Hi Wicked, greetings from Florida WYLD ELF26 here 😸 so can you use TV options to position - center image ???? because during SAMURAI SHODOWN I noticed the image display was Way Too Far left , the word credit was almost chopped off at the letter C 🎉😮 🤔🤔🤔🤔
At one point Im gonna give in and buy an old CRT even if tehy are like $300. I play too many old video games and have a good collection. I think itd be a good investment.
im stilll holding out hope that CRTs are gonna have a comeback like vinyl has, and we'll see a new list of slimmer, higher resolution, higher shutterspeed, wide and ultrawide CRTs for an actual modern gaming audience. True HD CRTs do exist, and they are *phenomenal* visually. The depth of the screen, the vibrancy of the colors, the flawless true blacks, and at those high resolutions, almost complete elimination of the screen door effect. Even screen recorded through a youtube video, you can tell how sublime they look. It's a tragedy they aren't being produced any more. I'd do *so* much to make room on my desk for one of those, even if counteroffered a top of the line ultrawide curved flatscreen monitor with refresh rates fast enough to match a crt's analog refresh, and like fucking 4k, just cause of how impossible it is to imitate the look of a crt. Even if the CRT was letterbox, or 1:1, it would be worth it, cause I can just use lower quality side monitors for a surround setup. No substitue even for modern games.
if you take the contrast screen off the mx4000, you get VERY vivid colors. The Mx4200 (flat CRT) without contrast screen has a flat crt withe even more striking colorful and sharp image.
I have to admit I already took off and put back on the contrast screen several times. It looks so much better with it, but the image is too dark with it for my taste. I wonder if it’s due to the age of this CRT or if it has always been like this… and yes I already got it calibrated professionally. I recently contacted a local glass manufacturer and they told me that they could produce a clear front screen for me. It’s quite expensive but I think I’ll do it because it really bugs me how it looks without it.
I used to have an awesome Grundig CRT. 43" of 4:3, 100Hz goodness! Then, about a 2 weeks later Mrs. STALKER 713 thought just how cute it would be to have a flower pot on it. Flowers needed watering of course. And that's how this mighty piece of kraut technology meet it's demise :'( Then, I phoned the repair folks. They came. Saw it's size, and decided not to touch it. Did not had a crane in the inventory that could lift that amount of weight. And the construction company did not provided their crane for that purpose!
The MX7000 and 8000 are the better models in the range and have the active sound system (independent amplifiers) and sound amazing if you thought the 4000 sounded good you have heard nothing yet. I currently own an MX8000 and has some much improved features but are a lot harder to find on the market!
There used to be a bang and olfsen shop/showroom in Canterbury when i was a teen. It was one of those places that was way out of the price range of most people. Its where the rich people went to buy their TV and hi fi components. They were lightyears ahead of the competition in terms of quality and you paid up for that quality. They're the audio/video equivelent of rolls Royce
Uff! I remember that B&O equipment was expensive like hell. Proibitive prices for the mere mortals in Portugal back in the day! But the quality was supreme!
That's mainly because Europe is a PAL broadcast region. I have seen many of them in Australia. I even have a customer that still uses hers, she refuses to upgrade to a flat panel.
Very cool, could never afford a B&O back in the day but had a pretty awesome jvc with a cambridge amp and bookshelf speakers hooked up. Was pretty damn cool👍
And there are so many things in the USA or other country's I would love to have here. To begin with we have PAL here... that is so horrible if you played other regions now a days 😆😆
Yeah I don't know if we ever got those in the US, I know the brand for stereos but not for TVs. I always used Commodore monitors back in the day even though they were only 13in, they were really cheap and had an excellent picture.
The MX5000 and MX5500 were sold in the US from 1988 to 1992. They are super rare, I saw two for sale in the $1500 range on Craigslist and Ebay. I bought mine for $500 with rotating stand from Connecticut in the middle of 2020. It works but needs a full recap because the picture is squished vertically a little. Both models sold in the US were plagued with really bad quality capacitors and would only last 8 - 10 years before they failed and were for the most part thrown out and replaced with a new TV.
@@micronian Thanks for that info. It’s a shame that they chose to use inferior quality components for the sets shipped to the US. I would have expected better from B&O.
@@Colin_Ames During the late 1980s and early 1990s there was a Capacitor Plague that affected many capacitors manufactured during that time. B&O sourced good capacitors that were affected by this plague. Nobody knew about the plague until a few years later when the capacitors started leaking prematurely. B&O used Rubycon and Elna capacitors and those were affected by the plague.
@@micronian I had forgotten about the plague. Now you mention it, some of the Dell computers at the place where I worked were victims of this. We ended up changing caps to keep them running.
