1995 me: I'm so excited! PCs are going to be sooo fast and monitors will be so big! Can't wait to see the future! 2021 me, sitting in front of a 4K Monitor, watching a Pentium-PC running DOOM on a tiny CRT...
@@12voltvids AV input is better than RF only as "fewer links in the chain" for video quality. Its size is already a big hit to its resolution. You can only fit so many phosphors on the screen.
CRTs are incredible. My favorite thing to explain to friends and family is why some CRTs have a high pitched tone when turned on and why some don't, and what causes that sound. It's just so cool.
I use to work at the docks at a fabric processing building, opening and closing doors for trucks that were loading/unloading product, this was in 1998-2001. All I did all day was sit in this little office pressing buttons and making calls to let people know to hurry up. I found this little tv in the garbage, brand new intact in its original packaging, for 3 years I used it to watch tv at work, it was great, you get use to the size.
@C M i have a mod with rioting brainwashed crowds as enemies. I have not released it nor i ever will because who knows what might happen, maybe someone tries to sue me and cancel me or whatever, lol.
Actually the smallest color crt screen was in a video camera viewfinder from the 90s that used Sony indextron color. Very interesting machine that one is
actually the indextron is just a littlle bit smaller but has not that nice image quality. I have several of those. as I said in the video, the one I am reviewing here is the smallest 3-gun color tube.
Absolutely spectacular. An image of the Windows 98 Startup screen (from your video) was uploaded to one of the vintage computer groups on Facebook on 16th. or 17th. of December 2019 (was it you ?), so imagine the thumbs up and awe, when I discovered this exact video upload. Brilliant. The hard German R's when speaking English. Older Danish people are also using that.....and I tend to enjoy using it myself from time to time. Thanks for this video upload. It was....what did young folks say in the early 2000's.....It was MASSIVE :)
With people so addicted to the latest gadgets, I'm always more interested in the old tech. He really needed a magnifier to even navigate through this small screen 😂... Loved the video
The high voltage on CRTs is not dangerous with the anode cap disconnected, even when the display is on and operating. No transistor driven flyback will be able to sustain high enough voltage and current with the load of your body to seriously injure you. Worst case scenario with the tube in circuit it will act as a capacitor and could give you a short jump. The high frequency of the flyback's output would mean that you're unlikely to feel anything from it either. This tiny little screen is probably not exceeding 5kV. Some large color sets will drive up to 25kV I've seen, which is still not particularly dangerous. I touched the output of a trace SCR on video and it made me jump, but I'm still here to tell you about it. Even got it on camera! Check my RCA XL100 diagnosis videos and you'll see it towards the end of one of them. That trace transistor was putting out 750 volt pulses at 600mA to the flyback transformer. On some very old set, namely ones with tube drivers inside them, they can produce significant current at high voltage (few hundred milliamperes) which will very quickly burn your flesh. It's not likely to stop your heart or do anything crazy like that unless you're being stupid and not following the one hand rule or have your feet in saltwater or something, in which case *most* voltages will hurt or kill you anyways. This era is likely where the myth comes from. CRTs do not have to be scary, people just make them out to be that way. Gives them a bad name!
I really do not think so about what you have mentioned and you can correct me if you like but I used to have 14 inch CRT and I used to play around with its high voltage cable by unplug it from the screen body and melt some small metal needles with the arc I used to but the needle on the ground and bring the connector that goes to the CRT body and zap the top of the needle with it and it was melting like ice-cream! So do you think this very High voltage will not do any harm to the human body with such a high current capability
I knew a guy once in the late 80's who weighed over 300 lbs, he was messing with a TV he thought he could fix. He ended up against the wall by an electric shock from the TV. He didn't say what part he messed with, he didn't even know about fixing TV's, but odds are he messed with the flyback transformer going to the tube. They put high voltage warning stickers on older CRT TV's for a reason... you're completely wrong about the dangers of the high voltages they put out. Some of those TV's put out 30 KV... that's 30,000 volts pal, nothing to screw around with unless you know HOW to drain and work on a CRT... the dude was lucky he lived.
I believe the color viewfinders in certain camcorders were actually even smaller, although they used technologies like Indextron or LCCS and not a shadow mask. Cathode Ray Guy has a video on it (A Tiny, Unlikely Full-Color CRT).
