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.
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.
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.
6:14 "that means I can order a component cable for Super Nintendo, and get a much better picture to this TV." sorry, but that won't actually work. unless you mod your SNES, or use an upconversion system, in which case, you may as well just go back to your emulator, because it will NOT be genuine SNES anymore. in fact, even the original Sony Playstation did not have component output. the PS2 did, but if you take that connector, and plug it into the PSX (they used the same connector) you would only end up with a black screen... composite really was the best SNES had to offer. interestingly, the ORIGINAL NES (which shipped with an RF connector) actually had composite connectors on the back right (although they were in mono audio). but composite was STILL better than plain old RF connection.
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.
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 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.
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.
Brings me back to my 90's childhood. VHS, Cassette tapes, radio music, CRTV's, SNES/N64 and Blockbuster... The 90's was truly a golden age that nobody born in the past 20-25 years will *ever* be able to understand or comprehend. It was the last decade before technology exponentially leaped into the next generation that we now take for granted. Don't get me wrong, I love the monumental advancements in technology/internet we have today. Convenience, communication and accessibility are off the charts. But sometimes I wonder if things were truly better off before the internet boom. The internet is Babylon. Babylon, the Prostitute on the Beast: Revelation 17 (NIV) One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters. 2 With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries. 3 Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. 5 The name written on her forehead was a mystery: _babylon the great_ _the mother of prostitutes_ _and of the abominations of the earth._ Revelation 18 (NIV) 21 With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again. 22 The music of harpists and musicians, pipers and trumpeters, will never be heard in you again. No worker of any trade will ever be found in you again. The sound of a millstone will never be heard in you again. 23 The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The voice of bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again. *Your merchants were the world’s important people.* *By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.* 24 In her was found the blood of prophets and of God’s holy people, of all who have been slaughtered on the earth.
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.
Yeah, about losing and not being able to do anything about it...but also about cherishing forgotten things, realizing their value, that is still there.
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.
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.
"Thank you very much for tuning in" Ah, Pogo you're so funny. But seriously, I was wondering why CRT televisions are better for retro consoles, and this video satisfied my curiosity. Please do make more of these!
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!
Interesting... modding a Nintendo to create more gaming choice... Not unlike my phonograph restoration... I’ll be restoring it to it’s more late ‘30s appearance... but I’ll add Bluetooth to it, so it can play vinyl, AM radio, and POGO from my iPhone...
Great Video - but several things; firstly, if you think that this TV is big and heavy, you need to try the weight and size of a TV from the 1960s!! This will seem comparatively lightweight in comparison! They were full of Valves (which this one isn’t) and had even more heavy components than this one! You’d need a wheelbarrow! Second; you mention a Tube 'dying’ as if modern TVs last forever; they have a much shorter life than a CRT - and they don’t ‘die’ (give you warnings when they are going) they just ‘drop dead’; you switch on one day - and nothing happens - it’s dead; no warnings, no fading - nothing... CRTs lasted for years - literally, because they were built to last, unlike modern technology, which is mostly 'tat' - even at the so-called 'high-end’ of the Market. Finally; don’t stress too much about the Tube giving out; they may not make old TVs any more, but there are a surprising number of BRAND NEW Tubes out there that you can acquire! There’s no shortage. In fact, I'm pretty sure there is at least TWO manufacturers who still produce them in small numbers. (I read why this was somewhere - but can’t recall where) Having said all that, you could still replace it with one from another secondhand Set, as there are still thousands of old TVs out there.
In addition to no delay or ghosting, CRTs usually had (have?) noticeably higher refresh rates than LCDs. Even a run of the mill CRT could boast 75-90hz, while LED displays today routinely struggle with 59. Depending on quality, plenty of CRTs manage 120-150hz just fine; something that gaming monitors are only just now beginning to compete with.
