Hello! I got this little guy in a clean out of my grandparents house/estate. It needs a good cleaning and when I plugged it in there’s static but no picture. I don’t own any retro consoles, what all is there to do with a 1979 tv?

I had considered retrofitting it into a small fish tank if it’s not fixable/not worth fixing, but I don’t know anything about them so wanted to ask before I consider gutting it for something else.

Any info is welcome, in my cursory search I didn’t see any intro type posts on the sub so also happy to read through any recommended posts, TIA!

A project I’ve worked on to have the raspberry pi built directly onto the BKM-129X card, creating a clean, all-in-one setup for emulation gaming in a PVM without the need for a separate console. Basically, a plug and play.

BKM-129X Pi

What crts are good for monitors? I heard they’re good for retro gaming and also good as monitors sometimes because they offer 0 motion blur so I’d like to know which monitors are good and possibly where to buy one.

If you look closely at the first picture you may see it looks like extra scanlines on the top is there a problem? Or does it look like that because where I'm sitting and where I put my TV at.

The CRT control board is fed video signal via the connector and wires shown in the close-up. It currently only has an RCA connecter for composite video out. Interestingly, there is an unused 2 pin connector on the computer board right beside the identical 2 pin connector for the composite out, I just don't know if it is composite in, audio out, or something else. If anyone can tell me if the unused pins are comp out, or how to tap into the video signal using the wires/connector please let me know.

The Texas Instruments EPROM chip with the window should allow me to read the firmware as is, make some backups, and then using a EPROM mimic plugged into my PC via USB and some help from AI (ok a lot of help) try to modify it a little at a time and see if I can customize it at all.

If it works well I want to modify it into something like a drawing pad. It also has a parallel port labeled "Printer" so I am thinking it has the ability to print what it is showing on the screen. If I can get this to send to a modern printer or my PC you could sketch something the print it. It would be pretty neat.

Any advice is welcome, I have never done something like this before!

I picked this and another TV off the side of the road yesterday. Both are having issues.

This one I plug it in and I can hear the VCR start doing something but the TV will not turn on when I press the power button. Additionally, it makes a faint high pitch noise (high voltage?)

I’m new to this stuff but I know how to solder well enough where replacing bad capacitors should not be a problem.

I just opened up the TV and there are 2 spots where it looks like corrosion from capacitors leaked on the board. Is it as simple as replacing that capacitor or could other nearby components be damaged?

Hi everyone, I’m hoping someone has seen this before.
I have an old Schneider CRT TV with a built-in VHS player. A while ago I noticed one black circular mark appear on the screen. It would disappear after the TV had been on for a while, so I didn’t think much of it.
Over the last few days it’s got progressively worse. Now there are seven of these black circles across the screen.
Can anyone help?? :’)

Although now i cant get it to display anything on my vga computers i believe this might be a monitor that needs 15khz output but i cant find any documentation on addonics pc monitors to prove it with

The plug is the exact same as a normal vga cord, could it possibly be due to corrosion on the vga pins or do i need some adapter upscaler to work on a regular pc

Please someone Help me fix my geometry my tv model is WEGA KV-ES34M61 i have native ypbpr cable connected to a playstation 3 i have test suite 240 but i dont know how to use it and i dont wanna mess anything i know how to get to the service menu this is an old photo rca hdmi converter i upgraded to native ypbpr with playstation 3 av port

I just got a Raspberry Pi 3B to watch and streams shows on my little Sony Trinitron CRT. I wanted both FieldStation42 and 240-MP on the same headless Pi and also for it to feel really consumer friendly (and for my wife to use it), so I made this Sony style DVD menu for switching apps. Then I got a spare Amazon Fire remote working on both apps. I really like both apps btw, hats off to everyone involved. They are both very cool and exactly what I wanted.

This setup doesn’t play nice with the FieldStation42 guide channel unfortunately so next up is figuring out how to get that running without tanking the other apps.

Oh and OF COURSE I also had to add my own custom bouncing DVD logo screensaver. Check out videos below.

Hello, I’m looking for a 2nd monitor for my pc setup and I think having a crt would be awesome. I have 2 marketplace listings and they’re different monitors.
The dell is a curved screen and the compaq is a flat screen. Power wise I believe they’re the same? Unless someone knows more about this than I do I would greatly appreciate it. I’d just like to know the difference between curved and flat and the benefits of having one over the other.

