BBE = Barcus-Berry Electronics. It's an audio processing system that boosts the midrange frequencies at lower levels, in an attempt to improve vocal clarity.
That must be what is totally ruining the music when Mario returns the wand to the castle on each world of Super Mario Bros 3. I have the Steady Sound feature turned off but the volume is going nuts.
I have a Toshiba 20AF44 and I use it for retro gaming. The Toshiba's are one of the best CRT TV's you can get other than the Sony Trinitron line of TV's. The colors are deep and vivid and the clarity is amazing.
The 16:9 mode works when you set your connected device (e.g. DVD player or set-top box) to 'anamorphic', which has the effect of looking like a 4:3 image stretched vertically. This of course, crams the whole 16:9 image into a 4:3 frame. Then simply utilise the TV's 16:9 mode to view as intended. Hope that makes sense!
Most, if not all DVD players should have this setting already though (set up what type of TV you have in the DVD settings menu), since "anamorphic widescreen" is built-in to the DVD spec. The DVD resolution (720x480) is neither 4:3 or 16:9, so it gets stretched into non-square pixels regardless of the setting. I could see this being useful if you didn't have the DVD player remote though, or had it hooked up to both a 4:3 and 16:9 TV through a splitter.
@@probnotstech Close, but you wouldn’t want the DVD player to add letterboxing because that will lower the resolution. Sony and Toshiba sets like this maintain a higher resolution by doing the vertical compression themselves to add letterboxing. The image is still 480 lines so you aren’t losing any detail from the movie frame like you would if the DVD player scaled it down and added black lines.
I remember when I was little we had this "mini" CRT with a dvd player back when that was new tech that we would balance on the middle console of our car to watch movies on during road trips. 😂
We did that for our road trips but the tv we used had a vcr instead. It really helped when we went to Indianapolis from Kansas City to see our grandparents m
I cried when my 19" Magnavox CRT from 1980 died in 2002 even though the picture quality had gone to hell months before. I grew up with that TV. It was like losing a friend. I replaced it with a 36" Magnavox CRT from 1998, which is now in my shed. I upgraded to an HDTV in 2013 and sadly I don't have space for both. I miss it for retro gaming.
There's something oddly nice about the recursion in 6:36 - Ben talking about a TV showing Ben behind a box showing Ben behind a box showing Ben behind a box.
The widescreen button exists for anamorphic content. Most widescreen DVDs were encoded anamorphically, so used the full horizontal resolution, but due to the DVD standard, were still 4:3 format, and had to be stretched out on a widescreen TV or squashed on a 4:3 to look right. Most hardware would detect this automatically and compensate, but usually TVs will still have a button just in case.
00:07:20 I think the 16:9 feature is if you set the DVD player to wide-screen, you use the whole scan field for a wide screen picture instead of the 100 lines or whatever for black bars on the top and bottom. It also works great for Android TV boxes, Google Chrome, etc.. where they are not supporting 4:3 and get steched out using a converter box.
My sister still has a Toshiba 36AF42 The REALLY BIG (36") brother to this.. DVD video thru the component connection is frankly amazing! OTOH, It weighs more than her Subaru Forrester. LOL.
I still got a white Quasar TV/VCR combo* that I got for Christmas 2000. I use it for playing vintage games on my Retron 3 that I got in 2015. To think I hooked it up to flatscreens for the longest time before finding out about the frame rate dilemma. Needless to say it's the only way I can watch tapes. *It's a Quasar VV1310W
Oddly enough I still have this CRT TV in my bedroom for about 8 years now since the older one stopped working. I'm using the HDMI to Component converter box for my Xbox One S to display on the tv and it looks quite nice despite 480i being maximum resolution it supports.
@@90sNath Well no. The 24af44 Toshiba crt tv I have only supports outputing 480i maximum. That also includes component (which is the ColorStream input channel) only supporting 480i resolution (which is interlaced and not progressive scan) output so my hdmi to component scaler had to be set to 480i in order to display anything at all although this means that the resolutions from my Xbox One S and Xbox 360 remains unchanged thanks to my converter box.
From a google search: "The BBE process is more than a simple EQ. They have a sort of dynamic equalizer circuit in them that does most of what you hear. When a midrange signal goes over a certain threshold it applies a boost to the high frequencies. This deceptively simple sounding process can really do wonders for the clarity and dynamics of your music. It will make some instruments come “alive” and jump out of the mix while it may make others a little strident or edgy sounding (more of those darned subjective audio terms there). It just depends on the nature of the source material and how heavily you apply the process. There is a bass compensation circuit to let you readjust the overall tonal balance. The aforementioned dynamic equalizer will tend to make the material sound a little bass light so this control allows you to put those low frequencies back into perspective. Of course most people use too much of both controls and end up with a very skewed tonal balance in the end. Basically it ends up sounding somewhat like the dreaded old “smiley-face” graphic equalizer curve. Sounds neat for a while, but really wears on you over time."
Ben, you should look up anamorphic DVDs. It’s a way to encode 16:9 material by using the full 525/625 lines of resolution of the 4:3 NTSC or PAL signal. When played normally it looks like everything is stretched. Using the squish button you make look everything ok again, but retaining the full resolution because the entire image is squished together.
I had my DVD player hooked up during testing-I didn’t have to change a thing for any widescreen movies. For the record, I only own one or two non-anamorphic DVD’s.
the 16:9 was useful in combination with external receivers which offered 16:9 content on component "un-letterboxed" (by result: "non-square pixels", non 1:1-PAR). So you could enjoy 16:9 HD (mostly 1080i that time) in the best horizontal resolution possible on a cheap CRT, without chaning the horizontal frequency.
All my CRTs are gone. I miss my 20 inch Sony from the mid 90s. It was sold during a move. That and my vcr. Trying to find one around here is going to be really hard.
I have a JVC I'Art 19in CRT TV in storage as my backup that has this same design language, that has component input with a flat screen. My main CRT is a 27in curved glass Panasonic with component inputs, and stereo outputs my parents originally bought around early 03, and I still have the remote for the Panasonic, and still works wonderfully in my game room as my retro console display, and with a Roku Express+ for when I want to watch 2 things as once.
