CRT Televisions: Then vs Now

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I was very fortunate to have my own television in my room as a kid growing up. My dad was always working to provided for me and my sisters and he didn't have a lot of money so I was beyond excited when he got me a little 14inch RCA CRT to use in my room! That TV got me through so many great games and console generations like Super Metroid on SNES, Starfox64 on N64, MGS2 on PS2, and even the early days of the Xbox 360 before I got my own HDTV.

As an adult Ive gotten back into retro gaming on CRT televisions. I have acquired a Sony KV-27FS120, a Sony KV-20S30, and a Toshiba 24AF44. The Sony 27" and Toshiba 24" (both from 2004) used be dream TVs of mine growing up: the additional component and S-Video inputs on the back make older consoles look almost "brand new" and the flat panel of the screen always looked so cool and modern to me. The image on these sets are so crisp and sharp compared to the old RCA curved-screen tube TV I played on as a kid.

However....

I have found myself playing exclusively on this little Sony KV-20S30 CRT from 1996 because this is how I REMEMBER gaming on consoles as a kid! My dad didn't have the money to afford fancy new TVs in the early to mid 2000s that offered Component or S-Video inputs or even stereo sound... I used my 14" RCA via composite and I LOVED it! Something about the blurriness and hard-to-read text on this older CRT when playing PS2 games really takes me back to how I actually experienced these games as a kid, and it was the way I fell in love with gaming!

Having this old school Sony CRT to play games on again is exactly the nostalgia I was looking for! I will forever be grateful to my dad for all he did for me and my siblings when we were younger: we didn't have much growing up, but what we did have was enough because of our kickass dad!

Love ya pops!
 
I was very fortunate to have my own television in my room as a kid growing up. My dad was always working to provided for me and my sisters and he didn't have a lot of money so I was beyond excited when he got me a little 14inch RCA CRT to use in my room! That TV got me through so many great games and console generations like Super Metroid on SNES, Starfox64 on N64, MGS2 on PS2, and even the early days of the Xbox 360 before I got my own HDTV.

As an adult Ive gotten back into retro gaming on CRT televisions. I have acquired a Sony KV-27FS120, a Sony KV-20S30, and a Toshiba 24AF44. The Sony 27" and Toshiba 24" (both from 2004) used be dream TVs of mine growing up: the additional component and S-Video inputs on the back make older consoles look almost "brand new" and the flat panel of the screen always looked so cool and modern to me. The image on these sets are so crisp and sharp compared to the old RCA curved-screen tube TV I played on as a kid.

However....

I have found myself playing exclusively on this little Sony KV-20S30 CRT from 1996 because this is how I REMEMBER gaming on consoles as a kid! My dad didn't have the money to afford fancy new TVs in the early to mid 2000s that offered Component or S-Video inputs or even stereo sound... I used my 14" RCA via composite and I LOVED it! Something about the blurriness and hard-to-read text on this older CRT when playing PS2 games really takes me back to how I actually experienced these games as a kid, and it was the way I fell in love with gaming!

Having this old school Sony CRT to play games on again is exactly the nostalgia I was looking for! I will forever be grateful to my dad for all he did for me and my siblings when we were younger: we didn't have much growing up, but what we did have was enough because of our kickass dad!

Love ya pops!
What a wholesome story, may your dad be blessed with great health and wellbeing
 
The special blur effect of CRT TV was really something else!
I used to play NES and Sega MegaDrive games with real console when i was kid, and still nothing beats it. ?

Our TV is still CRT, my monitor too! but there's no console anymore! ?
But those memories are always etched into my mind. ?
I thanks my parents a lot too! ::heart
 
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The wii can still be used to watch youtube if you mod it
It's hard for me to justify buying a Wii as I can just buy the controller setup and emulate it, but it looks so much fun to mod!
I chose that ep because they were watching tv
It's a tube tv in a tube tv

You mean like this?
 
I got rid of my last CRT tv back in 2010 when I moved. Actually, that was the last tv I owned period. I finally got rid of my CRT computer monitor I'd had since like 1999-2000 in 2019 when I moved again. I never got a replacement for it I just use a laptop now. I've never actually owned a modern flatscreen tv or monitor. I don't really see the point. I don't have any modern consoles, all my retro ones are packed away and I don't watch enough tv or movies to justify having one.
 
It's hard for me to justify buying a Wii as I can just buy the controller setup and emulate it, but it looks so much fun to mod!


You mean like this?

If you're a weirdo who owns 30+ crts and likes to live in 2005 it can do like 10+ different resolution on retroarch, like 200x180; it can even switch resolution on the fly for stuff like the super famicom cores

It can also be a dvd player, and its media player also lets you view stuff at 240p for some reason; if you want everything to look like a ps1 fmv

It works pretty well for Trailer Park Boys
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You mean like this?
Correct
 
What a wholesome story, may your dad be blessed with great health and wellbeing
Thank you! He is a healthy 63 year old man now and will still drop whatever he is doing to help others at a moments notice. I've learned a lot from him over the years and I'm beyond grateful
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The special blur effect of CRT TV was really something else!
I used to play NES and Sega MegaDrive games with real console when i was kid, and still nothing beats it. ?

Our TV is still CRT, my monitor too! but there's no console anymore! ?
But those memories are always etched into my mind. ?
I thanks my parents a lot too! ::heart
Same! Replaying some of these old games on an older CRT recently just had me reminiscing about the old days when I was kid.. and a lot of memories I have from then involve my dad. He always encouraged my love for computers, reading, and baseball.
 
Holy crap, an hd crt? Whered you get that?
Can you believe some upper middle class family was throwing out a perfectly good Samsung 1080i/720p HD CRT television?! It even has a DVI input so you can use modern electronics with just a passive HDMI to DVI cable!
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Can you believe some upper middle class family was throwing out a perfectly good Samsung 1080i/720p HD CRT television?! It even has a DVI input so you can use modern electronics with just a passive HDMI to DVI cable!
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Incredible! I have only ever seen 1 HD CRT in my life and it was a Samsung! Someone was playing Brute Force on it which looked incredible since the original Xbox could output 720p on certain games. I would love to add something like that to my collection
 

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