That is because of the size. if you compared to a TV set that had a 21" screen made in the same era the image quality would be the same the bigger screen would show it in greater detail.
This astonishing piece of technology makes everything look like being from a cyberpunk reality from a novel, especially when the computer was initializing and displaying that very cool text in the booting process. The image also has that very impressive graphical analog look on the TV. It has that specific blurry puffy look. Marvelous video and presentation!
I kind of wish we kept going with CRT technology. I imagine that not technically having a resolution could have been pretty good if we had just managed to make it all smaller. Same design, just lighter and *slightly* thinner. Idk. Maybe some company should just start making new CRTs trying to improve them with some modern technology.
If I remember right these were quite expensive, close to $500 at the time. (1984). The flat crt was quite the tech at the time. You could get a wrist watch LCD in black and white for about the same price, but the image was very poor.
Seeing the host for the first time in this video and not just hearing his voice, i can say that now i understand the channel theme. He is a time traveler from the '90s.
I always wanted to do this with something like those old tiny CRT viewfinders in VHS recorders. At least I assume they were tiny CRTs. Either way, very cool stuff.
Reminds me of the film, Brazil. Everything was state owned so of course the computers where archaic. Tiny crt monitors with magnifying glasses so the user can actually use them.
I expect that TV is multi standard, a tint control was normally only for NTSC but some early Sony UK TV's to get round the licensing of PAL from Telefunken used a modified NTSC that worked with PAL that needed a Tint control.
Okay... How cool would it be to have the mini color screen and the mini B&W screen side by side. The B&W screen for clarity, and the the Color screen for graphics and games and such. You ought to be able to pull the Luminance signal from the VGA to composite adapter's S-Video output, for the clearest possible B&W output. You'd have the best of both worlds, B&W for clarity of text and details, and the color CRT for the bright, colorful graphics! Take the tiny SBC, the two monitors, the adapter, and stuff it all into a case. If you had a battery powered PSU, you could make a tiny portable micro PC!
idk i remeber one camera having a tiny color crt as a viewfinder, i have a black and white crt viewfinder camera but i think i saw one with a color crt
Now imagine a competitive match on CSGO or TF2 on this little monitor. Wait, now I remember, a guy did the same but with a LCD one. Still, awesome piece of hardware
@@Dosgamert I used to be, my childhood game was Jazz 1, first game I ever played (The demo anyways) Haven't gotten to point where I wanna buy a few DOS computers yet, but that time will come! :P
If there is a way to mount two of these tubes in a VR headset - that will be one of a kind oldschool VR for games like Doom and Duke 3D. And it won't require anti-aliasing. (:
my parents bought a console tv in the 80s it lasted just until warranty expired they paid like 1200 for it. Repairman said fly back transformer was bad 500 to fix lol.
No screen tearing. Smooth visual animation quality. That is the difference about analog and digital. They have advantage and disadvantages but It should be use in other ways.
Can this little TV be modified to accept an RGB signal? This would make the colour and sharpness even better. Also it would reduce any input lag to zero as the composite conversion might be adding lag.
The image isn't clear because you're using a scan converter to down-scale the image to 480i. Then you're using composite video which is one of the worst possible connections. Anytime you downscale a high res PC image to 480i it will look blurry. The 60hz interlaced mode is equivalent to 480p 30hz in clarity. You'd get far better results using CRTEMU drivers to natively output 15khz and then use a Jrok to convert RGB to NTSC.
I would like to point out that crts do not actually have individual pixels. Check out the video of "technology connections" called "These Are Not Pixels: Revisited".
You cannot show Prince of Persia, and not show Golden Axe. Space Cadet 3D, would have been a more appropriate pinball game to demonstrate for this era.
It never stops being funny to me how as a society we see ten year old or older tech as trash. Then are so surprised to see how well it works. LCD, plasma any flat screen is rated by resolution. Any guesses as to a CRT's resolution? Somewhere north of infinite. There's a YT vid where a guy connects a 1932 Telex to a modern computer. 1932 f'ing tech. Let that sink in a minuet.
Nowhere near infinite, crts are limited by the size of their aperture grill and other things, yes you can force them to try resolutions higher than they're designed for but image quality suffers.
