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Every time I used to move.......dread, move that heavy, awkward TV. Now, my flatscreen is about 1/4 the weight and very easy to handle........you could not give me one of the old junkers.
I understand,i do not either .. I hope you dont start having problems.... CRTS are the BEST!!
Good places if you wanna look for a good CRT is salvation army or goodwill
Good luck!
They are interlaced NTSC with 525 scan lines and 30 fps! Was old-school here until about 10 years ago.
No more. A good LED, LCD or plasma, IMHO, trumps the tube hands-down. I gave the Trinitrons to friends. The only e-beam tubes that demonstrated superb image quality (and I doubt they make them anymore), were the medical-grade screens intended for radiologists to be able to read X-rays. We supplied them to hospitals, as they were part of the equipment we designed. Not interlaced, extremely high resolution, only did black-and-white, and cost $7000 30 years. Not exactly a good solution.
By moving to newer technology: 1. no worries about external magnetic fields (though the later crt's pulsed a demagnetizer coil on the chassis upon turn-on. 2. E-gun alignment. 3). They are really heavy. I couldn't pick mine up. 3). Designers worked steadily on making the crt's flatter and flatter, as the curvature of the older tubes was quite annoying. 4). You can't hang a crt practically on the wall or ceiling.
On a positive note, most of the furniture-grade tv cabinets, designed for up to a 27" cvt tv can be had at a used furniture store for a song.
I would no more go back to a CRT television set than I would to a 12" monochrome (amber or green) monitor for my computer. My 55" LCD, LED so superior to anything an analog set can display.
Mom is getting up in years and loves here Zenith Console TV... and if Mom likes it, that's good enough for me.
It does present a challenge in that I would like to share some video files on my laptop with her and not sure if it is worth the trouble getting the adaptors from VGA to S-video plus audio I'm guessing.
She would be lost with a new TV... put one at the cabin and she spent the week without TV even after I called the neighbor kid to get it going again... she had aux input selected.
I've got a really nice Toshiba Cinema Series with Picture in Picture etc. that was going to be tossed.
My neighbor needed some help to put the Tosiba out on the curb for trash pickup and I asked what was wrong with it... said nothing... Granddaughter gave them a flat screen and was coming to set it up...
It is a great TV... one person's trash is another's treasure...
I've got both types. One good thing about the old crt monster hooked up to DISH and an antenna is that no matter what channel I watch the full 4:3 screen has a full no distortion picture. If I watch the same channel on the HDTV, I never know what I'm going to get. Most of the time, the -1 channel is HD 16:9 but I think the engineers at all the local channels are confused as to how to send out the signals for the -2 to -6 channels. All the time there is the side bars for 4:3 480 SD but many channels try to squeeze a 16:9 on the 4:3 so I also get top/bottom bars. Sometimes there is the 'TCM letter box' mode with no distortion and other times it's squeezed [like Tampa 50-4] that make 6 foot men look like they are 5'-4" And no, I don't like to use 'wide' 'pano' or 'zoom'. Too much distortion of picture. It seems there is no industry standard for broadcasting a signal for HDTV's, But picture looks great on my 110 lb 32" monster.
Hardly. Just having a cathode ray tube display doesn't make a TV "old style". "Old style" would be the late '70s Curtis Mathes 36" console TV my parents had well into the early 2000s, with the little drawers under the screen and the remote that almost looked like an 8-track tape. Or the early '60s black & white RCA set (with built-in UHF!) my grandparents had that I used to play Sonic the Hedgehog on as a kid.
Long live the CRT.
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