CORRECTIONS: NES does NOT have native RGB support - no clue how I put that in there. John Carmack was coding QUAKE. Just wanted to see who would notice ;)
kinda funny, i threw out my last :LCD in 2009, now when ever i fix any up i just shoot em for fun as i do not feel LCD's have an acceptable picture from color reproduction to the crustal delay to the viewing angle black level, list goes on, also there super fragile. you throw an LCD once its dead, i have thrown my P1110 hard enough to rip VGA cable in half and its still going string running at 2048x1536. i cant even go back to 1080p cuz i have been at this res since 2011.
I've been hunting some high-res CRTs to revamp my setup. A 4:3 would be fine for my left side monitor, but I still need 16:9 or 16:10 for my main 2 screens. So far the FW900 seems to be the perfect model for my needs, but I only even know of 2 widescreen models in the first place, hah.
also if you have a wel built CRT thats low hour and had a prober setup, mainly convergence and focus you should have a sharp and well defined picture from tv to monitor not including non trintrons or trinitron clones. i have seen some 90's and 80's crt's provide scan lines and have enough detailes to see every grain of composite artifacting. low hour Panasonic and Toshibas are likely to provide this kind of picture, we already know the trinitron is tryed and true.
and i know i keep comenting but if your having vertical deflection problems and your not sure what to do just try and replace the electrolytics on the vertical circuit. black plastic crap tv's are often made in china instead of USA or JAPAN and there electrolytics are cheep explode and drift crap caps.
an FW900 would be nice but i have yet to find one for free. i tend not to buy things, i prefer to get something broken and fix it up, its a learning experience and its about all i can afford to do. an FW900 has been a wet dream of mine for quite some time, only thing i would not like is the widescreen ratio. i like my high vertical resolution. my main setup has a p1110 and a p1130.
Traevor Carlton, thats because they were used for the radio and the records played and music need a higher fidelity than what general tvs need, but as the tv is in the console, it has no other speakers to use.
That's not necessary, I'm using a CRT in my bedroom, my bedroom only because my brother, sister and other family member upgraded to flatscreen TV's, my brother being the most recent to upgrade.
Welllll...... LCD backlights die, my LG 32" one after about 2~3 years suddenly went black out of the blue. WHOEVER: on the exact same day (not kidding), I found the issue (one dead LED), found locally a part that I could use, fixed it, and it's back to work. Going on now for another 2~3 years or so. Plasma screens die by burning out/degrading with usage, CRTs actually do too, but way less prone to it than Plasma and OLED (OLED being possibly the worst out of them). CRT projectors were a big thing (literally as well) back in the 90s and early 2000s, and would be way more susceptible to burn in, having to replace tubes on them. Back to CRT TVs tho, seen some last decades indeed, and another Zenith 90s CRT that started to have serious color reproduction, focus AND convergence issues in less than 10 years, straight to trash. Our Philips 1080p LCD still going strong after at least some good 10 years too ~knocks wood~
90's zenith sets from what ive heard arent very reliable. Ive never had a CRT give out on me like the flat panels do. I have a 1988 RCA ColorTrak 27" still going strong without any issues. use it everyday to this day.
Tristris 389 Agreed. I had a 27" Zenith a few years ago that burned out only a couple months after I got it. The older ones are better though. Still have my dad's 1984 RCA colortrak. still works but now it's kind of like a momento..
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Worthless my foot. I bought a nice 27" Sanyo CRT from a nearby yard sale a few weeks back because I love watching 4:3 content on an actual 4:3 screen. Plus CRTs are just magic to a ton of us.
I used to have a 2004 Sanyo CRT TV (can't find the model anymore) and it was great. I loved that TV so much because of the speakers (if you put the bass setting to the max, the ground literally vibrates), the big screen, and, of course, the fun built in submarine game that you were able to play with the remote. Sadly, my parents replaced it with an LCD TV and there was really nothing I was able to do to prevent this. *RIP* SANYO CRT TV 2004-2014
@@DoughnutMasterStudios I believe you. All C.R.T.s 17+", have good speakers, because their deep housings allow for deep cones in their speakers. For deep bass, one needs a "deep" conical sound system.