A lot of Sony’s 4:3 sets had 16:9 modes using vertical compression exactly like this. The use case is actually pretty obvious when you think about it: Full resolution anamorphic widescreen with the correct aspect ratio on a standard-definition 4:3 display. When you set a DVD player or game console to proper 16:9 anamorphic wide screen output where you don’t lose resolution to letterboxing, you get a distorted image on a 4:3 set until you enable this mode. Obviously, the signal is intended for a widescreen display, a projector with an anamorphic lens, or a 4:3 display with a vertical compression feature like this. You’d want the same output mode even on a widescreen TV. If you output the anamorphic DVD with letterboxing and then use your TV to zoom you’d only be losing resolution. Your fancy setup for the time would have even less resolution than someone watching the standard aspect version on a 4:3 TV. In addition to DVD players, even games like Goldeneye 007 supported this anamorphic widescreen mode (a lot of Rareware titles, actually). I know at least one of the WipEout games on PlayStation supported it too. Heck, there’s even a 16 bit Genesis game that supports it.
This looks a lot like one of those old Samsung TVs we had. As far as I know, my family had unfortunately threw all of them away not too long ago, but it was nice to have them
looks even closer to my 19in JVC I'Art from a few years later, so I'm wondering if they where make in the same factory as the Toshiba with the same design/engineering team, and they just slapped on different badges, and features feature sets to match the price.
Many avid retro gamers insist on CRT's due to digital monitors' higher latency with analog sources; most Super Smash Bros tournaments are done entirely on CRT's, for example. Perhaps that's driving up their price.
Yes that's part of it, and just common people not seeing the value in keeping on around, so in places like mine they have sent them to the local recycle drop off no matter what the condition is because all they know is you gotta have that HDTV. I currently have 3 CRT's in my care, my main being an early 00's 27in Panasonic CRT with curved glass, component/S-video inputs, stereo composite on the front, and stereo output to external speakers(still have the OG remote), and I got it from my mother, and step father who where gonna chuck it, and it works great in my game room as a 2nd display for retro consoles, VCR, and a Roku Express when I want to watch say to 2 wrestling programs as once. the others in storage in my shop are a flat screen 19in JVC I'Art I got after my real father died over a decade ago, that also has component/s-video input, and stereo composite on the front, but no audio out, and the other is a cheap flat screen 19in Symphonic(Funai) that sadly only has stereo composite on the front, but a really nice clear sharp picture(might have the jungle IC modded for component input, and stereo output at some point if possible).
And not to mention, for the obvious light gun games. I keep a Commodore 1702 monitor around for this purpose since it has a RCA video and a single audio input. For a NES, SMS, or Genesis Model 1, that’s fine.
I used to use the composite output on my Sony WEGA HD TV set (it was a 16:9 CRT set) for copying tapes that had macrovision. Either the TV was limiting the video amplitude, or removing the macrovision pulses, since the picture was stable even on the duplicated tape. I wonder if that is the same story with your Toshiba?
I have an odd TV from Toshiba too. It is a CRT, 1080i. It also has a DVD, and VHS built in. It can read photos via SD card. I use it for my retro systems. I also use the hdmi (overscan!) for my roku. I can play newer games on my 55 inch, and watch TV at the same time. I got it for twenty bucks! Delivered. It is way over 100lbs.
I have a Sanyo that is nearly its twin with the same inputs. I'm sure they share the same tube. The picture is pretty nice and has all those bells and whistles. It's a great machine to play lightgun or use for going Digital to Analog (with an HDMI to S-Video converter).
A wild Torgo draws near at 6:21! I bought a Toshiba 27AF45, essentially a larger version of this set, back in 2004 and still use it to this day. It puts out a very nice picture over component and s-video. Knowing how to enter the service menu is helpful, hold the volume down to 0 on the set and hold the 9 button on the remote until the yellow OSD appears.
From what I can see this tv comes from an era when nearly all models were offered with 16:9 as well as with 4:3 screen, because widescreen was expected to become a standard, but most stations were still transmitting in 4:3.
The reason that there is a 16:9 function on that television set, is this. Watch this @ to see what I mean. This guy explains it better than I can. @ 11:50 ruclips.net/video/nuvd2A1_CUc/видео.html I own a 2001 Sony DVD player, and it can be set to display anamorphic video content, in a 4:3 aspect ratio, which you would then set your television to 16:9. The ENTIRE television electron beam is used, when it is set up this way.
There's a subreddit on CRT gaming. Either the AF series or the Trinitron line are the two that are constantly recommended. I have a Trinitron KV-20FS12 that I use as my primary TV. As always, the front flap for the 2nd input is missing. The Trinitron has a 16:9 mode but it's in the service menu. Which is annoying. I still record some stuff to tape, and always use anamorphic/squished mode for maximum picture quality.
Hi Ben. I had the 13 inch version which I used for editing SDTV video. IMO it is the best SDTV I ever owned and performed nearly as well as a Sony studio monitor. When it was obvious that I wouldn't be needing it anymore I couldn't sell it and had to donate it. Perfect condition with the original working remote. I nearly cried! Those were the days - end of an era.
Gotta keep a few of these gems around for vintage gaming. Sad to say in 2020-21 my local city recycling has a hut where one can drop off their no-longer-wanted CRT-based TVs, and I'm seeing quite a few just sitting there waiting for disposal. Some day soon, they'll be fewer and farther between.
The vertical crush was useful in the day because a lot of DVD players had really bad scalers, so you'd have a bit clearer picture just having the DVD outputting to the TV totally unscaled, and just having the TV adjust its geometry to display 16:9 movies. Even with a good scaler in a DVD player, it'd still of course, lose some clarity, so it's mostly just a tradeoff made back then that was easy to implement and doesn't make a whole ton of sense in the context of a modern TV.
Of all the TV's...this is the same tv my husband had for years when we got together, wow. Many an hour of ps2 played on it. Personal nostalgia points there aside, it's definitely a nice find!
I've always wondered... Why do CRTs last so long? Computer monitors, TVs, the CRT ones last for 30 years or more, while modern monitors last like only 10.
For the same reasons that you can probably fire up a calculator from the 70s and it will still work: relatively basic technology. There's not a lot that goes on in these tvs and the fact that they are not computers like modern displays means they are much less likely to develop a fault serious enough to cause the whole thing to shut down.
Hello I need some help I have the toshiba crt 20af42 and I'm trying to hook up my Sanyo vcr but I don't have a remote, there is no input button how could I get it to work?
I used to have a Toshiba 14AF41. It was the first TV I got with video inputs. The TV I had before it only had a cable/antenna input. It was a really nice TV but it only lasted 8 years. I wish I kept it because fixing it could possibly have been easy, but sadly, I didn't have the room for it.
Is it one of those incredibly heavy ones that requires two burly movers to pick it up and move it? My parents had one that the color just completely died out on and they still have it because they never hired anyone to take it out of the house. I tried to help them once but couldn't even push it 2 inches.
