My dad started out as a repair tech for Wards back in the 40’s. He could fix anything. He eventually ran their nationwide service division, but would still refuse to buy a new fridge, washer, dryer, or TV… he would just bring home broken appliances that customers did not want to pay the repair costs on and fix them. Our first color TV, in 1971, was an ancient RCA that still had a picture tube that was mostly round. My Dad kept replacing tubes and fixing that thing to keep it going so he could watch football in color. Then, one day the picture tube died and I watch as my dad hand Rewound the coils around the tube neck to get it working again. The second time the picture tube died, he finally threw in the towel and bought a new color TV. Even though he was a nationwide executive by that time, I think it was the first major appliance he ever actually paid for, new.
@@MDLuffy1234YT yeah, he was. Even at 75, still grabbed a shovel to dig a trench to find a water leak under my driveway. When I built my own studio, he did all the electrical work and helped hang all the drywall. He taught me self reliance and that a man can do anything that is doable.
I grew up basically ghetto poor, I remember my older sibling finding a VCR in the trash and he took it back to my dads, this would of been the chunky old ones that weighed probably as much as a modern tv if not more and my dad spent spent hours just taking the circuit boards out and testing components and cleaning it, think he paid a small amount of cash for some replacement capacitors or whatever from Radio Shack and we had a working VCR, this war around 1990, the tv he was given by a friend as it was faulty and he fixed it again cheaply. Finding things in the trash or being given broken devices was how I owned everything I did until my teen years, from a games console, even toys sometimes.
@@zUltra3D Not entirely, RGB video has sync on green, so the RGBHV from VGA/DVI-A would need conversion before being sent to the TV, but at least you already have 5v in the VGA/DVI-A connector for the combining circuit
I bet patreon supporters “excited” for such quality of content, totally worth it It’s like he talking to toddlers or dummies or something: “I unscrew this, than solder a wire here, my technique is called “I’m first day at my job””, hard to watch honestly Main theme is of course his “projects”, games and computer, neither of which is good, to be honest I used to love this channel, but ether I became old and grumpy, or interesting videos on this channel were last seen several years ago
My mom has an AEG dryer that run for hours every week since the mid 70's. The only thing that has to be replaced once was the main belt. She renew it few years ago because newer models are less energy hungry but it was still working fine.
As an old git i remember growing up with TVs like this ( and older). This was a common problem, we had a local TV repair shop that would fix our TVs if this happened or if the SCART socket became loose , even after he "retired" and sold his shop he would still help out his longest running customers for a bit of extra cash when he retied. I guess he must be long gone by now, kind of sad.
Growing up back in the day my dad would take the tubes from the console TV down to the drug store to test them on the tube testing vending machine, and if he couldn't figure out how to fix the TV that way we'd pay for a TV repairman to come over the house and fix the TV, bringing his tool kit into the living room. Those big console TVs are too heavy to just casually put in the car and drive to a shop.
I have a vague memory of the 1st scart compatible tv I had around 2000 that I think a pin bent as it kept losing sync dad fixed it but had to hot glue the connector to the case to stop it wiggling about after that.
David, i started watching you when i was about 7 years old when you were the ibook guy,i was fascinated by everything you did, now i own a small computer repair business, thank you for sparking my computer interest!
I had the same model TV. My parents bought it for me when I broke my hip and was stuck in a wheelchair and body cast. It was my constant companion. After MANY years of use it did the same thing as yours. I'd have to bang on the side of it to make it work. Thanks for the awesome vid!
I think you can also make this TV work on 50 Hz, on IC 901 (SZM-284EV) on pin 7 there's a 50/60 Hz mode, your TV has that pulled to ground, I believe if you pull it high it will switch to 50 Hz mode. So it should work with your BBC micro on RGB 50 Hz. You can install a toggle switch to set the sync between 50 and 60 Hz
That TV has been through so much and the memories we have from it in this channel are so precious! I’m happy it gets to live another day and also I love that it keeps being upgraded! It’s just getting better and better!
My dad used to be a TV repair engineer, he was doing stuff like this in the 90s when people wanted more inputs/outputs and even then (here in the UK) we had SCART, so we were getting the best pic possible on CRT TVs/monitors. He passed away 2 years ago.
I wonder why Scart never took off on the USA, it basically was SVHS/RGB but many years earlier, I was actually pretty shocked how bad the picture quality was when I first came to the US, given I was exposed to scart many years earlier and thought it to be a worldwide standard and then I ran into a composite/NTSC combination and my view on the world was crushed...
@werpu12 There was an attempt to bring SCART to the US, but at the time it only did composite video and therefore wasn't really anything special, which is probably why it never took off. We never got RGB, because we never needed it here. Over in Europe there were two standards for color TV, PAL and SECAM, that were completely incompatible with each other so RGB had to be standardized as a necessity. Instead, as time went on and we got better TV's and we wanted better picture, we just expanded on existing luma-chroma systems to get S-Video and Component. This kept backwards compatibility with older TV's and let us get better fidelity with older equipment.
