This. A component connection uses 5 cables / strands in total, it's a rat's nest PITA but worth it in the pre-HDMI days for the vastly improved picture quality compared to composite. Here in the UK we had SCART (actually a French standard that we adopted) which offered similar picture quality but in a much more convenient form factor. It was nainly used to hook up VCRs and satellite decoders, most games consoles still relied on RF right up to the PS2 I believe.
@rich_edwards79 PS1 had composite and audio outs , and you could use a scart adaptor if you're TV didn't have the connections.You are correct scart was main way for most things in UK. Alas my laserdisc player had composite which was better than scart , as well as a s video output. Blimey I'm old. Lol
TV wall mounts are NOT screwed into drywall, lol. They’re bolted onto your wall studs. The wood behinds your walls. They’re usually spread 16” apart. They can hold as much weight as you’d like since it’s bolted to the foundation of your house and ceiling, but usually TV’s over 48” are bolted on 2 studs instead of the one that’s used for smaller TVs.
Yes but you would be shocked how many people just make holes in drywall and call it good. My TV mounts are lag-bolted into the studs. Honestly I don't feel right unless I had to use a hammer drill to make the holes.
@bigpapab That might be the same one I had growing up. We got ours in 2007 so maybe it might be. Ours was 40 inch too. Yeah the stand was really cool. I remember thinking 40 inch was huge compared to our old 27 inch wide-screen CRT. I wanted to keep the CRT but my parents sold it as they weren't gonna listen to a 5 year old which was me lol
12:40 HDMI-CEC (consumer electronics control) is a standard that lets a TV control a device and vice-versa over HDMI. Most commonly, it's used to let you use the TV remote to control something connected to it, like a DVD player. It still exists and is very convenient.
Early - mid 2000s HDTV's all have better speakers than today's models, I legit used to listen to music on a 40" Zenith LCD from 2005. Thing had *one* (1) HDMI port lol.
Good find. Similar to Toshiba TVs of the same era. Just got a similar Viewsonic at Goodwill for $20. The issue with no sound is that you didn't have sound connected to the JVC. The red-green-blue component cables are video only. You also need a red-white cable for the sound, and all it has to be connected to the same input. VGA also does not include sound so an audio connection is also needed with VGA. S-video likewise requires the red-white cable. Anynet is just Samsung's branding for HDMI-CEC, so it will (should).work with any other brand of HDMI-CEC even if the brand calls it something else. This signal is useful so you can do things like turn on the DVD player and it causes the TV to turn on at the same time, or you turn on a TV and the soundbar speaker turns on. It is not terribly useful beyond that kind of thing.
That i s such an awesome score. You scored the TV in the right time when TV's transitioned between HDMI, Component and Composite. And VGA (which NO TV comes with today) input so you can use basically all retro games consoles AND retro computers to test on this "now your super-monitor", you're in for an RGB treat of epic dimmensions.
I am an original owner of the 2007 Samsung LNT4661 which is the 46 inch version of your TV. These were great TVs but suffered from the "capacitor plague" which affected all brands of the electronics industry between 1999 and 2007. See Wikipedia for details. To Samsung's credit, they did a free HOME REPAIR SERVICE even in 2015, 8 years after I bought it! They replaced about 8 or 10 capacitors. Lastly, these TVs were heavier, thicker, and have great sounding speakers compared to modern TVs where you are expected to upgrade to a soundbar or receiver. Mine still works. ENJOY!
PC input was actually very common on older TVs like that. I have an older Dell model that surprisingly still works too also in terms of modern ones some of the cheaper ones still have the composite inputs on them too and the beeping thing was common on older Samsung TVs too. I had an old Samsung crt that did that
I have the exact Samsung TV looks just like yours in your UA-cam video it’s a series 6 Model LN52A650A1F 52 inch made in April 2008 The interesting part, is I purchased this TV brand new when it first came out. I think I Paid over $4000 for it, It has been on every day 7 days a week from 8:00 Am to 11:00 Pm still on to this day. It’s on right now as I wrote this post. It’s in like new condition and the picture still looks like the first day I got it and never has been in the shop, they don’t make TVs like this anymore thats for sure, two of my favorite things that I like about it is the large black picture frame border around the screen, and the “ Smart sound “ feature you don’t see anymore on today’s TVs. Plus it has all of the available inputs and outputs ever made. Best TV I have ever owned. Great job on your video I really enjoyed it.
