The World's SMALLEST Color CRT TV!
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- This is the Panasonic CT-101 TravelVision CRT TV. It's the smallest Color CRT Television ever manufactured. Let's explore this rare hardware.
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0:00 - Intro to the Panasonic CT-101
1:55 - First look at the Box and Instruction Manual
6:10 - First look at the Panasonic CT-101
9:07 - Composite video testing
10:55 - Gaming on a 1.5" Screen
13:27 - Inside the CRT TV
17:41 - Best CRT photos of all time!
20:20 - Outro - Special Thanks 
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whoever came up with this idea and actually got it manufactured is an engineering legend for sure
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.
things were still very much built to last
CRT's & their screens were so A1, & high-quality as a kid :D
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!
Must've cost an arm and a leg when it was new.
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 heard about the viewfinder, i really hope i can get my hands on one of those one day!
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.
Impressive tech for early 80's. Portable, and full color! Shoot!
Really impressed by those zoom shots at the end, amazing.
I originally thought it was a beam-index CRT, but then realised it's really a full triple-gun CRT. Truly amazing miniaturisation.
This is a really neat little device. Congrats on adding it to you collection.
NICE SMILE, SIR. GOOD MEMORIES, UNIQUE TECH.
Wow! Amazing, and thanks for sharing. 🙂👍
Great video. Talk about a blast from the past - I am of the age group that can remember TV magnifiers. Subscribed!
Wow thats just amazing, I will get one!
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.
It's a fairly creative usage of parts that may have otherwise sat in boxes in a warehouse somewhere unless this kind of product existed
That thin is just cool. Thanks for sharing loved it. 😁👍✌️😎
it looks very beautiful.... such as a jewel .... good stuff
Oh wow, i can only imagine actually trying to watch stuff on that small screen haha. Nice video!
imagine binge watching your favorite show/Netflix with that!!!😆🥴🥴
the color magnifying was mindblowing!!!
Extremely cool
That nice box.
Was just playing super metroid on my tablet yesterday, and it didn't sound as crisp as this. Impressive
Haha, just beautiful seeing Super Metroid running on that tiny CRT🥹
3:30 Oh hey, a cameo appearance from the oft reviled Porsche 914!
Man that white Sony over your right shoulder is the same model I found for 5$ a few months ago while thrifting. Sweet!
i would love to see a custom handheld made with this tube as a screen :D
Hey love your videos bud! FYI matsushita was the parent company of panasonic!
Reminds me of the tube in the SX64 from Commodore. I’m sure that was slightly bigger, but it has the same issue with the shadow mask being to large.
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
With headphones it is trippy listening to Super Metroid being played on the speaker.
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!
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.
the device pictured on the box is a portable video recorder (i used to have one)
You rearranged your downstairs living space. You bought a white glass door cabinet from IKEA probably.
I had the black and white version years ago. It had am/fm stereo also.
Same, I still have it
I would love to see a comparsion with the JVC TM-P3 which i thought was the smallest color crt
Dang, the geometry on that thing looks better than my 1354-Q!
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.
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..
Thanks Anthony. Yeah this one is so small. It's amazing that panasonic made it.
I watch all my porn on mine. It's less intimidating that way
Great video, love this little unit.
Will you cover the 1.5" beam index CRT at some point?
Would be cool to see a quality comparison between those two
And here I am trying to find a normal size crt 😊
Great condition. Presentation re the packaging seems ahead of its time. I am struggling with my CRT habit 🙂
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 want one. And I want to modify it so I have a unit with a digital TV converter in it, wired to the original antenna. That would be fun
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
Couldn't you say that the smallest color CRT is actually one of those viewfinder CRTs in a VHS or betamax camera?
yes, but those were NOT TV sets.
I Had same tv with am fm turner in it,pushed buttons to tune channels,cost 475 dollars new,took that tv everywhere.
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.
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.
You said that it used to be able to tune UHF and VHF channels. It still can but other than an RF Modulated source there's nothing to receive.
Panasonic/Matsushita has always had really impressive technology, attractive industrial design... and unfortunately not the most amazing build quality. Can't win 'em all.
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.
Box photo: 1976 opening of the Olympic Games in Montreal
Thanks for that cool info
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.
5 inch and below in colour is very low res since it has a similar phosphor dot pitch to a normal tube on those old TVs
Did it get damaged during shipping? I have a small portable citizen LCD TV from the nineties, but this is so much cooler!
No, unfortunately the plastic on these models became extremely brittle and most of them get cracks and breaks easily.
🎈🎉🎊🥳👍👍👍👍😜 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.
Here for the algorithm 😉 see you in 6 hours 🥂
Your engineers were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. Awesome find!
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?
Man if I didn't have a lot of Trinitron I would get some of these bad bois. That and some of their Technics bois.
Super Mario World menu is much smaller than "In God We Trust" on the quarter. Dude...
So if this is the smallest, then I'm tempted to ask: What's the biggest?
Luckily I seen crt TV
Is that a gamers Nexus mod matt!
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. ruclips.net/video/t8kZ7h4xZDY/видео.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
That little guy is the same age as me lol works better too
I can't believe that little TV is my age 😅.
So small!
So cool.
Smaller than a Gameboy Advance...lol
looks like 120p resolution
WHAT IS THIS??? A CRT FOR ANTS?
promosm
play some ps3 on it
Very low resolution.
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.