1975 Sony Trinitron KV1722 Pincushion Repair Vintage Color Television Test 

With those graphics, I can understand your disinterest in games. Other than that, the TV was in surprisingly great shape for its age aparts from those Matsushitas with incontinence.

SHANGO: "Video games are a waste of 'time'"... and then spends 40 hours on a Zenith EOL resurrection LOL... LOVE YOU MATE!

I had one of these little personal Trinitron sets from 1988 on, was a gift from my grandparents. I still remember how beautiful and vivid the colors were on that set. It worked perfectly until 2006 or so when the power button finally wore out and it would repeatedly flip on and off. It was great for NES and Genesis games back in the day.

You are a much better video game player than me, seriously. Despite the crushing reality of it, that Sony is in amazing condition accept for the horrible solder joints, flux all over the boards and dead capacitors. It deserves a total restoration. Whoever owns it should spend the money or learn how to do it by themself. My two cents that this is a priceless beauty in need.

Your level of dedication to that Atari is amazing.

I was and still am, a big fan of Sony TVs. That’s the only kind I installed in my house years back, when TV was worth watching. The old CRT Sonys all work as perfectly as the day I bought them. I don’t use them much now but they are all way to nice to just scrap.

Awesome! The picture on that set is amazing. Sony really built great televisions.

You won't make commentary.... but you did, and truthful commentary it was.

I used to play a lot of computer games on the ZX Spectrum, on an Amstrad Colour TV. Elite, Driller, Dark Star, Forbidden Planet, Manic Miner, and Jet Set Willy were all favourites. By comparison, I find modern computer games very formulaic.

I love playing video games, but understand it's not for everyone. Same as fixing old tv and radios is not for everyone. I love the Atari. The original console the best to play. The flashback consoles are ok, but have issues. The controller needs line of sight to work as it's working with IR sensors, so no line of sight, the controller doesn't work. You can plug in an original controller which i recommend. Also, push forward on the controller when playing Asteroids and the ship will move around the screen. Pull back to warp to other parts of the screen, which comes in handy when almost getting hit by an asteroid. Enjoyed the video, even if you bagged on my hobby and favourite console.

Psychologically, the adult love of video games seems to be a sort of escape into childhood, which is hardly surprising considering what we're experiencing today…

Gotta say I was a little bit surprised by your attitude towards video games... I do see your point, though. Modern popular games are not very inspiring and run on pre-existing formulas. You run, you shoot, you win the game et cetera. However the way I see it, video games as a whole should be considered nothing less than an art form. If we move back in time just a few decades ago video games were not made exclusively to make profit but companies and game designers had a passionate drive in pioneering the landscape for digital creation. Some of my life's favourite musical scores happen to come from video games. From classic simple sinewaves to modern orchestral arrangements. Sure, one might argue that art itself is kinda pointless but yet it can be fun and inspiring nonetheless. I recommend you try some of the 16 bit Nintendo games! Donkey Kong Country and Star Fox are especially impressive games for their time; iconic soundtracks and intuitive gameplay. (Short version: Gramps, valves are cool but have you seen an IC?) Lol

Easy fix, those video games are about a stimulating as bumping my head on the same pipe in the boiler room throughout the work day.

I love your commentary. These "throwback" consoles are usually garbage. I found one of the family's original 2600's stuffed way into the back of the garage of the old house many years ago with severe rain damage to it and all of the games. It cleaned up pretty good and while the gameplay isn't great, because it's a 2600, it's much better than trying to use a controller with an IR remote. These old games are usually really fast paced and require a controller and TV with 0 lag time. That's why these old TV's are so sought after for these old games. Modern digital TV's have to buffer the analog signal and thus creates some lag. The difference is measurable on a human scale as evident by my high score on the game KABOOM.

Says I'm done with this, proceeds to get new high score in frogs and flies

You're right. Changing out caps in an ancient TV for the 193,517th time in a video is much more intellectually stimulating then playing a video game(even F'n Atari 2600). Nailed it.

I love the look of the older Sony's with the "wood" cabinet.

I has that set. Early 80s. Very proud to own it. Remember. Sony, no baloney 😂

Oh, one more thing about the 2600: it had no RAM to speak of, and no video generator like you’d find on any computers of the era… the code in the cartridge ROM was generating the video signal basically all in software, what’s referred to as “racing the beam”. Amazing that it worked at all, considering the processor involved…

This trinitron is absolutely Gorgeous! Trinitron TVs are the best kind ever made in my opinion. Seeing this set Work flawlessly once again makes me so happy!😊

We had this model sets everywhere in the TV station I worked for back at this time. That pincushion issue was common. I used to repair them, too.