Each input has it's own independent settings. The settings for VHS input does not apply to the DVD input, so on and so forth. So you can customize each input specifically for the device connected. I'd connect that Panasonic Via S-VHS you'll get a lot better blacks, contrast, and color.
Hey Yasmine! This is Jermey McGuire this is my opinion the panel matters more than the brand of the TV. You want great picture quality than a TV panel that gets a bad picture quality, Samsung TVs have a good high quality panel on their TVs.” When you’re watching a movie on a Samsung TV the darks are not grayish like other TV panels and the picture is accurate on Samsung TVs, and other tv manufacturers will use a high quality panel. It depends on cost of assembling the TV;
My thing is that it's worth a check out even if you don't plan on keeping the TV. If it works but you don't like it you could sell it on, if it doesn't work, you can recycle it. Seems like a win win situation to me.
I scored a kerb find 42" Sharp LCD tv for my partner after her 3yo LED went pop. My personal 'thing' is old Panasonic Viera plasmas - i have 3 42" sets and a 37" in my house - as they're built like tanks and loaded with features - but i still prefer LCD to LED, the CFL backlights seem to be much more reliable. Here in the UK our hiuses are mainly brick construction, so you can mount any TV with big enough bolts, lol. HDMI-CEC is still current and a nice option on an older set - the Pannys have it and it allows the TV to power up connected devices automatically such as a DVD / Blu-ray player, home cinema or streaming sticks. I have Chromecasts connected to mine and i can ask Google Assistant to 'turn on the bedroom TV' so i never need touch the remote :)
Samsung design is really nice. These are great TVs because they have so many inputs! It's very disappointing that premium TVs only have HDMI in these days. My parents owned a samsung from 2007 and it was so buetiful. I like how it has a swivel stand. These days 4k tvs are made so cheaply and aren't premium at all. I have a LG C3 48inch and it's nice TV because it's oled but that's where it ends. Everything else about my TV is crap. Don't like how my TV is bent because it's made too thin and also it's probably cost saving materials. Also don't like how it leans back on its stand.
@YasmineCollects It's not just new TVs i think everything feels less innovative these days. I geuss things will improve if they discover that TVs aren't selling aswell anymore so that would force them to make them better. They want our money so hopefully TVs get better. Would be nice to have soundbar built into modern flatscreens so we don't have to worry about extra wires and stuff like that to have decent sound.
I like the puffin more than the TV lol and the HDMI CEC option is still current tech on Samsung panels. it lets the TV go directly to the video source you're using without manually switching inputs which is the ultimate in laziness for me 😴
The contrast is to control whites so they are not too white and the "Brightness" is to control blakc levels, confusing but true. Get a imagine with dark background or find an object on the TV you know is jet-black in real life and reduce the "Brightness" until you get the best inky blakcs without losing any detail. It's confusing calling the "black level" setting "Brightness" but we're stuck with the wrong naming. The " *Backlight* " setting is the real brightness control.
For your laptop not showing a picture I suggest that you plug your cable to the laptop and tv before you start your laptop, some laptop need to discover the connection before the OS kicks in.
super coll find!! i have always wanted one of these older Samsung's with the big power button..my old doctor's office had one of these (a 32 inch) mounted in the top left corner! also, how do you gauge the hours on an LCD? i thrifted a 2009 Sony Bravia KDL-32L5000 from 2009 and it seems amazing to me, but you know more than i do LOL!!
the dreamcast's HD adapter was VGA. optical audio has been around since the 80's mostly in consumer Hi-fi stereos to have no hum (all my TVs have it and even my desktop has the option for it on the motherboard) . it can carry 5.1 (5 speakers and a subwoofer) audio which was impressive for the 80's, and a lotta soundbars rely on optical if they can't get an HDMI ARC(Audio Return Channel). the PS2 also had an optical out or at least my slim did. HDMI CEC is still being used, they just don't tell you. if you've ever turned on something with HDMI and your TV turns on automatically or vice versa, that's still CEC. to fix the picture issues if you haven't already you might want to factory reset the TV. someone might've put it in a weird mode that you can't get out of, idk. doing that has gotten me out of some weird settings before even on monitors you wouldn't think you could mess up.