This is one of those little channels where whenever a new video comes out, I watch it ASAP and while the intro is rolling, I already hit the thumbs up button because I know it's going to be good, I don't have to watch it first to know. And as always, I was not disappointed.
1:39 I see on the bottom of the monitor’s screen it says “FidoNet”. By the time I was using I was accessing Fido Net I had an Amiga 500 with a 2400 baud modem. Still brings back memories. Want to give you a big hug.
8-bit guy. Thanks for getting back to what you used to do. these were the videos I used to love to watch and that's the reason I found your channel cuz I found you modding old stuff is so fascinating
I saw a guy on RUclips who circuit-bent one of these small CRTs once. Very risky to do, but the sounds and visuals that came out of that thing were wild.
My 27” Samsung that appears to be a very similar model developed the same issue, on the front-mounted composite input. I haven’t gotten around to fixing it yet, just wedged something in to tweak the connection a bit to make contact. I should fix it this weekend, thanks for the inspiration!
Mate, I've been a very long subscriber and till to this day, it just eases up my mind watching your videos, listening to your voice, your camera work, video editing but the best of all, it's content and how you get us entertained!!! I love your intro (never change it) and love how its perfectly written. Again, that was a very fun video and please, keep those videos coming even tho I know how hard it is to come up with something. Also, still have the exact same TV but with VHS player/recorder. My father bought it for me when I was a kid, still working to this day.
Great video and awesome work. A little correction on the N64 supporting RGB 9:31. It weirdly doesn’t out of box. Even though the SNES and GameCube do. You need a RGB mod chip installed in the N64. It’s cheap, like $30, and very easy to do. A great first time mod for someone just starting out soldering. If you’re interested, it would make a great future project/video. 👍
I’m glad you’re able to fix that Samsung CRT TV, because no company makes these type of TVs anymore! My last CRT I owned was a Samsung HD CRT, it was a great from rhythm games like Dance Dance Revolution, but I got rid of it and sold it on Craigslist that had a pickup truck.
Yeah, it's much more likely these days to get a new laser-projector based TV than a CRT one, since the laser option can be aimed with achievable hardware instead of large vacuum tubes.
I've been collecting CRT TVs to play my Atari and NES on as well as VHS thank you 8-bit guy for making these videos to give us information cuz I really like your videos and how informative they are
I bought this kind of little Samsung tv as my first tv when I went on living on myself in a student dorm. I have no idea what happened to it, but it never failed.
Funny coincidence that you'd upload this now, I just bought my first CRT television and I'm totally in love with it. Great video, and for what it's worth I would enjoy seeing more CRT repairs on this channel, be they televisions or monitors. Cheers from Dallas, TX
You tapping all that TV in the beginning of the video was shockingly realistic acoustically, I'm running on cheap earbuds and I genuinely thought that was in my room and I am scared s*** less lmao
We never really used S-Video here in europe, but I have added that to all of my old consoles, because it just works so well with Retrotink and HDMI monitor.
David, if the heat shrink still has room to shrink, you can just score the outside lengthwise and apply heat. It will pull itself apart at the score line has it shrinks. This work especially well on the glue lined heat shrink.
Exact same CRT I have for my Xbox Original Kiosk. Such a killer CRT that works solid when fully cleaned up, rebuilt or in my case brand new when I got it from some RV owners who never used it.
Whenever you have a crt open for work, I always suggest reflowing solder on any high stress areas like pin headers or inputs. Good practice and preventative maintenance for those 20+ year old solder joints.
try using a seam ripping tool for removing shrink tube. I have done this for years, after learning it form another old-timer. I have several different sizes from really small to large to use on all of the possible sizes of shrink tube I run into.
Glad you were able to fix it! I'm also very happy you showed the composite vs. s-video vs. RGB comparison. I've always been curious what you can expect from s-video when rapidly changing luma while keeping chroma the same, and your comparison answers exactly that question. Thanks!
I knew it was the RCA connectors as soon as you said it was a loose connection somewhere, I have a vintage Sanyo stereo from the 80's and had the same issue with one of the audio-in RCA jacks, I resoldered both RCA jacks and the TRS jacks to make sure I won't have to take it back apart again for a long time and it started working right again, now I just need to fix the tape decks and I want to put a Ni-Mh charger in it that draws off the transformer on the back panel so I can put rechargeable D cells in it and put an RF connector on the back panel so it can be used in areas with poor AM/FM reception also figure out how to connect a single subwoofer to both audio outputs without changing the output to mono (the speakers are nice and do have some bass but the speakers plus a sub would make it sound even better).
5:12 it's for recording live TV with your VCR. I did this in 2014, when I found old VCR, and my TV also had composite video output. But if TV has SCART connector, with special adapter you can also get composite video output of live TV.
