Turning a Scrap Sony Trinitron CRT into an Awesome 240p RGB Gaming CRT 

I mean before it wasnt rlly trash, just not as many ports lol

Australia is a PAL region just like Europe. However we were still gimped with the dreadful composite input for all 90's TVs. SCART was never a thing here, although there was the odd ball cheap brand that sported them but it was so rare and made for European market anyway. The only consumer TVs that had SCART here were Japanese rear projection or projector CRTs and European brands TVs like Grundig, Loewe, B&O ect. They were all very expensive too.

Same with Argentina we are PAL but never got de scart also our tvs were kind of cheap Mexican/brasilian multiformat tvs who can decode ntsc/pal

It's a stereo set. If the RCA has a White and Red inputs thats stereo. Mono is when there is just a White RCA input and a Yellow RCA, Yellow always being the Composite Video.

My question is how can you NOT tell if it's stereo or mono when it has TWO speakers on the front AND the Red and White RCA inputs? If it was just composite with the white RCA input of course it's gonna be mono. If you know and understand electronics, I don't understand how you don't see that! 🙄🙄🙄

Indeed. We got lots of short ends of sticks when it comes to classic gaming here in Europe but RGB isn't one of them, fortunately. I just plug my PlayStation into my TV with the same RGB SCART cable I did back in the day and it just works. Sure the mods lie elsewhere but at least I don't have to mod my TV, those CRTs are scary beasts.

@@madfinntech a capacitor exploded in my face when i was looking at the inside of a CRT TV. I'm never touching them agaun

50hz...

Yep. SCART was never a thing here in Australia. Unless you had a European made TV and those were never cheap.

@@megaigorThere's also PAL60...

I've seen the flyback do all sorts of wonderful things if there's a crack it haha.

@@spudzgames4361 interesting I will have to keep that in mind when doing my RGB mod. Thanks for the video, have a good one man.

Yes you can and it is a stereo set. My grandparents had the same set and it's a stereo alright.

Wait to you try super resolution with GroovyMAME. But that's whole another rabbit hole.

Will do. Thanks

My friend recently sold some property forcing me to move all my CRTs that have been stored there since I was displaced by an EF4 tornado last year. I still didn’t have room for them (literally homeless), but I couldn’t even give them away. Every thrift store refused to take them so I was forced to throw some out. I even offered to buy them back if they were still there by the time I had a place for them but Goodwill still refused to take them. I managed to give one away to a retro game shop, made some room for a few more in another storage unit, but I had dozens. The deadline is passed and the building is supposed to be bulldozed if it hasn’t been already. Point is, people who appreciate CRTs are niche. There aren’t enough takers and people still throw them out. Sucks, but it’s the truth.

@@emmettturner9452 I suppose it might depend on the area. Retro games and media is getting somewhat more popular as time goes on as modern media formats are less of a novelty than 5/10/15 odd years ago while the nostalgia factor gets greater. Plus the way modern improvements can be applied to old tech ect. It's nice hooking up a old TV to stream old SD tv shows and having so many options for emulating back catalogues on plenty different systems and such as I'm sure you know. We're you listing them online for free in a very populated area? Sorry to hear about your circumstances.

@@emmettturner9452 I guess the thing to do would be list them as a bulk lot for storage and resale to go ASAP. That seems to happen over here, companies will just put them in a wear house and list them for a fair amount, yeah they might have to wait a while for them to sell for what their asking but they don't mind as long as the value is going to gradually increase or at least remain around the same. Sort of thing I've seen people do on ebay listings, offer out a load of old TVs and electronics as a job lot with no reserve to whoever is able to collect, seen a nice lot of stuff go for about £20 the other week the sort of large Trinitrons that will also be listed at listed at a couple of hundred for as long as it takes. If you want to buy a large CRT any day of the week for delivery that's what it costs or else you have to be patient and wait for the chance to pick something up with a bit of luck and not too much hassle.

You're about to see that happen to a lot of very modern technologies too.

Personally I would just keep looking for another TV with a picture that works.

I don't buy any. I get them off TVs that scrappers ruin or ones that die. I'm not sure how they would go..I don't see why they wouldn't work

All depends. Some companies re use shells and some use the same boards with small differences. I've seen tvs scart ports aren't physically installed but are ready to go. I've seen others that would indicate the same but it didn't work. You need to review each on its own merits.

Depends on the Jungle.

Yep. Which is why I love finding Euro brands I Australia. My main CRT is a B&O MX8000 with dual RGB scart sockets.

@@spudzgames4361 Hehe... I see videos Americans modify RGB input into their televisions, but here in Europe, we just simply connect a single Scart cable and it's done. Lucky us. 😁

yes exactly like 21:30 that flickery text . my sony trinitron does that too. drives me mad trying to fix it ..

u fixed it when u "turned it to rgb" HOW do i do that?? is it just S-video? well the problem on my Trinitron the text flickers like that even on the menu/TV built in text like volume slider and channel numbers .. so i dont know if using rgb would help then?

Check the power supply caps

Also you could be using an interlaced signal which can be a bit shaky. Such as 480i rather than 240p. Good example is the PS2

@@spudzgames4361 i think it was 480i. my n64 looks kinda good and thats not interlaced. but the TV menu shakes like crazy, so does the ps1 menu screen which are both interlaced i think . is it possible to reduce interlace flicker or does it just look that terrible? like 21:30 in this video, you fix the flicker - is that on interlaced ?

If I used a scart connection I probably would have

like I've been looking for a decent pvm or bvm for a good 4 years but they cost a fortune and theres almost none in australia I swear!

On a chipped ps1 sure can

I agree. I hate electrical scrappers.

a regular one?

I don't think that can be done. VGA monitors operate around 480p 31khz, RGB scart is 240p 15khz. You can get multisync CRT monitors which can do both but they are expensive. You can get old GPUs which will.output composite and Y/C and some old Raedon GPUs can actually do analogue 15khz out of their DVI output. People do that all the time with emulators.

You wouldn't mod you monitor if you wanted to play 240p on a VGA monitor. What you need is a downscaler. Look up something like a GBS control on RU-vid or Google.

I can't remember why i asked this question, lol😂 Seams like a really mad question to ask. Ive got a wii set up over scart rgb to a 14 inch alba crt looks good running retroarch so i guess thats where i ended up.

Touching the bare copper on the yoke while messing with the magnet will give you a bit of a zap if you don't use an isolation transformer, but nothing major.

Normally I would. But I think it's good to show what condition you will find these CRTS on the curbside and just because they have been out and have cobwebs on them doesn not mean they won't work...And yes it got thoroughly cleaned at the end.