+mc140201525 Ali Kashan Hassan I know. The sad part is that I currently have a (free) HD CRT that someone wanted to get rid of, but I won't be able to keep it for long either.
+badreality2 Yeah that's what I thought. Nowadays TVs are quite slim, not having enough space for good speakers. I still miss that old TV from time to time.
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Reasons to own a CRT: -zero input lag -correct 4:3 aspect ratio for older games -correct screen resolution for older games -Light gun compatiblity (on curved screen sets) -better contrast and color timing
it might be 2019, 2030, 2250, but the videos stored in those VHS and VCD will always be from the 90s, and the best way to watch old low-res videos is on a CRT TV, so i'm gonna keep at least one in my home for this specific purpose😊
About 4 years ago, I found a Samsung HD CRT at a Salvation Army. I picked it up because it had HDMI inputs and such and I was still using an old CRT since I could not afford to get a newer TV. After messing with the service menu to enable the native 16:9 on it and fixing some geometry issues, it has actually been one of the best HD TV experiences I have had. I can watch my Blu-Rays in 1080i with as good of a picture quality or better for a 27in TV. Since it has almost every input out there and supports every resolution up to 1080i, I can play any video game system. Everyone says I need to upgrade to a better TV but when I can still play an NES(yes duckhunt worked) and swap to an Xbox or PS4 at the click of button, it makes it one of the best buys I have ever made.
Your videos hit the mark. I bought a 1989 Mitsubishi ck-3530r TV set. It cost me $35.00; but cost me over $750 to ship from PA to FL. Ever since the Government shut down the analog signal people have been throwing away their good CRT's for nothing...
EposVox in my grandma’s house, in the basement, they are 3 32” Sony trinitrons and 2 32” Sony wegas and one 1998 shamrock 15” pc monitor, they are in brand new shape, except from the 15” pc monitor, it is in the sun for over 10 years now..
I am seriously thinking of buying a 22 inch CRT tv to watch horror movies on. I owned one for many years. Actually I used a 22 inch CRT flatscreen sony till 2011. The colors were awesome compared to LCDs o the time. It got broke and I never bought one again. Power is a big issue but I will not use it all the time. Now I might buy a flat screen TV. I have an offer for 60 dollars. The owner is actually using it and does not want to part with it for cheap but the colors are awesome and there is very little moire or distortion. Just need a way to hook up windows 7,8 or 10 to it. I will need a VGA card with a composite output or a converter. What is the best scheme to convert the output of a modern graphics card (HDMI, DVi-D, DP, VGA) to a CRT TV.
In 2021 I currently have four CRT TVs thanks to this video. I fell in love with Retro Gaming/ CRTs TVs 6 years ago and play on mine daily. I love how informative this video is because it really shows the light of the old tubes. Thank you for this documentary like video- I’m very sure it inspired many others to find/purchase a CRT for themselves.
I think everyone should find an old 240p TV in 2017. You can buy a Raspberry Pi 3 and install Retropie on it, making it a perfect emulation machine. It works well with modern TVs through the HDMI port, but it also has a composite output in the 3.5mm jack port, and was recently updated to do proper 240p through it for that old school scanline gameplay
Be careful about the cable you get to convert its 3.5mm port to RCA connectors, though. Many of them have their ground pin in a different place than what the Pi uses. I had to go to a few computer/electronics stores with a multimeter in hand before I found one that would work with my Pi.
Wait till you learn about emulators have inate input lag because it has to run emulate stuff before showing you the real time game. Now you hate it i guess. Oh wait because us retro gamers dont actually care about the games. Were just in love with the aesthetic and being nerd about it.
I have 40+ TVs, PVMs & Monitors. Recently parted with my 30" XBR 1080i CRT after it fell off an IKEA table. So grateful I had the opportunity to experience such a rare tube. I'll never get another CRT that I can't carry by myself!
I've got 4. Two of them were purchased before HDTVs took off. The other two, 27" and 36" Sony Trinitrons, were found on Craigslist for next to nothing! Fantastic pictures on both of those sets!
2D scrolling on a CRT cannot be topped even by OLED panels. For me it's the main reason to have a CRT for retro gaming. Plus scanlines, nothing compares to 240p :)
Everdry Lightboost Lcd Monitors with combined Black Frame Insertion are even better. But the Contrast is not as good. And you can use a good crt filter with Retroarch.
