If I remember correctly you have to hold down two buttons. I believe both Channel buttons at the same time, in order to access the hidden menu feature on some old TVs
CRTs don't have a uniform brightness like LCD panels. That is why they can display light and shadow with much greater subtlety. They also show true black. It creates depth and it's immediately noticeable.
My daughter sure does think so. She is six and has a 2004 pink and purple Disney Princess CRT. She's had it for about a year and a half and thinks it's the greatest. She likes watching it better than watching our flat screen which we have had since she was like a year and is either LCD or LED. I can't remember which and don't know how to tell. I threw away the manual.
The high voltage From crts doesn't hurt. I accidentally touched the fly back suction cup or more the cable in it while discharging the tube it didn't felt hard it was like 100v only but for only 1 sec. Most crts by the way discharge themselves so they don't have any high voltage any more. So don't worry
That looks like a fantastic TV for playing PS1 and PS2. My parents have a big 480p TV from the mid 2000's. I tried playing the PS2 version of Okami on it and the experience was amazing.
should have seen my wide screen 32 inch crt tv i had between 2003-2009. it could do 720p on s-video or component jacks . and looked damn good too (component being the best visuals). i miss that tv. damn thing wieghed a ton but man was it awesome to have when the 720p consoles came out (xbox 360/ps3).
In the 2000s we started using plasma televisions, although we still had several CRTs around. The plasma technology then was a far cry from the later models, but it was still a stunning experience back then. I had a Sony Trinitron WEGA, probably around 32-inches or so. It was an excellent television, and definitely superior to this Symphonic unit. I do miss our CRT/DLP/Plasma televisions, but mostly everything now is LCD and OLED.
@@RABBIDLAD right. I just noticed how someone incorrectly stated that a digital LCD TV screams PS2, and I remarked that a digital TV actually screams PS4.
I used to have a similarly designed CRT TV. We bought it back in 2001 and it lasted all the way up until 2015 when its electron gun finally died after slowly wearing out over the years.
Hey Bingocat, recently I remember cleaning out an old shed shortly after hurricane micheal where I had a bunch of old things that I haven't seen in years and I actually came across an old RCA vhs-c camcorder that I also bought from Wal-Mart back in 2000. It actually still works today and the very last time I remember using it was when I graduated from highschool in May of 2002. Seems like I haven't powered it on since then until about a week ago. Even had a spare nickle cadmium battery that still holds a charge that I also bought back in 2000. Incredible, it still works after all these years. I'll upload a video of that.
I too have some VHS tapes of early 00's kids shows recorded from an analog broadcast, and it's amazing to see how far we've come in the last 14-18 years. Today's kids won't know an era before child-oriented smartphone games and online videos available instantly through a hand-held device with an order of magnitude more pixels (dots) compared to the old CRT TVs.
Idk if you meant to be passively-aggressive, but today's kids will say "These kids won't remember the times when we didn't have inter-dimentional portals", things just progress, lol
The refresh rate of this TV is 59.94 Hz. That is the refresh rate of all NTSC televisions. I remember these Symphonic TV/VCR combos quite well. In the late 1990s, they were quite reasonably priced at big box stores. They were the kinds of TVs that might have been used in vehicles (as you mentioned) or that might have been set up in a teenager's room or in a college dorm room. In the days of analog TV, passengers could watch broadcast TV in a moving vehicle, although the picture would have been less than perfect. Unfortunately, the digital TV standard used in the U.S. is almost completely non-functional when the receiver is moving.
I lucked out two summers ago and found a nice 27" Sanyo CRT TV for $5 from a yard sale where the family was getting ready to move. The TV worked like a charm but the remote wasn't in the best shape. Luckily I had a universal remote around to pair it with. I bought an HDMI-to-AV adapter to use with my Chromecast and an 8-way AV Switch to hook up my DVD/VCR combo player along with my consoles, Roku, and Raspberry Pi. It's absolutely perfect to watch old shows on.
I love how you say Button. I also had one of these model crt TVs that me and my family had when would go on long road trips. We were only limited to take 3 of our favorite movies each to play in rotation. This brought back nostalgic memories for me.
Over the last few years, I've gathered 3 very nice Sony CRTs, all three excellent displays. I have a 27" SD 4:3 TV, a 34" HD 16:9 TV, and a 21" monitor. With high quality connections from gaming consoles, they all look amazing and there's zero input lag to speak of. The only modern TVs that can touch the HD CRT for image quality are OLEDs, as they can finally achieve deep blacks and truly rich color.
I have six CRT TV s,four are in use and two are in storage. I wish I could give you one or both of the ones I have in storage. I don't want them anymore.