It weighs around 40 pounds if I had to guess. I do know what you mean though-my parents’ old Trinitron weighed around 400 pounds (not an exaggeration).
That's the thing I don't like about old TV's. The weight. Took at least 2 movers to get that TV on top of a cabinet, and even then they had trouble with it. Scratched the cabinet putting it on there, too.
The flat-screen on this model doesn't negatively effect light guns. Curved glass crts were easier to make so most brands went with that. The flat-screen models have extra circuitry in them to keep the image in focus in the corners. The hd crts are not worth the trouble. Imo you will get a better image through the component inputs on this sd tv. I have a review on my channel of the 32 inch version of this tv. Interesting to note the 32 and 36 inch versions have a far superior Toshiba tube in them. I believe the 20af43 has a Orion tube.
I had 2 before that came with the mobile home that I used to live in... and after the tv went kaput, it was replaced with another one...long before I was moved out
Last summer, I found an Insignia NS-20FTV "flat screen" CRT at the local flea market. There was no remote of course, but I am able to control the essential functions with the front panel buttons. I mainly use my Insignia CRT for retro gaming and those plug-and-play game systems. I've never had much luck with third-party universal remotes either. I tried many brands over the years, and I never use them because only the basic functions work. I still need to get the original remote out of I wanted to access menus or other advanced features. Probably the only universal remotes that can work all the features are more expensive models like the Logitech Harmony. And when it comes to converter boxes, Walmart and Menards still have some. The converter boxes at Menards even have the ability to record ATSC signals to a USB drive, but I can't vouch for how well that works. Menards has a surprisingly good amount of discount electronics, some from well known brands, and others from not-so-reputable companies. It's worth a look sometime.
Toshiba is the Japanese subsidiary(not division) of Britain's *EMI(The Gramophone Co.) Ltd.* Subsidiary? Because, like Capitol, Toshiba is the *infant toddler,* the *insignificant member* of the EMI "family". But because Toshiba is part of the EMI group, then Toshiba was the rightful user of the "His Master's Voice"(Dog & Gramophone) trademark for the Japanese market instead of JVC-Nivico.
In Japan, Victor uses His Master's Voice on devices. If memory isn't cobwebbed, I think JVC is short for "Japan(ese?) Victor Company" to avoid messing with international HMV painting/logo rights.
@@djhrecordhound4391 The point is that the His Master's Voice brand is the property of *The Gramophone Company of England,* which merged in the late 1930s(1938 though some claim 1931. 1938 is the proper date) with Columbia Graphophone Ltd. to form Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. If *any* company should distribute the HMV brand in Japan, it should be Toshiba, EMI's Japanese subsidiary(read: infant toddler in family). Japan Victor Company should *NEVER* have had the rights to the trademark, *ever!* And in America, The Victor Talking Machince Co. *NEVER* owned even a thousandth of a percent stake in the trademark, so Victor had *absolutely no right whatsoever* to sell the brand on to RCA in 1929. The trademark should've *vanished* from the Americas, not to be seen again until 1955 when EMI bought out a massive controlling interest in Capitol Records. Only then should the HMV brand return to the Americas, overriding the Capitol Brand and the company's headquarters in the Americas shifted to Toronto, Ontario Canada to be EMI(North Americas) Ltd. The Capitol trademark reduced to being one of the "other" trademarks in the EMI group.
@@neilforbes416 Your facts are spot-on, and I agree with your points. Following your statements regarding what "should" be: Canada was shafted for not immediately having an arm of EMI in 1938, since we were still flying the British flag at that time. They also should not have waited until 1960, when The Capitol Company of Canada specifically arranged to exclusively release English EMI records here. Due to that arrangement alone, most 1960s British hits stayed on Capitol here, while they were scattered to several USA labels. Back in 1938, Columbia USA would have rebranded for Canada, or be forced to change names altogether. It also would have been an ultimate irony if The Compo Company (started in Quebec by Emile Berliner's son Herbert) began pressing Canadian records for Victor USA as well. Alas, none of that happened either. One can theorize... Personally, I'm happy to have been seeing the image of His Master's Voice for my whole life. In fact I'm such a fan, in my mid-40s it became my one and only tattoo. Since I may never see Barraud's painting in person, and I'm just like Nipper with my head tilted to the speakers, I had it detailed and in full colour. I did it regardless of what entity owns it, has rights to it, nor what anyone thinks of it (or of me for having it done)... So should I be chased down by EMI (or RCA) executives carrying wire brushes, frantically trying to scrub off my arm skin, or should they simply be paying me for advertising? It's been a big part of my life, and will remain as such. I doubt they care, and I wouldn't expect you to.
@@djhrecordhound4391 Funny you should mention The Compo Company. I have a couple of Gordon Lightfoot albums pressed in Canada on the United Artists label, one from 1965, the other from 1968. Both made by The Compo Company. Funny about this, EMI bought the largest chunk of Capitol Industries in 1955, leaving just a touch over 5% in the hands of the label's founder. EMI had a virtual *strangle-hold* on Capitol yet never took advantage of it. EMI could've *insisted* that Capitol handle the His Master's Voice, Parlophone, Regal & Regal-Zonophone brands in the USA and Canada. And perhaps *STOP* CBS from using the Columbia name in the USA and Canada. The background to that I'll tell in a separate post. With that strangle-hold, EMI should've *FORCED* Capitol to carry *ALL* EMI's British and Australian roster of artists and groups.
Mentioning Columbia, Back in the late 19th Century the Columbia Graphophone Company Inc. was established in New York and were reasonably successful, enough to establish a British division. However, in the very early 20th Century, things went pear-shaped(British slang, meaning "dire circumstances") for the American parent company and Columbia Graphophone Co. went bust......*carked it!* But in Britain, the now-orphaned arm became a company in its own right and thrived. In the 1930s Columbia Graphophone Co. merged with the former Berliner-owned Gramophone Co. to form EMI. In the meantime, in a "coals-to-Newcastle" move, Columbia Graphophone sent some execs to the USA to re-establish the Columbia name in the USA, including using the Magic Notes trademark inherited from the original company. With the formation of EMI, the American newly re-established company should not have owned, but merely licenced the Columbia name and trademark. When this American "branch" began dabbling in radio broadcasting, perhaps then it would've been time for EMI to revoke this new company's licence on the Columbia name and Magic Notes trademark. Not the first time for this either. A precedent was set in 1959 in Britain when a small record company, *Nixa* was approached by the PYE Electrical company to make their records under the PYE brand. PYE wanted to get into the recording industry but had neither studios nor pressing plant, Nixa had both, but PYE had a large distribution network which Nixa lacked, so the deal was done, but in the late 1970s or early 1980s PYE pulled the pin on the deal and the former Nixa had to rebrand itself as PRT(Precision Records & Tapes). Whether or not the PRT brand made its way to Canada I do not know. Perhaps you do.