Currently use a Sanyo Spectra 2000. I would love to have it looked at by a caring professional. A speaker dusting, re capping, dent removal, and overall inspection would be a godsend. In the meantime, I just use it carefully.
5:13 I feel like Ive seen a lot of Late 90s early 00s CRTS with Video Out. (Or at least on larger 27" TVs) I believe it was to make it easier to digitize analog video sources. - Hook your VCR to the TV, and the TV to the DVR/capture device so you can monitor what its recording without needing a splitter. It came in very handy for early RUclips when a buncha people were using the Dazzle USB capture card to record, since that capture card has a lot of input delay.
Great video. In the service menu you can reduce the RGB individual black level. Not a great idea to reduce G2 on the Flyback as that’s a critical CRT bias voltage
My mother's CRT from 98 or 99 is still operational, i inherited it when she felt it was time for a flat panel, i keep this thing running nearly 24/7, never been serviced or cleaned. Sony made some solid stuff back in the day for sure.
I love how chill your content is. You're always a calming channel to watch for me while also being both entertaining and informative. Even though it's almost always inapplicable for me I find myself learning something new with almost every video of yours I watch. I love nerd shit.
Broken solder joint on the connector are the most common issues on old TVs. More often than not the connectors aren't screwed into the case meaning the only thing really holding it in place are the solder joints.
it's always nice to see others getting into the RGB side of retro hardware. although this is a new take I didn't know was even possible till your first video on the subject. I know you don't speak as an authority on the subject but your videos do serve as an inspiration for others to get into the hobby.
Honestly, I really want to get one of those little Samsung TVs, because when I moved out of state, the way I had to move I ended up having to leave behind my beloved little Orion TV that my mom and I bought ages ago back in 2000 when we started playing video games together in my room. That TV is so amazing, and I really miss it. Hopefully, I'll be able to go back and pick it up one day and play my classic consoles on it again. Obviously, with it being 24 years old, there will come a point where I'll have to learn how to solder so I can replace resistors, capacitors and so on to keep it working well in the future. I would also love to do some mods to it to be able to add component and S-Video upgrades as well. Seriously, for a $99 Walmart sold TV from a brand I'd never heard of in 2000, this little TV is an absolute trooper.
This guy never disappoints. I’ve been watching this guy’s videos since I was a kid and they still never disappoint to teach me about stuff that I never knew I’d be interested in.
Honestly David, you should probably get yourself a project box that you can "strap" to the side, convert the RGB to fully distinct component (so distinct sync signals too, and probably an extra connection for those switches on the inputs), run that into the project box, and build a cross-bar system in the project box so that you can just pop off the project box and add a new connection type (CGA, VGA, anything else you can think of) to the project box any time you feel like without having to risk yourself with an unshielded CRT.
That is a recurring problem with crt-monitors, we've had a TCL 40" tv from 2001 and over the years it would comeback then would go away with just a quick take to the shop. We've used it up until 2018, when it was swapped out for a flat screen.
That's a really common failure point in single sided home appliances (TVs, VCRs Stereos) but TVs are the worst culprit. Solder just does not make a good permanent mechanical bond. Throw in thermal expansion (wide metal brackets with tabs) and its a guaranteed point of failure. Cheers,
connectors like composite and scart just don't hold up well over time when subject to lots of cable changes, the port is usually fine but the solder joints crack and need a service every once in a while.
The missing 'outputs' are for the tuner-less VCRs, they're outputting video to record it with such a VHS recorder. Both the VCRs of that kind and the TVs with outputs were a commonplace here, basically European models with either RCA or SCART connectors.
Nice. I acquired an old Goldstar. I got the service manual so I’m having a tech come over and we’re going to see if we can fix it and add rgb or something.
I had a Samsung TXJ1366 13" (looks identical, assuming it's the same one?) back in the 90s for years to use with my C64 (when my 1802, the kind with the plastic shield over the screen, died a horrible death). It stayed with me until I got my A600 and eventually gave it away, but wish I kept it. That screen was so fantastic, small, and portable. Definitely one of my favorites as well, and some great memories.
I dunno if it works the other way around, but you can get an old British TV to display 60Hz, even if it couldn't show NTSC, by adjusting the vertical hold on the back of the set, though it would be in black and white. With a BBC Micro RGB output, you may be able to display 50Hz if you can access that vertical hold and get a colour picture, too.
Those missing RCA output jacks are probably the same as output pins in SCART connector, created so that the TV could have RF input connected and feed the decoded signal to VCRs. In Europe it was used in conjunction with set-top boxes that could decrypt paid content and send it back to TV or VCR.
It's interesting how if you know where to look you can see how uniform a lot electronics are. Like how you said in America, but it's North America, we didn't get the scarp connector but the TV has the provisions for it.
Excellent episode! Needless to say, all of my 8-bit adventures back in the day were via a conventional CRT TV (Panasonic in my case), so it was cool to see some CRT love. Best regards from Missouri!