I've got a similar Symphonic TV/VCR combo like the one you have here. The model I have is a SC1304 which we had since it was new back in 2000 (still have the original remote, but missing the original owner's manual).
You did pretty much exactly what I did. I have a symphonic TV from 1996. I bought a universal remote, and HDMI to RCA converter just to use it as a monitor
This video is so surreal! My nana had one of these in her kitchen when I was very little and I'd remember watching the news on it as she cooked. My family even got the portable dvd players for long road trip as well. Feels like it was so long ago and I'm not even old yet.
I still have an old sr-1000 crt tv sitting around with the turn knobs that said it was manufactured in June of 1985. Still works, I just don't have a way to hook it to modern cable since it just has two antennae leads.
You can get a adapter and a wire to convert to a normal coaxial antenna port, then use a good rf modulator to convert it to RCA jacks then use a rca to hdmi. Thats how I used a new laptop on a black and white tv from 1979
My first big pay check i got when i was a teenager. I went out and bought two things. A 13" crt RCA tv (with only the basic video and audio inputs on the side.) and a dvd player. Still have them to this day.
I remember looking through a bunch of old DVDRWs that I've had for years and I remember I found one with a video of a mermaid show at Weeky Wachie Florida that I remember that I taped with a camcorder which the date on that video is September 4th, 2000. Of course that was long before smartphones existed that you would record a video with. I remember also that same week that I recorded that video was when Microsoft released Windows Me. I think I tried to put it on UA-cam, but I guess there were some issues with copyright due to the music being played while the mermaids and actors were dancing.
Pick up a 40 inch crt tv from a recycling center for very cheap, restore it and hook up gaming console to the tv and you got yourself a killer veiwing experience!
I still use a CRT for some things. Mine is is an older Matsui model, it’s smaller than yours but has a bigger screen and much like yours has a built in VCR. My Nan brought it in the late 90s even though I believe it was made before that, and she gave it to my family a couple years ago. It’s a good old system, and I use it for watching VHSs, picking up analogue signals, on the odd case where I need to pick some up, and for playing retro game consoles. Unlike you though, I don’t get any eye-strain from using mine, for the first few minutes the flickering is really obviously and annoying and can give a headache, but if I focus on the CRT for a couple of minutes I get used to it and stop noticing. The high-pitched noise the display produces is more annoying however, but you tune it out rather quickly. But switching between an LCD and a CRT does take some adjustment. I wouldn’t want to watch a movie on my LCD while also playing my SNES through a CRT, as it’d give me a headache. Honestly I expect I could happily use a CRT instead of an LCD in this day an age, even though the world has moved on. However, if I wanted to use a computer I’d use a proper CRT monitor with the correct resolution, and a good refresh rate.
I even have a 12" GE color TV from 1980 and it still works with no damage, well the numbers for one of the channel knob is loosened and I have tape holding it to the knob. I'm looking to either get a NES or a Super Nintendo for it because I have other retro things but it's not complete without a retro video game setup as the final topping. It's sad that I will still be part with the internet which makes most people into Social Media Zombies.
The flicker is because you’re feeding it an interlaced signal. If you send it a progressive signal, there won’t be any flicker. 240p, 480p even 720p. There are CRTs that do properly display interlaced images though. Mainly HD CRTs. Thanks for the video
The home where I live in (grandparent House). We use a TV from 1995 so in 2020 it is 25 years old, yesus that is crazy. I have not had any modern TVS or even wide ones. My TV is below 720p resolution. Our content now is cropped extremely you can not see the subtitles anymore because nowadays the TV screen's are super wide and +40 inches in size. My grandfather recorded all of his favorite shows and movies and cartoons in whs tapes which i can watch anytime.
The other night, I managed to get an old VHS c tape to play on an old CRT TV that my mom taped of me 24 years ago when I went to elementary school in 1994. After all these years, it seems like the audio didn't survive, but the video did, so I was still able to see myself 24 years ago.
Fix your shutter speed lmao, set it to 1/30 or 1/60 for recording CRTs. Also, instead of hooking up a PC, it would have been cool for you to hook up a DVD player, or gotten a cheap HDTV ATSC antenna + a digital-to-analog converter box, and see how the actual TV channels look. Also see if you could set up the built-in VCR to record
Pretty sure (but i could be wrong) Funai still makes TVs for Sylvania and Emerson, like they did back in the CRT days. It is just like looking at stuff through a window, and even more so if it's in 60 FPS in my experience.
