I finally got my FIRST CRT TV! 

Nice, there really is something about a real CRT that isn't captured on camera. I have the old family TV from like 1983 and it works just fine as old as it is.

I love the enthusiasm you show in your videos, I hope you continue making content and that your channel grows!

Hey congrats on getting your hands on one of these bad boys, love CRTs! Great video showing them off!

Another very interesting video coming from this channel, congratulations! Here where I live, in Brazil, it is still quite common to see families with lower incomes use CRT TVs, and there is a certain devaluation in them. I bought a Magnavox brand TV (yes, the same as the odyssey, the first home console to be sold) and it was manufactured in the 2000s, I really like it because it's better to play old video games on CRT TVs than new TVs, since New TVs distort the analog signal a lot. The TV standard here in Brazil is Pal-M, and it is very similar to NTSC, the only difference is that it has 576i, but maintains a frequency of 60Hz. Sorry my English, I used a translator to make this comment

Many many many years ago... One time I was messing around with a magnet on the family TV when everyone had gone to bed, just watching the weird patterns and colours blending. After that, panic set in. The screen was, to put it mildly, fu&*ed. Everything was distorted and weird rainbows all over. After what seemed like an eternity I figured out that waving the magnet all over the screen in different orientations may fix it. It actually worked. Still can not believe it!

1:55 im in chemistry class all over again ! but on the real...great video simon! CRT's are awesome n timeless. oh, and that 500 in 1 classic video game console is v cool ! how nice of your friend to gift you that !

when I was little I had a really obscure "Buxtron" brand 14" CRT at my home, and an old Sony CRT at my grandma's house. I still have the Sony there but unfortunately it doesn't longer work. I now live in a different town for most of the year where I have a dying LG LCD TV and I hope to get another CRT because their image is infinitely better Also in the country I live you can find these CRTs everywhere, often for as low as around $5 when converted from local currency. Retro gaming boomers like to jack up prices of CRTs whenever they can, so no surprise one can get massively ripped off on eBay for paying $100 on something that was likely found at the dump, or bought at a thrift store for $10 and then sold to you for ten times the price. Also I feel sorry for those few people who paid like $300 for a Sony PVM when all European TVs come equipped with RF, Composite, SVideo and even RGB and component, in the form of a SCART jack and can be found thrown into the curb and still working

Hay, if you are interested in some smaller CRT tvs I would strongly recommend the Sony Maga watchman.

I find it amusing that someone is excited about a CRT TV. I used to repair these as an apprentice back in the 1990s.

I have an old 1985 tv, i think its quite cool tbh

I mainly use a CRT for watching my VHS collection on these days, I’ve found they’re the best way of doing so. of course I have a digital set top box hocked up to a crappy vcr dvd combo (which I only have as a backup incase my good VCR fails) that transmits to the TV Via the RF output. Meaning I have a fully working analogue TV Setup that’s as future proof as I can get and close to actual Analogue TV as possible. (Well I could get closer but i don’t really need to). It also goes to show people that old analogue TVs aren’t really obsolete yet, there are still ways to make them compatible with modern TV Transmissions and other modern equipment.

congrats on getting a crt tv! I think they have a picture that no other display technology can match and I've got like 5 crt's that go from being a little portable model to a giant 36" that can even display HD video from component and DVI

Sorry I’m late but ENJOY UR REAL CRT! Also Simon, ur analog signal gave me some nostalgic ATV channels cuz before 2022 we had a Analog TV Signal that was pretty cool to see the analog quality but when December 2022 hit… they shutdown the rest of the channels due to analog tv due to other areas wasn’t watching ATV so yeah. Thx Simon For Making Me Remember The Good Old Days of Analog TV (btw I’m in Canada)

Had several of these growing up used to watch videos on one and play my ps2 on the other.