Back in the day I was drooling over TV's that have square angles, Most of cheap TV's back then had round corners and too curved but those new models were like more flat with sharp corners so I would go to the electronic stores jut to watch that glory perfect rectangular frame.
BBE was an add-on by BBE Sound, Inc. they’re still around and have a website. They even have a page devoted to the BBE sound circuitry they licensed to TV manufacturers; www.bbesound.com/technologies/index.htm I expect BBE is a lot like Hughes SRS (Sound Retrieval System). That was what a fellow stereo salesman of mine used to call a “widener,” (as opposed to an extender or a compander) because it widened the sweet spot between two speakers, giving you a larger soundstage. Apparently, all Toshiba TVs from this late era had BBE. They also had the StableSound system as well (insert joke about the TV sounding like it it’s in a barn, here) which is a sound limiter. Maybe BBE.and StableSound were fighting a battle for audio supremacy, we’ll never know.
Hi there, fantastic video as usual. As for remotes, I found a Logitech Harmony universal remote at a thrift store for $10 and I've never looked back. Whenever I have to work on a piece of equipment without a remote I simply download the relevant one and all is well with the world. If you can source a Harmony, or one like it, it will pay for itself very quickly.
I just got a notification that somebody liked this comment so I remembered it and I also remembered that back in the day a lot of bootleg vcds, or video discs, were put out that had like wide screen but squished in so a TV like that would also be perfect for those situations. I used to have a 21 inch TV that had that, I can't remember the name, but it was pretty cool. It also had real hi-fi out and video out.
Kinda big. Have a big 30in Sony CRT my sister is trying to get rid of. Picture was fine but the speakers went out in it. Half tempted to get it outside if I can move the heavy SOB and bash the crap out of the thing so I can get it into the garbage.
@@CommodoreFan64 I guess so. It's just heavy as sin, and it costs like $50 to dispose of it at the place where you dump the refrigerators since Best Buy stopped taking TV's for free.
@@larrylaffer3246 Bummer it cost to get rid of one, here in my part of S. Carolina, all you need is a valid SC license plate on your car/truck along with a valid state ID(99.9% of the time they don't check ID) showing your address, and can go to county ran dump sites(long as they are not full) on set days, and dump for free(okay sorta it's covered in your yearly property taxes), and we can take things from yard waste, common recycles, household waste, and e-waste with CRT's. I go there from time to time, and find things people throw out like working Apple Macbook pros, Amazon Kindles, various desktop computers(usually older, but still mostly usable), music keyboards, and once even a wheelbarrow that only needed a rattle can paint job, tire patch/pumped up, and the wooden handles sanded down. the old guy who works the closest dump site to my house gets a kick out of me finding stuff, and, bringing it back to life. I just wish more places would do the same.
@@larrylaffer3246 I yeah I forgot when you buy a new fridge here in SC, and you don't want to pay say Bestbuy to haul it off, and you are willing to wait around with it sitting outside on your driveway/front lawn, the power company will pick it up for free, and pay you $50 - $100(depends on if they are running a promo), as they make money off the scrape metal. far as washing machines/dryers/dish washers, etc... it's best to pay someone like Best Buy to get rid of it for ya.
For A Darn Long Time, I Have A 25-27 Inched Sharp CRT TV, Dated To March 2004 Which Had The 3 Yellow, White, And Red Plugins Not Too Far From The Power Button In The Front, And A 13-Inch Philips Magnavox PR1356 B121 From April 1996. Although When I Was A Child, I Used To Sneakily Watch The Magnavox Playing A Plug-And-Play WPT Game For 45 Minutes During One Morning-To-Afternoon Hours While I Still Have DirecTV Before Switching To Dish Network Years Later. It Was Like Between 4-5 Years Right Before The DTV Analog-To-Digital Switchover, But Its Extreme Right Before That.
Ah yeah, the CRTs with the high-pitched whine, the way to play the old-school video games, plugging in the cable to the back (and getting an actual signal). Then, there's Young me in 4th grade that learned how to to program the television, and VCR.
BBE = Barcus-Berry Electronics. It's an audio processing system that boosts the midrange frequencies at lower levels, in an attempt to improve vocal clarity.
That must be what is totally ruining the music when Mario returns the wand to the castle on each world of Super Mario Bros 3. I have the Steady Sound feature turned off but the volume is going nuts.
I have a Toshiba 20AF44 and I use it for retro gaming. The Toshiba's are one of the best CRT TV's you can get other than the Sony Trinitron line of TV's. The colors are deep and vivid and the clarity is amazing.
The 16:9 mode works when you set your connected device (e.g. DVD player or set-top box) to 'anamorphic', which has the effect of looking like a 4:3 image stretched vertically. This of course, crams the whole 16:9 image into a 4:3 frame. Then simply utilise the TV's 16:9 mode to view as intended. Hope that makes sense!
I actually tried this feature on a Wii. Works as intended. But normally I just play Wii in 4:3 on there anyway
Most, if not all DVD players should have this setting already though (set up what type of TV you have in the DVD settings menu), since "anamorphic widescreen" is built-in to the DVD spec. The DVD resolution (720x480) is neither 4:3 or 16:9, so it gets stretched into non-square pixels regardless of the setting.
I could see this being useful if you didn't have the DVD player remote though, or had it hooked up to both a 4:3 and 16:9 TV through a splitter.
@@probnotstech Close, but you wouldn’t want the DVD player to add letterboxing because that will lower the resolution. Sony and Toshiba sets like this maintain a higher resolution by doing the vertical compression themselves to add letterboxing. The image is still 480 lines so you aren’t losing any detail from the movie frame like you would if the DVD player scaled it down and added black lines.
It does, well explained nerd brethren.
I remember when I was little we had this "mini" CRT with a dvd player back when that was new tech that we would balance on the middle console of our car to watch movies on during road trips. 😂
We did that for our road trips but the tv we used had a vcr instead. It really helped when we went to Indianapolis from Kansas City to see our grandparents m
@@niccage6375 that's awesome! Yeah we had a couple trips from Georgia to Maine to visit family so that was very useful then.
I hooked a playstation to our 13 inch CRT. I took my kids on a road trip to California. They loved that they were able to play video games.