Another problem, aside from uncorrected aspect ratio, with those converter boxes is that the output interlaced video is not vertically low passed at all which when displayed in an interlaced fashion by the CRT TV results in tremendous "line twitter" which is unpleasing and straining to watch (probably what you called flicker, although that's technically something else). It makes small details such as small text look like it's wiggling very fast. You could try to set your GPU to output 480i via HDMI to the converter and hope your GPU does a low pass (Nvidia does). That way the converter doesn't need to do any scaling and acts just as a DAC and you get a decent 480i picture.
I have a mini monitor as my main (web browsing and file editing) and a crt to watch videos and play games. Like you said there is a depth to it you cant find on lcd screens.
a high end crt tv was and can still be really nice. back between 2003 - 2009 i used a 32 inch flat and wide screen crt tv that could do up to 720p. 720p achieved through S video connection or component (component looking best). i remmber being real impressed with it's image quality on the xbox 360 with component cables it rivaled my freinds 1080p lcd in general asthetics but kicked the shit out of it in blacks and motion handling. i gave the TV to a different friend though when he and his family had no tv at all, after i had gotten my first 1080p lcd of course. i really miss that tv .. and that friend (he died in 2020 , shot dead by a neighbor durring an argument they had). not sure what came of that TV.
CRTs aren't super bad or anything the only real reason we switched to the modern displays is because well 1. you don't have to be a bodybuilder to pick him up 2. I don't think we could make a CRT with a high enough resolution 3. For anyone wondering those widescreen televisions that are really fat aren't CRT.
@@Warp2090 I thought all the widescreen televisions that were really big were the type that people keep removing the glass or plastic or whatever it is from the front of it using it to cook food with when that was popular at one point You definitely wouldn't be able to do that with a CRT.
connecting a PC to a crt is a genuinely difficult challenge, i'm seeing composite artefacts, interlaced flickering, massive overscan, just looks so bad but tbh it's never going to look good used as a desktop. The reason you had black bars on the side in a 4:3 aspect ratio, is that the hdmi converter box you're using (i have one too) will only output in 16:9, so if you input 4:3 you just get black bars on the side when viewed on a 4:3 display. Using vga to output 4:3 ratio then converted to scart/component, you can actually select a custom resolution using software for 240p or 480i, and on a screen without rounded corners you can actually get a pretty decent approximation of a vga monitor, but a consumer CRT TV will never support anything higher than 480i or 240p, and therefore will either look pretty rough due to interlacing, or the interface will be unusably big at 240p- what you want to be doing with a CRT is using things designed specifically to be used with super low resolution content- like retro games, video. Also fyi crt's have zero input lag, and yeah the interlaced flicker annoys me too, which is why I try and stick to 240p instead, that way there's no flickering
we had a Sony Trinitron back in the 2001 when my parent moved to germantown Maryland and it was high def it was huge and the tv had high quality speakers that were a big as sound equipment that used for rock music or maybe hip hop back in the late 1990's but the Sony Trinitron was the best tv out there and when we lived that thing out of my house it had to be at least 300 pounds or maybe a lot more than that that thing was history please tell me you know what I am talking about since you started to grow up in the late 90's
Okay so the reason why why TV flickered was because it was displaying in 480i in composite. Run it in 240p and you'll get beautiful scan lines. And no flicker. The converter was probably really crappy, which is why it couldn't just accept outputting a 4:3 ratio.
Yeah they dont make things like they used to- A CRT FROM 2013? thats rare as heck dude keep it safe lol, alot of ppl said they stopped making crts in 2007 or so after analog tv was ended
OMG I remember seeing those. My older sister's was an Emerson which was a 12 inch. Fun fact: I was born in November of 2000 lol. I guess the tv and I are the same age.
I understand the problems when it comes to filming a CRT. It's because the shutter of your camera is out of sync with the TV's framerate. Try changing your shutter speed to 60 times per second. It greatly helps problems like these. Good video overall, though.
@@Warp2090 And now you're talking about that weird thing where they call it flat because the glass was curved for some odd reason that I've never figured out. (Probably a quick Google search but too lazy)
@@bland9876 Huh? Can you repeat that reply so it makes more sense. Some crt's are called flat because the glass is flat and the crt does go back is far.
@@Warp2090 yeah basically If someone's talking about an old television they might use the word flat to say that the screen is flat because for some reason the actual like front of the glass part was rounded on old televisions rather than saying that it was flat like how modern screens are less than an inch thick from the front to the back.
5:10 I had the same problem trying to watch Netflix (which, thankfully, just gets rid of the black bars (at least for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), when used on a 16:9 PC operating with a 4:3 display resolution) when on the CRT. I first tried the Chromecast, but it was clear that wasn't going to work. When I tried the PC, with a 4:3 aspect ratio setting, it did the same thing [as in the video]. However, if you've a computer that can stretch your 4:3 image to 16:9 (many can't, though, fortunately, I can use 1, through the Intel HD Graphics Driver*), then you can connect your PC & display it in 4:3, with no black bars (though you may have to deal with overscan). Btw, I spent several hours trying to find this solution, in large part due to a faulty app that was missing settings, including GPU scaling (I think it was AMD). Also, GPU scaling's what you need to look for to do what I did (unless there's some alternative). * or something to that effect
Decided to try and go for a more professional looking format with this video. Hope you guys liked it!