Everdry I think another important part of getting an SD CRT is no inherent input lag, especially when it comes to playing Super Smash Bros Melee and other platformers :3
But OLED does not have the retro look... In fact it's even more futuristic than LCD so why would a retro gamer want that!??. OLEDs have that extremely clean look that you wish that you could use it for browsing the web and doing PC things but sadly it cannot display still pictures for a very long time so because of that LCDs are still the most popular display tech and we are probably never going beyond it, LCD is simply immune to screen burns and this is a HUUUGE advantage over other technologies, you can use it as much as you want that it will not burn (the backlight can burn but the screen does not and backlight is easy to replace).
I'm not sure what it is about CRT televisions that bring me such joy, but i think it's mostly due to their nostalgia and simplicity. The times of coming home from school, and Playing my PS2 on a Big CRT was the best feeling in the world! Luckily, i have a decent sized BrokSonic CRT that my grandmother gave me years ago. And even in 2022, i have the ability to use it as the main TV in my living room, since our network provider for Satellite TV put a coax cable that you have to screw into the back of the television. It's rather inconvenient I'll admit for modern era viewing, but the picture and sound still holds up, and i use it for my PS2, SNES, and those long nights when I'm binge playing some of my Ps1 collection.
After Two years of searching I finally found my dream CRT! A KX'27PS1 Trinitron from Sony's Profeel range of the Early to Mid 80s. It just ticks so many boxes. The Glass covering the main CRT screen, the old-school Sony logo with the RGB dots next to the word Trinitron and all the analog inputs, Speaker terminals, SCART, S-Video, Multi-AV and Composite.
Bubble CRTs look amazing, but I notice you forgot to mention Trinitron screens, which have a unique cylindrical style rather than the bubble look of a shadow mask.
Non-flat Trinitrons are great. They are the perfect match with the Playstation (a.k.a. PSX or PSOne) and looks great with any 5th gen and earlier console games. Bubble screens are also great. I love the look of them when playing certain games (otherwise I couldn't care less whether it's a bubble Sharp/Panny/etc. or a cylindrical Trinitron as long as the picture is great). The only bubble screen I know with component input is the JVC D-series. If you want the best picture quality out of 240p in North America without having to do RGB modding, then an emulator over component is the best choice. But personally I find composite and S-video to do just fine, let alone the overpriced PVMs/BVMs.
I still have a analog TV and I'm happy about that and I'm only 11 because I'm a technology collector to I like old stuff I have a CRT and a transceiver and more stuff
When I was 11 I was collecting "old stuff" too; mostly tube equipment (e.g. oscilloscopes, TV's, radios etc.) and some solid-state gear including AM/FM receivers and amplifiers. Old tape decks (reel to reel/cassette and some early model VCR's which used a lot of belts) plus a few record players (some of them played 78 rpm) and a couple of wind-up gramophones. That was only the beginning for me. So if you're into vintage electronics of any kind - go for it. Makes an interesting hobby. :-)
I have a Commodore 1702 monitor in my office which I've literally been using for videogames since the 1980s. Only mono sound, but it has composite on the front and jacks on the back that (with a $10 adapter) are compatible with an SVideo signal. It has been in constant use for over 30 years, still looks great, is light, and doesn't take up a lot of space.
I can tell you really like CRT's, that's good man I hope I like them as much as you once I get one...I had them growing up but we all were just so blinded by LCD's that it's only now that everyone is starting to reconsider them.
I would like to get a PVM for retro gaming, and also an Apple Display, the CRT that has the clear shell. Its a design that I feel is timeless! Great video as always!
In my opinion, when it comes to video games, everything up through and including the Wii looks better on CRT screens, and there's no input lag so... Yeah...
Awesome video! I have an old crt hanging around somewhere that I’m going to dust off and make into a retro corner with some retro console attached for sure!
