What's Using a CRT TV from 2000 like Now? 

Decided to try and go for a more professional looking format with this video. Hope you guys liked it!

CRTs don't have a uniform brightness like LCD panels. That is why they can display light and shadow with much greater subtlety. They also show true black. It creates depth and it's immediately noticeable.

CRTs are the best displays ever made.... I love CRT

Another positive about CRT's is that there's no motion blur when playing video games.

That looks like a fantastic TV for playing PS1 and PS2. My parents have a big 480p TV from the mid 2000's. I tried playing the PS2 version of Okami on it and the experience was amazing.

blue's clues on a tube tv... nostalgia

I just got back from Arizona and found this EXACT TV at a goodwill

In the 2000s we started using plasma televisions, although we still had several CRTs around. The plasma technology then was a far cry from the later models, but it was still a stunning experience back then. I had a Sony Trinitron WEGA, probably around 32-inches or so. It was an excellent television, and definitely superior to this Symphonic unit. I do miss our CRT/DLP/Plasma televisions, but mostly everything now is LCD and OLED.

This screams ps2 generation

Keep these! they are going to be seen as relics in the future. I have a small 9" portable CRT that I love and cherish

I'm gonna use entirely CRT for my TVs when I get me my own house. :)

Hey Bingocat, recently I remember cleaning out an old shed shortly after hurricane micheal where I had a bunch of old things that I haven't seen in years and I actually came across an old RCA vhs-c camcorder that I also bought from Wal-Mart back in 2000. It actually still works today and the very last time I remember using it was when I graduated from highschool in May of 2002. Seems like I haven't powered it on since then until about a week ago. Even had a spare nickle cadmium battery that still holds a charge that I also bought back in 2000. Incredible, it still works after all these years. I'll upload a video of that.

3:30 This is something that you would find in a horror movie. Not terrifying at all.

I used to have a similarly designed CRT TV. We bought it back in 2001 and it lasted all the way up until 2015 when its electron gun finally died after slowly wearing out over the years.

This video is so surreal! My nana had one of these in her kitchen when I was very little and I'd remember watching the news on it as she cooked. My family even got the portable dvd players for long road trip as well. Feels like it was so long ago and I'm not even old yet.

I too have some VHS tapes of early 00's kids shows recorded from an analog broadcast, and it's amazing to see how far we've come in the last 14-18 years. Today's kids won't know an era before child-oriented smartphone games and online videos available instantly through a hand-held device with an order of magnitude more pixels (dots) compared to the old CRT TVs.

I love how you say Button. I also had one of these model crt TVs that me and my family had when would go on long road trips. We were only limited to take 3 of our favorite movies each to play in rotation. This brought back nostalgic memories for me.

The refresh rate of this TV is 59.94 Hz. That is the refresh rate of all NTSC televisions. I remember these Symphonic TV/VCR combos quite well. In the late 1990s, they were quite reasonably priced at big box stores. They were the kinds of TVs that might have been used in vehicles (as you mentioned) or that might have been set up in a teenager's room or in a college dorm room. In the days of analog TV, passengers could watch broadcast TV in a moving vehicle, although the picture would have been less than perfect. Unfortunately, the digital TV standard used in the U.S. is almost completely non-functional when the receiver is moving.

I've got a similar Symphonic TV/VCR combo like the one you have here. The model I have is a SC1304 which we had since it was new back in 2000 (still have the original remote, but missing the original owner's manual).

I still have 4 CRTs in use, love them also have an 26" Toshiba 2929dd nice big crt!

I lucked out two summers ago and found a nice 27" Sanyo CRT TV for $5 from a yard sale where the family was getting ready to move. The TV worked like a charm but the remote wasn't in the best shape. Luckily I had a universal remote around to pair it with. I bought an HDMI-to-AV adapter to use with my Chromecast and an 8-way AV Switch to hook up my DVD/VCR combo player along with my consoles, Roku, and Raspberry Pi. It's absolutely perfect to watch old shows on.

You did pretty much exactly what I did. I have a symphonic TV from 1996. I bought a universal remote, and HDMI to RCA converter just to use it as a monitor

I have an Emerson TV set (model 1224) that I bought 40 years ago. It has a 24" black-and-white tube!

Omg with the VCR built in the TV, one of the best.

I wish I can have a TV like this but you can hardly find them anywhere. Flat screens are nice but I like old things better than new things.

Love these things, takes me back.