@@niccage6375 well that's freaking cool, I would have felt so futuristic watching tapes in the car back then.
I cried when my 19" Magnavox CRT from 1980 died in 2002 even though the picture quality had gone to hell months before. I grew up with that TV. It was like losing a friend. I replaced it with a 36" Magnavox CRT from 1998, which is now in my shed. I upgraded to an HDTV in 2013 and sadly I don't have space for both. I miss it for retro gaming.
I still have my sharp linytron 19" tv from when I was a kid not looking forward to when it dies.
There's something oddly nice about the recursion in 6:36 - Ben talking about a TV showing Ben behind a box showing Ben behind a box showing Ben behind a box.
YES!!! CRT TV NATIOOOOON!!! WE BUILT THIS NATIOOOOON!!! WE BUILT IT OUT OF CRT TVS!!! IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM
Hey, that's cool. About time someone parodied that old Starship song...
The widescreen button exists for anamorphic content. Most widescreen DVDs were encoded anamorphically, so used the full horizontal resolution, but due to the DVD standard, were still 4:3 format, and had to be stretched out on a widescreen TV or squashed on a 4:3 to look right. Most hardware would detect this automatically and compensate, but usually TVs will still have a button just in case.
The Samsung GX gaming TV sounds like it would be a perfect candidate for a future Archive!
00:07:20 I think the 16:9 feature is if you set the DVD player to wide-screen, you use the whole scan field for a wide screen picture instead of the 100 lines or whatever for black bars on the top and bottom. It also works great for Android TV boxes, Google Chrome, etc.. where they are not supporting 4:3 and get steched out using a converter box.
My sister still has a Toshiba 36AF42 The REALLY BIG (36") brother to this.. DVD video thru the component connection is frankly amazing! OTOH, It weighs more than her Subaru Forrester. LOL.
I still got a white Quasar TV/VCR combo* that I got for Christmas 2000. I use it for playing vintage games on my Retron 3 that I got in 2015. To think I hooked it up to flatscreens for the longest time before finding out about the frame rate dilemma. Needless to say it's the only way I can watch tapes.
*It's a Quasar VV1310W
Oddly enough I still have this CRT TV in my bedroom for about 8 years now since the older one stopped working. I'm using the HDMI to Component converter box for my Xbox One S to display on the tv and it looks quite nice despite 480i being maximum resolution it supports.
Well if its to component shouldn't it at least support 480p (or maybe even 720p?) Or are you getting that and composite mixed up?
@@90sNath Well no. The 24af44 Toshiba crt tv I have only supports outputing 480i maximum. That also includes component (which is the ColorStream input channel) only supporting 480i resolution (which is interlaced and not progressive scan) output so my hdmi to component scaler had to be set to 480i in order to display anything at all although this means that the resolutions from my Xbox One S and Xbox 360 remains unchanged thanks to my converter box.
From a google search:
"The BBE process is more than a simple EQ.
They have a sort of dynamic equalizer circuit in them that does most of what you hear. When a midrange signal goes over a certain threshold it applies a boost to the high frequencies. This deceptively simple sounding process can really do wonders for the clarity and dynamics of your music. It will make some instruments come “alive” and jump out of the mix while it may make others a little strident or edgy sounding (more of those darned subjective audio terms there). It just depends on the nature of the source material and how heavily you apply the process.
There is a bass compensation circuit to let you readjust the overall tonal balance. The aforementioned dynamic equalizer will tend to make the material sound a little bass light so this control allows you to put those low frequencies back into perspective. Of course most people use too much of both controls and end up with a very skewed tonal balance in the end. Basically it ends up sounding somewhat like the dreaded old “smiley-face” graphic equalizer curve. Sounds neat for a while, but really wears on you over time."
Ben, you should look up anamorphic DVDs. It’s a way to encode 16:9 material by using the full 525/625 lines of resolution of the 4:3 NTSC or PAL signal. When played normally it looks like everything is stretched. Using the squish button you make look everything ok again, but retaining the full resolution because the entire image is squished together.
I had my DVD player hooked up during testing-I didn’t have to change a thing for any widescreen movies. For the record, I only own one or two non-anamorphic DVD’s.
the 16:9 was useful in combination with external receivers which offered 16:9 content on component "un-letterboxed" (by result: "non-square pixels", non 1:1-PAR). So you could enjoy 16:9 HD (mostly 1080i that time) in the best horizontal resolution possible on a cheap CRT, without chaning the horizontal frequency.
We had this model 2005-c.2011. Always seemed to have a great picture compared to others around at the time.
I have the 27” version of this CRT and my Super Famicom looks amazing via S-Video on it.
All my CRTs are gone. I miss my 20 inch Sony from the mid 90s. It was sold during a move. That and my vcr. Trying to find one around here is going to be really hard.
I have a JVC I'Art 19in CRT TV in storage as my backup that has this same design language, that has component input with a flat screen. My main CRT is a 27in curved glass Panasonic with component inputs, and stereo outputs my parents originally bought around early 03, and I still have the remote for the Panasonic, and still works wonderfully in my game room as my retro console display, and with a Roku Express+ for when I want to watch 2 things as once.
A lot of Sony’s 4:3 sets had 16:9 modes using vertical compression exactly like this. The use case is actually pretty obvious when you think about it: Full resolution anamorphic widescreen with the correct aspect ratio on a standard-definition 4:3 display. When you set a DVD player or game console to proper 16:9 anamorphic wide screen output where you don’t lose resolution to letterboxing, you get a distorted image on a 4:3 set until you enable this mode. Obviously, the signal is intended for a widescreen display, a projector with an anamorphic lens, or a 4:3 display with a vertical compression feature like this.
You’d want the same output mode even on a widescreen TV. If you output the anamorphic DVD with letterboxing and then use your TV to zoom you’d only be losing resolution. Your fancy setup for the time would have even less resolution than someone watching the standard aspect version on a 4:3 TV.
In addition to DVD players, even games like Goldeneye 007 supported this anamorphic widescreen mode (a lot of Rareware titles, actually). I know at least one of the WipEout games on PlayStation supported it too. Heck, there’s even a 16 bit Genesis game that supports it.
This looks a lot like one of those old Samsung TVs we had. As far as I know, my family had unfortunately threw all of them away not too long ago, but it was nice to have them
looks even closer to my 19in JVC I'Art from a few years later, so I'm wondering if they where make in the same factory as the Toshiba with the same design/engineering team, and they just slapped on different badges, and features feature sets to match the price.
