
What a pleasant surprise, man.
Damn I remember the old days of explaining component video and coaxial cables to my friends and family. Also why “there’s two black bars on my dvd movie” 🤣
I had a big ass Sony TV too and it was like lifting a giant tombstone. I think I paid some guys to come pick it up. So damn heavy. It took at least 2 grown men to lift it.