The Japanese technology of that era has no competition, they made durable products, extreme quality, incredibly advanced, you have no idea but it gives me that it was more engineering at that time than now, that is, now there are tools that make designs much easier. This was more of an artisan piece of technology you have there, very nice video.
Oh, I got one of those last year, from a friend. Yours is in an absolutely pristine shape, almost like new with all the accssories, it's impressive! Most of the time those should be in working condition, but every single one I've see so far including mine have a cracked housing, with pieces of plastic falling apart. It is really rare to see one is such a good condition! It is the smallest shadow mask tube in existence, quite impressive to see, at 1.4". The mask is quite coarse and it's easy to see the color dots. The next smallest shadow mask tube is in the JVC TM-P3 if I'm not mistaken with its 2.6". There is only one even smaller color tube in existence, a 1.2" beam index tube from a color camera viewfinder!
I've had one for a few years now. Early 3D games like Star fox are a trip. Definitely one of my all time favorite TV's. Panasonic is freakin nuts for making it, and I love it!
I remember taking one of those apart as a kid in the 80s, I learned an important lesson about not turning on a crtv in my hands when it's case is off. I heard a charge up sound and then got a nice little shock.
That screen is so awesome! Amazing, seeing all the tech they fit back in 84, especially in color. I wasn't even allowed to connect the Atari 2600 to the color TV back then.
There were similar size colour tubes in some camcorders, and moreso(and earlier) in pro/semi-pro video camreas. Most home camcorders used black & white ones, but I can remember colour ones briefly before LCDs replaced them. I'd imagine devices like this were almost certainly re-using the same tube.
I was going to say this! I believe a couple of the films during that era had custom stripped down units and were made into remote screens to be used as a futuristic handheld video screen props!
Monochrome CRTs were widely preferred as camera viewfinders, due to the poor resolution of small colour screens. I remember an interesting innovation in the early 90s, I think Fuji made it. A colour viewfinder that used a monochrome crt, with some kind of spinning colour wheel in front of it, much like how a DLP projector works.
I have a black and white model in very good condition with the box and all the accessories. Image look very sharp for a tiny CRT. I live in Colombia and we still have some analog TV signals, but the analog shut off is coming very soon. I'm going to make a video to show the device before the analog TV goes off
I have a similar unit, but mine came with the AM/FM radio tuner built-in. Too bad the owner didn't take any pictures with the chassis PCB lifted so you can see the capacitors on the underside. I suspect that many of the through hole caps have started leaking and it's just time before this stops working. A very common problem with Panasonic TravelVision portable TV's from the early 80's.
I read the shadow mask dot pitch is 0.38mm, which would be just about 100 dots at 1.5". That'd be a resolution of 80×60 dots if the 1.5" is diagonal. Trying to count by hand it looks like a little more than that but not much. Maybe the 1.5" is horizontal and it's 100×75 which looks about right. I'd probably rather just have B&W to be honest.
I remember having a little handheld tv that used a mirror to reflect the image (I think it was a sony). It was already broken (which is probably why it was given to me as a kid to play with) but I remember it just being the coolest thing.
That the picture tube is so long has to do with the minimum size of the electron system. The filament and emission system cannot go below a certain size, otherwise there will not be enough emission to form an image.
Panasonic/Matsushita has always had really impressive technology, attractive industrial design... and unfortunately not the most amazing build quality. Can't win 'em all.
Wow! That is small Steve. I mean, I remember having a few portable color TV's growing up in the 1990's. But never seen one at this size bro. That's amazing. 8^) Anthony..
It looks a lot like the first color LCD phones I had, they definitely didn't look good😁 But for the time it came out and a very tiny CRT is definitely crazy.
Get an NEC XM/XP29+ on your show!!!! Those were great! Also, what camera are you using for the intro of this video, where you are talking with the CRT rack to your back, it looks fantastic!
MY engineers are preoccupied with other things... What kind of of things do YOUR engineers have going on?. We should put OUR engineers together in a cage fight to see who engineers the best. Whaddaya say?
Woah! I have a CRT that's doing what is shown at 0:08 following an RGB mod gone wrong. Green screen with retrace lines. I really need to figure out what the hell went wrong lol
🎈🎉🎊🥳👍👍👍👍😜 Amazing video! This small crt tv is like "diamond"! Guys you are so lucky in USA as they were a bit popular and still it's possible to buy some on ebay etc. at reasonable price. In my country I wasn't able to find even a single offer. And importing with high postage costs and customs is... "dangerous" for my pocket. Lucky I can watch it on your channel. Btw, I'm wondering why this tube is so long. AFAIK longer tube are easier to be controlled (electrons jet control etc.). Perhaps they calculated that it was cheaper to make longer tube than add expensive chips. Sure nowadays probably it would be opposite but at that time crt tubes were not so expensive. P.S. I'm also trying to do sth similar as you but concerning other devices, mostly computers, but not only.
Can see the size to detail threshold for a tube that small especially with text, not so much 240p compliant but definitely 120p like some 2600 or an Odyssey 2 game would display more favorably. Game Boy or GBC 160x144 graphics might just be clear enough but it would need an AV output method to even try.
Hey there I would just like to let you know that they ALSO made one to be installed in a car. How do I know this because I used to have one of the ones that I installed in my 1979 Chevy Luv ( Isuzu) pickup back in the day.
Not the same, but according to 12VoltVids, the smallest CRT (which is Black and White) was a .5" tube on a small camcorder. Half and inch... Anyway, here's the vid he posted on it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t8kZ7h4xZDY.html&ab_channel=12voltvids
but PERHAPS also related because I do think this TV was done to get rid of color viewfinder tubes on camcorders. as one commenter in another comment pointed out, operators preferred monochromatic viewfinders on pro grade cameras and monochromatic monitors. if they overshot the order for color tubes intended for cams it would make sense to use it in a product like this. get rid of extra tubes and make the difference up in sales of a kind of interesting product for the time
Hard video to watch. Not a fan of focus I see. Shaking everything in front of the camera doesn't help either. Mabye someone else will make a video about this TV so people can actually see something that showcases the item.