This is a cool TV. I love that you love TV’s. I had a Samsung phone and I think it was cool. Remember, everything in life is about progress. Not perfection. Maybe you didn’t like the phones because there was a feature that was not there.
samsung made good crt as ODM e. g. for the 8bits of Tandy and Apple, back in the early 80ies. at that time they were completely unknown as a brand, but their stuff wasn't bad at all.
@@andrewandrews7427 Adrien Black had a few Samsung CRTs from the late 80ies on his repair desk this year. it's always nice to see the Samsung Logo with the 3 Stars on stickers the backside of Tubes. (or the round one from CRTs of the 90ies)
the picture on the tv looks good to me i would make sure the backlight is not turned all the way up so the bulbs last longer old tv's are way better as far as inputs go you can hook just about anything to them and i think they are made better for the most part.
Definitely the case with modern LEDs and their overdriven backlights, I don't think it matters so much with older CFL technology. I run plasmas and turn the backlights down anyway because I find the higher settings much too bright for my ageing eyeballs, the 'dynamic' setting is my absolute nemesis lol (I believe it is mainly intended for store displays under bright overhead lighting rather than the average living room :)
@@rich_edwards79 yeah that makes sense I've heard the cfl bulbs are better as they last a lot longer then LED's I've watch so many video's of people replacing LED backlight's in tv's that wasn't even a thing with CRT or Plasma or even CFL. just shows how much the newer sets are made so cheaply and are junk and have awful sound
I get the same situation, and I was able to upgrade my TV's as well as SELL this for a good $50! But I have had to recycle some of these when they had to be reversed enginered, and taken apart and discarded...
It is not a legal requirement to connect a PC to the serial VGA input. In fact, it should be outlawed. Please, just connect a computer via the HDMI input and your picture will substantially better. This advise comes from someone who has been connecting his computer to a TV since 2005. Back then it was a break-out cable from my Radeon AIO Wonder GPU to the S-Video connector. Later, I connected with component cable. By the time VGA input became usable for me, you could use HDMI, which is better in every way. Component is RGB (Red, Green, Blue) and is for video only. Use red and white audio cables for the analog stereo sound.
Trying to type a cooment but couldn't see it for some reason. Anyhow - I have this same set and I made it SMART with an AMAZON Cube through an HDMI socket. Controls Volume and On/OFF. Take the headphone output (left hand side of the set) to an amp.
IMO as far as LCD TVs go, this era is my favorite. They just seem to have every input under the sun. Nice find!
100% the best of both worlds. Other than being impossible to mount with the thin drywall in my apartment 😂
If you use component cables ,you still need to use the audio outs red / white to the input of the tv as well to get the audio 😊
This. A component connection uses 5 cables / strands in total, it's a rat's nest PITA but worth it in the pre-HDMI days for the vastly improved picture quality compared to composite. Here in the UK we had SCART (actually a French standard that we adopted) which offered similar picture quality but in a much more convenient form factor. It was nainly used to hook up VCRs and satellite decoders, most games consoles still relied on RF right up to the PS2 I believe.
@rich_edwards79 PS1 had composite and audio outs , and you could use a scart adaptor if you're TV didn't have the connections.You are correct scart was main way for most things in UK. Alas my laserdisc player had composite which was better than scart , as well as a s video output. Blimey I'm old. Lol
When using component cables you also need to connect an extra pair of audio cables, the 3 component cables do video only.
UA-cam: Want to see a 2007 TV?
Me: Yes.
