CRT madness!

Wow, if only I had the space! Looks to be a later production one with a cut down footprint. I really like the overall aesthetics of it.

Only problem with these as I'm sure you know is the actual picture quality isn't very good. They're very blurry, have bad convergence and suffer from burn in easier than regular CRTs (I think the brightness is up extremely high on them which probably aids in this)

It's sad in a way as I think it's going to be a lost technology soon enough. CRTs are a lot easier relatively speaking to retain - these behemoths will probably all be gone to the dumps.

Yeah they depend a lot on how many hours they have on them, hopefully you got a fairly low hour model what make/model is it?

Forgot you could use them for Lightgun games! That's actually not a bad solution for playing lightgun games on a big screen at home, I suppose just try to play games that don't have static images on the screen to avoid that dreaded burn in.

Something actually I'd never thought of before but it came up on a discussion I was reading about CRT projectors being used for retro gaming - scanline burn it!

Not sure how much of an impact it would make on a rear projection CRT, but apparently it can actually be pretty bad on those big monster projector CRTs.

I used to have a Sony Grand WEGA 50" rear projection TV years ago(I think 2005). Was a lovely screen for the time, but it suffered very bad temporary burn in. As in, the image would burn in quickly and then take a few seconds to mins to disappear depending on what it was.
If you were a normal person sitting 5-6 feet away from the screen you probably wouldn't notice. But for me its the only thing i noticed no matter where i sat, so it had to go after a year or so.

very nice design. and is that a RPTV to the right

Looks like there should be a negotiator on the group floor pleading with it not to jump :eek:

I've been working on a Solar/Wind backup power source for my garage and in case of zombie apocalypse. It's a bit of a lockdown project to keep me sane(ish).
Anyway, there's 10 large(20KG+ each)120AH marine/leisure batteries hooked up to store the power and various funky electronic shenanigans going on to run and monitor all this.

What's this got to do with CRT's?
Well, I've been power testing various things to see how long they might run on the stored power(while never dropping below 50% of the stored power to keep the batteries healthy). After testing 3D printers, heaters, house security system and and loads of other things I got to wondering. How long could I run a retro system off just one of these batteries and what about one of my PVM's?

The answer is, be careful!! I've a few devices to convert the 12v battery source to 230v and got them mixed up and plugged in a PVM to a modified sine wave inverter instead of the much more expensive pure sine wave inverter. PVM is fine, but wow was there some weird noises coming from it and flickering on the screen(a little wee came out of me i think )!
I switched over to running the megadrive through the OSSC and playing on a BENQ 23" monitor(everything running off the pure sine wave inverter).


For those interested in the results:

Console: Sega Mega Drive (region modded)
Game: Thunder Force IV
Extras also running from same battery: OSSC, BENQ 23" LCD Display
Source: x1 12v 120AH battery running

Runtime: 12 hours (50% remaining battery)

Be careful what you plug your stuff into

Jack burton wrote: »

At least now you know that you'll get half a day more then the rest of us when the apocalypse happens

Per battery

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Time enough at last scenario?

How cool looking is this little yolk

Sony EVM-9010P - 9 inch sony trinitron with a built in 8mm cassette deck.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sony-EVM-9010P-Trinitron-Color-Video-Monitor-Video-8-8mm-Player/124485493390?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

I guess this fits here

BrownFinger wrote: »

someone on DD looking for CRTs
any one here?

https://www.donedeal.ie/tv-for-sale/professional-crt-tvs-wanted-sony-hantarex-nec/26786576

Competition in Dublin city centre?

Hisssssssssssssssss

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Is that a hack or is it a store display for the VB?
Looks amazing although, it has to be said, a little superfluous!

They really really missed a trick not bringing the Virtual Boy catalogue to the 3DS, it would have been fantastic, maybe include a colour-ized version with the originals.
Ah well...

It's a VB with a hacked AV out connected up to a Philips Discover space helmet TV from the 80s.

They just so happen to work perfectly together visually!

No VB on the 3DS was absolutely mind boggling, I wonder was there more to it like some licensing issue? (although it's all first party really isnt it?)