If you can't find crt there is other good method to play retro games. I found out about it just by coincidence. Just find small cheap lcd TV, the oldest and worst quality it is the better, I found one(14inch with built in dvd player) someone throw away took it home and I was amazed, games look better than on crt tv👌
@@angryslaw9055 OK I'm playing my PS3 on a 20 something inch LCD monitor (possibly 22) and I can see why you would say this. This is up to date and has a 60hz refresh rate and the lag isn't noticeable to me. The 2D games even look about as good as they do on a CRT whether you add the scan lines or not. I'm playing these PS2 upscale in 1080p. I also remember how good those car lcd tvs back in the day (2002) made retro games look. LCDs are under rated.
As an American, I’ve never heard of this brand. Plus none of our tv’s had any scart connections anyway. I only found out about scart when I got back into retro games. But it looks killer!
Nice video! Yesterday i picked up a MX4002 . It was sitting out on the street. Power cord cut off... And it had rained for a while... But the awesome look of this TV was drawing me to it. Today i took it apart and cleaned it. Almost no sign of water inside... Just a little bit of rust on some of the metal shieldings. And it works! The Motor Stand rotates as well... Now i need to get the Beo4 remote. ;-)
Lol. I got a TV for free from someone, the absolute beast 32 Avant DVD (86 kg!!), and my thought was, if the thing is garbage, I can always sell the remote, as they do 50-100€ depending on the condition. I have to say the remote looks and feels nice, but the usability is horrible. The Danes were really bad with their logic for TV operation. You need a master class to understand it. So, if you see someone sell it for 20 bucks WITH remote, get a second one. Cheaper than scoring a remote.
people with mx7000 and mx4000 are like i am super happy with this crt...wait until you get mx8000 and mx4200, it's another level of sharpness and sound quality
I have one. I removed the front glass as it darkens the image too much for my taste. Ruins the design a bit, but brightness and colors are absolutely amazing without it. Service menu picture adjustments is a nightmare to adjust. I finally managed to have a nice geometry but still have a small ripple just at the top. Found the adjustment for it but if I correct it too much picture loses sync. Fantastic set anyway. I use it with Recalbox with scart RGB output. Georgous picture, really difficult to experience it through photos or videos, looks way better in real life.
Hi Sir! I bought one a couple of weeks ago. How do I get to the service menu? Also, what sound and picture config do you recomend? Many thanks in advance!
I'm a little jealous, we can find only their audio equipment. Although, my heart is set on a Commodore 1702 monitor I used to own, hope I'll find that one some day.
Loool, B&O was so sick expansive . A Friend of mine had the Music CD Player when i was a Teenager. We were playing Resident Evil 1on Psx with that Audio Gem.......... loved those weird flat Speakers on the Wall, wih huge red Digi-Number on it.....(Volume, i think it was....?)
I had and still have a lot of MX TV's and Radios. About the weight, sure the 4000 is lighter, but also the 6,7,8K all habe nice handles on the top. I can cary them alone, and i bought and sold many of them. The MX 4000 is nice and crisp but cramped for splitscreen, the MX 6000 is a bit bigger, so you can also play some splitscreen. The MX 7000 is as big as the 6000 but has added an active sound system. And then, the holy grail of the MX series, the MX 8000 i use. Screensize and soundsystem like the 7000, completely revisioned internals and better screen, actual user interface wich all previous ones where missing, and auto detection when u turn on a console. Remodeled back housing, and a detatchable power cable. The 8000 is very rare, 7000 is uncommon, 6000 is common as the 4000. But i recommend the 6000 for size and availability, but the higher the numer on a MX the better.
Hey there! Did you notice any digital artefacts? Some people say MX8000 add some digital processing that slightly deteriorates the picture quality regarding retro games.
@@eugene9234 not really, i use an MX 8k as my main retro TV, and the image is crisp. I had issues when using cheap cables. But not with the premium ones
For all viewers from the US you can get you something very similar under the name of Magnavox it was owned by Philips and they did use the same tubes as this one shown in this video and I can guarantee that picture quality is quite remarkable
Sony made 36 inch TVs back in the 90s made in the USA. SONY TRINITRON TV - How it was made. An awesome vintage (circa 1998) video by SONY showing the Sony Technology Center-Pittsburgh (STC-P) once the world's first vertically integrated television manufacturing plant, opened in 1990 to produce large rear projection TVs, and later the TRINITRON CRT and Flat Screen CRT TVs, the STC-P facility in Pennsylvania once employed over 3,000 people. The Pennsylvania factory was Sony's last remaining TV manufacturing facility in the U.S. After an impressive history, it closed STC- P operations in 2010
Am Running 4 MX7000s, 1 MX8000 & 1 MX4000... B&O TVs have Great Picture & Sound with Exerllent Picture Adjustment via the Remote... Using with Pi4s & PCs linked with an Extron Switch Unit in S-Vudeo...CRT 4:3 Was and Is The Way to Go Back...
They actually made an efford making the picture quality better, than the Phillips tubes, could deliver. Same thing with the Samsung flat screens. Have no idea if they succeded, but they spend alot of money trying.