TV wall mounts are NOT screwed into drywall, lol. They’re bolted onto your wall studs. The wood behinds your walls. They’re usually spread 16” apart. They can hold as much weight as you’d like since it’s bolted to the foundation of your house and ceiling, but usually TV’s over 48” are bolted on 2 studs instead of the one that’s used for smaller TVs.
Yes but you would be shocked how many people just make holes in drywall and call it good. My TV mounts are lag-bolted into the studs. Honestly I don't feel right unless I had to use a hammer drill to make the holes.
Not necessary up to about 70lbs
You Know, if this TV has Component (RED BLUE AND GREEN Connectors), you could run that Wii at 480p.
I’ll try that next!!
@YasmineCollects They also make a WiiHDMI adapter for under $10. It defeats the joy of using the old Wii cable but you do get max resolution.
@@LatitudeSky Funny, I forgot those adapters even existed.
A person's trash is another one's treasure, it will keep going. 😮
Very cool!
I have the 2006 40" model of your TV, without the stand :(
It is a beast and I also got it for free.
Has never let me down.
Great video!
@bigpapab That might be the same one I had growing up. We got ours in 2007 so maybe it might be. Ours was 40 inch too. Yeah the stand was really cool. I remember thinking 40 inch was huge compared to our old 27 inch wide-screen CRT. I wanted to keep the CRT but my parents sold it as they weren't gonna listen to a 5 year old which was me lol
12:40 HDMI-CEC (consumer electronics control) is a standard that lets a TV control a device and vice-versa over HDMI. Most commonly, it's used to let you use the TV remote to control something connected to it, like a DVD player.
It still exists and is very convenient.
It's supposed to be convenient, but each device has its own compatibility and quirks
Early - mid 2000s HDTV's all have better speakers than today's models, I legit used to listen to music on a 40" Zenith LCD from 2005. Thing had *one* (1) HDMI port lol.
Composite video cables needs separate audio cable.
You're only running video with those.
Good find. Similar to Toshiba TVs of the same era. Just got a similar Viewsonic at Goodwill for $20. The issue with no sound is that you didn't have sound connected to the JVC. The red-green-blue component cables are video only. You also need a red-white cable for the sound, and all it has to be connected to the same input. VGA also does not include sound so an audio connection is also needed with VGA. S-video likewise requires the red-white cable. Anynet is just Samsung's branding for HDMI-CEC, so it will (should).work with any other brand of HDMI-CEC even if the brand calls it something else. This signal is useful so you can do things like turn on the DVD player and it causes the TV to turn on at the same time, or you turn on a TV and the soundbar speaker turns on. It is not terribly useful beyond that kind of thing.
That i s such an awesome score. You scored the TV in the right time when TV's transitioned between HDMI, Component and Composite. And VGA (which NO TV comes with today) input so you can use basically all retro games consoles AND retro computers to test on this "now your super-monitor", you're in for an RGB treat of epic dimmensions.
I am an original owner of the 2007 Samsung LNT4661 which is the 46 inch version of your TV. These were great TVs but suffered from the "capacitor plague" which affected all brands of the electronics industry between 1999 and 2007. See Wikipedia for details. To Samsung's credit, they did a free HOME REPAIR SERVICE even in 2015, 8 years after I bought it! They replaced about 8 or 10 capacitors. Lastly, these TVs were heavier, thicker, and have great sounding speakers compared to modern TVs where you are expected to upgrade to a soundbar or receiver. Mine still works. ENJOY!
PC input was actually very common on older TVs like that. I have an older Dell model that surprisingly still works too also in terms of modern ones some of the cheaper ones still have the composite inputs on them too and the beeping thing was common on older Samsung TVs too. I had an old Samsung crt that did that
cool TV, this is the best era as they have every input needed
I have the exact Samsung TV looks just like yours in your UA-cam video
it’s a series 6
Model LN52A650A1F
52 inch made in April 2008
The interesting part, is I purchased this TV brand new when it first came out. I think I Paid over $4000 for it, It has been on every day 7 days a week from 8:00 Am to 11:00 Pm still on to this day. It’s on right now as I wrote this post. It’s in like new condition and the picture still looks like the first day I got it and never has been in the shop, they don’t make TVs like this anymore thats for sure, two of my favorite things that I like about it is the large black picture frame border around the screen, and the “ Smart sound “ feature you don’t see anymore on today’s TVs. Plus it has all of the available inputs and outputs ever made.