I remember when those TVs were brand spanking new on the store shelf

In the '70s, Magnavox had a 19" color TV that had the video game system built into the set. "Odyssey" is what Magnavox called their video game system. On that note, I also never got into video games.

I don't own a TV , but i enjoy watching the repair videos.

Shango man, it's nuts how you can figure out and fix complex circuits, yet you can't even get started on the simplest of video games - I love it!, just goes to show we all have different skills, some more useful than others. What's easy for some is unfathomable to others, all depends on what you focus your time on - makes the world a rich place indeed.

When I was a kid, there were a select few kids in the class who were obsessed with their Ataris and their Intellivisions. We just called them "vidiots" and went about our business. I never had anything remotely resembling a video game system as a kid, until I was 14 years old and my dad finally caved in and bought an Apple II for the family.

Sony Trinitron was probably the best TV of the era.

Oh my goodness. What a video! Thanks for the laugh! I highly suggest the E.T. game next time lol

I used one of these, used, for my C-64 before I could afford a real monitor. It was a great little TV!!!

As kids we had the Atari Pong my dad was worried it was going to ruin his black and white TV set so gameplay never caught on for me I realize now how much money he saved me that was better spent on internal combustion engines beer and chicks the rest of it I wasted

I can relate to the dislike for playing video games. I first started trying to play video games when I got my commodore 64 in the early 80s. I tried playing some games, and had this negative nagging feeling that I was engaged in a terrible waste of time. I got into writing programs on the machine, and working on learning the tech of the hardware and that made me feel more productive. I went on to doing software engineering as a career in the field of electrical and mechanical systems automation, and loved every minute of it. I don't judge the gamers although I do feel there's a limit to how much time should be spent and I agree that it's better to live a more real life through your own experiences than vicariously through video games, but to each his or her own. I suppose becoming excellent at video games can prepare a person for certain careers like being a drone operator for the military.

As always, great video! I love the commentary with the high definition video on a vintage set connected to an old school Atari… 👍

This was our first color TV, but we had the 14" version. My parents had money, but color TV, even in the mid 1970s, was an extravagance. The Sony Trinitron was the first semi-portable color TV with near-studio-quality color. When I was a little kid, I used to have dreams every night that we had color television. Kids think they have it hard now. This TV was well over $500 in 1975. I made a dollar mowing the lawn at the time.

All those black caps are very swollen. Any time you see the plastic outer label pulled down from the top like that, they have usually pushed the rubber plug out the bottom and it pulls the plastic sleeve down with it.

Why play video game frog when you can be real frog!

This sure brings back memories! I had an Atari 2600 back in the early-1980's. Using one's TV as a video game center was a novel concept in those days. The CRT appears to have purity issues in the lower-left corner. I'd *much rather* play Atari video games than deal with "crepe erase."

That tv was in reo speedwagons music video I keep on loving you

hahah blaming the controller - classic addict mate!

Nice easy fix! I remember working at a cable access channel back in early 1990 and they had a rack of these monitors in their control room. Great sets and they had great color reproduction.

The TV reminds me of the ones they used on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

For anyone interested...this exact model Sony is featured throughout the movie Fright NIght from 1985...the set receives many close-ups in the main character's bedroom...they have covered up the logo but it's the same model...great looking set!

Well done for getting it working properly! I gather that these old Pincushion Correction circuits which corrected just on the East-West Axis worked by using an Integrator fed from the Vertical Timebase to produce what was called a Parabolic Waveform which was then fed to the Horizontal Output Stage to modulate the width of the Raster and so correct the geometry (when suitably tweaked).

I get that you don't like video games but I had the best of both worlds. Playing outdoors most of the time and whenever it rained, Atari and later Nintendo, etc. This is a real nice TV though and I'd love to hook a NES up to something similar just for that nice vintage feel. It's not the same feel hooking a NES up to a 55" smart tv.

"You can see why..." *Loud obnoxious buzzing* "...people want these TVs though"

A common problem with these was a shorted mylar capacitor on the pincushion board. It would read as a short across SG613 horizontal output and of course blow the main fuse.