"Your meticulous approach to maintaining and enhancing your Samsung TV is truly commendable. The RGB and S-Video modifications demonstrate a remarkable understanding of electronic systems and signal processing. The persistence you've shown in troubleshooting and repairing solder joints highlights a dedication to precision that I greatly admire. It's always satisfying to see someone preserving and improving vintage technology with such expertise. Well done!"
Just picked up a very similar model, inexpensively from Facebook Market Place. It is a quality TV, & has survived the test of time. I may attempt this mod as well. Thanks for demonstrating its value & functionality.
To save on swapping resistors I'd probably put some potentiometers in line instead, with an external control board so I could tweak the video signal for fine tuning as necessary. Cool mod! I may have to try this on my little CRT.
I had that same model of TV. Mine was defective right out of the box (front AV jacks did not work), but I still ended up using it for over 15 years before I got rid of it.
David, you mentioned that the BBC micro wouldn't work because of the 50Hz refresh. In my experience when you connect an RGB-signal almost all tv's will work just fine with 50Hz and 60Hz signals. This is because the horizontal sync is almost the same and there is enough leeway on the vertical sync. There is no need for color decoding with RGB it will almost always work just fine. Can't hurt to try..
I think that video outputs on such TVs were used to connect analog decoders for scrambled pay TV channels. The decoder returns the video signal from the tuned channel and feeds it back to the TV's video input. At least, that is how it worked with SCART cables. However, I'm not sure how it would work on this US version TV; maybe it is intended for a VCR or something similar.
My dad started out as a repair tech for Wards back in the 40’s. He could fix anything. He eventually ran their nationwide service division, but would still refuse to buy a new fridge, washer, dryer, or TV… he would just bring home broken appliances that customers did not want to pay the repair costs on and fix them. Our first color TV, in 1971, was an ancient RCA that still had a picture tube that was mostly round. My Dad kept replacing tubes and fixing that thing to keep it going so he could watch football in color. Then, one day the picture tube died and I watch as my dad hand Rewound the coils around the tube neck to get it working again. The second time the picture tube died, he finally threw in the towel and bought a new color TV. Even though he was a nationwide executive by that time, I think it was the first major appliance he ever actually paid for, new.
Eventually he replaced it nice.
But now you can't just replace crt tvs now you have to repair them or it's just gone forever.
Ngl, your dad is an actual GOAT for that.
I can't stop respecting ppl who stick to their work ethic despite moving up.
@@MDLuffy1234YT yeah, he was. Even at 75, still grabbed a shovel to dig a trench to find a water leak under my driveway. When I built my own studio, he did all the electrical work and helped hang all the drywall. He taught me self reliance and that a man can do anything that is doable.
You don't get stories like this anymore. Thanks for sharing.
I grew up basically ghetto poor, I remember my older sibling finding a VCR in the trash and he took it back to my dads, this would of been the chunky old ones that weighed probably as much as a modern tv if not more and my dad spent spent hours just taking the circuit boards out and testing components and cleaning it, think he paid a small amount of cash for some replacement capacitors or whatever from Radio Shack and we had a working VCR, this war around 1990, the tv he was given by a friend as it was faulty and he fixed it again cheaply. Finding things in the trash or being given broken devices was how I owned everything I did until my teen years, from a games console, even toys sometimes.
Everybody gangsta until David starts adding VGA, DVI, DisplayPort and HDMI support on that TV.
Don't forget SCART ;3
He just starts chrome-casting games to it.
VGA and DVI-A are already technically supported with a proper adapter since it's just RGB again
@@zUltra3D
Not entirely, RGB video has sync on green, so the RGBHV from VGA/DVI-A would need conversion before being sent to the TV, but at least you already have 5v in the VGA/DVI-A connector for the combining circuit
Today we are going to add 4K video resolution
I bet patreon supporters “excited” for such quality of content, totally worth it
It’s like he talking to toddlers or dummies or something: “I unscrew this, than solder a wire here, my technique is called “I’m first day at my job””, hard to watch honestly
Main theme is of course his “projects”, games and computer, neither of which is good, to be honest
I used to love this channel, but ether I became old and grumpy, or interesting videos on this channel were last seen several years ago
27 years without any issues? That's...quality
My mom has an AEG dryer that run for hours every week since the mid 70's. The only thing that has to be replaced once was the main belt. She renew it few years ago because newer models are less energy hungry but it was still working fine.
Most CRT's are pretty reliable like that. Theres not backlight or anything to go out eather
Plenty of CRTs work fine for decades
And I bet it wouldn't have happened had that RCA connector not been plugged and unplugged what I assume was way more than what'd be typical.
They don't make them like they used to that's for sure.
