CRT Thread

[Cerberus9]

I picked up this beauty for $70 at my local radio shop (DVD function don't work, so that's why I had to haggle for that price)

 

[Zerpina]

As I said on the front page this is in my brother's storage/mini garage that he uses for his tools.
*Central heat/air carpeted ect.*
It will be at my house in a week or so. MMmm... Scanline goodness.

It cost me nothing because my brother and his girlfriend were cleaning out one of her relatives' places she inherited, and they were told to get rid of everything.

 

[DanCalibur]

I commented at work that I was looking for a CRT monitor for a Windows 98 retroPC I'm assembling and got two 17" monitors for free from the guys, they were very happy to get rid of them . They are all cheap models (Samsung SyncMaster 794V S and LG Flatron EZ T730SH) but man Duke Nuken 3D looks good on them

 

[Allyourbased]

do any of you watch television on your old world tvs, or do you prefer to stick to games

I love watching 4:3 shows on my crt, currently use my ps3 to watch files off my network

 

[Bomberman]

 

[petran79]

I commented at work that I was looking for a CRT monitor for a Windows 98 retroPC I'm assembling and got two 17" monitors for free from the guys, they were very happy to get rid of them . They are all cheap models (Samsung SyncMaster 794V S and LG Flatron EZ T730SH) but man Duke Nuken 3D looks good on them

I got a Phillips 107e5 from a school storage room, just before the recycle truck arrived. There were better monitors available (Samsung Syncmaster 17" with 0.22 dot and up to 2536x1568 resolution and LG F900) but they had issues like scratches and missing stand and broken plastic.

I connected it to a Linux laptop and I can run games at 240p resolution and also use Switchres on Retroarch. While for FPS 512x384 is a nice resolution if you like scanline look

 

[throughdarkness]

So back in December last year I snagged a decent deal on a Sony 1943md. Sadly the unit arrived DoA with it being so knocked around in transit that the neck and power supply board had snapped in half.

I really didn't think I'd get her going again but back in June I had dropped Steve a message at Retrotech and sent him the boards to see if he could do anything with them and he repaired the heck outta those boards and I popped them back in a couple days ago. Total win!

 

[Langoblian]

i am not familiar with that one so i can offer little advice i am afraid
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do any of you watch television on your old world tvs, or do you prefer to stick to games?

my CRT is right across from my bed so it's my preferred way to watch most TV shows. i use DVD, VHS, and a raspberry pi i installed libreelec on to watch stuff from my media server. very, very comfy after a long shift.

 

[resketreke]

I have a NEC Multisync FE700 here by my side. I use it with a Celeron PC for DOS gaming, and I also use it with my main PC for emulation and to play some modern games on it (some games still support 4:3 resolutions). I have an Analogizer on the way, so I'll use it with that too.

I also own a Sony Trinitron TV, but it's in storage because it's quite big(either 27 or 32'' I believe) and I have a space problem. I'd love to use it more often since it's been sitting unused for a few years now, but it is what it is. I received it from a neighbour around a decade ago and he was absolutely delighted that he didn't need to move it any further. I don't remember how good or bad the picture is, but I remember thinking it was a bit too dark for my taste and I know it had been heavily used before I got it. Maybe I didn't calibrate it properly.

I found some old pictures of my Trinitron and I have no idea why I thought it looked dark? Now I think it looks great. I've also included a pic of my NEC monitor.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

my CRT is right across from my bed so it's my preferred way to watch most TV shows. i use DVD, VHS, and a raspberry pi i installed libreelec on to watch stuff from my media server. very, very comfy after a long shift.

i wanna fix that corner, just need to rub a degaussing coil on it.

 

[Langoblian]

i wanna fix that corner, just need to rub a degaussing coil on it.

totally fair, i do need to. it's definitely been showing its age without much maintenance, i'll get on buying another coil.

 

[petran79]

Reading comments that Policenauts PC 98 looked amazing, I would not want to spoil the fun

 

[resketreke]

After my post here, I decided to wake my Trinitron from its long sleep. I've calibrated it to the best of my ability, but unfortunately I cannot deactivate the green and red guns to make the blue-only, so I had to play by ear to adjust the colour. I like the way it looks, not dark at all as I remembered for some reason. It is smaller than I remembered too, the model is KV-21FX20E, making it a 21'' TV, instead of 27 or 32''. I also discovered the TV has more than 16k hours of use, might be a bit tired, the poor thing.

Putting it to work has also led to a series of terrible discoveries:
· Apparently years ago during a clean up session I threw away a plastic bag which contained my Mega Drive, Saturn, Dreamcast and SNES' power adapters and RGB/S-Video cables. Yay me. My Dreamcast died years ago too, so it's not a problem at least.
·My Japanese Model 1 Saturn's CD drive is dead, I'm thinking about buying a Saroo and calling it a day.
·My PSOne's RCA cable is broken and works one out of every 10 times I try to use it and it looks terrible when it does work. Also, since I sold most of my game collection and threw away most of my copies, I barely have anything to play on it nowadays, and I don't have a CD/DVD drive anymore to burn more.
·I lent my Dual Shock 3 and never got it back, and the person who borrowed it has disappeared from my life many years ago, so no PS3 or PS2 for now either.

So I have a bunch of consoles I cannot use for the reasons described above, I'll probably buy the cables at some point, but nowadays I'm more inclined to emulate and I already own an Analogue Pocket and an Analogizer, I ordered a VGA to SCART cable but I ordered a SCART to VGA by mistake and I have just returned, I think I'll buy a composite adapter instead, I want the de-dithering from the composite output.

