Awesome pickup. I wish I had the space to safe all those crts. So glad that I got a good neighbour, who has no use for his storage space. I saved 3 B&Os and 3 Loewes since I started watching you.
I've seen the 33" version of this TV in Ireland, complete with motorized stand and the addition of a SCART socket. It would have been a high end TV at the time.
Picked up a 32 inch Sony Trinitron Wega for free from Facebook marketplace. The owner actually lived just a couple blocks from me. it is now the center piece of my basement retro game room. Hardest part was getting it down the basement stairs.
They were a top of the line consumer TV in the day. Mitsubishi always made reliable televisions. All the AWA Thorn colour TVs sold in Australia besides a couple of dodgy British models in 1975 were rebadged Mitsubishi. Their VCRs were another thing though.
My family purchased the larger version of this set brand new in the early 90s. I thought that SNES running through S-Video looked incredible on it at the time.
Funny how Thomson also used the Diva name (in their case labelled "black D.I.V.A.") for their Euro high end CRTs. Also having access to Focus and Screen pots from the back, at least for the 29" black D.I.V.A. I own. Real shame we went full on with the 100hz stuff here in Europe because some of 90s big tubes were quite the sets with plenty of SCARTs and Audio Out options.
Yeha I have a Thomson SP Black Pearl 36" 4:3 set, RGB 60Hz, 'tis stunning, has that rich arcade image quality for 240p, I prefer it even to my Sony HiBlack Trinitron 4:3 curved set for 8/16/-Bit games, the Sony is amazing for 32-Bit and up though.
28 System is the number of broadcast system (pal-g, pal-b, secam, etc) not related to the 28” size. In fact, in the US, this TV is marketed as 27” (based on the diagonal visible tube size)
Saudações ! É uma bela tv , interessante ele não contar com entrada componente , parece ser da primeira metade da década de 90 . Outra caracteristica que chamou minha atenção é o tubo não ser muito espaçoso , lembra as ultimas tvs fabricadas com tubos ultra slim . Grande achado , parabens .
Great overview, surprised me no RGB SCART, we had a Mitsubishi TV in the early 90s my Dad bought from Stan Cash that did have it….used to play my PC Engine and Super Famicom on it all the time…..didn’t seem to be much consistency in what manufacturers offered in Australia
Oh dear, rotating a colour tv is a big no no. That's why they're only giving you 15deg in each direction. When I was installing colour tvs in the 1960s all the set up had to be done in situ where the TV was to be used.
Don't sleep on the South-Korean LG/Samsung/Hyundai/NEC CRT tubes, they made some stunning slotmask & Dot-Trio tubes, that rivalled Japans best, the Hyundai ImageQuest, NEC CromaClear and Samsung DynaFlat tubes gave the best aperture grill tubes a run for their money.
@ Hyundai ImageQuest used NEC CromaClear tubes made in South Korea, as did some Hitachi SuperScan sets, NEC didn't just have SKU's in Japan, neither did Sony (Spain/Mexico/Japan/UK/Germany/USA/Singapore/Malaysia), so Sony might have has the most extensive global CRT production program out of all of them, except perhaps RCA-Thomson. Hyundai ImageQuest CRTs are some of the best ever made, the Q995 is an absolute stunner.
I think you need a multiburst test pattern to see how the horizontal resolution setting affects the image. When using a composite input signal, turn the DCF (Comb filter) on and it will improve color fringing.
Horizontal width: try running widescreen content and see if it crops or letterboxes it, such as a widescreen VHS or DVD. My guess is that option controls it.
I have the standard version of this tv still has a motorised stand just no woofer , you can rgb mod but you need a voltage divider I am having brightness issues but I don’t have a remote to navigate the settings , great set but they used cheap capacitors so will need a recap
28 system refers to the signal reception capability and colour system, which it will likely select automatically, that will likely be in the back of the manual in the specifications. Early 90s you'd be paying close to $3,000 for a high end 68cm like a Sony or a Japan made Panasonic. This was a fairly cheap price for this set, but then it isn't a Japan made model and is a fairly basic set. The swivel stand was a bit of a gimmick more than anything, but then some people may find that shit handy back in the day. Diva referred the the sound system in these Mitsubishi TVs, and they were not terrible at all really. You will probably find it will have the ability to have SCART sockets added, but the input board is probably isn't populated. If you keep an eye on ebay UK you may find the input board from the European version of the set, it'll be a simple quick swap in and then adjust a setting or two in the Serviceman menu. Quite a decent set for back in the day given the price, although it is a mid range set.