Best TV I have ever owned.
Great job on your video I really enjoyed it.
Each input has it's own independent settings. The settings for VHS input does not apply to the DVD input, so on and so forth. So you can customize each input specifically for the device connected. I'd connect that Panasonic Via S-VHS you'll get a lot better blacks, contrast, and color.
Hey Yasmine! This is Jermey McGuire this is my opinion the panel matters more than the brand of the TV.
You want great picture quality than a TV panel that gets a bad picture quality, Samsung TVs have a good high quality panel on their TVs.”
When you’re watching a movie on a Samsung TV the darks are not grayish like other TV panels and the picture is accurate on Samsung TVs, and other tv manufacturers will use a high quality panel.
It depends on cost of assembling the TV;
Samsung lcd and plasmas were great .
I’ve just picked up a 27 yr old Sony reference dvd player and just secured a pioneer plasma tv .
My thing is that it's worth a check out even if you don't plan on keeping the TV. If it works but you don't like it you could sell it on, if it doesn't work, you can recycle it. Seems like a win win situation to me.
I scored a kerb find 42" Sharp LCD tv for my partner after her 3yo LED went pop. My personal 'thing' is old Panasonic Viera plasmas - i have 3 42" sets and a 37" in my house - as they're built like tanks and loaded with features - but i still prefer LCD to LED, the CFL backlights seem to be much more reliable.
Here in the UK our hiuses are mainly brick construction, so you can mount any TV with big enough bolts, lol.
HDMI-CEC is still current and a nice option on an older set - the Pannys have it and it allows the TV to power up connected devices automatically such as a DVD / Blu-ray player, home cinema or streaming sticks.
I have Chromecasts connected to mine and i can ask Google Assistant to 'turn on the bedroom TV' so i never need touch the remote :)
I live in the South, too. Would love to hear about these anachronistic chains so I could visit them!
Samsung design is really nice. These are great TVs because they have so many inputs! It's very disappointing that premium TVs only have HDMI in these days.
My parents owned a samsung from 2007 and it was so buetiful. I like how it has a swivel stand. These days 4k tvs are made so cheaply and aren't premium at all.
I have a LG C3 48inch and it's nice TV because it's oled but that's where it ends. Everything else about my TV is crap. Don't like how my TV is bent because it's made too thin and also it's probably cost saving materials. Also don't like how it leans back on its stand.
I agree. There’s so much I could say about newer TVs…maybe I shall soon
@YasmineCollects It's not just new TVs i think everything feels less innovative these days. I geuss things will improve if they discover that TVs aren't selling aswell anymore so that would force them to make them better. They want our money so hopefully TVs get better. Would be nice to have soundbar built into modern flatscreens so we don't have to worry about extra wires and stuff like that to have decent sound.
I like the puffin more than the TV lol and the HDMI CEC option is still current tech on Samsung panels. it lets the TV go directly to the video source you're using without manually switching inputs which is the ultimate in laziness for me 😴
The contrast is to control whites so they are not too white and the "Brightness" is to control blakc levels, confusing but true. Get a imagine with dark background or find an object on the TV you know is jet-black in real life and reduce the "Brightness" until you get the best inky blakcs without losing any detail. It's confusing calling the "black level" setting "Brightness" but we're stuck with the wrong naming. The " *Backlight* " setting is the real brightness control.
Always liked how these Samsungs looked, and the Rear projection ones.Get a calibration dvd and run it through
composit and component you still need the rca (red and white) connected for audio
Don't you need to select the PC input on the TV first for the VGA cable to work?