The tubes themselves being Phillips are made the same way with the same materials in the same factory as the tubes used in Phillips TVs and many other brands back in the day. Although on occasion some CRTs that are made happen to be of exceptional quality, by chance the quality of the raw materials in the batch were better and the processes occured without a hitch, close to perfection. That's the nature of manufacturing. B&O tubes would be the exceptional quality tubes like the same quality that are used in professional broadcast monitors. What they look for is uniformity in geometry and accurate colour production. In the modern era with LCD/OLED panels this grading system is still used. Funny how a product cut from the same cloth can vary in value from a few hundred dollars to several thousands of dollars.
The only thing I'am jealous of when it comes to living in the states is the CRT we got look like garbage compared to the EU. Crappy hard plastic, lack of rgb (only on select sdtv). It is what it is, I always get alot of uk buyers asking me to ship over some of my ebay listings. PVM/BVM too expensive and tend to have alot of wear n tear over hear. B&O may not be the worlds best crt, but the look/quality together is in a league of its own (especially when it comes to consumer crt). I will stop rambling thxs.
As far as consumer TVs I think B&O is cream of the crop. Another brand that is great is Loewe. As far as regions it's a trade off. I am in Australia and because we have PAL here, there are quite a lot of European TVs in the wild. Harder to find now than a decade ago like everywhere else. As for professional and broadcast grade monitors, there are several people out there that own most of them and if they do sell them (which isn't often) the prices would be much more exorbitant than the US market and there is no where near as many of them. Replying to some comments from a fellow Loewe owner in Italy, he said most of the good consumer grade European sets have excess of 10000 hours of use.
I've had a Beocentre 1 for a while and it's a fantastic tv but the best consumer crt for 240p is the Loewe E3000 chassis. If you find a Loewe I would definitely go for that instead, now I just need to fix my one I have in the shed.
I didn't know Bang & Olufsen make CRT TVs and they look incredible quality at that. I always thought they focused on audio systems, whether home appliances or for the PC market.
MX4000 is a great choice but if you have money, invest into MX4200 which is the last model before B&O stop producing CRT tv. MX4200 has Thompson CRT chassis and "true flat" crt tube, ten times sharper than MX4000 as well. How do i know? I owned plenty of MX4000 and since i have MX4200, i sold off all of my MX4000. That's how good MX4200 is compare to previous model
So it supports both PAL and NTSC standards, and can work with a lighgun? I've read the screen refreshed at 100Hz, which makes nonsense with what you've demonstrated.
I use my 3DO on this fully RGB. And also PAL works fine. Light guns ow yes.... have pile of video's out there. Edit - Playlist - ua-cam.com/video/Bt5UkosGkIQ/v-deo.html&ab_channel=WickedGamer%26Collector
Flat screen from Panasonic with perfect geometry (no barrel roll), better menü, can fix settings on RGB output, no channel swap necessary. I got mine for free in perfect condition via Kleinanzeigen (German Craiglist). @@olevet75
@@olevet75Better Geometry (no barrel roll), also easier access to the service menue. It has a flat screen from Panasonic, instead of the old Philips tubes. The sound should also be better, but to be honest, the sound from the MX4000 was already very good.
Man I'd love to see someone mod that light gun into a Gun4IR gun with working blowback. And I'm jealous of those TVs! I would love it if we had these in NTSC markets. Beautiful design, and Europe got all of the good inputs. We have to mod most of our old TVs to get a quality RGB signal.
IDK crt's are still popular. They should make them still by order atleast. But have to be high quality. Close to a sony tv or pvm with the connections of course for rgb stuff.
They have allways used alot of money, trying to improve picture quality. And they allways made their own amplifiers, and speaker systems. So its not just Phillips products in nice package.
Ummm,.. the reason we don't know about or use it is because of the non-standard A/V connections,... that thing is a piece of crap compared to a 23"Toshiba Dvd/VCR Combo with it's standard 3 separate A/V connections, two in the back one in the front, and a Coaxial cable input. This is the best Option for Crt as they made them until about 2003-5. For non CRT Retro Gaming JVC has a 720p TV with 4 HDMI 3 AV a COaxial and Optical out for sound bars... Both are in my (and my son's) gaming room,.. looking like the set of Video and Arcade TOp Ten :D
Waar heb je de tv laten kalibreren? Mijn scherm is helemaal scheef man. Ik geraak in de service menu maar heb geen flauw idee wat ik moet doen. Kun je je instellingen delen aub?
Few years ago,they were some project about new screen technology with square to connect each other to build any size of screen,a 4/3 70 cm oldschool with 640x480p or a huge home theater 8k.. Also,rumor about ’reboot’ of crt factory,to make new tube or using old parts with new capkits,pcb.. I just keep one trinitron,pvm sony and nanao arcade screen,but they are not eternal,needs repairs. With all the retrogaming community,a flat screen with the same picture than pvm crt,in 15 and 31khz..will be perfect. About lightgun,I will try to have some on my pc hyperspin,retroarch..with a crt tv,what’s the best option,a ps2 model with a jammasd and connect with cinch video cable,or a usb model if they exist?