Sadly my families 32 inch sony trinitron died years ago and sadly I had to throw it out (you can get a waste ticket from your town hall in most cases), I remember lugging it myself from the living room, out front, then around to where our trash is picked up. Can confirm, heavy af. Looking it up it says it was 165 lbs, I guess im strong enough to move it but I could only go a few feet at a time then had to put it down. Took forever, 0/10 don't wanna do it again. I do still have a sony crt computer+monitor from 1998 I think still that works and I still have my old bedroom crt tv thats a sony I believe that worked fine 8 years ago playing guitar hero, Idk if its still working as I moved away but will be moving back this summer so if its working Ill have access to it again and a new appreciation of it. (have you seen crt prices? some are like 600 dollars for basic consumer models! most are 150+ I remember when you could get top of the line ones for 20 bucks at pawn shops!!)
I used to have this great old wega but my dad got rid of it when he impulse bought a huge 80" flatscreen lcd that only he wanted. I'm still very salty about it.
Brought a Sanyo 21" NICAM STEREO CRT for £30.00 a month ago. It has RGB Scart and SVHS inputs and my retro consoles look great on it. (240p, scan lines simply the best) I stripped it down and resprayed the outer casing a nice retro deep blue colour and it looks amazing. I've always had a CRT tv to play retro but here in the UK it's getting harder to find one. I hope one day they make a come back because there's a lot of gamers and VHS uses that would buy one, I know I would.
A couple of things from the video: 1) The clear RCA/Thompson CRT TV was likely used by an inmate in a prison. They are required to be see through so nothing illicit can be stashed inside. 2) CRTs are difficult to dispose of because they use leaded glass. This is also part of what makes them so heavy. 3) As for fixing old CRTs there are several good channels on RU-vid that show you how to do just that. It is, however a dying art. 4) CRTs also emit X-ray radiation. Not a lot, but they do emit radiation (this is another reason for the leaded glass). 5) Ikegami STILL makes NEW CRT professional video monitors you can buy today. But you will need to shell out almost $9000 (yes, that's nine thousand) USD.
CRT monitor and TVs are better than 4k lcd or 4k led monitor or TV because crt monitor has real and perfect results. And crt gives more clear picture. I like crt more than lcd or led because Lcd and leds have lake of reality. I know that because I have craze of gaming therefore I experienced that crt monitors are good 4 gaming. Thank you I am Mohammad Ibrahim from Pakistan. Reason behind that is CRT monitors and OLED have perfect black colour and other colours because they have glow.
If so it would be interesting for my arcade project. But honestly for PC monitors I would prefer something immune to screen burns. Right now there is only LCD, it's the only non-emissive technology besides e-ink.
Far as people wanting them it sure is, but far as a CRT being made today outside of special use cases, then no they are not sadly because of all the new environmental laws
Here is what I think why couldn't they bring them back since we have lcd now we have technology to improve crt tvs we can make weight less like lcd TV and give them more modem inputs like hdmi also when it comes res we could make them go to 4k if done right yes this would be hard but it can be done in general we have no reasons not bring them back they have better color and better blacks and if you get HD crt TV good resolution so who here would not mind have crt TV and lcd and led TV with oled have all tvs so there is more options as far as crt tvs looks they will stay pretty much same they will have modem twist to them but nothing crazy kinda of like what Samsung slimfits this was HD crt TV that looked like lcd but have cool look of crt tvs are know for this modem twist
Oh, the FW900 is amazing. But they go for over a grand sometimes. And remember, there is the PAL60 standard, that allows 60 Hz signals (like on NTSC), while stil providing all the benefits of PAL, devices usually got all the nice plugs aswell, including RGB capable SCART plugs (there are also SCART cables that just carry Composite)
I hope they start making them again. They're superior to HDTV's in many ways. More accurate color portrayal and better movement. They're different technology. Also for any games before the PS3/Wii/Xbox 360 era, the CRT will look better. Also, TV shows.
