 event going on. Tonight we're doing a catering event actually and it's not food catering but retro equipment catering. So we're going to take a large CRT which I haven't shown off yet so this would be a great chance for you guys to take a look at that CRT and then we're going to set up a stereo sound system in the room. Why don't I take you around the shop. Let's look at the equipment that we're going to be using. I'll give you a little bit of information about each piece and then you can see once we get to the venue I'll show you how I've got it set up we'll run a test and then I'll come back and shoot some footage live of the event and I hope you enjoy it just sit right back and take a moment and let's go and check out the equipment. All right back here and looking at the very first thing is the monster CRT. What about this television it's massive I mean it's 36 inches it's uh it's one of the biggest tube TVs I've ever seen I'll come around here and let's sit up in the back and take a closer look back here so maybe you can see a little bit about the model it's a JVC made in March of 2000 the good news on this particular TV is that we've got a lot of inputs we've got s-video composite and then we've got component video and of course our regular RF so this one I haven't done anything internally to it it isn't pretty good shape as far as calibration goes it will eventually need to be calibrated but it is so massive it will be an extremely hard job just to get it apart safely and not to damage anything but it will be something that we're doing welcome back I'm going to uh pull back a little bit so you can see this a little bit better there's that front sticker and I put a little sticker down bottom and then there's the top sticker but you can see this is a d-series JVC just a giant CRT it works awesome I'm really excited to get it up and the good thing is this we're going to be displaying music videos rather than having a vj or dj at this party they're going to be using our services and on the tube we're going to be playing nineties videos all hot whatever you know most popular songs from the nineties well we do have a problem though there's not any internet service at the event so we're going to use some other equipment so I'm going to span or pan around here and show you what else we're going to be using at this trip yes ignore the kids stuff back there we're looking at this here we're going to be using at this event as I said we don't have any internet service so we're going to be kind of taking a really old school approach and we're going to be using this vcr now what I did was I actually took this vcr and I recorded a four hour vhs tape that I bought a brand new vhs tape and I recorded four hours of music videos from the nineties off of youtube so I took my youtube streaming device and I put it in my back and we'll be playing the videos on the display screen with the very large television and then we're going to reroute the stereo not only through the tv but I've got this great old school onkyo receiver which I featured in a video just a demo video one of the first videos I ever made about a year ago on youtube so just so you know let's go ahead and look around you can take a look at this vcr I've been intended to make a video just solely about it but I haven't really had the time it is a very high-end vcr it does have a lot of comb filters and other things it's been used in other tests that you might have seen a lot of controls and it's a commercial unit so if you scale it around here to the back you can see it's got a lot more inputs and outputs and this one actually has s video in and out and all kinds of stereo in and out and bnc connectors everything you could use on a vcr then scroll down here to the onkyo receiver you can see that we're looking at just regular coax in or avn and we've got four speakers out which we'll be using all four speakers let me go show you the speakers because they're kind of interesting and this is our final item of this uh of this setup I've got this bag which is just loaded with all the cables you can see in there that we're using for the job and then the last thing are these four large speakers I want to show these two these are extra on speakers and heavily shielded they can take as much power as I've ever been able to throw at anything they are the loudest speakers I've ever seen these were salvaged from a at least some kind of amphitheater in a or a conference room in like a conference center in a hotel that's what these are used for and just take a look at the back of it there's super heavy duty really loud I got the full set of four from a salvage yard for about $20 and they work perfectly I don't have an exact model number on here but uh if you ever see anything like this and you're looking for some great speakers they're really good to set up with your CRTs or PVMs or anything because they're shielded and they don't interfere magnetically with your screen so that's pretty much all the equipment our next shot is going to be at the event and it's going to be with everything connected and I'll show you the demo ahead of time we'll set up and then I'll come back and shoot while the party's going on so you can check that out too and welcome back we're live at location and I wanted to show off the setup so I'm just going to go freehand here and walk around and kind of explain what we've got here this is a high school reunion 20 year it's not my reunion but I am doing this kind of catering event and what we've got is we're outdoors in the middle of pretty much nowhere so there's no internet service and so we have to set it up like this here is the monitor slash television all set up we've got some business cards here and again this is for a high school reunion from the 90s so they have the speakers we're talking about are set up there here's an outside speaker and then again the television and then the stereo with the vcr and it works great so when it's hooked up it's out on location there's no wi-fi so we have to use the video vcr and vhs combination well there you have it that was the live shot you can see there of how we had things set up on location I also had that little video you can see while it was working during the middle of the party you can see how we had the tv set up with the vcr and the speakers and the stereo it was a real hit everybody kind of enjoyed it and they'd like to see the old technology a lot of people weren't expecting that so let me know what you think of this what do you think of this kind of party or maybe this kind of service I'm going to try to do it some more and I'll make videos as I go I think it's a little unique service that a lot of people will enjoy anyway thanks again for watching Retro Tech if you haven't 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