Hey Wicked, I've got 2 these sets and they're OK. But TBH I prefer my other CRTs, especially my Sonys as B&O menus/controllers are just a mess, way too convoluted to use. The picture is honestly no better either. I really do love the design though. But I'd still recommend anyone in Europe to just grab a Sony, or Phillips for retro gaming. I have 2 Beocentre 1's too and they're a real pain in the arse to get them to display 4:3 every time you use them, so give them a miss
I have the same experience as you. My Sony TV's are acctually better when it comes to picture quality. The only model of Bang & Olufsen I've owned is the MX8000 it's really good, and the depth of the TV is quite nice, easier to place. I'd love to pick up an MX4000 in the future, but right now I am quite happy with my 2 Sonys, one 21" and one 14".
Yeah... 🤓
Hi Wicked, greetings from Florida WYLD ELF26 here 😸 so can you use TV options to position - center image ???? because during SAMURAI SHODOWN I noticed the image display was Way Too Far left , the word credit was almost chopped off at the letter C 🎉😮 🤔🤔🤔🤔
I just picked up this TV about a week ago. Its perfect for retro gaming. Crystal clear picture with very impressive sound quality!
its decent
How much dis you pay?
Im holding out hope CRT makes a comeback at some point soon, there is definitely a niche market for them now
no one makes the tubes anymore I hear, would cost a bomb to retool a factory
Thats too bad. Good CRTs from the 90s cost a pretty pennty. @@richy69ify
Denmark b&o still have the workshop. But yeah tube TV's are never getting back.
At one point Im gonna give in and buy an old CRT even if tehy are like $300. I play too many old video games and have a good collection. I think itd be a good investment.
300?!?!! They are all free here. All of them are B&O its rare to find any other brands? 😅
im stilll holding out hope that CRTs are gonna have a comeback like vinyl has, and we'll see a new list of slimmer, higher resolution, higher shutterspeed, wide and ultrawide CRTs for an actual modern gaming audience. True HD CRTs do exist, and they are *phenomenal* visually. The depth of the screen, the vibrancy of the colors, the flawless true blacks, and at those high resolutions, almost complete elimination of the screen door effect. Even screen recorded through a youtube video, you can tell how sublime they look. It's a tragedy they aren't being produced any more. I'd do *so* much to make room on my desk for one of those, even if counteroffered a top of the line ultrawide curved flatscreen monitor with refresh rates fast enough to match a crt's analog refresh, and like fucking 4k, just cause of how impossible it is to imitate the look of a crt. Even if the CRT was letterbox, or 1:1, it would be worth it, cause I can just use lower quality side monitors for a surround setup. No substitue even for modern games.
Great work recording the CRT. It really is an artwork in itself getting the lighting reflection, exposure, and even shutterspeed just right👍
With my lumia phones set to 25fps, it is quite easy.
B&O make absolutely amazing product’s. I’ve had some fantastic stereos made by them.
This tv looks gorgeous as well as very interesting,even in 2022
I remember going to my rich uncles as a kid his house was decked in b and o even the banana phone. The steros and tvs where incredible
As you noted, its next to impossible to find these in the United States. Wish that weren't the case. Perfect for a modern-retro game room!
It's a shame ... 😳
if you take the contrast screen off the mx4000, you get VERY vivid colors. The Mx4200 (flat CRT) without contrast screen has a flat crt withe even more striking colorful and sharp image.
I have to admit I already took off and put back on the contrast screen several times. It looks so much better with it, but the image is too dark with it for my taste. I wonder if it’s due to the age of this CRT or if it has always been like this… and yes I already got it calibrated professionally.
I recently contacted a local glass manufacturer and they told me that they could produce a clear front screen for me. It’s quite expensive but I think I’ll do it because it really bugs me how it looks without it.
@@janbiela8596 I would love to no how they calibration went there’s hardly anything to adjust buddy only brightness colour and tint?
I used to have an awesome Grundig CRT. 43" of 4:3, 100Hz goodness! Then, about a 2 weeks later Mrs. STALKER 713 thought just how cute it would be to have a flower pot on it. Flowers needed watering of course. And that's how this mighty piece of kraut technology meet it's demise :'(
Then, I phoned the repair folks. They came. Saw it's size, and decided not to touch it. Did not had a crane in the inventory that could lift that amount of weight. And the construction company did not provided their crane for that purpose!
Mrs. STALKER-713 knew exactly what she was doing. Lol, all jokes aside, that was sad to read. Great piece of equipment you had there.
Get out of here Mrs Stalker!
@@dexocube Then she came back. She said she was "sowwy"! >:[
She's lucky she still has a stalker for husband.
