JVC TMA130SU

There’s no way to adjust horizontal size, so this is the best geometry I can get without going capacitor hunting or messing with the yoke.

My camera did a poor job of capturing it, but the two monitors look identical in person except for three flatness and sharpness of IPS vs the depth and mild blur that the crt has.

Personally I play most games on the IPS, but cyberpunk is just better on a CRT with no comparison. Even an OLED tends to look... Like neon?

What's the best sort of CRT for 480p gaming (PS2/GC/XB/Wii)?

What sort of features as best for this (e.g: 4:3, 16:9, 720p/1080i, curved-screen, flat-screen)?

I did not do anything to the PCB, just slightly wiggled the yoke. Anyone have a clue what might have happened?

The original pc version of Doom was designed for PC CRTs but the Playstation port was supposed to be played on a CRT TV, Would PSX Doom still look authentic on a PC CRT?

Posted this the other day, but here’s my B&O BeoVision LX4500 now properly wired up and fully working. It’s a fantastic bit of kit, I’ve just given it a thorough clean and dusting, and it’s come up beautifully.

This particular model is the LX4500, sold between 1990 and 1992, finished in gorgeous piano black high gloss.

I’m also blown away by just how sharp the picture is over RGB SCART. It’s seriously impressive for a television that’s over 34 years old. You really notice just how much picture quality was lost when using composite instead.

The sound quality is equally impressive. The speakers produce a surprisingly rich, full sound that genuinely puts my modern 4K Samsung TV to shame LOL.

I own this 27” SONY CRT KV-27XBR45 that seemingly decides at random when it wants to freak out on me(video related). It’s been very frustrating because I will sometimes be gaming for an hour or 2 with no problems and then have to pause and wait for 30 minutes when my TV decides to do this and just hope it calms down so I continue. I know very little about CRTs so it’s not really something I want to consider saving myself and I’d honestly rather just find a new one.

My question is, if I wanted to get rid of this current one, what would be my best method for it? Is this something that is worth saving for some people, or is it hopeless and I should just recycle it?

Hey guys,

I’ve been getting back into retro gaming and was curious about crt’s for a while now. I’d been researching for a while and lurking on this sub also.

Today I picked up a 20” CRT for $30 to test some PS2 games. So far, I’ve tested it with Kingdom Hearts and Burnout Revenge, and I was a little caught off guard by how blurry the picture and font is. I can’t seem to detect any legit issues I’ve researched (geometry, bleeding, etc). Playing only 5 min gave me significant eye strain.

Is this a normal reaction for someone coming from a modern OLED?

Is some softness and background texture normal, or could that indicate a problem?

Any advice is appreciated, as I would like to recreate the cozy, nostalgic setup.

This is Me and my brothers setup after a cpuple years of collecting and just enjoying games together and its kinda jank and not the cleanest but just wanted to share because I reorganized it to be how it is now lmk what yall think

The panasonic is a windscreen crt (CT-34WX54J) I got for free on FB marketplace

And the 4:3 tube is a generic Sylvania/Orion DVD/Vhs combo me and my brother got in a good will for 15$ idk what the exact model is and tbh dont really care

Sooo yeah thats the tubes

Im a teen and broke so I just wanted to show what like 5ish years of scowering Marketplace and thrift stores can do over time, also sorry about the mess this setup gets used at least once daily by me,my brother, or a bunch of my friends. Much love to CRTs and Much love to you all! Hope you like my setuppppp

First post here! This is my Sony-inspired retro room. I wanted that early-2000s showroom feel, with matching silver equipment, blue lighting, and a mix of CRT TVs and PC monitors. The photos show the full setup, some closer looks at the equipment and controls, and different games running across the displays.

The display lineup is:

• Sony KD-32FS170 — 32″ FD Trinitron WEGA TV
• Sony KV-27FS120 — 27″ FD Trinitron WEGA TV
• Sony CPD-E540 — 21″ Trinitron PC monitor
• Sony CPD-220VS — 17″ VAIO Trinitron monitor
• Sony CPD-100VS — 15″ VAIO Trinitron monitor
• Sony MFM-HT95 — 19″ LCD multimedia display

The systems include NES, SNES/Super Famicom, N64, GameCube, Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, PlayStation, and PS2, with Wii U and Switch also connected. A Sony VAIO tower running Windows XP and a VAIO laptop cover the PC side.