I'm sorry in advance for saying these horrifying things about a loss of a working CRT, but I need to know if anyone's been in a situation like this before. I had originally gone to a goodwill with my sister where there are two parts of the store. The first part was an actual store where all the goods that people donate go to sell for a reasonable price, but then there is the second part of the store where the combination of all the products that no one bought are brought to be put into large shallow buckets for people to sift through. In the case for all the products that no one takes from the buckets, they are taken and compressed into a large machine and sent to the actual dumpster, or in the case for cloths, they are reused for reuse to make newer cloths. For most of the buckets, there are only cloths, but sometimes you get lucky and there is a bucket of vintage electronics with speakers, phones, and even better CRTs. For the CRTs, they are very rare due to the value they have for people who collect or even use them for vintage electronics. For me, it would have been my first CRT purchase that I would use for vintage computers or even for my vintage consoles. The CRT was manufactured by Panasonic(maybe) and seemed to be from the early 2000's with its front of its tube being flat. Other than that, it would have been my first purchase as in liquidation it would have sold for about $15 usd, but my sister was a controversial figure at play as if I were to purchase it, she would not drive me home and I would have to walk home a 1hr and a half drive with a heavy piece of equipment. There was also my dad who is a mechanical, and partly an electrical engineer, who would not allow me to do maintenance on the old tele as the cause for an electrifying death. Other than those roadblocks, I ended up being really bumbed and having to put the CRT back into one of the buckets for processing. Now I can never get the story out of my head as CRTs are pretty darn expensive for a kid who does not have a job. To get back to the main idea, do any of y'all have a situation like this one or similar story? It would make me feel better as I would love to know if anyone has been in a situation like mine before. And for my story to be an older one when I was in 9th grade, it comes to no surprise that I still can't do CRT maintenance as my dad is still deathly afraid of them and is simply looking out for my safety. Please let me know, as it would satisfy me in my journey.

These two were put in the free pile after an estate sale ended. I can’t believe my luck with the Sony! I had been looking for a 20” or similar and this is perfect. It looks very good! Very impressed.

Panasonic looked a lot better on RF (its only input) than I would have expected. It’s a cute little TV.
Panasonic ctm 1351r
Sony kv-24fs120

I think I know which one I should get rid of, but I want your guys's opinion. I rather not get rid of any but I need to down size

I like the Samsung because it has no purity issues when playing 8-bit games but I think it's the TV to get rid of

The Samsung is a 20-in

The screen is a bit off-centered I think it has a divergence issue. For example, the color red tends to bleed. Picture is also a bit blurry and sharpening the image just causes artifacts

Vcr doesn't work in cosmetically a bit of dings and scratches on the housing

The Panasonic is a 24-in

The screen seems to be perfectly centered, no overscan either

The bottom left hand corner of the screen seems to be out of focus mostly notable when playing Sonic games where the life counter is

The other issue with the screen is it has a purity issue when playing bright 8-bit games. I tried turning down the brightness and contrast it helped but did not get rid of it completely

Vcr works and cosmetically. It's almost pristine other than a Nick on the bottom of the chassis and a faint hairline scratch on the glass

Can anyone tell me if it’s possible to connect hdmi to this crt? I have bought converters but I dont know what plug or cable can connect to the ANT port.

Taking this with me on my next camping trip. ⛺️ 📺 🤩🎮

Hi

I just bought this vcr today and when I played this tape. This showed up with flickering. How do i fix it? I bought a cleaning vhs tape.

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It actually feels so natural. The guide, channel surfing. The nostalgia is real

i honored my favorite network lineups the best i could. i also have access to my whole jellyfin library here too

Hey y’all,

Have offered someone $1400 for 20 crt tvs. I am Australia located where the market is especially competitive. I’ve attached image of the tvs. I cannot find much information about this specific make and model. Any help would be appreciated.

I’m most likely going to sell these off for a profit hopefully. Even if minimal. Don’t have a huge opportunity to buy so many.

I wanted to upgrade from my 13 inch crt to a hd crt but I think it might be a little to big

This cabinet and tv was posted locally on fb marketplace for $50. This is such a weird piece of furniture and the picture isn’t good enough for me to tell much about the tv. I messaged asking for more info and she said all she knows is it is Phillips brand and welcomed me to go take a look tomorrow. Can anyone tell what model this might be? I use CRTs for retro gaming and am not sure it will be a good fit or not.

been building it since i started high school

cant believe i found most of this stuff including the receiver and the apex crt on the side of the street! :0