I have this tv and it’s amazing. Perfect for retro games consoles.
U mean classic game consoles
@@swardmusic Whatever.
Great review 👍 light gun looks fun seriously thinking about it 🤔
Amazing ... specially with the sound.
Main problem for the US will be finding one I think 😳
The MX7000 and 8000 are the better models in the range and have the active sound system (independent amplifiers) and sound amazing if you thought the 4000 sounded good you have heard nothing yet. I currently own an MX8000 and has some much improved features but are a lot harder to find on the market!
ok, let me look into this 🤗
I have the MX 8000 as my retro TV, and also had all the other MX, but the 8000 is really an upgrade. Especially by having an user interface
Is it possible to connect mx 8000 to pc’
I love everything I've seen from B & O! I wish I could snag one over here in the US
There used to be a bang and olfsen shop/showroom in Canterbury when i was a teen. It was one of those places that was way out of the price range of most people. Its where the rich people went to buy their TV and hi fi components. They were lightyears ahead of the competition in terms of quality and you paid up for that quality. They're the audio/video equivelent of rolls Royce
Uff! I remember that B&O equipment was expensive like hell. Proibitive prices for the mere mortals in Portugal back in the day! But the quality was supreme!
4:3 for retro - bonus for crt
Your Channel is maturing nicely 👍🏻
I have this exact TV (although in some crappy, greenish colur). The image quality is amazing.
Bang and Olufsen stuff is amazing
Bang and Olufsen is mainly known for audio equipment such as speakers in the United States, I didn't know they made television sets.
That's mainly because Europe is a PAL broadcast region. I have seen many of them in Australia. I even have a customer that still uses hers, she refuses to upgrade to a flat panel.
I have the mx 6000 on a stand in the gameroom.
I like it verry much.
My first glimpse at the thumb nail had me thinking there was a new NEO GEO out.
Very cool, could never afford a B&O back in the day but had a pretty awesome jvc with a cambridge amp and bookshelf speakers hooked up. Was pretty damn cool👍
Europe makes me SOOO jealous! I want a B&O TV!
And there are so many things in the USA or other country's I would love to have here.
To begin with we have PAL here... that is so horrible if you played other regions now a days 😆😆
Excellent TVs. I couldn’t afford one when I lived in England, and I’ve never seen one here in the US.
Yeah I don't know if we ever got those in the US, I know the brand for stereos but not for TVs. I always used Commodore monitors back in the day even though they were only 13in, they were really cheap and had an excellent picture.
The MX5000 and MX5500 were sold in the US from 1988 to 1992. They are super rare, I saw two for sale in the $1500 range on Craigslist and Ebay. I bought mine for $500 with rotating stand from Connecticut in the middle of 2020. It works but needs a full recap because the picture is squished vertically a little. Both models sold in the US were plagued with really bad quality capacitors and would only last 8 - 10 years before they failed and were for the most part thrown out and replaced with a new TV.
@@micronian Thanks for that info. It’s a shame that they chose to use inferior quality components for the sets shipped to the US. I would have expected better from B&O.
@@Colin_Ames During the late 1980s and early 1990s there was a Capacitor Plague that affected many capacitors manufactured during that time. B&O sourced good capacitors that were affected by this plague. Nobody knew about the plague until a few years later when the capacitors started leaking prematurely. B&O used Rubycon and Elna capacitors and those were affected by the plague.
@@micronian I had forgotten about the plague. Now you mention it, some of the Dell computers at the place where I worked were victims of this. We ended up changing caps to keep them running.
Thank you for the recommendation! Quick question, does it work straight out of the box with US outlets or does it need some sort of converter?
Such a beautiful CRT design
I used to have one of those stand up CD players back in the late 90s. I didn’t even know they even made TVs.
They make so many different kind of hardware.
Maybe fun to show the LCD tv I have here.. also a crazy piece of retro Tech.
If you can't find crt there is other good method to play retro games. I found out about it just by coincidence. Just find small cheap lcd TV, the oldest and worst quality it is the better, I found one(14inch with built in dvd player) someone throw away took it home and I was amazed, games look better than on crt tv👌
Agree. If you're forced to use a LCD, a small one is definitely better.
I guess the smallness hides what usually annoys retro gamers about the tech
@@realamericannegro977 not only this, old small lcd tvs have very low resolution and it also helps
@@realamericannegro977 not only this, old small lcd tvs have very low resolution and it also helps
@@angryslaw9055 OK I'm playing my PS3 on a 20 something inch LCD monitor (possibly 22) and I can see why you would say this. This is up to date and has a 60hz refresh rate and the lag isn't noticeable to me. The 2D games even look about as good as they do on a CRT whether you add the scan lines or not. I'm playing these PS2 upscale in 1080p. I also remember how good those car lcd tvs back in the day (2002) made retro games look. LCDs are under rated.