As an old git i remember growing up with TVs like this ( and older). This was a common problem, we had a local TV repair shop that would fix our TVs if this happened or if the SCART socket became loose , even after he "retired" and sold his shop he would still help out his longest running customers for a bit of extra cash when he retied. I guess he must be long gone by now, kind of sad.
The fact that you remember him and speak so fondly of him is a great testament to him and his work.
Growing up back in the day my dad would take the tubes from the console TV down to the drug store to test them on the tube testing vending machine, and if he couldn't figure out how to fix the TV that way we'd pay for a TV repairman to come over the house and fix the TV, bringing his tool kit into the living room. Those big console TVs are too heavy to just casually put in the car and drive to a shop.
I have a vague memory of the 1st scart compatible tv I had around 2000 that I think a pin bent as it kept losing sync dad fixed it but had to hot glue the connector to the case to stop it wiggling about after that.
At this point, this tv is probably like a family pet to him
tv was sick
That little Samsung TV just keeps getting better. Looking forward to your next "while I'm in there" upgrade.
Lol
What are the chances it becomes sentient?
@@Broken_robot1986 That should be in a Block 5 version. About a year away. Lol!
The last time things were made to last was around 2005!
Welcome back repair videos
Amen.
@@andymouse he has a ton on his other channel
Did he ever say he was stopping repairs? I thought it was just restorations.
@@KingNothing22 I didn't know ! cheers
I prefer his videos on pescii robots. Especially the ones that go into detail about how you can make the game black and white if you want to
David, i started watching you when i was about 7 years old when you were the ibook guy,i was fascinated by everything you did, now i own a small computer repair business, thank you for sparking my computer interest!
This TV has achieved legendary status at this point
0:54 - Being turned on and off for 27 years straight is highly relatable. 😅😅
lol
Fair enough, like deserved. 😂
On and off 27 years gay
You're married too, huh?
holup
I had the same model TV. My parents bought it for me when I broke my hip and was stuck in a wheelchair and body cast. It was my constant companion. After MANY years of use it did the same thing as yours. I'd have to bang on the side of it to make it work. Thanks for the awesome vid!
I think you can also make this TV work on 50 Hz, on IC 901 (SZM-284EV) on pin 7 there's a 50/60 Hz mode, your TV has that pulled to ground, I believe if you pull it high it will switch to 50 Hz mode. So it should work with your BBC micro on RGB 50 Hz. You can install a toggle switch to set the sync between 50 and 60 Hz
That TV has been through so much and the memories we have from it in this channel are so precious! I’m happy it gets to live another day and also I love that it keeps being upgraded! It’s just getting better and better!
This SAMSUNG is a real hero of this channel
The unSUNG hero
If there ever was a walking billboard for Samsung, it's that little TV.
I just watched dankpod's latest video and now I can't stop calling it SMASNUG
@948320z there’s a video from the RUclipsr f4mi that tracks down what’s the deal with the SMASNUG bootleg brand that is very funny!
@@EmielRoumen I would argue it's SomeSUNG
Hey look at you rockin' that Time Rift Arcade shirt!
Finally some real 8-bit Guy Content, the community definitely liked this one!
Did you not like his unreal content?
@@matthewdevenish1106 There was a tournament of opinions to be sure
My dad used to be a TV repair engineer, he was doing stuff like this in the 90s when people wanted more inputs/outputs and even then (here in the UK) we had SCART, so we were getting the best pic possible on CRT TVs/monitors. He passed away 2 years ago.
I am sure his repairs are still working
I wonder why Scart never took off on the USA, it basically was SVHS/RGB but many years earlier, I was actually pretty shocked how bad the picture quality was when I first came to the US, given I was exposed to scart many years earlier and thought it to be a worldwide standard and then I ran into a composite/NTSC combination and my view on the world was crushed...
@@werpu12Because it was an European thing, then snubbed.
@werpu12 There was an attempt to bring SCART to the US, but at the time it only did composite video and therefore wasn't really anything special, which is probably why it never took off.
We never got RGB, because we never needed it here. Over in Europe there were two standards for color TV, PAL and SECAM, that were completely incompatible with each other so RGB had to be standardized as a necessity.
Instead, as time went on and we got better TV's and we wanted better picture, we just expanded on existing luma-chroma systems to get S-Video and Component. This kept backwards compatibility with older TV's and let us get better fidelity with older equipment.
R.I.P., David's Samsung TV, at least for a little while, then it becomes reborn an even better TV than before. 😊
If you strike me down, I shall come back more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
it had an NDE and came back from that with super powers - pretty typical
It was one of those patients that was dead for a few minutes on the operating table.
This is one of those little channels where whenever a new video comes out, I watch it ASAP and while the intro is rolling, I already hit the thumbs up button because I know it's going to be good, I don't have to watch it first to know. And as always, I was not disappointed.
The music itself deserves the thumbs up.
Its not little and in a odd coincidence the last 8 bit vid I watched ws the original mod He did. Watched it this morning.