Bingocat Great job my dude!
Like'n the new style man!
agreed
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If I remember correctly you have to hold down two buttons. I believe both Channel buttons at the same time, in order to access the hidden menu feature on some old TVs
CRTs don't have a uniform brightness like LCD panels. That is why they can display light and shadow with much greater subtlety. They also show true black. It creates depth and it's immediately noticeable.
Nice, informative comment, thanks! I Love boobtubes!
Yep!
CRTs are the best displays ever made.... I love CRT
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My daughter sure does think so. She is six and has a 2004 pink and purple Disney Princess CRT. She's had it for about a year and a half and thinks it's the greatest. She likes watching it better than watching our flat screen which we have had since she was like a year and is either LCD or LED. I can't remember which and don't know how to tell. I threw away the manual.
Yeah that's it
Only problem is (we have one in our basement) if it breaks I'm scared to fix it because of the high voltage in crt displays
The high voltage From crts doesn't hurt. I accidentally touched the fly back suction cup or more the cable in it while discharging the tube it didn't felt hard it was like 100v only but for only 1 sec. Most crts by the way discharge themselves so they don't have any high voltage any more. So don't worry
That looks like a fantastic TV for playing PS1 and PS2. My parents have a big 480p TV from the mid 2000's. I tried playing the PS2 version of Okami on it and the experience was amazing.
should have seen my wide screen 32 inch crt tv i had between 2003-2009. it could do 720p on s-video or component jacks . and looked damn good too (component being the best visuals). i miss that tv. damn thing wieghed a ton but man was it awesome to have when the 720p consoles came out (xbox 360/ps3).
blue's clues on a tube tv... nostalgia
Uhh-
@@volkswagenpologameing9840 ?
Another positive about CRT's is that there's no motion blur when playing video games.
I just got back from Arizona and found this EXACT TV at a goodwill
Found one where i live too but the one i found didnt work
@@cookiecutter1245 lol of course it didnt work... its made by funai
In the 2000s we started using plasma televisions, although we still had several CRTs around. The plasma technology then was a far cry from the later models, but it was still a stunning experience back then. I had a Sony Trinitron WEGA, probably around 32-inches or so. It was an excellent television, and definitely superior to this Symphonic unit. I do miss our CRT/DLP/Plasma televisions, but mostly everything now is LCD and OLED.
In Germany the Flatscreens became more widespread in 2006-2008 and been likely gone in 2016
I still have a big screen Rear Film Projection TV.
Ha lucky, we didn’t get a plasma TV til 2009 and I didn’t even have any friend from school with one til maybe 08.
I still have my Sony Trinitron 29 inch from 1998.. still works great and ps2 looks glorious on it
3:30 This is something that you would find in a horror movie. Not terrifying at all.
This screams ps2 generation
LCD Widescreen TV screams PS2
@@glx3846 more like PS4...
@@MrUnknownuser164 more like Xbox Original
@@RABBIDLAD right. I just noticed how someone incorrectly stated that a digital LCD TV screams PS2, and I remarked that a digital TV actually screams PS4.
@@MrUnknownuser164 You can still use a xbox original on a normal tv it just streches the image
I used to have a similarly designed CRT TV. We bought it back in 2001 and it lasted all the way up until 2015 when its electron gun finally died after slowly wearing out over the years.
Keep these! they are going to be seen as relics in the future. I have a small 9" portable CRT that I love and cherish
I'm gonna use entirely CRT for my TVs when I get me my own house. :)
Isaac Wright Lol why I have a few crt tvs but a flat screen will always be in my living room
Ok boomer
Same here and if people don't like it then they can go suck a lemon
Same here i even have my own CRT in My room
@@IAm-zo1bo Stfu no one asked or cares about your existance
Hey Bingocat, recently I remember cleaning out an old shed shortly after hurricane micheal where I had a bunch of old things that I haven't seen in years and I actually came across an old RCA vhs-c camcorder that I also bought from Wal-Mart back in 2000. It actually still works today and the very last time I remember using it was when I graduated from highschool in May of 2002. Seems like I haven't powered it on since then until about a week ago. Even had a spare nickle cadmium battery that still holds a charge that I also bought back in 2000. Incredible, it still works after all these years. I'll upload a video of that.