I mean, OLED TVs also wear out with age, and unevenly (image retention)... but you can't adjust those to correct for the aging... that's another big difference with old tech, it was fixable... modern isn't
A CRT made with modern tech could do 8K at 240Hz, that's an 8Ghz pixel clock, 12-bit HDR, zero latency. CRT remains beyond the capabilities of our graphics cards! I bet a lot of people would buy it.
CRTs are for around 30 000 work hours (assuming you calibrate them every ~10 000 work hours). After that, they are irreversibly off at various parameters, mainly white balance.
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...
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.
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.
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.
People act like CRT's are a thing of the past.. Actually some CRTs have better quality picture than most LCD's.. There was an adjustable upscaler tv sony made with really thick input cables that would make a resolution look so clean it would compete to that of 1080p LCDs made today.. and the problem with a lot of HDMI products is the cables can often loose information or be encoded and decoded poorly..
Mate, come down to the Retro gaming club down in Melbourne when this while pandemic is over and we'll setup you up with SCART conversation or HDMI :). Hit me up if you're interested and I'll get you connected to the right people
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 :)
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 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!
I had a 27 inch Trinitron -- it was donated to the local garbage collection about 12 years ago... Kind of regret it a bit, but it was a great television. Wish I had known about the service manuals. Also, agreed with the FX Pack Pro. Unless you are a collector ala AVGN (and James has everything...), you'd be better off getting roms on an SD Cartridge.
$80 for a CRT? RIIIIP, dude. It looks nicely calibrated though for sure. The geometry for a flatscreen is pretty nice. Another route you could also go is looking for a nice CRT monitor, emulate on that or even hook up some retro consoles that way.
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.
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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.
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.
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
If only my GPS had ur voice, we be set!
AQUATIC AMBIENCE! The greatest piece of video game music EVER created.
Seconded.
Don’t know why, but I was getting a 2001: A Space Odyssey feel looking through the inside of your TV.
Yup, samw here
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.
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.
I recognize the SCART cable from our old cable drawer. Nice knowing that my dad sprung for the best back in 2002.
Björk did a video like this
🤔 must be an artist thing
I never threw out my old TV in fear I'd never get the same experience in gaming. Love the video!
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.
6:14 "that means I can order a component cable for Super Nintendo, and get a much better picture to this TV."
sorry, but that won't actually work. unless you mod your SNES, or use an upconversion system, in which case, you may as well just go back to your emulator, because it will NOT be genuine SNES anymore.
in fact, even the original Sony Playstation did not have component output. the PS2 did, but if you take that connector, and plug it into the PSX (they used the same connector) you would only end up with a black screen...
composite really was the best SNES had to offer. interestingly, the ORIGINAL NES (which shipped with an RF connector) actually had composite connectors on the back right (although they were in mono audio). but composite was STILL better than plain old RF connection.
hmm, don’t remember 2001: a space odyssey being like this...
We're all just trying to get back home.
Deep
r/I'm14andthisisdeep
Not me, i'm watching this in my bedroom
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.
I absolutely love the “Star Trek” lighting. This video incredible.
You never know what to expect here. Except some sort of interesting content.
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!
Be careful where you stick your fingers. There are capacitors in there that can shock the crap out of you even if it's unplugged.
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.
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.
your videos are next level nick
I think it’ll be better if the high pitched noice from the CRT fades out and in gradually
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.
I love the DK soundtrack addition
Edit: remix?
ScribbleNaughttv He would for sure kill it
It’s “Dk - Aquatic Ambiance”
Mando R thanks boss🤙🏽
ScribbleNaughttv Of course 😁👍🏽
Turning the banal into a work of art
The moody slow pans on the hardware were very tasteful.
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.
Hi Nick! Hi everyone!
Brings me back to my 90's childhood. VHS, Cassette tapes, radio music, CRTV's, SNES/N64 and Blockbuster... The 90's was truly a golden age that nobody born in the past 20-25 years will *ever* be able to understand or comprehend. It was the last decade before technology exponentially leaped into the next generation that we now take for granted.
Don't get me wrong, I love the monumental advancements in technology/internet we have today. Convenience, communication and accessibility are off the charts. But sometimes I wonder if things were truly better off before the internet boom.