Re: horizontal res adjustment, Maybe try virtua fighter 2 or Dead or Alive on the Saturn since they run in an off-standard high res interlaced mode instead of 240p
CRT TVs are highly sought after by retro gamers. Vintage game systems need decently expensive upscaler boxes to be used on flatscreens properly scaled, with low latency, converted from analog to digital, and adding filters and scanlines to make it look aestheticly correct. These are all qualities a CRT TV already has. Classic video games were designed around how these types of TVs functioned. So much so that some add-ons like lightguns will not work on modern TVs because they present the image differently.
My older brother had the 33 inch one. The remote control was huge, you could survive the Titanic sinking by floating on the remote control.
Awesome pickup. I wish I had the space to safe all those crts. So glad that I got a good neighbour, who has no use for his storage space.
I saved 3 B&Os and 3 Loewes since I started watching you.
Mate that is great work, especially the Euro sets like those.
thats an amazing neighbor!
Mitsubishi: They're Diamond!
Their 40" consumer sets are amazing, biggest size you could get for the longest time and top quality to boot.
this brings back memories , family used to have one a long time ago ,i remember playing the og xbox on it ..
I've seen the 33" version of this TV in Ireland, complete with motorized stand and the addition of a SCART socket. It would have been a high end TV at the time.
how good with the scart!
Outstanding video, lovely to see CRTs still living and giving us all joy. But that refresh rate in the camera. Wow ha
I wish I'd been able to come out and pick this thing up. Had no idea the thing had a subwoofer until this video!
The on screen menu is very fancy! It has the Mitsubishi logo in it!
Picked up a 32 inch Sony Trinitron Wega for free from Facebook marketplace. The owner actually lived just a couple blocks from me. it is now the center piece of my basement retro game room. Hardest part was getting it down the basement stairs.
They were a top of the line consumer TV in the day. Mitsubishi always made reliable televisions. All the AWA Thorn colour TVs sold in Australia besides a couple of dodgy British models in 1975 were rebadged Mitsubishi. Their VCRs were another thing though.
Nice pickup, Rob! I picked up a boxed 20" Trinitron recently and will do a video of that soon. Yours is definitely a cooler set though.
Really cool piece of retro tecnology
My family purchased the larger version of this set brand new in the early 90s. I thought that SNES running through S-Video looked incredible on it at the time.
Funny how Thomson also used the Diva name (in their case labelled "black D.I.V.A.") for their Euro high end CRTs. Also having access to Focus and Screen pots from the back, at least for the 29" black D.I.V.A. I own. Real shame we went full on with the 100hz stuff here in Europe because some of 90s big tubes were quite the sets with plenty of SCARTs and Audio Out options.
Yeha I have a Thomson SP Black Pearl 36" 4:3 set, RGB 60Hz, 'tis stunning, has that rich arcade image quality for 240p, I prefer it even to my Sony HiBlack Trinitron 4:3 curved set for 8/16/-Bit games, the Sony is amazing for 32-Bit and up though.
28 System is the number of broadcast system (pal-g, pal-b, secam, etc) not related to the 28” size. In fact, in the US, this TV is marketed as 27” (based on the diagonal visible tube size)
4:10 Jerma Zorn music caught me off guard haha
I'd plug my Nintendo into this any day.
That 15° each way for a total of 30° is actually pretty impressive.
Saudações ! É uma bela tv , interessante ele não contar com entrada componente , parece ser da primeira metade da década de 90 . Outra caracteristica que chamou minha atenção é o tubo não ser muito espaçoso , lembra as ultimas tvs fabricadas com tubos ultra slim . Grande achado , parabens .
Great overview, surprised me no RGB SCART, we had a Mitsubishi TV in the early 90s my Dad bought from Stan Cash that did have it….used to play my PC Engine and Super Famicom on it all the time…..didn’t seem to be much consistency in what manufacturers offered in Australia
Wow! What about beautiful TV. It's a shame doesn't have component and rgb inputs
I was child, it used to have a TV from the same manufacturer with the same features at home.