I too have some VHS tapes of early 00's kids shows recorded from an analog broadcast, and it's amazing to see how far we've come in the last 14-18 years. Today's kids won't know an era before child-oriented smartphone games and online videos available instantly through a hand-held device with an order of magnitude more pixels (dots) compared to the old CRT TVs.
Idk if you meant to be passively-aggressive, but today's kids will say "These kids won't remember the times when we didn't have inter-dimentional portals", things just progress, lol
1. More power to you
2. These PC specs are awful lol
Assuming that they like to save money, they would buy a battery
@@lilah8709 youre young you shouldnt get better stuff
The refresh rate of this TV is 59.94 Hz. That is the refresh rate of all NTSC televisions.
I remember these Symphonic TV/VCR combos quite well. In the late 1990s, they were quite reasonably priced at big box stores. They were the kinds of TVs that might have been used in vehicles (as you mentioned) or that might have been set up in a teenager's room or in a college dorm room.
In the days of analog TV, passengers could watch broadcast TV in a moving vehicle, although the picture would have been less than perfect. Unfortunately, the digital TV standard used in the U.S. is almost completely non-functional when the receiver is moving.
I lucked out two summers ago and found a nice 27" Sanyo CRT TV for $5 from a yard sale where the family was getting ready to move. The TV worked like a charm but the remote wasn't in the best shape. Luckily I had a universal remote around to pair it with. I bought an HDMI-to-AV adapter to use with my Chromecast and an 8-way AV Switch to hook up my DVD/VCR combo player along with my consoles, Roku, and Raspberry Pi. It's absolutely perfect to watch old shows on.
Yeah
My Gosh, this video is 6 yrs ago. Incredible objects 📺
we still use a CRT from 2001 on a day-to-day basis, we use it in the basement, I've played modern games on it last year, my experience was pretty good
I love how you say Button. I also had one of these model crt TVs that me and my family had when would go on long road trips. We were only limited to take 3 of our favorite movies each to play in rotation. This brought back nostalgic memories for me.
Over the last few years, I've gathered 3 very nice Sony CRTs, all three excellent displays. I have a 27" SD 4:3 TV, a 34" HD 16:9 TV, and a 21" monitor. With high quality connections from gaming consoles, they all look amazing and there's zero input lag to speak of.
The only modern TVs that can touch the HD CRT for image quality are OLEDs, as they can finally achieve deep blacks and truly rich color.
I wish I can have a TV like this but you can hardly find them anywhere. Flat screens are nice but I like old things better than new things.
GinaAlexandra I agree
I have six CRT TV s,four are in use and two are in storage. I wish I could give you one or both of the ones I have in storage. I don't want them anymore.
Try the Facebook market place or a thrift shop
@@dollreemappmmk14 I love old crts lol
@@alexakaa.charlesross8919 and garage sales! i got a awesome magnavox thats so pretty from a garage sale that looks almost new for 5$
This TV looks great. Especially for connecting older consoles like the Sega Mega Drive
in my apartment i still use a 19" CRT TV w/VCR by Toshiba i bought in 2003. Still works today!
I've got a similar Symphonic TV/VCR combo like the one you have here. The model I have is a SC1304 which we had since it was new back in 2000 (still have the original remote, but missing the original owner's manual).
Yeah. A agree with you on depth on CRTs VS earlier LCDs.
4K has caught up though.
Nah, 4k tv's arent worth it because you sit farther from a tv than a computer monitor so 1080p or 720p will look just as good
You did pretty much exactly what I did. I have a symphonic TV from 1996. I bought a universal remote, and HDMI to RCA converter just to use it as a monitor
This video is so surreal! My nana had one of these in her kitchen when I was very little and I'd remember watching the news on it as she cooked. My family even got the portable dvd players for long road trip as well. Feels like it was so long ago and I'm not even old yet.
I have an Emerson TV set (model 1224) that I bought 40 years ago.
It has a 24" black-and-white tube!
I still have 4 CRTs in use, love them also have an 26" Toshiba 2929dd nice big crt!
CRT seems to get levels of colour saturation and depth that a LCD tv could never get, lcds are just more sharp
No, sony made a super sharp 1080p crt with hdmi
I still have an old sr-1000 crt tv sitting around with the turn knobs that said it was manufactured in June of 1985. Still works, I just don't have a way to hook it to modern cable since it just has two antennae leads.
There's workarounds for that. Go to my mate vince UA-cam channel. He has videos on how to connect modern devices to an crt TV like yours.
Have same tv too
You can get a adapter and a wire to convert to a normal coaxial antenna port, then use a good rf modulator to convert it to RCA jacks then use a rca to hdmi. Thats how I used a new laptop on a black and white tv from 1979
Omg with the VCR built in the TV, one of the best.