For your laptop not showing a picture I suggest that you plug your cable to the laptop and tv before you start your laptop, some laptop need to discover the connection before the OS kicks in.
super coll find!! i have always wanted one of these older Samsung's with the big power button..my old doctor's office had one of these (a 32 inch) mounted in the top left corner! also, how do you gauge the hours on an LCD? i thrifted a 2009 Sony Bravia KDL-32L5000 from 2009 and it seems amazing to me, but you know more than i do LOL!!
the dreamcast's HD adapter was VGA.
optical audio has been around since the 80's mostly in consumer Hi-fi stereos to have no hum (all my TVs have it and even my desktop has the option for it on the motherboard) . it can carry 5.1 (5 speakers and a subwoofer) audio which was impressive for the 80's, and a lotta soundbars rely on optical if they can't get an HDMI ARC(Audio Return Channel). the PS2 also had an optical out or at least my slim did.
HDMI CEC is still being used, they just don't tell you. if you've ever turned on something with HDMI and your TV turns on automatically or vice versa, that's still CEC.
to fix the picture issues if you haven't already you might want to factory reset the TV. someone might've put it in a weird mode that you can't get out of, idk. doing that has gotten me out of some weird settings before even on monitors you wouldn't think you could mess up.
This is a cool TV. I love that you love TV’s. I had a Samsung phone and I think it was cool. Remember, everything in life is about progress. Not perfection. Maybe you didn’t like the phones because there was a feature that was not there.
Do you have an antenna?
Not connected to this one but yes!!
samsung made good crt as ODM e. g. for the 8bits of Tandy and Apple, back in the early 80ies. at that time they were completely unknown as a brand, but their stuff wasn't bad at all.
Wow
@@andrewandrews7427 Adrien Black had a few Samsung CRTs from the late 80ies on his repair desk this year. it's always nice to see the Samsung Logo with the 3 Stars on stickers the backside of Tubes. (or the round one from CRTs of the 90ies)
10:18 -- My brother had a Samsung projection TV that made that sound. That thing was so cool.
Nice pickup 👌👌👌👌
Very nice
the picture on the tv looks good to me i would make sure the backlight is not turned all the way up so the bulbs last longer old tv's are way better as far as inputs go you can hook just about anything to them and i think they are made better for the most part.
Definitely the case with modern LEDs and their overdriven backlights, I don't think it matters so much with older CFL technology. I run plasmas and turn the backlights down anyway because I find the higher settings much too bright for my ageing eyeballs, the 'dynamic' setting is my absolute nemesis lol (I believe it is mainly intended for store displays under bright overhead lighting rather than the average living room :)
@@rich_edwards79 yeah that makes sense I've heard the cfl bulbs are better as they last a lot longer then LED's I've watch so many video's of people replacing LED backlight's in tv's that wasn't even a thing with CRT or Plasma or even CFL. just shows how much the newer sets are made so cheaply and are junk and have awful sound
can't wait for a few more years and be able to dumpster digve 4k tvs :))
I get the same situation, and I was able to upgrade my TV's as well as SELL this for a good $50! But I have had to recycle some of these when they had to be reversed enginered, and taken apart and discarded...
It is not a legal requirement to connect a PC to the serial VGA input. In fact, it should be outlawed.
Please, just connect a computer via the HDMI input and your picture will substantially better.
This advise comes from someone who has been connecting his computer to a TV since 2005. Back then it was a break-out cable from my Radeon AIO Wonder GPU to the S-Video connector. Later, I connected with component cable. By the time VGA input became usable for me, you could use HDMI, which is better in every way.
Component is RGB (Red, Green, Blue) and is for video only. Use red and white audio cables for the analog stereo sound.
It looks sturdy
Get a component cable for your Wii, set the Wii to 480p (EDTV/HDTV) and you'll see a tremendous difference
I'm watching this from my Samsung UE40D6200, which is still working perfectly.
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Trying to type a cooment but couldn't see it for some reason. Anyhow - I have this same set and I made it SMART with an AMAZON Cube through an HDMI socket. Controls Volume and On/OFF. Take the headphone output (left hand side of the set) to an amp.