Great looking tube! Wish we had these in the states!
They are quite rare but they were indeed sold here in the US between 1988-1992 as the MX5000 and later as the MX5500.
Great video B&O has great designs I learned about this company from you, unfortunately CRTs are not in production anymore.
So time to hoard some crt's 😂 ?
Lol like crts are not working n production anymore since last year
I saw this in one of your new videos. Had no idea you had a video on it. So cool!
As an American, I’ve never heard of this brand. Plus none of our tv’s had any scart connections anyway. I only found out about scart when I got back into retro games. But it looks killer!
Nice video! Yesterday i picked up a MX4002 . It was sitting out on the street. Power cord cut off... And it had rained for a while... But the awesome look of this TV was drawing me to it. Today i took it apart and cleaned it. Almost no sign of water inside... Just a little bit of rust on some of the metal shieldings. And it works! The Motor Stand rotates as well... Now i need to get the Beo4 remote. ;-)
Lol. I got a TV for free from someone, the absolute beast 32 Avant DVD (86 kg!!), and my thought was, if the thing is garbage, I can always sell the remote, as they do 50-100€ depending on the condition.
I have to say the remote looks and feels nice, but the usability is horrible. The Danes were really bad with their logic for TV operation. You need a master class to understand it.
So, if you see someone sell it for 20 bucks WITH remote, get a second one. Cheaper than scoring a remote.
Back in the mid-nineties a 27 inch XBR Sony was my first tv purchase and my first hernia hauling it into the house.
cool video dude, i thought this brand was only making sound devices 😎 BRING RETRO BACK!!!
Thanks, yeah they make so many different products back then.
people with mx7000 and mx4000 are like i am super happy with this crt...wait until you get mx8000 and mx4200, it's another level of sharpness and sound quality
This is very impressive for obsolete technology. Very Retro, except newer and better because it’s 3D printed.
I have the MX2000. Not as good as the MX4000 but still pretty impressive.
I have one. I removed the front glass as it darkens the image too much for my taste. Ruins the design a bit, but brightness and colors are absolutely amazing without it. Service menu picture adjustments is a nightmare to adjust. I finally managed to have a nice geometry but still have a small ripple just at the top. Found the adjustment for it but if I correct it too much picture loses sync. Fantastic set anyway. I use it with Recalbox with scart RGB output. Georgous picture, really difficult to experience it through photos or videos, looks way better in real life.
Hi Sir! I bought one a couple of weeks ago. How do I get to the service menu? Also, what sound and picture config do you recomend? Many thanks in advance!
Awesome, i've also started to collect retro B&O items.
Had never heard of Bang & Olufsen making TVs. But knew all about their audio products.
I prefer the SONY Trinitron, they have a better picture quality for video games, nevertheless this TV is very nice, congratulations!
I'm a little jealous, we can find only their audio equipment. Although, my heart is set on a Commodore 1702 monitor I used to own, hope I'll find that one some day.
ive had one of these for about a year now i love it ! :D
Does it plug directly into a us outlet?
Loool, B&O was so sick expansive . A Friend of mine had the Music CD Player when i was a Teenager. We were playing Resident Evil 1on Psx with that Audio Gem.......... loved those weird flat Speakers on the Wall, wih huge red Digi-Number on it.....(Volume, i think it was....?)
I had and still have a lot of MX TV's and Radios.
About the weight, sure the 4000 is lighter, but also the 6,7,8K all habe nice handles on the top. I can cary them alone, and i bought and sold many of them.
The MX 4000 is nice and crisp but cramped for splitscreen, the MX 6000 is a bit bigger, so you can also play some splitscreen. The MX 7000 is as big as the 6000 but has added an active sound system.
And then, the holy grail of the MX series, the MX 8000 i use.
Screensize and soundsystem like the 7000, completely revisioned internals and better screen, actual user interface wich all previous ones where missing, and auto detection when u turn on a console.
Remodeled back housing, and a detatchable power cable.
The 8000 is very rare, 7000 is uncommon, 6000 is common as the 4000.
But i recommend the 6000 for size and availability, but the higher the numer on a MX the better.
Hey there! Did you notice any digital artefacts? Some people say MX8000 add some digital processing that slightly deteriorates the picture quality regarding retro games.
@@eugene9234 not really, i use an MX 8k as my main retro TV, and the image is crisp.
I had issues when using cheap cables. But not with the premium ones
For all viewers from the US you can get you something very similar under the name of Magnavox it was owned by Philips and they did use the same tubes as this one shown in this video and I can guarantee that picture quality is quite remarkable
Nice brand but they are so hard to find. They definitely are a luxury brand. If your going the crt route might be better to settle on a Sony or Jvc.