Many avid retro gamers insist on CRT's due to digital monitors' higher latency with analog sources; most Super Smash Bros tournaments are done entirely on CRT's, for example. Perhaps that's driving up their price.
Yes that's part of it, and just common people not seeing the value in keeping on around, so in places like mine they have sent them to the local recycle drop off no matter what the condition is because all they know is you gotta have that HDTV.
I currently have 3 CRT's in my care, my main being an early 00's 27in Panasonic CRT with curved glass, component/S-video inputs, stereo composite on the front, and stereo output to external speakers(still have the OG remote), and I got it from my mother, and step father who where gonna chuck it, and it works great in my game room as a 2nd display for retro consoles, VCR, and a Roku Express when I want to watch say to 2 wrestling programs as once. the others in storage in my shop are a flat screen 19in JVC I'Art I got after my real father died over a decade ago, that also has component/s-video input, and stereo composite on the front, but no audio out, and the other is a cheap flat screen 19in Symphonic(Funai) that sadly only has stereo composite on the front, but a really nice clear sharp picture(might have the jungle IC modded for component input, and stereo output at some point if possible).
And not to mention, for the obvious light gun games. I keep a Commodore 1702 monitor around for this purpose since it has a RCA video and a single audio input. For a NES, SMS, or Genesis Model 1, that’s fine.
I used to use the composite output on my Sony WEGA HD TV set (it was a 16:9 CRT set) for copying tapes that had macrovision. Either the TV was limiting the video amplitude, or removing the macrovision pulses, since the picture was stable even on the duplicated tape. I wonder if that is the same story with your Toshiba?
I have an odd TV from Toshiba too. It is a CRT, 1080i. It also has a DVD, and VHS built in. It can read photos via SD card. I use it for my retro systems. I also use the hdmi (overscan!) for my roku. I can play newer games on my 55 inch, and watch TV at the same time.
I got it for twenty bucks! Delivered. It is way over 100lbs.
I just grabbed one of these. No remote. Would be great if it had a menu or input button on the tv itself.
How can I put tv/video without a remote control
I have a Sanyo that is nearly its twin with the same inputs. I'm sure they share the same tube. The picture is pretty nice and has all those bells and whistles. It's a great machine to play lightgun or use for going Digital to Analog (with an HDMI to S-Video converter).
A wild Torgo draws near at 6:21! I bought a Toshiba 27AF45, essentially a larger version of this set, back in 2004 and still use it to this day. It puts out a very nice picture over component and s-video. Knowing how to enter the service menu is helpful, hold the volume down to 0 on the set and hold the 9 button on the remote until the yellow OSD appears.
Believe it or not here where I live CRTs are still well supported and people still hold on to them
Damn I wanna live there I love CRTs and here in Germany zoomers and many other people be like wtf is that big box behind the screen and stuff
From what I can see this tv comes from an era when nearly all models were offered with 16:9 as well as with 4:3 screen, because widescreen was expected to become a standard, but most stations were still transmitting in 4:3.
Darn, I should have saved the curbside find 20" RCA from college, that had an ATSC tuner.
The reason that there is a 16:9 function on that television set, is this.
Watch this @ to see what I mean. This guy explains it better than I can.
@ 11:50 ruclips.net/video/nuvd2A1_CUc/видео.html
I own a 2001 Sony DVD player, and it can be set to display anamorphic video content, in a 4:3 aspect ratio, which you would then set your television to 16:9. The ENTIRE television electron beam is used, when it is set up this way.
There's a subreddit on CRT gaming. Either the AF series or the Trinitron line are the two that are constantly recommended.
I have a Trinitron KV-20FS12 that I use as my primary TV. As always, the front flap for the 2nd input is missing.
The Trinitron has a 16:9 mode but it's in the service menu. Which is annoying. I still record some stuff to tape, and always use anamorphic/squished mode for maximum picture quality.
Hi Ben. I had the 13 inch version which I used for editing SDTV video. IMO it is the best SDTV I ever owned and performed nearly as well as a Sony studio monitor. When it was obvious that I wouldn't be needing it anymore I couldn't sell it and had to donate it. Perfect condition with the original working remote. I nearly cried! Those were the days - end of an era.
I will point out the component video input is also called color stream on the 20af42 as well. plus I didn't know what the AF stood for
I just picked one of these TVs up, and it looks stellar.
Gotta keep a few of these gems around for vintage gaming. Sad to say in 2020-21 my local city recycling has a hut where one can drop off their no-longer-wanted CRT-based TVs, and I'm seeing quite a few just sitting there waiting for disposal. Some day soon, they'll be fewer and farther between.
The vertical crush was useful in the day because a lot of DVD players had really bad scalers, so you'd have a bit clearer picture just having the DVD outputting to the TV totally unscaled, and just having the TV adjust its geometry to display 16:9 movies. Even with a good scaler in a DVD player, it'd still of course, lose some clarity, so it's mostly just a tradeoff made back then that was easy to implement and doesn't make a whole ton of sense in the context of a modern TV.
Of all the TV's...this is the same tv my husband had for years when we got together, wow. Many an hour of ps2 played on it. Personal nostalgia points there aside, it's definitely a nice find!
I've always wondered... Why do CRTs last so long? Computer monitors, TVs, the CRT ones last for 30 years or more, while modern monitors last like only 10.
For the same reasons that you can probably fire up a calculator from the 70s and it will still work: relatively basic technology. There's not a lot that goes on in these tvs and the fact that they are not computers like modern displays means they are much less likely to develop a fault serious enough to cause the whole thing to shut down.
Hello I need some help I have the toshiba crt 20af42 and I'm trying to hook up my Sanyo vcr but I don't have a remote, there is no input button how could I get it to work?
I used to have a Toshiba 14AF41. It was the first TV I got with video inputs. The TV I had before it only had a cable/antenna input. It was a really nice TV but it only lasted 8 years. I wish I kept it because fixing it could possibly have been easy, but sadly, I didn't have the room for it.
Is it one of those incredibly heavy ones that requires two burly movers to pick it up and move it? My parents had one that the color just completely died out on and they still have it because they never hired anyone to take it out of the house. I tried to help them once but couldn't even push it 2 inches.
It weighs around 40 pounds if I had to guess. I do know what you mean though-my parents’ old Trinitron weighed around 400 pounds (not an exaggeration).
That's the thing I don't like about old TV's. The weight. Took at least 2 movers to get that TV on top of a cabinet, and even then they had trouble with it. Scratched the cabinet putting it on there, too.
We have this exact TV, with the only difference being the inputs on the front are covered with a little door. I think ours is almost 20 years old...