The internet is Babylon.
Babylon, the Prostitute on the Beast: Revelation 17 (NIV)
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters.
2 With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries. 3 Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. 5 The name written on her forehead was a mystery:
_babylon the great_
_the mother of prostitutes_
_and of the abominations of the earth._
Revelation 18 (NIV)
21 With such violence
the great city of Babylon will be thrown down,
never to be found again.
22 The music of harpists and musicians, pipers and trumpeters,
will never be heard in you again.
No worker of any trade
will ever be found in you again.
The sound of a millstone
will never be heard in you again.
23 The light of a lamp
will never shine in you again.
The voice of bridegroom and bride
will never be heard in you again.
*Your merchants were the world’s important people.*
*By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.*
24 In her was found the blood of prophets and of God’s holy people,
of all who have been slaughtered on the earth.
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!
Macro photography reveals hidden worlds. Very cool
This video is just a metaphor for aging and death.
Yeah, about losing and not being able to do anything about it...but also about cherishing forgotten things, realizing their value, that is still there.
Oh wow, i had one of those! Such a trip down memory lane. Nice comfy video Nick :)
It's like a spaceship. There's a beautiful aura to old electronics, especially with your immaculate production, Pogo!
Nick! I need more Radio Pogo in my life! Please! Also, really interesting video!
Wow I didn't know I would be so interested in old TVs but your delivery makes it so peaceful and informative to watch.
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.
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.
What IS this channel? The quality here is breathtaking... The cinematography, the mixing, the the storytelling. Crazy good.
what's the background music? especially the one at 8:30
"Thank you very much for tuning in" Ah, Pogo you're so funny.
But seriously, I was wondering why CRT televisions are better for retro consoles, and this video satisfied my curiosity. Please do make more of these!
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!
This is so pleasing to watch. Thanks Nick
Oh good! I'm very happy. Thank you!
Super fascinated by this. Also, your cinematography skills are top notch.
EARTHBOUND MUSIC?! I didn’t think you could be cooler.
Hey! This video was so nostalgic and freaking delightful!!
If only you knew about MiSTer and FPGA based gaming hardware.
Interesting... modding a Nintendo to create more gaming choice...
Not unlike my phonograph restoration... I’ll be restoring it to it’s more late ‘30s appearance... but I’ll add Bluetooth to it, so it can play vinyl, AM radio, and POGO from my iPhone...
You absolutely melted my heart as soon as the underwater donkey kong level music came on. This was unexpectedly moving... The nostalgia.
The quality of your videos are so good they rival latest documentaries.its awesome!!!
Great Video - but several things; firstly, if you think that this TV is big and heavy, you need to try the weight and size of a TV from the 1960s!! This will seem comparatively lightweight in comparison! They were full of Valves (which this one isn’t) and had even more heavy components than this one! You’d need a wheelbarrow! Second; you mention a Tube 'dying’ as if modern TVs last forever; they have a much shorter life than a CRT - and they don’t ‘die’ (give you warnings when they are going) they just ‘drop dead’; you switch on one day - and nothing happens - it’s dead; no warnings, no fading - nothing... CRTs lasted for years - literally, because they were built to last, unlike modern technology, which is mostly 'tat' - even at the so-called 'high-end’ of the Market. Finally; don’t stress too much about the Tube giving out; they may not make old TVs any more, but there are a surprising number of BRAND NEW Tubes out there that you can acquire! There’s no shortage. In fact, I'm pretty sure there is at least TWO manufacturers who still produce them in small numbers. (I read why this was somewhere - but can’t recall where) Having said all that, you could still replace it with one from another secondhand Set, as there are still thousands of old TVs out there.
I thought this channel was only for music. Apparently there's also high quality and informative videos aswell!
In addition to no delay or ghosting, CRTs usually had (have?) noticeably higher refresh rates than LCDs. Even a run of the mill CRT could boast 75-90hz, while LED displays today routinely struggle with 59. Depending on quality, plenty of CRTs manage 120-150hz just fine; something that gaming monitors are only just now beginning to compete with.