Over the last few years, I've gathered 3 very nice Sony CRTs, all three excellent displays. I have a 27" SD 4:3 TV, a 34" HD 16:9 TV, and a 21" monitor. With high quality connections from gaming consoles, they all look amazing and there's zero input lag to speak of. The only modern TVs that can touch the HD CRT for image quality are OLEDs, as they can finally achieve deep blacks and truly rich color.

Yeah. A agree with you on depth on CRTs VS earlier LCDs. 4K has caught up though.

in my apartment i still use a 19" CRT TV w/VCR by Toshiba i bought in 2003. Still works today!

OMG, you have the exact same TV that i had as a kid. Oh the nostalgia :’)

what a nice TV .... i couldn't find a vhs set for my own retro tv .... nice video

we still use a CRT from 2001 on a day-to-day basis, we use it in the basement, I've played modern games on it last year, my experience was pretty good

I still use a CRT for some things. Mine is is an older Matsui model, it’s smaller than yours but has a bigger screen and much like yours has a built in VCR. My Nan brought it in the late 90s even though I believe it was made before that, and she gave it to my family a couple years ago. It’s a good old system, and I use it for watching VHSs, picking up analogue signals, on the odd case where I need to pick some up, and for playing retro game consoles. Unlike you though, I don’t get any eye-strain from using mine, for the first few minutes the flickering is really obviously and annoying and can give a headache, but if I focus on the CRT for a couple of minutes I get used to it and stop noticing. The high-pitched noise the display produces is more annoying however, but you tune it out rather quickly. But switching between an LCD and a CRT does take some adjustment. I wouldn’t want to watch a movie on my LCD while also playing my SNES through a CRT, as it’d give me a headache. Honestly I expect I could happily use a CRT instead of an LCD in this day an age, even though the world has moved on. However, if I wanted to use a computer I’d use a proper CRT monitor with the correct resolution, and a good refresh rate.

This TV looks great. Especially for connecting older consoles like the Sega Mega Drive

I still have an old sr-1000 crt tv sitting around with the turn knobs that said it was manufactured in June of 1985. Still works, I just don't have a way to hook it to modern cable since it just has two antennae leads.

Seeing you find an old tape your mom made for you was a little heartwarming.

My first big pay check i got when i was a teenager. I went out and bought two things. A 13" crt RCA tv (with only the basic video and audio inputs on the side.) and a dvd player. Still have them to this day.

I remember looking through a bunch of old DVDRWs that I've had for years and I remember I found one with a video of a mermaid show at Weeky Wachie Florida that I remember that I taped with a camcorder which the date on that video is September 4th, 2000. Of course that was long before smartphones existed that you would record a video with. I remember also that same week that I recorded that video was when Microsoft released Windows Me. I think I tried to put it on RU-vid, but I guess there were some issues with copyright due to the music being played while the mermaids and actors were dancing.

crt master race

I remember watching Blues Clues as a kid! We had that channel here in the UK if you had a Sky digital satellite subscription.

I have 4 CRTs, my main TV is still a Hitachi from 1991.

CRT seems to get levels of colour saturation and depth that a LCD tv could never get, lcds are just more sharp

The flicker is because you’re feeding it an interlaced signal. If you send it a progressive signal, there won’t be any flicker. 240p, 480p even 720p. There are CRTs that do properly display interlaced images though. Mainly HD CRTs. Thanks for the video

Pick up a 40 inch crt tv from a recycling center for very cheap, restore it and hook up gaming console to the tv and you got yourself a killer veiwing experience!

I like the look of the TV thanks for showing the TV

My crt is in the garage and around this time it would get pretty hot and then at night kind of cold so it's been in there for awhile so I'm wondering if it could get damaged and I would be pretty upset because this crt is almost new and I just want to know if it can cause damage

I got an Orion crt and it’s awesome. But does anyone know where I can find an av to coax? I also want hdmi to coax since coax is the only input it takes in

Question, I have this tv but no universal remote codes work, what is the four digit code for this tv?

Blue's Clues also had re-runs in the 2010s, hence why I was able to watch it when I was younger.

I have a mini monitor as my main (web browsing and file editing) and a crt to watch videos and play games. Like you said there is a depth to it you cant find on lcd screens.

Pretty sure (but i could be wrong) Funai still makes TVs for Sylvania and Emerson, like they did back in the CRT days. It is just like looking at stuff through a window, and even more so if it's in 60 FPS in my experience.