@@cheeseparis1 I agree, one of the best intro songs of the channels that I sub to.
the quality of David's intro in and of itself deserves a thumbs up - not over the top, not half-as*ed, not too short, not too long, is just right
@@TheSulross Angers Jenson made that intro and outro.
i have the same exact set and i always look forward to seeing it's appearances on the show
Always love the repair vids. Thanks for sharing!
1:39 I see on the bottom of the monitor’s screen it says “FidoNet”. By the time I was using I was accessing Fido Net I had an Amiga 500 with a 2400 baud modem. Still brings back memories. Want to give you a big hug.
Man, I have been watching your stuff for years and years at this point. I still love your repair and take apart videos. Much love 8-bit Guy
Watching you save this TV gives me hope for repairing/salvaging some of the CRT tvs I’ve been saving the last few years.
I love how the back cover still has the hole for Scart at the back and they just slapped the composite into the scart hole :DDD
8-bit guy.
Thanks for getting back to what you used to do. these were the videos I used to love to watch and that's the reason I found your channel cuz I found you modding old stuff is so fascinating
I saw a guy on RUclips who circuit-bent one of these small CRTs once. Very risky to do, but the sounds and visuals that came out of that thing were wild.
My 27” Samsung that appears to be a very similar model developed the same issue, on the front-mounted composite input. I haven’t gotten around to fixing it yet, just wedged something in to tweak the connection a bit to make contact. I should fix it this weekend, thanks for the inspiration!
Mate, I've been a very long subscriber and till to this day, it just eases up my mind watching your videos, listening to your voice, your camera work, video editing but the best of all, it's content and how you get us entertained!!!
I love your intro (never change it) and love how its perfectly written.
Again, that was a very fun video and please, keep those videos coming even tho I know how hard it is to come up with something.
Also, still have the exact same TV but with VHS player/recorder. My father bought it for me when I was a kid, still working to this day.
Great video and awesome work. A little correction on the N64 supporting RGB 9:31. It weirdly doesn’t out of box. Even though the SNES and GameCube do. You need a RGB mod chip installed in the N64. It’s cheap, like $30, and very easy to do. A great first time mod for someone just starting out soldering. If you’re interested, it would make a great future project/video. 👍
This TV is practically a main character on this channel. Awesome work, David!
Just like my Admiral GOJ 12332 I found at a dumpster in 2019.
I’m glad you’re able to fix that Samsung CRT TV, because no company makes these type of TVs anymore! My last CRT I owned was a Samsung HD CRT, it was a great from rhythm games like Dance Dance Revolution, but I got rid of it and sold it on Craigslist that had a pickup truck.
Yeah, it's much more likely these days to get a new laser-projector based TV than a CRT one, since the laser option can be aimed with achievable hardware instead of large vacuum tubes.
@@absalomdraconis but laser projection is way too expensive, and it’s not suitable for retro gaming. CRT is like the vinyl of display technology.
Someone has to make a 4k CRT
@@gabrielv.4358 it would be too expensive and heavy to make big 4K CRTs. It would only be a small CRT for industrial uses.
@@gabrielv.4358some higher end PC CRT monitors from LaCie could display 2160 lines interlaced
I love your "Time Rift" t-shirt in the talking head parts of the video.
5:15 those outputs are for daisy chaining. either for mobile applications (like a touring bus) or for restaurants
I've been collecting CRT TVs to play my Atari and NES on as well as VHS thank you 8-bit guy for making these videos to give us information cuz I really like your videos and how informative they are
I bought this kind of little Samsung tv as my first tv when I went on living on myself in a student dorm. I have no idea what happened to it, but it never failed.
Funny coincidence that you'd upload this now, I just bought my first CRT television and I'm totally in love with it. Great video, and for what it's worth I would enjoy seeing more CRT repairs on this channel, be they televisions or monitors. Cheers from Dallas, TX
You tapping all that TV in the beginning of the video was shockingly realistic acoustically, I'm running on cheap earbuds and I genuinely thought that was in my room and I am scared s*** less lmao
We never really used S-Video here in europe, but I have added that to all of my old consoles, because it just works so well with Retrotink and HDMI monitor.
David, if the heat shrink still has room to shrink, you can just score the outside lengthwise and apply heat. It will pull itself apart at the score line has it shrinks. This work especially well on the glue lined heat shrink.
Exact same CRT I have for my Xbox Original Kiosk. Such a killer CRT that works solid when fully cleaned up, rebuilt or in my case brand new when I got it from some RV owners who never used it.
The hero rises once again!
Whenever you have a crt open for work, I always suggest reflowing solder on any high stress areas like pin headers or inputs. Good practice and preventative maintenance for those 20+ year old solder joints.
try using a seam ripping tool for removing shrink tube. I have done this for years, after learning it form another old-timer. I have several different sizes from really small to large to use on all of the possible sizes of shrink tube I run into.