I mean, OLED TVs also wear out with age, and unevenly (image retention)... but you can't adjust those to correct for the aging... that's another big difference with old tech, it was fixable... modern isn't
A CRT made with modern tech could do 8K at 240Hz, that's an 8Ghz pixel clock, 12-bit HDR, zero latency.
CRT remains beyond the capabilities of our graphics cards!
I bet a lot of people would buy it.
1:16 I'M IN LOVE WITH THIS SONG, and i think i heard it somewhere, does someone knows the name?
What a fantastic video. Definitely not what I expected, but absolutely great!
Just found your channel and just realized you have not posted anything for awhile. You did some great videos.
CRTs are for around 30 000 work hours (assuming you calibrate them every ~10 000 work hours). After that, they are irreversibly off at various parameters, mainly white balance.
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...
HI NICK 🙋♂️ WELCOME IN FRANCE 🙏🙏🙏💜💜💜
I’m laughing at myself because I didn’t understand one word of that 😂🤣😂 I don’t even have a TV (my wind up gramophone’s my limit)
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.
As truly fascinating as the rest of the video is, my favorite part is Nick's buttery speaking voice.
I have two crt tvs currently. When they finally stop working, I'm making a tiny plasma forcefield out of them.
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.
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.
People act like CRT's are a thing of the past.. Actually some CRTs have better quality picture than most LCD's.. There was an adjustable upscaler tv sony made with really thick input cables that would make a resolution look so clean it would compete to that of 1080p LCDs made today.. and the problem with a lot of HDMI products is the cables can often loose information or be encoded and decoded poorly..
NEW VIDEO FROM YOU!!
I love you Pogo!!!
Mate, come down to the Retro gaming club down in Melbourne when this while pandemic is over and we'll setup you up with SCART conversation or HDMI :). Hit me up if you're interested and I'll get you connected to the right people
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 :)
I'm excited for the Old TV sounds Pogo Remix
Camera work and lighting in video so gorgeous.. With this ambient on background it reminds me of Star Trek '79
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 miss your video-game reviews, your music, lives... and this kind of content is great too!
good to see u back nick
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!
ahhhh, the good ol' days of chunky tvs and computers. Things weighed as much as a small, chubby child
Buy the flash card!!! You won't regret it.
composite was your worst quality video signal?
let me introduce you to the single socket av antenna connection...
Damn Nick, love seeing you having Bubsy in there!
It's old tech, but its good tech. I prefer to game with retro systems on the old CRT's.
Only you could make this video and make it very interesting. Great editing man, and narration as always.
We threw out (crushed) many Sony Cube monitors in the past . They had every conceivable connectivity to them bar Scart as this was deemed consumer.
I remember owning a Teac Scart TV and my PS1 looked amazing on it but it died.
Your voice is wonderfully warm, makes me feel very chilled. Hope you are doing well out there :3
I have a old sampoorna 2 tv, it have some display rainbow problem. I want to sell/replace this. What to do?, how to do?
The end sounded like an allegory for attempting to fix a broken relationship or coping with one's death.
Beautiful. "Muh Led Tv" nerds will never understand
I had a 27 inch Trinitron -- it was donated to the local garbage collection about 12 years ago... Kind of regret it a bit, but it was a great television. Wish I had known about the service manuals.
Also, agreed with the FX Pack Pro. Unless you are a collector ala AVGN (and James has everything...), you'd be better off getting roms on an SD Cartridge.
$80 for a CRT?
RIIIIP, dude. It looks nicely calibrated though for sure.
The geometry for a flatscreen is pretty nice.
Another route you could also go is looking for a nice CRT monitor,
emulate on that or even hook up some retro consoles that way.
Seeing Pogo in my sub box makes life worth living! 😊
Really been wanting this lately 😭 retroarch is nice though
Just got a cabinet arcade machine, CRT TLC - so cool.