The flat-screen on this model doesn't negatively effect light guns. Curved glass crts were easier to make so most brands went with that. The flat-screen models have extra circuitry in them to keep the image in focus in the corners.
The hd crts are not worth the trouble. Imo you will get a better image through the component inputs on this sd tv.
I have a review on my channel of the 32 inch version of this tv. Interesting to note the 32 and 36 inch versions have a far superior Toshiba tube in them. I believe the 20af43 has a Orion tube.
My neighbors across the street from me used to have a TV like this. I don't know if it was this exact model, but it was this design.
Mister Ed loves stable sound.
I had 2 before that came with the mobile home that I used to live in... and after the tv went kaput, it was replaced with another one...long before I was moved out
I was watching one of your videos when this one came out.
Are you a wizard or something?
If I were, I’d be exploiting my powers like there was no tomorrow.
The “F” in “AF” is for flat. The earlier series with the bubble shaped tube didn’t have the F.
Last summer, I found an Insignia NS-20FTV "flat screen" CRT at the local flea market. There was no remote of course, but I am able to control the essential functions with the front panel buttons. I mainly use my Insignia CRT for retro gaming and those plug-and-play game systems.
I've never had much luck with third-party universal remotes either. I tried many brands over the years, and I never use them because only the basic functions work. I still need to get the original remote out of I wanted to access menus or other advanced features. Probably the only universal remotes that can work all the features are more expensive models like the Logitech Harmony. And when it comes to converter boxes, Walmart and Menards still have some. The converter boxes at Menards even have the ability to record ATSC signals to a USB drive, but I can't vouch for how well that works. Menards has a surprisingly good amount of discount electronics, some from well known brands, and others from not-so-reputable companies. It's worth a look sometime.
...and I was just at Svenard's (er, Menard's). Guess I'll have to check again.
I can't tell if that borderline subliminal happy hamster was intentional, but god damn
Alas, there is no escaping the Happy Hamster in Archiveland.
The 2000s af Toshiba's were some of the last really good crt tv's made
I need one of these to perfect my PS2 playing experience
I didn't realize I was this late to the party
Toshiba is the Japanese subsidiary(not division) of Britain's *EMI(The Gramophone Co.) Ltd.* Subsidiary? Because, like Capitol, Toshiba is the *infant toddler,* the *insignificant member* of the EMI "family". But because Toshiba is part of the EMI group, then Toshiba was the rightful user of the "His Master's Voice"(Dog & Gramophone) trademark for the Japanese market instead of JVC-Nivico.
In Japan, Victor uses His Master's Voice on devices. If memory isn't cobwebbed, I think JVC is short for "Japan(ese?) Victor Company" to avoid messing with international HMV painting/logo rights.
@@djhrecordhound4391 The point is that the His Master's Voice brand is the property of *The Gramophone Company of England,* which merged in the late 1930s(1938 though some claim 1931. 1938 is the proper date) with Columbia Graphophone Ltd. to form Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. If *any* company should distribute the HMV brand in Japan, it should be Toshiba, EMI's Japanese subsidiary(read: infant toddler in family). Japan Victor Company should *NEVER* have had the rights to the trademark, *ever!* And in America, The Victor Talking Machince Co. *NEVER* owned even a thousandth of a percent stake in the trademark, so Victor had *absolutely no right whatsoever* to sell the brand on to RCA in 1929. The trademark should've *vanished* from the Americas, not to be seen again until 1955 when EMI bought out a massive controlling interest in Capitol Records. Only then should the HMV brand return to the Americas, overriding the Capitol Brand and the company's headquarters in the Americas shifted to Toronto, Ontario Canada to be EMI(North Americas) Ltd. The Capitol trademark reduced to being one of the "other" trademarks in the EMI group.
@@neilforbes416 Your facts are spot-on, and I agree with your points. Following your statements regarding what "should" be:
Canada was shafted for not immediately having an arm of EMI in 1938, since we were still flying the British flag at that time. They also should not have waited until 1960, when The Capitol Company of Canada specifically arranged to exclusively release English EMI records here. Due to that arrangement alone, most 1960s British hits stayed on Capitol here, while they were scattered to several USA labels.
Back in 1938, Columbia USA would have rebranded for Canada, or be forced to change names altogether. It also would have been an ultimate irony if The Compo Company (started in Quebec by Emile Berliner's son Herbert) began pressing Canadian records for Victor USA as well. Alas, none of that happened either. One can theorize...
Personally, I'm happy to have been seeing the image of His Master's Voice for my whole life. In fact I'm such a fan, in my mid-40s it became my one and only tattoo. Since I may never see Barraud's painting in person, and I'm just like Nipper with my head tilted to the speakers, I had it detailed and in full colour. I did it regardless of what entity owns it, has rights to it, nor what anyone thinks of it (or of me for having it done)...
So should I be chased down by EMI (or RCA) executives carrying wire brushes, frantically trying to scrub off my arm skin, or should they simply be paying me for advertising?
It's been a big part of my life, and will remain as such. I doubt they care, and I wouldn't expect you to.
@@djhrecordhound4391 Funny you should mention The Compo Company. I have a couple of Gordon Lightfoot albums pressed in Canada on the United Artists label, one from 1965, the other from 1968. Both made by The Compo Company. Funny about this, EMI bought the largest chunk of Capitol Industries in 1955, leaving just a touch over 5% in the hands of the label's founder. EMI had a virtual *strangle-hold* on Capitol yet never took advantage of it. EMI could've *insisted* that Capitol handle the His Master's Voice, Parlophone, Regal & Regal-Zonophone brands in the USA and Canada. And perhaps *STOP* CBS from using the Columbia name in the USA and Canada. The background to that I'll tell in a separate post. With that strangle-hold, EMI should've *FORCED* Capitol to carry *ALL* EMI's British and Australian roster of artists and groups.
