 You are watching part two of the retro gaming on a CRT masterclass by retro tech. Thanks for watching Please make sure you've subscribed to the channel and like the video Colors out or make your picture street on the funny to So that was their big breakthrough. They finally made the tube and it was It was it looks and sounds similar to the chrome chalk is it's using one gun But they actually just abandoned that technology and had to redesign it that's really the only thing that's the same about it is the single gun and The final product was unique enough to apply for its own patent, which is very important The new sony sony or the new sony tube was named a trant on which everybody's heard of from the root word trinity For the union of the three electron guns a new single gun and then tron from electron All right, so Sony's new trinitron. It pretty much outperformed every CRT on the market single Laser or the singer. I'm sorry the single electron being was able to go and burn brighter than any shadow mask at the time Especially since they were still making them in that triangular pattern at this time They also needed a lot less adjustment actually the shadow mass tubes at that time they come off the assembly line and they'd have to be individually basically calibrated per set with all kinds of issues, but the Trinitron didn't have that trouble. It was a lot more user-friendly right out of the prediction production facility and Sony dominating the 40 years of CRT production And we talked about the trinitron. That's what I've got down here. It's only curved along one axis So that's different where it's only curved along the right to left in a horizontal axis the vertical side of the tube is completely straight and flat no curve and It really wasn't until the Sony again got licensing they got a 30-year patent in 1966 And it went all the way to 1996 and that whole time shadow mass tubes couldn't catch up with the technology really be hugely competitive on a quality standard so it wasn't till that patent expired that shadow mass tubes really started getting better and Advanced a lot of technology. So these are these early Sony Trinitrons some of the first games we've been playing on you know these like That's just the 70s style a lot of wood not really any Inputs yet on your TV. You're still using you know RF signals And then we move on to the 80s now. That's an 80s set down there It's not again. It's a shark this little wood grain one But it's the same style as these we're still a lot of wood grain a little bit of the new You know plastic on there in the 90s the 1990s is really where TV's got into the whole plastic Solid black or solid white other colors And that's just a picture of a lot of the Trinitrons that you most likely would have seen not the 1990s is also a time when Sony brought their Trinitron to computers and computer screens and started with those high-quality CRT monitors and then of course the 2000s the last generation you have the more Square design still silver and then even started coming out with widescreen high-deaf Other versions of the CRT right towards the end of like 2006. It's pretty much when they were Abandoned All right, so I just want to go through a couple of modern uses a lot of people know a lot of these things obviously arcade cabinets many of them out there are going to be loaded with CRTs and Retro video games are perfect for CRTs are all analog videos anything that puts out analog video Signals going to be best on a CRT in its native format VHS DVD laser disc any of those old movie formats are perfect for CRTs Retro PC if you do anything where you're gonna have a retro old computer and there's even a Move more recently to do modern gaming on higher-end CRTs And I'll show you that at the very end a little bit that there are some CRTs They're actually really well made enough to be able to still be usable today for even modern high-def signals You can still stream older 4x3 content on to tubes like this And they'll always probably be used for test signals out of oscilloscopes So some of the reasons these are going to be your best options there's no lag or latency added by analog television and So you're not going to have any troubles with lag, which can be a big problem with retro gaming on any kind of new modern display you can really have trouble with lag and They're easier to connect retro gaming consoles to they look better. You get the real I feel like CRTs have a big part of the nostalgia of playing old games It's just like a warm fire almost you get a little nice feeling, you know just part of the whole experience And It can I put down here the retro gaming on CRT can be cheaper at the beginning Because once you start getting into it and want to get better console and better CRTs Those start to go up a lot in price and Much easier to use a CRT than a scaler. There are scalers out there They can help you get from your analog signal up to HDMI But those will either add lag or can be complicated and require firmware A lot of other things like that and they definitely have some of the best picture screen controls you'll probably ever see on displays and Again CRTs are just designed for analog video and most consumer CRTs and then pro video monitors Which are pro versions of the CRT they can handle to 40p and 40 out of video resolutions perfectly Those are the resolutions that pretty much all your retro games are gonna come out of naturally And that's really those those two formats you have extreme problems So if you try to do that in modern televisions, they're not really designed to hold display those older biggest signals I Talked to briefly about some of the higher chromium models that will do a full range from 240p all the way up to 1080 I and then you got digital digital videos started at 40p and That is one that can only really be displayed on BGA CRT monitors 480p and up unless you've got one of those pro monitors that that can go through a whole spectrum of Sizes So nearly all flat-screen TVs and monitors don't support 240p or 480i And again, we talked about low quality scalers adding problems Let's talk about obviously the disadvantages of owning CRTs. They do take up a lot of power Not it's not a huge amount, but it is significantly more than your Your regular flat-screen does anymore. They're of course big and heavy. I'm a large footprint I mean, I think I'm a lot of space and then hindsight for those to Match that you've got most most of time You're not going to find a display over 36 inches on a CRT Some people you complain about the 480i flicker on a CRT and that's just where the interlaced picture flickers back and forth Some people pick that up with their eyes, and then some people really pick up the high frequency noise for years Now if you do get older you can lose that Hearing ability, so there are some people that can't hear it at all and Most CRTs cannot display digital video signals we talked about that and they're so old now and been out of circulation for so long in Production that they a lot of them end up needing repair when you get them I like to tell you a couple things here if you're gonna ever be looking for a CRT What you would want to do, you know, how what's a good thing to check was to check through first Obviously does it work as a turn on and we get turned on how does the screen look is it everything look kind of normal? It's really important now to focus on the brand if you can because you don't if you're gonna take the time to get a big CRT There's some brands you should look for and maybe some bridge. You should just avoid But what inputs does the TV have or come with? What screen size best fits your situation so CRT do get a small generally is five inches and up to 36 What you was it manufactured and all that stuff is good to study before and CRTs We're gonna talk here for a second about consumer grade These are just the inputs you'll see On a normal consumer grade CRT and that's RF Which is the old screw in? Signal which gives you pretty much the worst quality Available video and then you've got composite inputs or AV which is your yellow white red S video was a big improvement back in the 1980s ish early 90s and that was added to most TVs and Then the last input added on most consumer grade CRTs in the United States or North American would have been component and then Earlier CRTs actually call it component. They call it color stream So you'll notice that if you look at an older tune and it says color stream on it That's just a fancier word for component before they call it component I've got some pictures here at this top one right here It's a little bit difficult to see but the third input there is the color stream where it has the green dark green The blue and then the red if you see CRT It's a consumer CRT you're looking for one if you see that input That's probably going to be your best bet because there's not going to be really fancy extra scaling And that's really when tubes were high at highest quality and everything even though you might find a newer one that has More inputs like this one. There's a chance It's not going to have as good a picture as some of the color stream ones And they just get into some best brands obviously Sony Trenitron. It was the king of Sony or I mean CRTs the best years to look for are between 1996 and 2005 if you're going to get one. This is a consumer grade again And just some tips stay away from widescreen consumer CRTs and CRTs that are again consumers that have HDMI inputs because those actually have scalars built into them that will add lag Kind of like your age to your HDMI wood on an early flat screen or modern flat screen They just don't do very well and most people are not happy with them