Another problem, aside from uncorrected aspect ratio, with those converter boxes is that the output interlaced video is not vertically low passed at all which when displayed in an interlaced fashion by the CRT TV results in tremendous "line twitter" which is unpleasing and straining to watch (probably what you called flicker, although that's technically something else). It makes small details such as small text look like it's wiggling very fast. You could try to set your GPU to output 480i via HDMI to the converter and hope your GPU does a low pass (Nvidia does). That way the converter doesn't need to do any scaling and acts just as a DAC and you get a decent 480i picture.

Refresh rate is the same as any TV for the American market: 59.94Hz by field 29.97 interlaced pictures per second.

Love crt's ... even though my crt monitor (as a kid) is kinda the reason i have to wear glasses now xD

Fix your shutter speed lmao, set it to 1/30 or 1/60 for recording CRTs. Also, instead of hooking up a PC, it would have been cool for you to hook up a DVD player, or gotten a cheap HDTV ATSC antenna + a digital-to-analog converter box, and see how the actual TV channels look. Also see if you could set up the built-in VCR to record

I even have a 12" GE color TV from 1980 and it still works with no damage, well the numbers for one of the channel knob is loosened and I have tape holding it to the knob. I'm looking to either get a NES or a Super Nintendo for it because I have other retro things but it's not complete without a retro video game setup as the final topping. It's sad that I will still be part with the internet which makes most people into Social Media Zombies.

I remember watching your videos like 1 year ago , damn

While I was way too old to bother with it, I first learned of Blue’s Clues existence when I noticed it in Cartoon Network’s listings in 1998 or so.

This brought back memories

connecting a PC to a crt is a genuinely difficult challenge, i'm seeing composite artefacts, interlaced flickering, massive overscan, just looks so bad but tbh it's never going to look good used as a desktop. The reason you had black bars on the side in a 4:3 aspect ratio, is that the hdmi converter box you're using (i have one too) will only output in 16:9, so if you input 4:3 you just get black bars on the side when viewed on a 4:3 display. Using vga to output 4:3 ratio then converted to scart/component, you can actually select a custom resolution using software for 240p or 480i, and on a screen without rounded corners you can actually get a pretty decent approximation of a vga monitor, but a consumer CRT TV will never support anything higher than 480i or 240p, and therefore will either look pretty rough due to interlacing, or the interface will be unusably big at 240p- what you want to be doing with a CRT is using things designed specifically to be used with super low resolution content- like retro games, video. Also fyi crt's have zero input lag, and yeah the interlaced flicker annoys me too, which is why I try and stick to 240p instead, that way there's no flickering

I still have my old TV from when I was little. It's a 13" Sharp Linytron from 1991.

The other night, I managed to get an old VHS c tape to play on an old CRT TV that my mom taped of me 24 years ago when I went to elementary school in 1994. After all these years, it seems like the audio didn't survive, but the video did, so I was still able to see myself 24 years ago.

Also, how did you get that remote to work for your TV? It wasn't designed for it right?

my crt is a roadstar from 2002 with a dvd player, movies look so good on it regardless of its 10inch screen

a high end crt tv was and can still be really nice. back between 2003 - 2009 i used a 32 inch flat and wide screen crt tv that could do up to 720p. 720p achieved through S video connection or component (component looking best). i remmber being real impressed with it's image quality on the xbox 360 with component cables it rivaled my freinds 1080p lcd in general asthetics but kicked the shit out of it in blacks and motion handling. i gave the TV to a different friend though when he and his family had no tv at all, after i had gotten my first 1080p lcd of course. i really miss that tv .. and that friend (he died in 2020 , shot dead by a neighbor durring an argument they had). not sure what came of that TV.

The home where I live in (grandparent House). We use a TV from 1995 so in 2020 it is 25 years old, yesus that is crazy. I have not had any modern TVS or even wide ones. My TV is below 720p resolution. Our content now is cropped extremely you can not see the subtitles anymore because nowadays the TV screen's are super wide and +40 inches in size. My grandfather recorded all of his favorite shows and movies and cartoons in whs tapes which i can watch anytime.

I loved Blue’s Clues as a kid so much!

I got a CRT tv today from a garage sale for free! And It actually works great!

I have a 32" widescreen Sony Trinitron CRT TV from late 2003. And it's a 100Hz set so it doesn't flicker at all

Nice TV!

These TVs are the greatest in existence, and no one can take that away from them.

my one was way before that 1992 and uptill this year when I had a deep clean it worked all the way back in 2016

My grandma still uses a crt and in my country we still have analog channels.