My first big pay check i got when i was a teenager. I went out and bought two things. A 13" crt RCA tv (with only the basic video and audio inputs on the side.) and a dvd player. Still have them to this day.
I remember looking through a bunch of old DVDRWs that I've had for years and I remember I found one with a video of a mermaid show at Weeky Wachie Florida that I remember that I taped with a camcorder which the date on that video is September 4th, 2000. Of course that was long before smartphones existed that you would record a video with. I remember also that same week that I recorded that video was when Microsoft released Windows Me. I think I tried to put it on UA-cam, but I guess there were some issues with copyright due to the music being played while the mermaids and actors were dancing.
what a nice TV .... i couldn't find a vhs set for my own retro tv .... nice video
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Love these things, takes me back.
Pick up a 40 inch crt tv from a recycling center for very cheap, restore it and hook up gaming console to the tv and you got yourself a killer veiwing experience!
Yeah I hate how people just recycle old crts and destroy them they deserve better lol
While I was way too old to bother with it, I first learned of Blue’s Clues existence when I noticed it in Cartoon Network’s listings in 1998 or so.
I still use a CRT for some things. Mine is is an older Matsui model, it’s smaller than yours but has a bigger screen and much like yours has a built in VCR. My Nan brought it in the late 90s even though I believe it was made before that, and she gave it to my family a couple years ago. It’s a good old system, and I use it for watching VHSs, picking up analogue signals, on the odd case where I need to pick some up, and for playing retro game consoles. Unlike you though, I don’t get any eye-strain from using mine, for the first few minutes the flickering is really obviously and annoying and can give a headache, but if I focus on the CRT for a couple of minutes I get used to it and stop noticing. The high-pitched noise the display produces is more annoying however, but you tune it out rather quickly. But switching between an LCD and a CRT does take some adjustment. I wouldn’t want to watch a movie on my LCD while also playing my SNES through a CRT, as it’d give me a headache. Honestly I expect I could happily use a CRT instead of an LCD in this day an age, even though the world has moved on. However, if I wanted to use a computer I’d use a proper CRT monitor with the correct resolution, and a good refresh rate.
Refresh rate is the same as any TV for the American market:
59.94Hz by field
29.97 interlaced pictures per second.
Seeing you find an old tape your mom made for you was a little heartwarming.
I even have a 12" GE color TV from 1980 and it still works with no damage, well the numbers for one of the channel knob is loosened and I have tape holding it to the knob. I'm looking to either get a NES or a Super Nintendo for it because I have other retro things but it's not complete without a retro video game setup as the final topping. It's sad that I will still be part with the internet which makes most people into Social Media Zombies.
Nice! I have a Maganvox tv from 1999 (CRT) But it looks like its from 1993 lol. I use my vcr and ps1 with it
@@Warp2090 Cool!
The flicker is because you’re feeding it an interlaced signal. If you send it a progressive signal, there won’t be any flicker. 240p, 480p even 720p. There are CRTs that do properly display interlaced images though. Mainly HD CRTs. Thanks for the video
My grandma still uses a crt and in my country we still have analog channels.
What country?? I wish in the USA we had analog channels I hate the FCC
I loved Blue’s Clues as a kid so much!
I still have my old TV from when I was little. It's a 13" Sharp Linytron from 1991.
@Fuzy2K Same here, I still have my 20 inch Daewoo TV VCR that I had when I was 3. :D
I have 4 CRTs, my main TV is still a Hitachi from 1991.
Why not get a new TV? How can you live with the appalling quality of a CRT?
The home where I live in (grandparent House). We use a TV from 1995 so in 2020 it is 25 years old, yesus that is crazy. I have not had any modern TVS or even wide ones. My TV is below 720p resolution. Our content now is cropped extremely you can not see the subtitles anymore because nowadays the TV screen's are super wide and +40 inches in size. My grandfather recorded all of his favorite shows and movies and cartoons in whs tapes which i can watch anytime.
The other night, I managed to get an old VHS c tape to play on an old CRT TV that my mom taped of me 24 years ago when I went to elementary school in 1994. After all these years, it seems like the audio didn't survive, but the video did, so I was still able to see myself 24 years ago.
Fix your shutter speed lmao, set it to 1/30 or 1/60 for recording CRTs.
Also, instead of hooking up a PC, it would have been cool for you to hook up a DVD player, or gotten a cheap HDTV ATSC antenna + a digital-to-analog converter box, and see how the actual TV channels look. Also see if you could set up the built-in VCR to record
I got a CRT tv today from a garage sale for free! And It actually works great!
Blue's Clues also had re-runs in the 2010s, hence why I was able to watch it when I was younger.
