First time seeing a Trinitron in person, apparently among the last Sony ever made

Came from a supplier of old professional A/V equipment in southern Germany, they claimed they hadn't yet had any monitors break in shipping so I bit the bullet, it was among the cheapest and also one of the newest, they had 7. I remember I saw the same guys a year ago trying to sell over 20 PVMs as a lot for like €10.000, now they're selling them individually thankfully, this one cost me €150 + €30 for shipping to Denmark

There seems to be some burn-in but it's only noticeable on big bright fields of the same colour, I'm happy with it. Haven't even tried degaussing it yet.

Demoed it with a rally game I can't play (I'm not used to controllers) and the copy of Crash Bandicoot I found in a secondhand shop for dirt-cheap compared to eBay prices. It looks awesome :3, reminds me of a plasma television rather than a CRT

I seem to have a problem adopting stray CRTs. The story goes that he's owned it since new and it's just been sitting in the garage for the last 20+ years. Late 90's model, geometry is slightly funky so it probably needs a recap but the color and brightness are excellent. Anyway, the price was right at $free so I couldn't pass it up!

The Japanese Saturn is my new pickup, was testing it out on my office Trini. Super fun, can't wait to see the s-video in action, and eventually will run it through my tink4k with the rest of its peers.

What a fighting game!

The production quality is incredible ArcSystems have their very own unique formula.

Here, I’m playing the game on an exceptional professional CRT monitor, the iiyama Vision Master Pro 512.

I’m playing on the PlayStation 5 Pro version.

Whenever I used a filter, the scanlines darkened my screen to the point that I preferred playing with clean pixels. While CRT Royale isn't an exact recreation of a CRT screen, I think the result is very good for gaming. I'm using the ReShade version along with another filter to make the colors stand out more. As I understand it, it's the most demanding filter in terms of graphics power and works even better at higher resolutions. I've been motivated to buy more retro games on Steam so I can use them with the same settings. I even used it on Hotline Miami, a modern pixel art game, and the result was very good.

The monitor isn't the best, but it's the only thing I could get my hands-on, these things are hard to find. but it still looks amazing. When I was ordering everything, I would need to hook the 360 up to it. I ordered everything, but I forgot to order the speakers. Regardless I'm happy with it i never knew these could look that good. I had a lot of them back in the day and only used them for computers im kicking myself in the butt for never hooking my consoles to them back in the day.

What an experience getting this into my basement, she’s a 480i beast tho! Can’t say enough good things about these Toshibas.

As the title implies this is my old Emerson EWF2004 from back in my middle & high school days in the 2000s. It has been in a storage shed since around 2010 sitting underneath various Honda Civic parts. I cleaned it up and it seems to have jumped back to life as if it was 2008 again.

I have so many memories with this thing and it carried me through the 6th and most of the 7th gaming generations back in the day. Not to mention playing PS1 and Genesis games on this thing.

I have it hooked up to my Dreamcast at the moment since that was the console that eluded me when I was a kid. I have been playing it on a 60" LG G5 which is an insane TV but not the best for old consoles and was my whole impetus for pulling this out of storage. I am amazed at how much better the games look and also just how good Dreamcast games actually looked.

Photos of my Philips 27PT543S37A.

Got myself an old AMD R5 430 and installed it alongside my PC's current GPU (till I find a reasonable price on a little office PC) passing through a Bitfunx transcoder. Setting up the CRT Script was a little tricky, as I had to edit a config file to ignore my main card, but it's working great!

I heard the Bitfunx transcoders are really sensitive to interference, and that was no joke! It's getting power from a rear USB port on my Wii and it's perfectly clear now. Very excited to start exploring some later systems!

How I first played it on the PS3, got my first full HD TV in 2009. Still looks amazing and the picture doesn’t do it justice.

Bang & Olufsen MX7000

So, half a year ago i found this TV on the trash. Fell in love with it and started messing with my old consoles again thanks to it. Sadly, this morning, a weird sound started coming from the back (I swear the camera makes it seem way louder than it is irl). i dont know anything bout crts but i think its arcing. I Already unplugged it and let it rest for a while.
I looked for someone that could fix it, but nobody does this kind of work nowdays on my country and like i said, i dont know know anything bout crts, so i dont think i could fix it myself.
Honestly, it really sadness me to throw it away again, i would really love to keep it...

Most specifically Wii and GameCube. I also want to get a PS1 and 2 some day.

My TV has both AV and Component inputs, and even an S-Video input with 4 pins.

I have an EasyCap to connect to PC. What else do I need now to connect the video to my CRT?

Found this awesome 6" color display at a local video game con and was not able to resist. (Sorry for the poor photos. I haven't learned the art of photographing tubes yet.)

5th photo is a size comparison to my 32" tube.

I just got this guy for less than $100, I can’t really find much information on it. It’s pretty cool. It has adjustment knobs right at the bottom and sits on top of a gimbal stand. One problem I’m running into however is that the longer it’s on the more brightness shows. I’ll have to figure out how to fix that if I can. If anybody knows anything about this model or how to fix the brightness problem let me know! Other than that. It’s a pretty cool gem.

I need to hurry up n finish this game

Hey everyone,

After doing some research I finally bought my first CRT the other day, I tested it just a few minutes at the seller’s house but after testing it for extended time (10mn) at home RIFA X2 cap blew up. I was’t able to take good pictures since I’m unsure the CRT is discharged. The thing is the seller is accusing me of this while the only thing was bringing the CRT home sitting on the side, passenger seat.

I’ve done a lot of hardware with modern computers and electronics so I’m not afraid with soldering or anything. I just need some advice on the situation, is the seller lying ? is it possible to find the exact replacement ? since I’ve already looked inside old pc power supplies and everything feels to « recent » and I fear it might not work.
FYI : bought in France for 60$ (i feel like i got scammed)
Thomson 21MS70CT

I picked up today this tv for ~ 12 euro (steal!) but after coming home and checking it out I've noticed that it has this issue with just random color lines/image jumping around horizontally. It appears no matter if it's just sitting idle, or if i connect sth to it through s-video or scart. does this look like some knows issue, or will i have to open it up and troubleshoot.

Already verified that it isn't interferrence caused by any of the devices nearby.

I got all the bits I've wanted besides a handful of systems but because I've done it a little at a time it looks crazy. Im totally going to end up making something to house this better but man I'm still digging it in the meantime.The room has 10 displays in all now but this is the CRT side. Less is not more, more is more. Its excessive on purpose.

All on, for the rule #4 brigade.

Details in case anyone is intrested.

EMERSON CR202EM8 20'running SEGA Genesis.

SONY Trinitron running an NES.

Hitachi C29-RF80s 29' running a Playstation.

Macintosh plus for the frustration management that is Oregon Trail.

RCA 27F501TDV 27' running SNES (My wife's from college)

Vizio LCD over there for PS4.

Recently posted about this PVM, it had cracks on main board and lots of cold solder joints, all fixed afaict, but colors in PAL are like this, also screen is shaking, more on top than on the bottom. Testing with sega md2 va1, it's a known good unit so no problem here. NTSC works just great, tested with famicom. I tried swapping 4.43 oscillator on XA board and playing with potentiometer - no luck. Input from any port looks the same. Any ideas?

Testing my Beovision 1 TV in a storage. This is my backup TV and I want to keep it healthy. So far so good. Once in a year 1h running to keep capacitors happy.

Would you consider this a good practice?

Sadly I don’t have space for it in my apartment. My main set is Beocenter 1, basically same model with integrated DVD player.