Mentioning Columbia, Back in the late 19th Century the Columbia Graphophone Company Inc. was established in New York and were reasonably successful, enough to establish a British division. However, in the very early 20th Century, things went pear-shaped(British slang, meaning "dire circumstances") for the American parent company and Columbia Graphophone Co. went bust......*carked it!* But in Britain, the now-orphaned arm became a company in its own right and thrived. In the 1930s Columbia Graphophone Co. merged with the former Berliner-owned Gramophone Co. to form EMI. In the meantime, in a "coals-to-Newcastle" move, Columbia Graphophone sent some execs to the USA to re-establish the Columbia name in the USA, including using the Magic Notes trademark inherited from the original company. With the formation of EMI, the American newly re-established company should not have owned, but merely licenced the Columbia name and trademark. When this American "branch" began dabbling in radio broadcasting, perhaps then it would've been time for EMI to revoke this new company's licence on the Columbia name and Magic Notes trademark. Not the first time for this either. A precedent was set in 1959 in Britain when a small record company, *Nixa* was approached by the PYE Electrical company to make their records under the PYE brand. PYE wanted to get into the recording industry but had neither studios nor pressing plant, Nixa had both, but PYE had a large distribution network which Nixa lacked, so the deal was done, but in the late 1970s or early 1980s PYE pulled the pin on the deal and the former Nixa had to rebrand itself as PRT(Precision Records & Tapes). Whether or not the PRT brand made its way to Canada I do not know. Perhaps you do.
Back in the day I was drooling over TV's that have square angles, Most of cheap TV's back then had round corners and too curved but those new models were like more flat with sharp corners so I would go to the electronic stores jut to watch that glory perfect rectangular frame.
I'm 37, I did too, I wanted to see eveything that was lost in the rounded corners.
BBE was an add-on by BBE Sound, Inc. they’re still around and have a website. They even have a page devoted to the BBE sound circuitry they licensed to TV manufacturers;
www.bbesound.com/technologies/index.htm
I expect BBE is a lot like Hughes SRS (Sound Retrieval System). That was what a fellow stereo salesman of mine used to call a “widener,” (as opposed to an extender or a compander) because it widened the sweet spot between two speakers, giving you a larger soundstage.
Apparently, all Toshiba TVs from this late era had BBE. They also had the StableSound system as well (insert joke about the TV sounding like it it’s in a barn, here) which is a sound limiter. Maybe BBE.and StableSound were fighting a battle for audio supremacy, we’ll never know.
Hi there, fantastic video as usual. As for remotes, I found a Logitech Harmony universal remote at a thrift store for $10 and I've never looked back. Whenever I have to work on a piece of equipment without a remote I simply download the relevant one and all is well with the world. If you can source a Harmony, or one like it, it will pay for itself very quickly.
Ive had trinitrons and jvcs,, gotta say i love my 20af44...
It's Not exactly a Sony Trinitron, but these Toshiba and Samsungs are pretty Good CRT's as well.
RCA universal at Walmart worked perfectly for all my devices I’ve gotten used at around 8 dollars.
I'm still trying to save my 29" Sony Wega flat screen CRT from my wife, she wants to sell it to a recycler or throw it out.
Shit. Hope you're successful
Sell it & replace it with a cheap crap flat screen that will break two years after you buy it.
Some videogames on the Gamecube and PS2 had a widescreen mode for use with widescreen TVs or, TVs like your Toshiba there. :)
I just got a notification that somebody liked this comment so I remembered it and I also remembered that back in the day a lot of bootleg vcds, or video discs, were put out that had like wide screen but squished in so a TV like that would also be perfect for those situations. I used to have a 21 inch TV that had that, I can't remember the name, but it was pretty cool. It also had real hi-fi out and video out.
Kinda big. Have a big 30in Sony CRT my sister is trying to get rid of. Picture was fine but the speakers went out in it. Half tempted to get it outside if I can move the heavy SOB and bash the crap out of the thing so I can get it into the garbage.
I would fix the speakers, and don't bash it, as they can implode, and cause you some serious injury with flying glass.
@@CommodoreFan64 I guess so. It's just heavy as sin, and it costs like $50 to dispose of it at the place where you dump the refrigerators since Best Buy stopped taking TV's for free.
@@larrylaffer3246 Bummer it cost to get rid of one, here in my part of S. Carolina, all you need is a valid SC license plate on your car/truck along with a valid state ID(99.9% of the time they don't check ID) showing your address, and can go to county ran dump sites(long as they are not full) on set days, and dump for free(okay sorta it's covered in your yearly property taxes), and we can take things from yard waste, common recycles, household waste, and e-waste with CRT's. I go there from time to time, and find things people throw out like working Apple Macbook pros, Amazon Kindles, various desktop computers(usually older, but still mostly usable), music keyboards, and once even a wheelbarrow that only needed a rattle can paint job, tire patch/pumped up, and the wooden handles sanded down. the old guy who works the closest dump site to my house gets a kick out of me finding stuff, and, bringing it back to life. I just wish more places would do the same.
@@CommodoreFan64 Dang your dumps sound like they ain't the dumps. "Rimshot."
@@larrylaffer3246 I yeah I forgot when you buy a new fridge here in SC, and you don't want to pay say Bestbuy to haul it off, and you are willing to wait around with it sitting outside on your driveway/front lawn, the power company will pick it up for free, and pay you $50 - $100(depends on if they are running a promo), as they make money off the scrape metal. far as washing machines/dryers/dish washers, etc... it's best to pay someone like Best Buy to get rid of it for ya.
6:04 It's more likely than you think.
I like to see you do an episode on Pre-MTV like Soundies and Scopitones
I don’t think the record labels would take too kindly to it.
Just got one, and found this video.!
What does the "COLORSTREAM: DVD" option do? Something with the component input, but what exactly?
As far as I know, it's just their cute way of differentiating component and composite.
Sorry about the Completely Rotten Truffles :-(
somenoe is selling this for $70 cad local where im at. Way overpriced? geez, im gonna ask 50 tops.
Dont these models have an Orion tube in them?
i miss the cardboard box!
I had one of these
not that long ago.
Typical early 2000s TV with all digital controls and zero analog quirks. CRTs had a long and boring death.
Does it have Teletext?
So this thing works with digital?
For A Darn Long Time, I Have A 25-27 Inched Sharp CRT TV, Dated To March 2004 Which Had The 3 Yellow, White, And Red Plugins Not Too Far From The Power Button In The Front, And A 13-Inch Philips Magnavox PR1356 B121 From April 1996. Although When I Was A Child, I Used To Sneakily Watch The Magnavox Playing A Plug-And-Play WPT Game For 45 Minutes During One Morning-To-Afternoon Hours While I Still Have DirecTV Before Switching To Dish Network Years Later. It Was Like Between 4-5 Years Right Before The DTV Analog-To-Digital Switchover, But Its Extreme Right Before That.
Ah yeah, the CRTs with the high-pitched whine, the way to play the old-school video games, plugging in the cable to the back (and getting an actual signal). Then, there's Young me in 4th grade that learned how to to program the television, and VCR.
Bbe is bass booosht
I had a tv like this a few years ago,I got tired of looking at the crapy picture so I threw a brick threw it