I've been thinking about buying a Mister setup at some point too, probably before this year ends, but for now the only thing that works with my CRT TV is an old Raspberry Pi 3b+ I mostly use as an MT-32Pi nowadays. I put a 240p-centric Lakka image in an SD card and it looks good, with the advantage of having save states. The performance could be better for some platforms, but I won't complain, every time I complain something gets worse.

Anyway, sorry for the long post, but I felt the need to say all this somewhere.

 

[tannaya]

what a cool thread

 

[throughdarkness]

After my post here, I decided to wake my Trinitron from its long sleep. I've calibrated it to the best of my ability, but unfortunately I cannot deactivate the green and red guns to make the blue-only, so I had to play by ear to adjust the colour. I like the way it looks, not dark at all as I remembered for some reason. It is smaller than I remembered too, the model is KV-21FX20E, making it a 21'' TV, instead of 27 or 32''. I also discovered the TV has more than 16k hours of use, might be a bit tired, the poor thing.

Putting it to work has also led to a series of terrible discoveries:
· Apparently years ago during a clean up session I threw away a plastic bag which contained my Mega Drive, Saturn, Dreamcast and SNES' power adapters and RGB/S-Video cables. Yay me. My Dreamcast died years ago too, so it's not a problem at least.
·My Japanese Model 1 Saturn's CD drive is dead, I'm thinking about buying a Saroo and calling it a day.
·My PSOne's RCA cable is broken and works one out of every 10 times I try to use it and it looks terrible when it does work. Also, since I sold most of my game collection and threw away most of my copies, I barely have anything to play on it nowadays, and I don't have a CD/DVD drive anymore to burn more.
·I lent my Dual Shock 3 and never got it back, and the person who borrowed it has disappeared from my life many years ago, so no PS3 or PS2 for now either.

So I have a bunch of consoles I cannot use for the reasons described above, I'll probably buy the cables at some point, but nowadays I'm more inclined to emulate and I already own an Analogue Pocket and an Analogizer, I ordered a VGA to SCART cable but I ordered a SCART to VGA by mistake and I have just returned, I think I'll buy a composite adapter instead, I want the de-dithering from the composite output.

I've been thinking about buying a Mister setup at some point too, probably before this year ends, but for now the only thing that works with my CRT TV is an old Raspberry Pi 3b+ I mostly use as an MT-32Pi nowadays. I put a 240p-centric Lakka image in an SD card and it looks good, with the advantage of having save states. The performance could be better for some platforms, but I won't complain, every time I complain something gets worse.

Anyway, sorry for the long post, but I felt the need to say all this somewhere.

A Mister is by far the best game related purchase I have ever made, and I've been playing since the 80's. You should keep an eye out for Superstation One stock. One of those along with the dock is a full consolized Mister system.

 

[resketreke]

A Mister is by far the best game related purchase I have ever made, and I've been playing since the 80's. You should keep an eye out for Superstation One stock. One of those along with the dock is a full consolized Mister system.

I think I'd rather buying the Mister Pi or the QMTech clone. the Superstation One lacked something compared to the other two, although I can't remember what it was.

I've had my eye on them for a while, I'm just waiting for the right time to get one.

 

[throughdarkness]

I think I'd rather buying the Mister Pi or the QMTech clone. the Superstation One lacked something compared to the other two, although I can't remember what it was.

I've had my eye on them for a while, I'm just waiting for the right time to get one.

The Superstation is still being developed so there's been a bunch of revisions and I'm sure we'll see more by the time it releases. Lots of options though, can't go wrong with any of them really.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

My JVC i'ART in action

 

[aquova]

I have a 13" RCA TruFlat CRT that I picked up on Ebay about a year ago. I like it well enough, although I went to the trouble of fixing the geometry, only for it to reset last time I unplugged it (I probably need to replace some sort of battery on it).

I will admit though, it's slightly too small for my liking. I think a 17" would be better, but I have come across zero CRTs while searching around town. Maybe there's some shop here I don't know about, but I'd love to pick up another.

 

[fmsynthetic]

So back in December last year I snagged a decent deal on a Sony 1943md. Sadly the unit arrived DoA with it being so knocked around in transit that the neck and power supply board had snapped in half.

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I really didn't think I'd get her going again but back in June I had dropped Steve a message at Retrotech and sent him the boards to see if he could do anything with them and he repaired the heck outta those boards and I popped them back in a couple days ago. Total win!

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I wish I had one of these Trinitrons. Mine is one of the newer black ones. This is absolutely beautiful.

 

[throughdarkness]

I wish I had one of these Trinitrons. Mine is one of the newer black ones. This is absolutely beautiful.

The thing about this one is that geometry adjustments need to be done using the potentiometers on the boards. Nice looking 600 TVL screen though.

I'd actually like to get a decent Sony consumer set and a computer monitor for DOS and X68000 stuff but impossible to find stuff locally where I'm at.

 

[1es3o]

Got it on Vinted for 10€, there are some scratches on the shell but i still feel like i got it for cheaper than it sould have been. Its a Radiola 37TA1262/18 ( same as Philips 14PT1262/18 ), it works perfectly fine so far

 

[resketreke]

WOW I had completely forgotten about Radiola, it's a brand I saw often as a kid.

 

[TacoMeister]

God, all those pictures are making me drool...
I need to get myself a CRT haven't had one since early 2000's and I miss it.

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

I miss my last CRT. It was one of the first internet TVs that came out with a full ass keyboard built into the handset.

It was a Bush ITV8401

It was so cool but it was also too bulky to justify storing in my tiny flat. If I ever size up I'm deffo gonna go CRT hunting again.

I even had to replace my PS1 scorpions for an AimTrak -_-

To me a CRT filter is the height of pointlessness. They never look right and end up just feeling like a detriment rather than taking me back to the CRT days.