ShutUpAndListen79 parents want to upgrade that old 2007 Sony Bravia that we own, before that it was a glorious trinitron but they sold it like 14 years ago... Today, I am trying to explain that even though it is an old tft that has high power consumption, it has plenty of analog ports that none of any of these new crappy televisions have It has 4 hdmi ports 1 DisplayPort 2 or 3 scart ports Component 2 vga in ports 1 usb 1.1 port Analog speaker ports Analog video in And some other ones Unfortunately I do remember the ports that I use, they are some other ones, and most of them are on any high end CRT, even though it is a very old flat screen that was about 3.000 something euros back then
Ahhh the price of crt have risen steadily since this video 🥺 getting expensive now and more ppl have bought back crt’s (me included) this is a beautiful video 🙌🏻 thank you! Ps: cada loco con su tema looooooolllllllssss
Old older black and white tvs , especially of the 40s before mass prediction can get you an hd image if internally fine tuned and you have to keep maintenance on tubes contained in it other than the crt. I think they're worth it for both the hd image and the charming hard wood cabinat. If your interested in them you do need to know how to restore them yourself. I personally recommend channels like shango066 or bandersontv. They both restore the and will well equip you with the required knowledge to fix any tv.
For my retro gaming experience I have a 61 inch late 90s Toshiba CRT rear projection and a 53 inch mid 90s Sony CRT rear projection TV. I put in new crts some years ago and both are running strong line new. I rarely use them though, they are more of a collector´s item to me. You have to watch for screen burn in though and not run static patterns for too long. Not a big problem if you know what you are doing.
I have a symphonic CRT from the early 2000s but it works great for playing old plug-in plays and it's actually an 19 inch and I can actually but barely lift it
though I do admit that CRTs have there issues I replaced all my flat displays with them years ago and never looked back. Since converting back to CRTs my long time gaming sessions havent resulted in headaches and my TVs and monitors havent had any of the problems brought forth by LCDs
Main reason I dont use CRT is because they give me headaches whereas LED doesn’t. But that’s because CRT looks more realistic , but lower resolution at the same time. So its a double whammy for headaches, for me
I have gone through three tube TV's since 2003. I now have a 19 inch Toshiba CRT with built in VCR and DVD player i use for VHS viewing and playing original NES,SNES, Genesis,N64,Game Cube, Play Station, and Sega Saturn. I rarely play retro systems on HD TV's and If i do i play them using the Retron 5. I want a Sony Wega or Trinitron for my future gaming room. Back in the day i played older game systems on a early 90's 27 inch Sony Trinitron and SNES and N64 games looked fucking amazing on this TV, the picture was very crisp and colors popped.
These older TVs have composite video inputs so they can be used with set-top box digital tuners, or alternatively as monitors to find parts of analogue videotape that you may want to transfer to digital video(a video cue channel, as it were), but only if you have room for something like this, and for the latter suggested use, perhaps a smaller set would be better.
God I remember working at Best Buy back in 2000-02. We barely had any non-crt monitors/tvs and they weighed a friggin ton. Imaging carrying a 32" Sony Wega Flatscreen, up a ladder to the top shelf of a department store. Because we did, dozens of times. Lots of swear words were said. Had one fall forward off a lazy-susan style display table and hit me in the head. Nearly knocked me out. Don't miss those giant boat anchors. But I will agree that they have a certain quality of picture that is just great for retro gaming.
I got a 36" one. 2 BB guys could barely get it in my truck. I got home and rolled it in the house still boxed through 3 doors alone. I then drilled a hole in the ceiling for a come along and put it up on a 40" dresser. It has a much richer picture than anything I have now but don't use it cause of 250 watts.
SCART ISN'T RGB! SCART IS A CABLE! RGB IS A FORMAT THAT SCART CARIES! SCART SUPPORTS MANY OTHER FORMATS AS WELL! SORRY EPOS BUT I HAD TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE KNEW!
if CRTs with 4k and HDR were being made they would become serious competition with all other TVs A TV marketed for gaming with 4k and HDR as well as boasting the best Upscaling possible compared to any other display, If this existed it could actually make a comeback as, oh I could have this TV or this TV, or this freaking monstrosity of a video viewing Screen that will take something as low as 240p all the way up to 2160p!
One good thing about most CRT TVs is that alot of them seem to last forever. I have one that still has the turn dials for changing the channels and its from 1985 and still works today.