After all of these years, IMO, still the best retro/tech channel on the interwebs.
Glad you were able to fix it! I'm also very happy you showed the composite vs. s-video vs. RGB comparison. I've always been curious what you can expect from s-video when rapidly changing luma while keeping chroma the same, and your comparison answers exactly that question. Thanks!
I knew it was the RCA connectors as soon as you said it was a loose connection somewhere, I have a vintage Sanyo stereo from the 80's and had the same issue with one of the audio-in RCA jacks, I resoldered both RCA jacks and the TRS jacks to make sure I won't have to take it back apart again for a long time and it started working right again, now I just need to fix the tape decks and I want to put a Ni-Mh charger in it that draws off the transformer on the back panel so I can put rechargeable D cells in it and put an RF connector on the back panel so it can be used in areas with poor AM/FM reception also figure out how to connect a single subwoofer to both audio outputs without changing the output to mono (the speakers are nice and do have some bass but the speakers plus a sub would make it sound even better).
5:12 it's for recording live TV with your VCR. I did this in 2014, when I found old VCR, and my TV also had composite video output.
But if TV has SCART connector, with special adapter you can also get composite video output of live TV.
Currently use a Sanyo Spectra 2000. I would love to have it looked at by a caring professional. A speaker dusting, re capping, dent removal, and overall inspection would be a godsend. In the meantime, I just use it carefully.
5:13 I feel like Ive seen a lot of Late 90s early 00s CRTS with Video Out. (Or at least on larger 27" TVs)
I believe it was to make it easier to digitize analog video sources. - Hook your VCR to the TV, and the TV to the DVR/capture device so you can monitor what its recording without needing a splitter.
It came in very handy for early RUclips when a buncha people were using the Dazzle USB capture card to record, since that capture card has a lot of input delay.
NICE SHIRT! Where do I get one? I can't wait for opening day!
Great video. In the service menu you can reduce the RGB individual black level. Not a great idea to reduce G2 on the Flyback as that’s a critical CRT bias voltage
My mother's CRT from 98 or 99 is still operational, i inherited it when she felt it was time for a flat panel, i keep this thing running nearly 24/7, never been serviced or cleaned. Sony made some solid stuff back in the day for sure.
I love how chill your content is. You're always a calming channel to watch for me while also being both entertaining and informative. Even though it's almost always inapplicable for me I find myself learning something new with almost every video of yours I watch. I love nerd shit.
Nothing lightens up a drab day at the office like an upload from Dave 🎉🎉🎉
It was a very useful episode as a CRT display user. Thanks, David!
Broken solder joint on the connector are the most common issues on old TVs. More often than not the connectors aren't screwed into the case meaning the only thing really holding it in place are the solder joints.
1:32 8:28 - RGB mode also shifts pixels to the left, I've seen this on other RGB mods, you can correct for this also.
it's always nice to see others getting into the RGB side of retro hardware. although this is a new take I didn't know was even possible till your first video on the subject.
I know you don't speak as an authority on the subject but your videos do serve as an inspiration for others to get into the hobby.
i like that the mono composite jacks in the rear are in a cutout that would CLEARLY be scart in other regions lol
Honestly, I really want to get one of those little Samsung TVs, because when I moved out of state, the way I had to move I ended up having to leave behind my beloved little Orion TV that my mom and I bought ages ago back in 2000 when we started playing video games together in my room. That TV is so amazing, and I really miss it. Hopefully, I'll be able to go back and pick it up one day and play my classic consoles on it again.
Obviously, with it being 24 years old, there will come a point where I'll have to learn how to solder so I can replace resistors, capacitors and so on to keep it working well in the future. I would also love to do some mods to it to be able to add component and S-Video upgrades as well. Seriously, for a $99 Walmart sold TV from a brand I'd never heard of in 2000, this little TV is an absolute trooper.
These are the videos I love to watch. Thanks for upload David!
This guy never disappoints. I’ve been watching this guy’s videos since I was a kid and they still never disappoint to teach me about stuff that I never knew I’d be interested in.
Honestly David, you should probably get yourself a project box that you can "strap" to the side, convert the RGB to fully distinct component (so distinct sync signals too, and probably an extra connection for those switches on the inputs), run that into the project box, and build a cross-bar system in the project box so that you can just pop off the project box and add a new connection type (CGA, VGA, anything else you can think of) to the project box any time you feel like without having to risk yourself with an unshielded CRT.
That is a recurring problem with crt-monitors, we've had a TCL 40" tv from 2001 and over the years it would comeback then would go away with just a quick take to the shop. We've used it up until 2018, when it was swapped out for a flat screen.
That's a really common failure point in single sided home appliances (TVs, VCRs Stereos) but TVs are the worst culprit. Solder just does not make a good permanent mechanical bond. Throw in thermal expansion (wide metal brackets with tabs) and its a guaranteed point of failure.