You should build a a digital ntsc modulator using gnu radio and a red pitaya. There’s probably a pre built one out there.

there was a store called Montgomery Ward that sold the Admiral Brand. the store went out of business in 2001

Neat video 👍

2:35 if you have a language selection for english and chinese, and you get a rabbit in the background afterwards then you have EXACTLY the one i have

Hello, what a great television. I also want to purchase such televisions from 80s and 90s. From where did you purchase this exclusive old crt?

i have a lot of memories whit analog tv well crt tvs in fact all my tv always where crt my first monitor that i fond in the trash, my granpa had like a 32 inches crt monitor was like going to the cinema, i bought my first lcd tv last year, obviously i use a lcd monitor since 2011 but i dont know why really love analog things

I’m getting one tomorrow!

Where did you buy the crt?

I have a Sylvania CRT TV and has RCA and S-video Jack’s Also big fan👍

HECK YEAH!!!

If you are gonna try and find old crt tvs, i would recommend going to your local goodwill. This is because i got 2 old crts from goodwill for only 25 dollars (one tv was $15, while the other was $10)

Lol aww I love this

I used to be watching cartoon network every 10pm with the lg crt tv inside my grandma's bedroom in 2016 (I was in 3rd grade at the time). Sadly, my family gave the tv to other people and later, it died

i just had to get rid of my storage which had in it my 30th b day present to myself. RCA 36" screen tv. No one wanted it. So hard to see it go, truly

I stole my grandparents crt tv that they were gonna throw in the dump, I absolutely adore the tech Quite the vibe to it indeed

Congrats!

i have a grundig CRT that doesn't even have an analog (coax) cable on it and that makes it useless! bc i live in Greece and all channels are on cable (analog) so bc that is digital (pretty sure released in 1989 rlly old tv) it just shows static so i have to buy (i don't remember its like a black box thing) i think its a transmitter but it works in another roadstar crt we have and its in my village cuz who needs crts when u got samsung 32'' tvs!

Yeah, putting magnets up to the screen isn't a great idea - it can "permanently" leave some distortion on the screen that may require degaussing to correct (I know a lot of CRTs came with a degaussing wire built in and I think they would run at start up, but I have no idea if that is enough to correct it). On a related note, apparently if you take a CRT far from its intendid market, you will notice some artifacts resembling what you get whej playing with magnets: I remember hearing that these TVs would in some way be adjusted to compensate for earths magnetic field in the area they were being sold in (I'm not sure, but I suspect such "adjusting" might just amount to more degaussing). I get a kick out of your enthusiasm for this tech (to be sure, it is a really cool technology) - its interesting how one generation can appreciate a particular technology in ways that those who grew up with it generallu do not (for me, I have a quirky appreciation for earlier computer tech - with a special fondness right now for monochrome serial terminals: granted, I did use monochrome displays in elementary school, but I hated them then, but now that they are largely gone... I've grown a certain fondness for them). Mind you, I am developing a bit of a hankering for a CRT like what I grew up using (though one even more analogue in its controls and with more faux wood paneling). If you ever delve into the history of computing, there are a lot of cool and wild technologies that came and went over the years (one of my favorites being core memory - little magnetic toroids woven into strands of copper wire that could be used as RAM by magnetizing and demagnetizing them).

Him saying “my first” just made me feel old as sh!t.

It happened !!!

Plug in nintendo Wii with homebrew and enjoy all older consoles.

Do you have a discord fan channel where your fans are so thy can send in pictures from any analog devices such as televisions or computers😅😊

I got 6 at home ! My girlfriend is about to leave me !

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I viscerally cringed when you held the magnet up to the screen. I wonder if your TV has a degaussing feature... As memory serves, degauss was more common on PC monitors than TVs. Would still be helpful in situations like that, though.

Just dont fall victim to the CRT hoarding habit!! Many people who get one and love it end up with 7-8 !

This is the most zoomer video I've ever seen.

Got my first analog in September 1999

You got a discord sever or something?