When I was young I had this CRT TV that I had for like 10 years, then my parents got me a flat screen TV (I don't know why) I couldn't get use to the flat screen because I had used a big CRT for all my life, then my parents gave my CRT away and I had to use the flat screen
I don't know about the Goodwill locations in your area, but if they are anything like mine, then they just about give them away at this point pricing them at $5, just take something with you when you go to test the TV like a plug, and play game that runs off batteries, and just tell a store employee what you are doing, and most of them won't care once they know what you are doing, because it means they finally have someone who wants at least one of them.
I have a 19 inch and a 25 inch Sony Profeel that was top of the line in 1984. The 25 inch model was $2500.00 in 1984. The color looks so much better and more real than new flatscreens.
I have a Sony Trinitron 22 inch 4:3 TV for my retro console setup (Sega Mega Drive, SNES; Xbox Classic, Sega Dreamcast, N64, PS1, PS2 and Game Cube) and a Sony Trinitron Multiscan G400 19inch for my two retro computers (Win95/Win2000/MS DOS and Win XP/Win 98). Nothing better than this two tubes for retro gaming. Especially, over RGB with the consoles, capable of having such a signal output. I loved the red kind of round CRT in your interesting vid. Thanks for that!
An HD CRT that can beautifully handle my favorite systems, ranging from PS1 to GameCube to Xbox 360... at my favorite monitor size, in 16:9 aspect ratio AND with that warm familiar buzz and glow of the old days of televisions? Hell, I can deal with a one time heavy ass move... This is MY device. I didn't know such lovely things in life were even a thing
No TV sets beat the *SUPERIOR* Widescreen HD CRT with RF, composite, RGB, S-Video, *AND* HDMI inputs. Other reasons why CRTs are the best - Better colour than most LCDs - Less input lag (instantly displays image) - A mid-ranged CRT has better speakers than any modern televisions (more bass (with exceptions with some newer TVs) - No such things as dead pixels on a CRT - Great viewing angle - LCDs are not able to display a true black colour. CRTs can! - And of course, CRTs are cheaper
Doughnut Master Studios Yeah I got a Sylvania srt4127p and the speakers rattle the plastic outer cover. It also has component inputs so text doesn't flicker when I use my Xbox on it.
Don't know where you live, but in Europe HD CRTs are something ultra-rare. Most people have never seen one in person (me included). So no, they're not an option.
BilisNegra ...They're quite rare over here too. There were a few built, but it was very late in the game as well as after the build quality of electronics took a serious nosedive, thus most of them wound up in the landfills.
Thanks! Never before has someone's work made me wanna go out and buy a bunch of stuff I know nothing about to try to make it myself as your CRT video art has, hahaha.
13in is not a bad choice if you don't sit too far back from one, and they are easy to store as well. I remember Samsung back in the 90's had some stupidly expensive 13in CRT units with swing out stereo speakers that also acted a cover for the CRT itself along with a wack ton of input options, and was marketed as a gaming monitor more then a TV under the Samsung GXE brand. here is one I just found on eBay, and not a bad deal all things considering, and the Sub woofer would not be too hard to fix with a speaker rewiring job. www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-GX-Gaming-TV-Vintage-13-inch-Television-/263473581836?_trksid=p2349526.m4383.l4275.c4
DriveinFreak modern Emerson = Funai = shitty QC on most of their CRT TV's that I try to avoid unless I score one in really really good condition for less than $5.
Glad I came across this video! My old TV broke and now I'm thinking of thrifting a biiiig CRT TV solely to watch my huge collection of VHS films, many of them being rarer and hard-to-find.
It’s 2020 and I still have a late 90s Durabrand crt tv. My parents were about to get rid of it and I asked if I could Have it and yeah here I am with an nes playing on a crt tv.
To see static electricity up close: _Turn off your CRT in a dark room, and slowly put your hand close to the tube._ ⚡ Also in a dark room, the picture tube itself will glow very dimly for a few minutes after being turned off. Is it the cathode discharging the stored electricity of the capacitors? 🤔
I've used a Sony FW900 monitor for PC gaming for over a decade and I have yet to find a monitor that pleases me as much as this thing. Also have a 34" Sony Trinitron for gaming in my room. Best of both worlds, able to play modern games in 1080i as well as older consoles with no issue or latency. If you are purely a modern gamer then the Trinitron isn't going to be of much help, however if you do classic gaming with Dreamcast or Sega Genesis as well as XBox One, then that thing is nothing short of amazing.