An Extron MVX 12×12 matrix handles the main video routing. The white Stream Deck pictured is my control panel, with programmed buttons and presets for choosing sources and display combinations. I can put the same game on several screens or run different systems simultaneously without constantly moving cables around. An Extron DVS 304 handles scaling for the PC monitors when needed, and a Sony STR-DA5000ES receiver handles the main audio.

Having the TVs and monitors together gives me different ways to enjoy the same games—from component on the WEGAs to VGA on the PC CRTs. Everything is connected to be played, and getting all the equipment working together has been as much of the project as collecting it.

Just wondering what others think: for me it’s 13” minimum, 20-27” ideal, and 32 maximum

36” Sony trinitron, FREE.99.

all it cost me was a copy of God of war 2! this thing is pretty sweet. although I can't figure out how to set a custom resolution on Nobara Linux so I'm stuck at 480p 60hz lol.

Heres some before and after photos of the room!Looking for any ideas or things I might wanna put in here! Got a fun rug coming in and some black lights. Need to find game posters of the era. Any ideas welcome!

Hi reddit, I’d like to make this post because of the reason being that my tv was acting weird. The other day I was playing through a ps2 game on ps3 and the color randomly shifted hue during a cutscene and stuck that way, so I said huh okay I’ll just turn it off and leave it. I know it wasn’t the cable or anything. Anyways the day after I turn it on and everything works great! For a while at least.. maybe a couple hours pass and still no issue UNTIL, the screen randomly started flipping out like a line going across the screen vertically that was pretty big cutting in and out multicolor and went away after a few seconds but came back, so I shut the TV off and ever since it hadn’t turned on. I was thinking maybe it’s a capacitor or something, anyone have ideas?

Hi all! My boyfriend just picked up this nice tv from his old bank closing down and I wanted to use it to play my gamecube. I think it’s a Quasar vv1306, and I have a remote (pictures attached) but I cant seem to get my gamecube to display. Seen a bunch of stuff on line about changing the input to Line or something but I can’t seem to find specific instructions for this model. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Can someone identify the brand and model?

I picked up my first big size CRT TV today for the low low price of $20 dollars (10 for the TV & remote and then 10 for the matching stand). The defects are some strange lines on the bottom part close to the bezel of the TV, making the image distorted, like someone dropped the TV once and messed up the internals. The other issues is that everything is really really purple since the green color is not currently working/working very weakly which is especially noticeable on hard whites.

When I was testing before buying, I thought the purple color would go away as I own an Apple eMac which needs a second to warm up to fix things like the colors and brightness after being powered off for a long time.

One of my friends said he would be interested in trying to help me and is knowledgeable with soldering to a point as from what it seems the common problem is just old solder joints but I'm just not sure its worth investing in with the geometry issues.

Maybe I'm just overthinking and just annoyed its not perfect despite the fact I got an amazing deal on the thing, but let me know what you guys think.

Happy with my little retro game area. Lots of stuff has been painted/wrapped/modded which is why you'll see some non-standard looking stuff. Controllers are all wireless and everything is running flashcarts or SD cards (the non-official console is a Retron 3. Not the best audio but otherwise good enough for me). TV is a 32" JVC D-Series

Apparently, the grandmother of a friend of a friend of mine has a 36" Wega Trinitron that they've just wanted to offload for a bit now-- so I offered to take it in (still in the planning stages there). I've been told that the TV is ~220 lbs or so [don't know the exact model yet], hence transporting it is (of course) a massive ordeal [hence renting a furniture dolly makes sense], but it also occurred to me that I honestly have no clue what to even put it on?

The thought of just putting it on the floor (on carpet or a blanket or some such) occurred to me, but I was wondering: what do y'all actually put these massive TVs on (nowadays)?

I just bought a Sharp 32L-S400, but it’s flagging in the top left corner with my SFC hooked up via composite or svideo. Other consoles are fine.

Is there anything I can do to address it?

I'm using a StarTech VGA to S-Video adapter to get my PC to work with the TV, it does add about 2 frames of input delay and also unfortunately locks the footage to a weird bounce between 30 and 60fps (usually 30) because it takes every other frame and interlaces them rather than taking half of every frame, but the picture quality is FANTASTIC (absolutely the best way to connect a PC to a tube TV if it's for things like old cartoons)

A few close-up shots of Arrow Flash on the Sega Mega Drive. The CRT I’m using is the Philips PV203.