Nice set. I wish I had room for a larger CRT.
beatiful!!
Oh dear, rotating a colour tv is a big no no. That's why they're only giving you 15deg in each direction. When I was installing colour tvs in the 1960s all the set up had to be done in situ where the TV was to be used.
Seems like a quite nice set despite being made in Singapore with a LG tube. Shame about the lack of a SCART socket.
Don't sleep on the South-Korean LG/Samsung/Hyundai/NEC CRT tubes, they made some stunning slotmask & Dot-Trio tubes, that rivalled Japans best, the Hyundai ImageQuest, NEC CromaClear and Samsung DynaFlat tubes gave the best aperture grill tubes a run for their money.
@Wobble2007 NEC is Japanese, not Korean. And Hyundai didn't make any tubes.
Most of the CRT TV sold in Asia do not have SCART socket except it is import Europe version directly (such as B&O TV)
@ Hyundai ImageQuest used NEC CromaClear tubes made in South Korea, as did some Hitachi SuperScan sets, NEC didn't just have SKU's in Japan, neither did Sony (Spain/Mexico/Japan/UK/Germany/USA/Singapore/Malaysia), so Sony might have has the most extensive global CRT production program out of all of them, except perhaps RCA-Thomson. Hyundai ImageQuest CRTs are some of the best ever made, the Q995 is an absolute stunner.
I think you need a multiburst test pattern to see how the horizontal resolution setting affects the image. When using a composite input signal, turn the DCF (Comb filter) on and it will improve color fringing.
Horizontal width: try running widescreen content and see if it crops or letterboxes it, such as a widescreen VHS or DVD. My guess is that option controls it.
I have the standard version of this tv still has a motorised stand just no woofer , you can rgb mod but you need a voltage divider I am having brightness issues but I don’t have a remote to navigate the settings , great set but they used cheap capacitors so will need a recap
i have a Mitsubishi 4k tv at home with same rotating system this is so usefull
28 system refers to the signal reception capability and colour system, which it will likely select automatically, that will likely be in the back of the manual in the specifications. Early 90s you'd be paying close to $3,000 for a high end 68cm like a Sony or a Japan made Panasonic. This was a fairly cheap price for this set, but then it isn't a Japan made model and is a fairly basic set. The swivel stand was a bit of a gimmick more than anything, but then some people may find that shit handy back in the day.
Diva referred the the sound system in these Mitsubishi TVs, and they were not terrible at all really. You will probably find it will have the ability to have SCART sockets added, but the input board is probably isn't populated. If you keep an eye on ebay UK you may find the input board from the European version of the set, it'll be a simple quick swap in and then adjust a setting or two in the Serviceman menu.
Quite a decent set for back in the day given the price, although it is a mid range set.
Is that Water World on SNES you have playing in the first half of the video?
yes well done!
Nice set cry,s have much better speakers this is great having a sub as well and the option of surround speakers.
Re: horizontal res adjustment, Maybe try virtua fighter 2 or Dead or Alive on the Saturn since they run in an off-standard high res interlaced mode instead of 240p
The picture looks amazing, too bad no RGB SCART 😢. Will you mod it? Seems like a keeper.
I'll be waiting to see if you can RGB it.
A `lazy susan` rotating plate stand gets the job done cheaply and does not require a remote.😉
不错啊
$1600 accounting for inflation would be like about $3257 today 😮
oh my god man what I wouldn't give to have my 29" Trinitron on a motorized base, I use a wheelchair and wrestling with that thing is the pits 😅
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ooooh, it's "motorized"!
the warranty card looks like have a 4 cylinder turbocharger in it.
I think you lost warranty by opening
My father runs an estate sale/clean out business. I've thrown so many crt's in the dump. A travesty.
Why is it motorized?
the base is motorized so it's easier to turn
what year is it from? and why in the world would ya even want this old old tv lmao
CRT TVs are highly sought after by retro gamers. Vintage game systems need decently expensive upscaler boxes to be used on flatscreens properly scaled, with low latency, converted from analog to digital, and adding filters and scanlines to make it look aestheticly correct. These are all qualities a CRT TV already has. Classic video games were designed around how these types of TVs functioned. So much so that some add-ons like lightguns will not work on modern TVs because they present the image differently.