Can I find a Retro Gaming CRT for $50? 

It does have a good picture

@@RetroTechUSA I noticed the Commodore 1701 has a different looking color palate compared to the 1702. Why is that? I figured maybe it's just settings or is that just how different they actually are?

@@the1ucidone the 1702 has a slightly different colour phosphor so that might have something to do with it

@@mikewieclawek314 So why are their so many different phosphor's? Is it because they use a different chemical make-up and amount? I don't really understand phosphors well enough yet.

@@the1ucidone Not sure the exact reason why, but I think darker phosphor will give deeper blacks and improve image quality so it makes sense that manufacturers would chase that as the tech advanced. The 1702 does have a bit darker phosphor than the 1701. Unrelated, but the 1702 is also way lighter due to a different power supply.

Thanks Anthony. I will look for some other tare CRTs not normally talked about. I love the JVC tubes also.

That is a great deal

Man, those sellers are dreaming! I think I may have a 1084 hiding somewhere around here. Those are hard to find too.

I'm really upset I had to get rid of my 32" Philips.

They weren't. They bought their tubes in Taiwan. Philips, unlike Sony, was hamstering all sort of tubes for their products. They even used ones from Loewe in Germany, which were much better than their own made-in-Europe tubes. The 1084 is definitely not a Philips tube.

Did some searching, and tubes used in the 1084 were from Daewoo, Hitachi, Toshiba and Samsung.

Thanks, Space is always a struggle with CRTs it seams.

In brazil too, I was lucky to find a JVC- tm 9u for a fair price

That goes for everywhere, not just South America.

Can you find tiny SCART Trinitrons like the 1440/1450?

Today was a KV-36FS120 for $50... wow is it huge...

Did you have to get it shipped?

@@Vvewa thankfully No was quite local actually

Discoloration? Easily fixable with a proper degauss. Burn-in as in you can see stuff on the CRT even when it's turned off? Nope. Needs a new tube

Same here in NYC, I find awesome ones all the time on the street which unfortunately I cannot pick up because I have too much junk.

I find them occasionally but you have to be quick as people just lob off the power cords for copper scrap. I absolutely hate people that go around doing that. There is a special place in hell for these POS.

I am a massive C64 and Amiga afficionado, and I agree. The 1084-s D1 and D2 were better but TV's like Sony CRT flatscreens with S-Video are usually better.

The output from a C64 was pathetic, so it did not matter. What idiot decided to deliver a computer with purple-on-purple text?

@@lovemadeinjapan Actually the output even from RF on a £100 1983 TV was perfect. And yet the rivals like BBC, rubber speccy and atari 800 and the cpc via RF modulator were inferior and that is facts from 1984 when I used all this gear at same time.

@@madcommodore Huh? The BBC Micro and CPC were RGB out. The CPC did not even have an RF modulator. Never tested the Beeb, but the CPC is very clean with its output. Speccy not no much, but the font and text colour were much better than the C64. My P2000T wins it though when it comes to output quality. RGB is flawless with 40/80 column switch on the fly, and the RF out is pretty well implemented too.

Great. I try to convince charity shops I visit to accept CRT's, especially the decent brands. Most say they quit accepting them, but now they reconsider. I also say: accept ANYTHING that has SONY on it. It will sell. Even in our Philips city.

I was looking for something cheap, so this was an auction for 10 days that no one else bids on. You will pay a premium price if it includes the button cover.

That 16 inch Sony is uber rare. I have it and I can confirm it is awesome. You have the headphones for it as well? I have a second super rare 16 inch: the KV-16WT1U which is a super cute wide screen.

@@lovemadeinjapan No, I don' t own the headphones. It is that infrared on Top of the Case, isn't it? My cylon CRT.

@@mantrahus There might have been a charger rack, I don't have that, my headphones have AA batteries as power supply.

its not exactly S-Video, its Chroma-Luma which is wha S-Video is but I find the separated analog cables do ot compare to an actual S-Video connector...at least not on a Commodore 1084-S monitor.

I find, at least with NTSC, that the 1702 is pretty much the perfect retro gaming monitor. The dot pitch does a great job of mitigating the damn visible scanline gap effect (like on a 1084), and it's a great match for the usual 256 to 320 pixel horizontal resolution used by most games of the era. It also has really good brightness, contrast, and color, at least with NTSC. The 1084 is so muted and dull in comparison. Of course, it's far better for 80 column text and anything in HIRES interlace mode (the interlacing gets rid of the damn visible scanline gaps). I really hate the visible scanline gap effect ... it's like looking through Venetian blinds tilted halfway.

Ok, so it is including shipment, so basicly for free 😀👍

Yeah, I mean it was $10 Without the shipping fees.

Most S-video TV's are better than any commodore ones. Ive had them all and the TV's at S-Video are definitely better.

Nobody wants 99% of those big CRTs. $50 is far from a mountain of money.

@@RetroTechUSA You know darn well that CRTs are given away every day, and as many end up being thrown away because nobody would take them for free. I don't wanna argue with you man, I'm a fan and I damn sure respect your tech expertise here, if I could pick your brain I would, but I don't like ... y'know, legitimizing the absurd prices on ebay and etc, when we both know that you can find great stuff for free As for big CRTs, plenty of recent posts about people just barely fitting them in their car, people definitely want them

Cool, do it!

You have to make an agreement with management and come up with a good caise. Just getting them will result in fines. But there might me more corrupt countries don't giving a s.

This isn't a PVM Jacob. Go make this comment on one of those videos.

@@RetroTechUSA I was talking more about the fact your titles always seem to imply the only good way to game on a crt is with a super high quality display when even cheep crts can have a very nice picture i like your videos btw

Believe Michael. You must BELIEVE in the CRT!

@@RetroTechUSA I love them probably will send you a megaview soon lol but "gaming crt" lol

It's kind of a common term nowadays since basically no one wants CRTs except people who want to play old games on them.