I hope Shango never gets reincarnated as a frog.....

"Maybe I could fix the controller, that would be more fun than this" And that's how Adrian's Digital Basement was born.

Gray & white cats says meow from heavens above :3

Shango, I grew up at the dawn of home computing, it was an incredible journey of discovery and programming, back then as a kid I was MAKING these simple computer games, and it was a time of learning code and making things happen on CRTs, totally magical. Nowadays these kids have all the virtual realism, but it misses so much of what I had back then. It felt on a par to designing/fixing the circuits because we were understanding and working so closely WITH them. Think Andrew Braybrook/Uridium. I can SMELL the excitement of the Commodore 64 even today.

Nice repair! This game console brings back memories of the old Atari 2600! It would have worked better if they stuck with wired controllers.

I never understood why someone would want to watch other people playing a video game, but if it's anything like what I just watched, I'm in!

Simply can't get enough Shango to suit me.

He was getting into FROG bigtime LOL.

On my TV watching this video when you zoom in I could see multiple broken solder joints a blown resistor and yea 😳 bad bad soldering job

3:11 Oh wow! You got the coveted Nippon Chemi-Con *Hi-Ripple* !!! AC hum? We are all about this, friend!

Don’t worry… we don’t watch this channel for your mad Atari skillz… we watch it for your mad tube skillz. However, to be fair, video game skills from later games do come in handy running things like backhoes or combat drones…

Those old graphics seem so cheesy but in the early 80s we thought it was fun. The original Atari controllers were great and they would also work with the Commodore 64.

Never thought I'd see anything resembling a lets play on this channel. Those games are just really old Atari 2600 titles that date between 1977 to the early 80’s. The 2600 was very primitive even during it's time and was quickly outclassed by competition that came on the market shortly thereafter such as the Intellivision and especially the ColecoVision. Don't let that experience sour you on the ideal of gaming, the 2600 is the video game equivalent to cave paintings etched on stone walls with blood and feces.

Great old set

Great 😊 living room TV 📺. That’s about what every teenager should get for his or her birthday 🥳, or Christmas 🎄🤶 🎅. This TV also has a little wood grain, and this sounds like 👍 a 1974. Your friend, Jeff.

Shango066 was probably up all night playing that thing!, after he fixed the controller of course.😂

It's a beautiful set, but I wouldn't say it's a vintage gamer's dream. I am a vintage gamer, and the first thing I notice is a lack of composite input. So this might be okay for Atari or something, but not NES on up. Not unless you want to go in through the tuner on channel 3, which provides a not so great picture. Personally If I owned a set like that, I would just watch Lost In Space on it and call it a day.

Of the lot I’d have to say that game with the frog eating the flies was the funniest. “What’s the object here”. Haha. Ribbeting gameplay! Play that game for a few minutes and raking leaves looks downright adventurous.

I don't like video games, keeps playing 😆. Love the video. Good looking T.V.

I’m not surprised Shango didn’t like the Atari 2600 games on that Flashback console, it sucked. I would’ve hooked up a NES or Sega Genesis instead. I disagree with video games being a waste of time, it’s just not for everyone. I hear kids and adults alike are making lots of money from making RU-vid videos related to video games. From collecting them, playing them and even covering the history of them.

Several different versions of the KV1722 were released by Sony .Some of the versions had different boards and the boards did not interchange.

Those earphone jacks would have been a good spot for composite and audio input jacks.

Shango gaming has arrived folks - and lovin' it!!😂😂

I didn’t play Atari 2600 as a kid either , we had one . I jus liked riding my bicycle around town looking for thrown away tvs an radios . Even a console after going to Shaws and stealing a shopping cart to get it home . Kids today will never know the joy

Love your down to earth commentary, can totally relate to the outdoors domestic terror stuff, and being crap at video games! Had a good laugh..

Watching you play video games … myeah okay. Listening to your commentary while playing, priceless! Like you, I think I was fortunate enough to take interest in other things 😉 in my youth. When I was 10 or so, I was given an Atari and was more interested in what was in it than what the thing was used for.

23:11 think you found your game 😂

Not gonna lie, it was pretty funny to see you totally out of our depth for a change 😂

Ok, you had me laughing pretty good with your commentary during the golf game! But that tv at 47 years old is prestine! Oh, there's plenty to watch on tv nowadays, streaming Shango066 videos.