I love CRTs, great for retro gaming
I remember watching Blues Clues as a kid! We had that channel here in the UK if you had a Sky digital satellite subscription.
These TVs are the greatest in existence, and no one can take that away from them.
Pretty sure (but i could be wrong) Funai still makes TVs for Sylvania and Emerson, like they did back in the CRT days. It is just like looking at stuff through a window, and even more so if it's in 60 FPS in my experience.
Another problem, aside from uncorrected aspect ratio, with those converter boxes is that the output interlaced video is not vertically low passed at all which when displayed in an interlaced fashion by the CRT TV results in tremendous "line twitter" which is unpleasing and straining to watch (probably what you called flicker, although that's technically something else). It makes small details such as small text look like it's wiggling very fast. You could try to set your GPU to output 480i via HDMI to the converter and hope your GPU does a low pass (Nvidia does). That way the converter doesn't need to do any scaling and acts just as a DAC and you get a decent 480i picture.
I like the look of the TV thanks for showing the TV
Love crt's ... even though my crt monitor (as a kid) is kinda the reason i have to wear glasses now xD
I have two. One from 94’ and another from 90’ and I have my Amazon Firestick connected to one and still use it every single day.
Also, how did you get that remote to work for your TV? It wasn't designed for it right?
It's a universal remote, which means you can program it to work with different TVs.
This brought back memories
OMG, you have the exact same TV that i had as a kid. Oh the nostalgia :’)
I have a mini monitor as my main (web browsing and file editing) and a crt to watch videos and play games. Like you said there is a depth to it you cant find on lcd screens.
I've had in mind to use a small crt for Powerpoint presentations
my crt is a roadstar from 2002 with a dvd player, movies look so good on it regardless of its 10inch screen
does anybody remember the ones with the built in dvds or vcrs in the tv
Yeah I've seen "flat" crts with a vcr and dvd BOTH built in
Question, I have this tv but no universal remote codes work, what is the four digit code for this tv?
a high end crt tv was and can still be really nice. back between 2003 - 2009 i used a 32 inch flat and wide screen crt tv that could do up to 720p. 720p achieved through S video connection or component (component looking best). i remmber being real impressed with it's image quality on the xbox 360 with component cables it rivaled my freinds 1080p lcd in general asthetics but kicked the shit out of it in blacks and motion handling. i gave the TV to a different friend though when he and his family had no tv at all, after i had gotten my first 1080p lcd of course. i really miss that tv .. and that friend (he died in 2020 , shot dead by a neighbor durring an argument they had). not sure what came of that TV.
CRTs aren't super bad or anything the only real reason we switched to the modern displays is because well
1. you don't have to be a bodybuilder to pick him up
2. I don't think we could make a CRT with a high enough resolution
3. For anyone wondering those widescreen televisions that are really fat aren't CRT.
sony made 1080p crts, also some widescreen crts are more slim than regular CRT's so really the only thing is the weight
@@Warp2090 widescreen CRT? You mean those weird projection TVs? I don't think those are CRT
@@bland9876 They had widescreen CRT's.
@@Warp2090 I thought all the widescreen televisions that were really big were the type that people keep removing the glass or plastic or whatever it is from the front of it using it to cook food with when that was popular at one point
You definitely wouldn't be able to do that with a CRT.
connecting a PC to a crt is a genuinely difficult challenge, i'm seeing composite artefacts, interlaced flickering, massive overscan, just looks so bad but tbh it's never going to look good used as a desktop. The reason you had black bars on the side in a 4:3 aspect ratio, is that the hdmi converter box you're using (i have one too) will only output in 16:9, so if you input 4:3 you just get black bars on the side when viewed on a 4:3 display. Using vga to output 4:3 ratio then converted to scart/component, you can actually select a custom resolution using software for 240p or 480i, and on a screen without rounded corners you can actually get a pretty decent approximation of a vga monitor, but a consumer CRT TV will never support anything higher than 480i or 240p, and therefore will either look pretty rough due to interlacing, or the interface will be unusably big at 240p- what you want to be doing with a CRT is using things designed specifically to be used with super low resolution content- like retro games, video. Also fyi crt's have zero input lag, and yeah the interlaced flicker annoys me too, which is why I try and stick to 240p instead, that way there's no flickering
We used to have a 40 inch sony trinitron, that thing was heavy AS FUCK!
