The 40" did not sell well and blew out more than a few fuses around the house supposedly. This was before flat screen crts which adds to it looking dated.
@Earthtime3978 The only problem I had with mine was about 2 weeks after I got it, the TV shut off and wouldn't turn back on so it had to go back to the shop to replace the power supply. Used it a lot with no issues for 13 years afterwards. The last couple months I was using it, I actually ran it for days at a time but it refused to die. If I ever move to a bigger place I'll set it up again- LCDs can't show field-sequential 3D, which I have a few movies and Sega Master System games
@eyeh8nbc I have a 34" flat widescreen Panasonic Tau CRT set that's a real beast as well. It's a great tv but in the last year the closed captions got stuck in "on" mode for broadcast viewing. Sony made a 40" flat tube 4:3. Nice retro video on the Mits.
I still use a 1988 Mitsubishi 21'' CRT everyday. It takes and HD receiver to show the full potential of the set. Same thing for a 32'' Mitsubishi we had. The 32'' weighed a ton, the 40 must have needed a crane to move.
Thanks for the video. Ahh the 90's. Mits and Sony were the real TV excitement generators for the whole decade. Good thing they built them here, they would have sunk whatever boat they tried to bring them over on. Wonder if anything is being built in that factory today?
The only problem was that CRTs of that size, no matter who made them, were an extreme pain to calibrate and, despite your best efforts and no matter how well built the set would be, you could never get them perfect in terms of convergence and geometric accuracy.
The larger the CRT, the more sensitive it will be to external magnetic influence, including the earth's own magnetic field and the TV set's position in relation to this field.
The 40" did not sell well and blew out more than a few fuses around the house supposedly. This was before flat screen crts which adds to it looking dated.
Earthtime3978 1 month ago
@Earthtime3978 The only problem I had with mine was about 2 weeks after I got it, the TV shut off and wouldn't turn back on so it had to go back to the shop to replace the power supply. Used it a lot with no issues for 13 years afterwards. The last couple months I was using it, I actually ran it for days at a time but it refused to die. If I ever move to a bigger place I'll set it up again- LCDs can't show field-sequential 3D, which I have a few movies and Sega Master System games
eyeh8nbc 1 month ago
@eyeh8nbc I have a 34" flat widescreen Panasonic Tau CRT set that's a real beast as well. It's a great tv but in the last year the closed captions got stuck in "on" mode for broadcast viewing. Sony made a 40" flat tube 4:3. Nice retro video on the Mits.
Earthtime3978 1 month ago
finally we can see the actual tv and not her babbling
t0xictreasure 4 months ago
Those old school Big Screen TVs always looked like shit.
Novakane487 1 year ago
Good thing about CRT is that the picture doesn't get all smeary or have digital grain up close.
Clay3613 1 year ago
@Clay3613 Yeah but it does have SCAN LINES, which I don't miss at all on my new TV.
eyeh8nbc 1 month ago
It must have been heavy to move
910364 1 year ago
@910364 Yep- you needed 3 people to move it. I moved it to 5 different apartments too during its lifetime, and to its current resting place.
eyeh8nbc 1 year ago
I still use a 1988 Mitsubishi 21'' CRT everyday. It takes and HD receiver to show the full potential of the set. Same thing for a 32'' Mitsubishi we had. The 32'' weighed a ton, the 40 must have needed a crane to move.
tjivy 1 year ago
Thanks for the video. Ahh the 90's. Mits and Sony were the real TV excitement generators for the whole decade. Good thing they built them here, they would have sunk whatever boat they tried to bring them over on. Wonder if anything is being built in that factory today?
spazzman90 1 year ago
this bitch is soooooooo annoying
crazyjorge2111 1 year ago
Pretty cool about a CRT that is that large.
The only problem was that CRTs of that size, no matter who made them, were an extreme pain to calibrate and, despite your best efforts and no matter how well built the set would be, you could never get them perfect in terms of convergence and geometric accuracy.
The larger the CRT, the more sensitive it will be to external magnetic influence, including the earth's own magnetic field and the TV set's position in relation to this field.
Watcher3223 1 year ago
@Watcher3223 Yeah, the geometry on mine was never perfect, though I learned to be a little forgiving. My LCD is perfect though.
eyeh8nbc 1 year ago