I grew up with this exact model set. We got it usedwhen the neighbors were going to get rid of it/throw it out sometime in the late 80s. It lasted another 10 years of heavy use before the color became impossibly green-tinged and there were big dark and light bars vertical bars on the screen. It was replaced with a new larger 27" Trinitron that itself lasted another 15+ years in daily service.

These sets put out a remarkable picture. I have 2 of them exact same model in my bedroom, one is Minty the other one is fair. Both had linearity and geometry issues that I was able to correct without changing out electrolytics. Believe it or not these CRT's are starting to get either green halo or PVA rot.

With the bad soldering and corrosion, it's a wonder it works at all. Wonderful looking tv otherwise. (not saying I could do better, but I'm not skilled at soldering yet)

Amazing that you can open a set and immediately pick out the bad component. You're not alone in that you have little regard for video games - I also have no time for them.

The 4K is excellent. Beautiful TV 🙂🇮🇪 ☘️

I saw the set sold at major department store in Philadelphia, PA in 1975, but the asking price was beyound my effortability!

12:10 suddenly ma man’s enjoying video games alright 😂😂

On lots of consoles, practically all X-box and Playstation, they have retro-games discs with like Atari, Intellivision(was pretty rad, that's what I had, dad, dad, dadio...) games by the dozens... I played sometimes when rain spoiled my bmxing and skateboarding. yeah, videO games in the arcade had more charm, but the pinball machines were the real time/quarter killers. Pool too, real games.

1975 a great year 🐸🪰

Great video, normally you'd have to pay me to watch someone play atari home console but you made it entertaining ! I only have to say that most people in their right mind wont splurge 600$ or whatever on a vintage trinitron / professional grade crt just to play atari. In my oppinion its most commonly people with original arcade game hardware or rgb modded game consoles from the 90's / vintage computer folks which actually benefit from sharper displays with better text clarity etc.

I wasnt into games either growing up, but somehow, i ended up with a full blown arari 2600 and a mess of cartridges and its all in a box in the closet.. :D .

To enjoy games, you really need the manual, or somebody able to guide you through. I know from own experience. Played several games 35 years ago that I aaaah didn't actually own. Frustrating experience. Now recently I found the manuals and I found they were actually great games.

I live in Thailand and brand new CRT televisions are still available here. They're a minority but they're still made. You'd need a transformer since everything is 220-240 vac here. Alternative to the gamers choice.

had video games for kiddos always fixing control contacts.

You say you don't play but you blame your controller like a pro.

I agree with your idea of turning off the “boob tube” and go outside on special ops missions!

"something worth watching on TV" - quite the oxymoron.

As a player of videogames and a Sony Trinitron fanboy this is definitely "gamer's choice" for me! Haha

A lot of the Japanese makers had spare screw holes. VCRs from the 80s were loaded with them inside and out.

As a subscriber to your channel for the wealth of information you have, I would like to know why our Sony trinitron, bought used in 1999 suddenly lost only the green color disappeared otherwise the picture looks great in red and blue! I don't know the model year!

The golf game was perfect, the player was drunk already.

Doesn't play video games.. uses the controller doesn't work excuse. Surprised they didn't have a Armageddon game.

I feel bad for the parents in the 70s that had to endure those horrible atari sounds

Wonder if there was a source of infra red interfering with the controller like the auto focus on the camera?

Those were so expensive back then. My dad wound up getting a Goldstar which might have been made by Sony. That TV lasted 30 years winding up in my friends garage!

Cira 11:00: My sentiments exactly sir, it’s always amazed me why anyone plays those games. Like you suggested, learn something that will earn you some money or something that will be of significant benefit to you in real life. (or Just be out earning money instead) The programing team that wrote most of those games will beat anyone, hands down, every single time. How can anyone get so excited? And even addicted, to those “games”. Beats me mate. PS Keep up your brilliant RU-vid offerings, I love to watch, although I’m in the UK, the radios and TV’s were somewhat different, e.g. valves types different and nearly all of them used series string for the heaters, most had the chassis connected to one side of the mains (240V). Colour reception (PAL) was only available on UHF (channel 21/65) at 625 lines, and we used T.V. channels 1 thru 5 and 6 thru 13 on VHF for B&W (405 lines). Sorry I digress, but the main reason I love to watch your channel is because it takes me back in time, to a time I would much rather be now. Who, in the World, would have even remotely considered then, what would become of TV’s, radios and computers as they are today?