Sure is! I've got one, friend dropped it. Neighbor helped me move it, I asked him to help me move it a second time he got mad and said no lol
300 pounds😂
@@rickalbuquerque1205 probably 350 or more
we had a Sony Trinitron back in the 2001 when my parent moved to germantown Maryland and it was high def it was huge and the tv had high quality speakers that were a big as sound equipment that used for rock music or maybe hip hop back in the late 1990's but the Sony Trinitron was the best tv out there and when we lived that thing out of my house it had to be at least 300 pounds or maybe a lot more than that that thing was history please tell me you know what I am talking about since you started to grow up in the late 90's
I do,I have a few Sony Trinitons and I have a humongous Sony rear film protection from 2000's.
Okay so the reason why why TV flickered was because it was displaying in 480i in composite. Run it in 240p and you'll get beautiful scan lines. And no flicker. The converter was probably really crappy, which is why it couldn't just accept outputting a 4:3 ratio.
The best part this video is how you say 'button'
3:27 FACE!
I have a silver Magnavox crt from 2013 fun fact it was outside during a hurricane and still works.
Yeah they dont make things like they used to- A CRT FROM 2013? thats rare as heck dude keep it safe lol, alot of ppl said they stopped making crts in 2007 or so after analog tv was ended
OMG I remember seeing those. My older sister's was an Emerson which was a 12 inch. Fun fact: I was born in November of 2000 lol. I guess the tv and I are the same age.
I have a 32" widescreen Sony Trinitron CRT TV from late 2003. And it's a 100Hz set so it doesn't flicker at all
I understand the problems when it comes to filming a CRT. It's because the shutter of your camera is out of sync with the TV's framerate. Try changing your shutter speed to 60 times per second. It greatly helps problems like these. Good video overall, though.
I had a tv like that but it stoped working
Yeah the brand makes bad stuff so people stopped buying from them
Very weird video, but this brings me back to the good ol'days :')
Anyone remember Kipper the Dog??
HackersinSpace YES KIPPER
HackersinSpace yes I do
GoodGamer2357 NOICE!! X3
Yes.
I watched this when I was 4 in 2014.
The Kids My Mom babysits watched Kipper before and I did not know it was even an old show.
The only TV that makes every show, but I say _every_ show look old.
and better lol
what does crt tv look like on a bluray picture?
the same as a dvd? blu rays really can only store longer stuff the picture isnt that better from a dvd, so it would look like a dvd player
CRT TVs are underrated.
They have advantages most People don't understand. Like no Input lag for video games.
@@sonyx4500 So true. It's also what I watch DVDs on to get a better picture out of them.
Yeah!
Where's the DVD player? I don't remember if any tv had both though. And secondly why was it always the small TVs that had the DVD player or VCR?
I've seen newer "flat" crts with vcr/dvd combos
@@Warp2090 And now you're talking about that weird thing where they call it flat because the glass was curved for some odd reason that I've never figured out. (Probably a quick Google search but too lazy)
@@bland9876 Huh? Can you repeat that reply so it makes more sense. Some crt's are called flat because the glass is flat and the crt does go back is far.
@@Warp2090 yeah basically If someone's talking about an old television they might use the word flat to say that the screen is flat because for some reason the actual like front of the glass part was rounded on old televisions rather than saying that it was flat like how modern screens are less than an inch thick from the front to the back.
5:10 I had the same problem trying to watch Netflix (which, thankfully, just gets rid of the black bars (at least for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), when used on a 16:9 PC operating with a 4:3 display resolution) when on the CRT. I first tried the Chromecast, but it was clear that wasn't going to work.
When I tried the PC, with a 4:3 aspect ratio setting, it did the same thing [as in the video]. However, if you've a computer that can stretch your 4:3 image to 16:9 (many can't, though, fortunately, I can use 1, through the Intel HD Graphics Driver*), then you can connect your PC & display it in 4:3, with no black bars (though you may have to deal with overscan).
Btw, I spent several hours trying to find this solution, in large part due to a faulty app that was missing settings, including GPU scaling (I think it was AMD).
Also, GPU scaling's what you need to look for to do what I did (unless there's some alternative).
* or something to that effect
I've had older VHS tapes that play better.
I can't remember if this is the same tv I've had in my apartment in 2004
Nostalgia
1:14 suddenly i got a nostalgia :'3
I remember my old TV had both a VHS player and a DVD player
You should try this experiment again, on a VGA, C.R.T.
Ones that do 768p @ 75Hz, are common.
Isnt CRT better that Plasma and LCD?
They both are good in my opinion.
yeah
Words are hard.
they are, other than the weight crts dont have any input lag, true blacks, and sony made a 1080p crt
I remember watching your videos like 1 year ago , damn
I really want to get myself an old box tv for my atari and nes along with my gamecube, God I love Box tvs
same! they are AWESOME!
CRT TVs aren't made for PC but PC CRTs are fuckin georgeous for it
I had a Symphonic DVD player when I was a kid. So I have heard of that brand.