This TV is Frickin' HUGE | Nostalgia Nerd

Also, apologies to anyone who is genuinely put out by high pitched Flyback transformer sounds. I can't actually hear them anymore 😭😭😭

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[EricGranata]

I remember being a kid in the 80s and being convinced that I had super hearing because I could hear a tv turn on/off from anywhere in the house.

[cjc]

Thanks for the memories. In the US I was part crew of a news broadcast and we had BIG CRTs - Mitsubishi, IIRC - behind bookshelf covers that scissor lifted up and down to expose the screen for anchor interview segments. Took several big beefy techs to move those sets back in the late 90s.

[reviewyourownadventure]

I had a 32" Advent flat tube CRT. It took 2 massive guys with no necks to get it into my apartment. They were struggling, bulging neck veins and red sweaty faces. They asked where I wanted it. I said to put it in the entertainment center. They hurriedly shuffled over to it and tried to get into the TV section. "Oh god! It won't fit!" yelled one of the guys. They panicked and sat it on the floor. They both took several deep breaths and told me I was out of luck. They weren't going to pick it up again. If I didn't want it in the floor I'd have to figure how to move it. They left. That TV kicked ass.

[LandisSeralian]

I have a 36" RCA F35100ST sitting on the floor in my gaming room right now, that thing is super heavy and the screen is taller than the HDTV I have sitting right next to it. There's just something amazing about huge CRTs.

[NumptyMcNumptyface]

My favourite aspect of that TV is the amount of inputs it has. You can never have enough inputs.

[SuperCartoonist]

9:38 You're not supposed to connect composite if you have S-video connected because composite will interfere with S-video and like wise in vice versa. The picture quality will be off.

[MontieMongoose]

We had a 40" Mitsubishi TV in the US in the 1990s. My parents still had it until they moved two years ago. The thing weighed over 200 lbs.

[KarrierBag]

I have to say, I was very lucky as a kid along with my two brothers, our parents worked in and then took over (late 70's) a TV/ Radio sales, rental and repair shop so we always had the new stuff to try out like this over a weekend and sometimes through the week, my dad now 86 still messes around fixing TV's videos etc in his workshop.

[natecw]

I'll never forget when my dad came home and said "I need your help with something in the truck."

35" CRT Sony Trinitron. It weighed a metric ton. It was so bright. So big. So much nicer than those giant rear-projection tvs.

It literally drew a crowd from our neighbors 😂 Ah the early 90s ❤

[CineSoar]

I had a 40" Sony Trinitron, bought in the late 90's and sold early 2, 010's (a friend had one, that was 2, or 3 inches larger and oddly, given the small percentage difference, you could tell at a glance it was unquestionably bigger). I once hoisted it up into an entertainment center, by myself, which I consider one of the riskier things I've done (considering the non-zero chance of being up close and personal, with an enormous implosion of the glass CRT). I rolled it into the room on a dolly and set it on the floor. Then, I stacked books to the width and depth of the TV base, and half the height of the shelf. The position of the TV, books and shelf, formed a triangle, of which I knelt in the middle. First, I tipped the TV onto my knees and chest, and got a the best grip I could underneath. Then, I slid the screen up my body, until it was high enough to clear the books. Next, I shuffled my knees, rotating, until the TV was hovering over the books and tilted the TV back upright, on top of them. I repeated this maneuver, starting at the book height, which allowed me to get hand-holds better suited to placing it on the shelf, that were not available on the floor. Finally, with the weight resting on my hands, hips, and chest, I raised up on my knees, and shuffle-rotated, until I could place enough of the rear of the TV's base on the shelf, and slide the TV home. For time-period context, I watched a lot of South Park, the "Lost" series, Mythbusters, and all of the Motorcycle-builders shows on that TV. When I sold it, I used still frames from "American Beauty" to demonstrate that it still had good picture.

[mymomsaysimcool]

My son just had dinner with us and we played SWBattlefront split screen on our 56 inch tv. He said “Remember playing this on a PS2 with that monster 38inch Tube tv? God that thing was heavy.” Recalling when we had to haul it off when it died.

[mitchellazevedo]

I am the proud owner of a Sony FD Trinitron WEGA KV-36XBR450 36" CRT with DRC horizontal and vertical line doubling, two component and three S-video inputs. The Neo Geo CD through S-Video absolutely shines on this TV set.

[KanawhaCountyWX]

Personally, as a 19-year-old, I don't mind the flyback wine. We used CRTs in my house for a long time, well after the HD transition, because analog cable existed for us until around 2017 and because we just couldn't afford to go HD for a long time, so it's actually reminds me of when I was very little. I wouldn't call it nostalgia because I'm not old enough to consider something nostalgic in my mind.

[thesidneychan]

So I finally learned today that the high frequency sounds coming from the TV is called the flyback transformer.

Back then no one knew what I was talking about. I always hear it as an indicator that the TV is left on. This is especially helpful when the screen is on standby or black, or muted in the other room, so I'd know to properly turn it off when other people didn't realise it's still on. And when I turn it off, there will be a short buzz, and what I think are sounds of dust or lint sticking to the TV via electrostatic, which sound like tiny prickly raindrops, then complete silence.

The flyback transformer pitch sound is also present in some modern flat screen TVs if I recall.

[Vuusteri]

Funny how today every TV under 50'' is considered tiny, while in CRT-era everything over 30'' was humongous.

[belzebub]

10:19 a lot of european market consumer TV sets in the 90s could actually handle NTSC just fine, I had a Sony KV-21 from '96 and when I got my first DVD player it could play all my imports in "real" NTSC (not 4.43 or PAL60) just fine!

[thebossmans]

My dad bought one of those in 99 and we had it till we moved 10 years ago. It still worked perfectly but it was too huge to take it with us so we just left it with the new owners of the house. I wish i still had it to play old games consoles on. The sound system was unbelievably good. I believe there still out there in the wild and still working. One of the reasons i left it was because i assumed it would stop working soon as it was getting old and i thought it couldnt be repaired so i thought why bother lugging it around but it would probably still be working to this day had i of just kept it. As you can tell im still not over it 😢

[justanotheryoutubechannel]

What a huge television! That thing is a proper beast! I have a 21-inch Trinitron and it strikes a good balance between size and convenience, but I do wish I’d gone for the 25-inch model. The sheer size of this is just mind boggling and I’d love to get something like this someday in a way, even though it’s ridiculously huge and would not be worth it.

[Stock--Rosso]

I owned a 36 inch Panasonic TX widescreen, that came with it's own rock solid stand and used it for the PS2/PS3. I sold it 10 years ago like an idiot and regretted it almost immediately😂 Great video👍🏼

[ZeroHourProductions]

I still keep a 34" hitachi I managed to save/rescue from Goodwill while they were still accepting and selling them. One big reason? Rail shooters. A lot of tv and display makers brag about how fast they can make their panels, but not one of them will ever work with _any_ of the light guns out there.

"But there's the Sinden--"
"I'm gonna stop you right there."
The problem with the Sinden, is it's $400 USD, and only works with Duck Hunt on real hardware. It does eff all for the other light gun games on the NES, or really any other platform.
I'm talking House of the Dead (Saturn & Dreamcast)
I'm talking Time Crisis 1/2/3 (PS1/2).
I'm talking Confidential Mission (Dreamcast).
I'm talking Silent Scope (Dreamcast, and the port on OG Xbox).
Decades of great rail shooters completely ignored. That's my gripe. Why emulate them if I can play them on the real console with their associated gun? That's the gripe.