The photo itself is from a Geek article specifying he was coding Quake. Doesn't mean they were right - and he may have still used it on Doom development too! www.geek.com/games/john-carmack-coded-quake-on-a-28-inch-169-1080p-monitor-in-1995-1422971/
Certainly if you are in Europe, a Sony Triniton with Scart input is considered the obtainable display worth boasting about for the retro gamer. The Phillips CM family and Commodore 1084 monitors are considered the holy grails. This is considered especially true as we preferred computers to consoles in the 80's and early 90's, and many small suppliers make computer monitor port to Scart cables.
If you care about retro games one bit, then a CRT is right for you. Period. Don't buy a PVM without SERIOUS thought though. If you regret it, then it's gonna be a hard choice to sell it again because of how hard it is to package and the headache of UPS fucking up the monitor. For modern gaming, you should ABSOLUTELY get a PC vga CRT and an HDMI adapter for it because it is smooth as SHAVED PUS. You can get 160hz at 640x480 or 120hz up to 1280x1024.
I'm running mine at 1440x1080@120Hz (alongside my two 144Hz BenQs) for desktop use and 1024x768@160Hz for CS:GO. A CRT monitor is imo the better choice as they are a lot more versatile than TVs. When I whip out my controller and start up my emulator I'll just switch my CRT to 240p@160Hz and I'm greeted by those sweet sweet scanlines which is the only way to play retro games like you remember them from back in the day. Bonus: You won't need to heat your room during winter, your monitor will do the job for you ;)
I've got a Sony Trinitron KV-36XBR450. Got it for free last summer. Beast of a TV, and HUGE! I carried it up to the second floor with a friend, but three people would've been preferred.
CRTs are a lovely way to play old consoles. Look at a game like Soul Blade on PS1 - it looks so nice with the scanlines, and if you have an inbuilt woofer like on the Trinitrons? Heavenly.. Scart and component/RGB are the best cables to use, then S-Video, and finally composite/RF is the worst but bearable on some old consoles (and the only option without physically modding them).. Basically all consoles up to the old Xbox are CRT friendly and there are loads of cables you can get for them nowadays, I even use my 360 on a CRT sometimes putting it into TATE mode for Japanese shmups (the TV set on its side for a longer vertical display - careful doing this!) using a scart cable. There is quite alot of stuff to learn regarding getting the very best image on the different machines, lots of modding potentially but essentially you just need a CRT, a Scart or RGB cable and you're set (make sure you know what inputs any TV you want to buy can take - some can only use S-Video for example, in the USA many do not have Scart but there are other options). So they are bulky and no good for modern systems but fun things nonetheless if you are a collector, but as the video says you can get all kinds of equipment now that sees you getting similar results on modern HDTV., even emulation on PC affords a near perfect experience and has options like scanline effects etc. making owning a physical CRT potentially rather pointless. Still many people do love them and are always happy to buy them or collect them from peoples homes if they are just to throw them out (I always check TV's I see lying around, have a good mooch around)!
you're missing out in life, dude. LCDs have much better video quality for HD content. thought I assume you watch everything on computer screen and don't use the TV
@@NintendoDude888 Well, I guess there are good and bad CRTs and good and bad LCDs, I'm not going to argue which technology is superior, LCD has no distortions, CRT has better viewing angle and so on. The real question is, do they even make 1080p CRTs? And it does matter because most people confuse sharpness with contrast, some CRTs may have better contrast than some LCDs, but the details aren't there. A low resolution image will appear sharper with boosted contrast and a high resolution image less sharp at low contrast, yet low contrast high resolution image carries more information and carries more visible detail than the high contrast low res version where at first glance the image looks sharper but actually the fine details are missing. So what I mean is that if they still make highend 1080p TVs then the guy's TV may actually be as good or potentially better than an LCD TV, but lower resolution means detail is always lost even if better dynamic range and contrast make it look sharper. Of course there is more to image quality than resolution, and high dynamic range and contrast can be more pleasing to look at than a 1080p bland low contrast image. When I did my original comment I assumed Doctor Feinstone is using is using one of those old 576i TVs which by today's standards are beyond awful independently how good and highend everything else is