Cheers,
connectors like composite and scart just don't hold up well over time when subject to lots of cable changes, the port is usually fine but the solder joints crack and need a service every once in a while.
Whenever I see this TV in your videos I get a hit of nostalgia cause I'm pretty sure it's the exact model I had as a kid in my bedroom.
The missing 'outputs' are for the tuner-less VCRs, they're outputting video to record it with such a VHS recorder. Both the VCRs of that kind and the TVs with outputs were a commonplace here, basically European models with either RCA or SCART connectors.
Nice. I acquired an old Goldstar. I got the service manual so I’m having a tech come over and we’re going to see if we can fix it and add rgb or something.
I had a Samsung TXJ1366 13" (looks identical, assuming it's the same one?) back in the 90s for years to use with my C64 (when my 1802, the kind with the plastic shield over the screen, died a horrible death). It stayed with me until I got my A600 and eventually gave it away, but wish I kept it. That screen was so fantastic, small, and portable. Definitely one of my favorites as well, and some great memories.
As your RGB mod on this tv was the first video I watched from you, seeing this in my notifications made me really happy
I had a huge 1080i CRT back in the day, I should have never gotten rid of it, the picture was amazing.
That commodore video jack looks so nice, good job man
We live in a 'throw away if it gives me trouble' world. Good to see you repairing, modifying, upgrading.
My favorite tool for removing heat shrink is a seam ripper. They are cheap, readily available at craft stores, and work great.
I dunno if it works the other way around, but you can get an old British TV to display 60Hz, even if it couldn't show NTSC, by adjusting the vertical hold on the back of the set, though it would be in black and white. With a BBC Micro RGB output, you may be able to display 50Hz if you can access that vertical hold and get a colour picture, too.
Those missing RCA output jacks are probably the same as output pins in SCART connector, created so that the TV could have RF input connected and feed the decoded signal to VCRs. In Europe it was used in conjunction with set-top boxes that could decrypt paid content and send it back to TV or VCR.
Lets go, repair video
I had a massive twinge of nostalgia when you fired up that Plus/4 - it was my first computer and had it for Xmas 1985
Bro still hasn’t let it die
Kudos to you for keeping it running
Wow! We got this TV when I was 3-4 years old and retired after 18 years. Solid piece of tech
2:00
Wowzers! He added component video too? Would it be able to display progressive scan?
0:45 have you tried slapping it on the top ?
7:07 That was spooky! I'm wearing NC headphones and the tapping noise genuinely sounded like someone or something was tapping on my ceiling 😱
It's interesting how if you know where to look you can see how uniform a lot electronics are.
Like how you said in America, but it's North America, we didn't get the scarp connector but the TV has the provisions for it.
Excellent episode! Needless to say, all of my 8-bit adventures back in the day were via a conventional CRT TV (Panasonic in my case), so it was cool to see some CRT love. Best regards from Missouri!
honeslty every time this guy posts i get so much joy
Any video from 8BG is a good video.
"Your meticulous approach to maintaining and enhancing your Samsung TV is truly commendable. The RGB and S-Video modifications demonstrate a remarkable understanding of electronic systems and signal processing. The persistence you've shown in troubleshooting and repairing solder joints highlights a dedication to precision that I greatly admire. It's always satisfying to see someone preserving and improving vintage technology with such expertise. Well done!"
Just picked up a very similar model, inexpensively from Facebook Market Place. It is a quality TV, & has survived the test of time. I may attempt this mod as well. Thanks for demonstrating its value & functionality.
To save on swapping resistors I'd probably put some potentiometers in line instead, with an external control board so I could tweak the video signal for fine tuning as necessary. Cool mod! I may have to try this on my little CRT.
The joy of having a SCART socket on PAL TVs.
I had that same model of TV. Mine was defective right out of the box (front AV jacks did not work), but I still ended up using it for over 15 years before I got rid of it.
It's a good day when an 8BG video comes out. Love the BBS reference. Miss those days.
Repair videos are so awesome. Keep doing them please
8:41 you can clearly see how the assembly bends during insertion. Not surprisingly, the solder joints loosens after a while.
I’m glad you were able to fix that little tv… I basically consider it a co-Star of your channel!
I have an almost identical PAL model with scart RGB and I can actually see the position of the scart port which isn’t used in yours. Woah
David, you mentioned that the BBC micro wouldn't work because of the 50Hz refresh. In my experience when you connect an RGB-signal almost all tv's will work just fine with 50Hz and 60Hz signals. This is because the horizontal sync is almost the same and there is enough leeway on the vertical sync. There is no need for color decoding with RGB it will almost always work just fine. Can't hurt to try..
I think that video outputs on such TVs were used to connect analog decoders for scrambled pay TV channels. The decoder returns the video signal from the tuned channel and feeds it back to the TV's video input. At least, that is how it worked with SCART cables. However, I'm not sure how it would work on this US version TV; maybe it is intended for a VCR or something similar.