Sony made 36 inch TVs back in the 90s made in the USA. SONY TRINITRON TV - How it was made. An awesome vintage (circa 1998) video by SONY showing the Sony Technology Center-Pittsburgh (STC-P) once the world's first vertically integrated television manufacturing plant, opened in 1990 to produce large rear projection TVs, and later the TRINITRON CRT and Flat Screen CRT TVs, the STC-P facility in Pennsylvania once employed over 3,000 people.
The Pennsylvania factory was Sony's last remaining TV manufacturing facility in the U.S. After an impressive history, it closed STC- P operations in 2010
I snagged one today! Just need to get the colors to be more vivid and a little more sharpness.
That tv looks amazing.
Awesome b&o collection! Got the 7-40 myself!
Am Running 4 MX7000s, 1 MX8000 & 1 MX4000... B&O TVs have Great Picture & Sound with Exerllent Picture Adjustment via the Remote... Using with Pi4s & PCs linked with an Extron Switch Unit in S-Vudeo...CRT 4:3 Was and Is The Way to Go Back...
They actually made an efford making the picture quality better, than the Phillips tubes, could deliver. Same thing with the Samsung flat screens. Have no idea if they succeded, but they spend alot of money trying.
The tubes themselves being Phillips are made the same way with the same materials in the same factory as the tubes used in Phillips TVs and many other brands back in the day. Although on occasion some CRTs that are made happen to be of exceptional quality, by chance the quality of the raw materials in the batch were better and the processes occured without a hitch, close to perfection. That's the nature of manufacturing. B&O tubes would be the exceptional quality tubes like the same quality that are used in professional broadcast monitors. What they look for is uniformity in geometry and accurate colour production. In the modern era with LCD/OLED panels this grading system is still used. Funny how a product cut from the same cloth can vary in value from a few hundred dollars to several thousands of dollars.
The only thing I'am jealous of when it comes to living in the states is the CRT we got look like garbage compared to the EU. Crappy hard plastic, lack of rgb (only on select sdtv). It is what it is, I always get alot of uk buyers asking me to ship over some of my ebay listings. PVM/BVM too expensive and tend to have alot of wear n tear over hear. B&O may not be the worlds best crt, but the look/quality together is in a league of its own (especially when it comes to consumer crt). I will stop rambling thxs.
As far as consumer TVs I think B&O is cream of the crop. Another brand that is great is Loewe.
As far as regions it's a trade off. I am in Australia and because we have PAL here, there are quite a lot of European TVs in the wild. Harder to find now than a decade ago like everywhere else. As for professional and broadcast grade monitors, there are several people out there that own most of them and if they do sell them (which isn't often) the prices would be much more exorbitant than the US market and there is no where near as many of them. Replying to some comments from a fellow Loewe owner in Italy, he said most of the good consumer grade European sets have excess of 10000 hours of use.
They really didn’t need that action on gun I remember it chasing me pain as a kid in arm the vibrating
This tv appears very difficult and expensive to obtain here in Canada. I would like one though.
The silver remote looks like an electric razor. The television is undeniably quality though.
I've had a Beocentre 1 for a while and it's a fantastic tv but the best consumer crt for 240p is the Loewe E3000 chassis. If you find a Loewe I would definitely go for that instead, now I just need to fix my one I have in the shed.
Loewe E3000 never heart of that 😳, let me look that one up 😁 thanks !
@@WickedGamerCollector the set will say E3000 on the back but the model name will be Calida or profil
B&O and Loewe, luxury electronics...
I didn't know Bang & Olufsen make CRT TVs and they look incredible quality at that. I always thought they focused on audio systems, whether home appliances or for the PC market.
MX4000 is a great choice but if you have money, invest into MX4200 which is the last model before B&O stop producing CRT tv. MX4200 has Thompson CRT chassis and "true flat" crt tube, ten times sharper than MX4000 as well. How do i know? I owned plenty of MX4000 and since i have MX4200, i sold off all of my MX4000. That's how good MX4200 is compare to previous model
So it supports both PAL and NTSC standards, and can work with a lighgun? I've read the screen refreshed at 100Hz, which makes nonsense with what you've demonstrated.
I use my 3DO on this fully RGB.
And also PAL works fine.
Light guns ow yes.... have pile of video's out there.
Edit - Playlist - ua-cam.com/video/Bt5UkosGkIQ/v-deo.html&ab_channel=WickedGamer%26Collector
Wicked you ever play with the Mister FPGA for retro gaming for a better experience than those pandora boxes ?
Nice video, How to fix the over scan problem? we need to see the full images, how to do?
Google how to get in service menu of your B&O product.
My personal favorite is the MX4200, fortunately I got one last week😍
The MX4000 was nice, but I prefer the MX4200💛
What's the difference between them, how much did you pay, was it in good condition?
Flat screen from Panasonic with perfect geometry (no barrel roll), better menü, can fix settings on RGB output, no channel swap necessary. I got mine for free in perfect condition via Kleinanzeigen (German Craiglist). @@olevet75
@@olevet75Better Geometry (no barrel roll), also easier access to the service menue.