The black bars is caused by the active resolution if the GPU is a NVidia card, 640x480 can be forced by using NVidia control panel. After forcing resolution, I got a true 4:3 resolution. I have a Dell 120Hz monitor that looks great and easy on my eyes when I play retro games on my computer.

OMG I remember seeing those. My older sister's was an Emerson which was a 12 inch. Fun fact: I was born in November of 2000 lol. I guess the tv and I are the same age.

I understand the problems when it comes to filming a CRT. It's because the shutter of your camera is out of sync with the TV's framerate. Try changing your shutter speed to 60 times per second. It greatly helps problems like these. Good video overall, though.

I have one just like yours! Mine is a bit larger though, and was bought from Kmart in 2000.

bluse clues lol we had a tv in are van like this when i was teen. but yeah ctr tvs montiers are hard to recored on camreas do to the scan line reffresh rate being at 60Hz, increashing refreh rate clears it up a little bit where it just lightly flckers but still dosent look perfect on camrea frequancy refresh rates

I have a 32" Toshiba CRT television ----it's my only television. Got it for free off Craigslist six or seven years ago. I found a digital to analog converter at a thrift shop for a few dollars, and a DVD player. One uses the television's S video input, the other the component television input. That's all the inputs ---I'd like to use it to display on line video from my laptop.. That would require an HDMI to component television converter and a switch between the DVD player and laptop. Haven't gotten around to that yet, so I keep squinting at the small screen on my laptop. I hate to see useful stuff thrown away!

what kind of laptop is that?

Okay so the reason why why TV flickered was because it was displaying in 480i in composite. Run it in 240p and you'll get beautiful scan lines. And no flicker. The converter was probably really crappy, which is why it couldn't just accept outputting a 4:3 ratio.

What is model?

I had a Symphonic DVD player when I was a kid. So I have heard of that brand.

I've had in mind to use a small crt for Powerpoint presentations

what does crt tv look like on a bluray picture?

we had a Sony Trinitron back in the 2001 when my parent moved to germantown Maryland and it was high def it was huge and the tv had high quality speakers that were a big as sound equipment that used for rock music or maybe hip hop back in the late 1990's but the Sony Trinitron was the best tv out there and when we lived that thing out of my house it had to be at least 300 pounds or maybe a lot more than that that thing was history please tell me you know what I am talking about since you started to grow up in the late 90's

You should try this experiment again, on a VGA, C.R.T. Ones that do 768p @ 75Hz, are common.

I'm watching this video on one LOL!

I really want to get myself an old box tv for my atari and nes along with my gamecube, God I love Box tvs

The best part this video is how you say 'button'

The only TV that makes every show, but I say _every_ show look old.

It's sucky how those VCR combo units usually only have mono audio like that and don't have many ports like composite, component, or s-video and only have a coaxial port on the back. I don't know why this is.

I have one just like that… Everything looks the same except for the front panel. The buttons, and the sides and rear look exactly the same as mine. Mine is branded as an Emerson TV though..,

I have a silver Magnavox crt from 2013 fun fact it was outside during a hurricane and still works.

That tv reminds me of one we used to have at that time that was our only tv but with the time my dad bout a biger one with vhs and DVD player but they broke by the time and the RCA broke to. and this year 2018 we dont have it anymore we give it to someone else in my family

Great video! My gf would laugh at me for watching this lmao!

Very weird video, but this brings me back to the good ol'days :') Anyone remember Kipper the Dog??

When you put the antenna up there you can't. Pick it up you need to converter box to pick it up a DTV converter

5:10 I had the same problem trying to watch Netflix (which, thankfully, just gets rid of the black bars (at least for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), when used on a 16:9 PC operating with a 4:3 display resolution) when on the CRT. I first tried the Chromecast, but it was clear that wasn't going to work. When I tried the PC, with a 4:3 aspect ratio setting, it did the same thing [as in the video]. However, if you've a computer that can stretch your 4:3 image to 16:9 (many can't, though, fortunately, I can use 1, through the Intel HD Graphics Driver*), then you can connect your PC & display it in 4:3, with no black bars (though you may have to deal with overscan). Btw, I spent several hours trying to find this solution, in large part due to a faulty app that was missing settings, including GPU scaling (I think it was AMD). Also, GPU scaling's what you need to look for to do what I did (unless there's some alternative). * or something to that effect

I know what its like. I have multiple CRT Tv's and its perfectly fine! (Except for that annoying high pitched interference)