It has a flat screen from Panasonic, instead of the old Philips tubes.
The sound should also be better, but to be honest, the sound from the MX4000 was already very good.
i own one of these =) they are great
Cool video. Can I ask what's the model of that laser gun? The one that pops back when shot ? Thanks
Man I'd love to see someone mod that light gun into a Gun4IR gun with working blowback. And I'm jealous of those TVs! I would love it if we had these in NTSC markets. Beautiful design, and Europe got all of the good inputs. We have to mod most of our old TVs to get a quality RGB signal.
Thats a big boy crt. I think I am happy with my small 13 inch sanyo crt tv I got for free lol.
IDK crt's are still popular.
They should make them still by order atleast.
But have to be high quality. Close to a sony tv or pvm with the connections of course for rgb stuff.
Hey Wicked zeer mooie CRT idd. Ik heb grotere broertje MX7000 top modellen voor retro gaming.
Weird remote
👍👍
Nice bro
They have allways used alot of money, trying to improve picture quality. And they allways made their own amplifiers, and speaker systems. So its not just Phillips products in nice package.
Wow super cool love light gun games
when i clicked on this i thought it was a CRT with a retro console built in
Wicked you ever play with the Mister FPGA for regro gamibg for a better experience than those pandora boxes ?!!
Have one in box somewhere... still did not have the time to assemble and start messing with it 😳
Sony Trinitron FTW!
Ummm,.. the reason we don't know about or use it is because of the non-standard A/V connections,... that thing is a piece of crap compared to a 23"Toshiba Dvd/VCR Combo with it's standard 3 separate A/V connections, two in the back one in the front, and a Coaxial cable input. This is the best Option for Crt as they made them until about 2003-5. For non CRT Retro Gaming JVC has a 720p TV with 4 HDMI 3 AV a COaxial and Optical out for sound bars... Both are in my (and my son's) gaming room,.. looking like the set of Video and Arcade TOp Ten :D
How would you connect US Av jacks
through SCART. Scart can handle RGB, composite and S-video signals.
I have a 4500 MX model. Does anyone know any cheap alternative for the remote. It's incredibly expensive.
Beautiful set, I'm pretty sure we never had these on the States.
They were sold in the US between 1988-1990 as the MX5000 and 1990-1992 as the MX5500.
Wish i could order one, but I dont know how to get one shipped here to florida
God knows how many crt's I've thrown out over the years makes me feel sick 😂
Yeah... i know ahahah...
Some day these B&O tv's going to be pure retro nostalgia like the consoles itself 😂
Waar heb je de tv laten kalibreren? Mijn scherm is helemaal scheef man. Ik geraak in de service menu maar heb geen flauw idee wat ik moet doen. Kun je je instellingen delen aub?
why do the games cut off on the left side on both your B&O vids?
Hey wicked.
Did you ever do a video on the ps2 slim joytech 8in screen?
Affordable where?? I've been looking for one of these and can not find one.
Few years ago,they were some project about new screen technology with square to connect each other to build any size of screen,a 4/3 70 cm oldschool with 640x480p or a huge home theater 8k..
Also,rumor about ’reboot’ of crt factory,to make new tube or using old parts with new capkits,pcb..
I just keep one trinitron,pvm sony and nanao arcade screen,but they are not eternal,needs repairs.
With all the retrogaming community,a flat screen with the same picture than pvm crt,in 15 and 31khz..will be perfect.
About lightgun,I will try to have some on my pc hyperspin,retroarch..with a crt tv,what’s the best option,a ps2 model with a jammasd and connect with cinch video cable,or a usb model if they exist?
Yep. You can’t find that in the US :( the design on those is nice
you are hitting it....ahhhh lol
My 45 year old Zenith requests a battle
Can you tell me what are the best games like time crises that use can for all retro consoles please i want try to collect all of them please
The widow makers u mean when u tried to move it
Hey Wicked, I've got 2 these sets and they're OK. But TBH I prefer my other CRTs, especially my Sonys as B&O menus/controllers are just a mess, way too convoluted to use. The picture is honestly no better either. I really do love the design though. But I'd still recommend anyone in Europe to just grab a Sony, or Phillips for retro gaming. I have 2 Beocentre 1's too and they're a real pain in the arse to get them to display 4:3 every time you use them, so give them a miss
I have the same experience as you. My Sony TV's are acctually better when it comes to picture quality. The only model of Bang & Olufsen I've owned is the MX8000 it's really good, and the depth of the TV is quite nice, easier to place. I'd love to pick up an MX4000 in the future, but right now I am quite happy with my 2 Sonys, one 21" and one 14".
Nice, thought they just made stereo equipment. Doesn't look like this is available in the US sadly.
Have you check out this game system Retropie C-37 HD Retro Video Game Console? thanks
What mic is that at 4:00?
That is the Olympus me31 microphone 😄
Amazing so cool