H.D. C.R.T. anyone?
 

Does anyone from here ownes a H.D. C.R.T. tv? 720p, 1080i or event 1035i?

I have a 1080i Sony Trinitron set.

Same here. Mine has HDMI and ATSC tuning too.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1813/...8cc15ae0_n.jpg

Those have got to be quite uncommon, the very tail end of crts I would assume?

I used to have a Toshiba 1080i CRT Set (Flat CRT) it was a 32" set and that sucker was heavy, it probably weighed in close to 100 pounds or so! :yikes:

When I went to finally take it to the landfill to recycle it, I had it in the back of my Subaru Forester and when we were pulling out of the driveway the TV lurched back and smashed my rear window! :sigh: :no:

The funny thing is that even after going through my rear window the TV was still intact!

Pro-tip: Never set a 32" CRT TV (HD or not) with the CRT facing the rear window in the back of a hatchback SUV, you'll more than likely bust out your rear window doing that when you're braking. :nono:

Not that much... around 5 years ago when I got mine used I had a lower end coarser phosphor pitch model off the curb and gave it to a friend when I got mine. If the region has a thriving middle class there should be a decent number still around. Flat panel sets only starting to catch up to the contrast ratio and color reproduction these are capable of so most owners kept these sets a long time.

Sanyo Vizon HT30746 30 inch!
1080i
HEAVY! 16x9 crt.
Again, HEAVY!

I picked up a Sony XRP, which I think is a 36". Two younger guys picked it up and they had to rest while carrying it. I understand, it weighs over 200 pounds.

But why did you dumped tv sets that where in working condition? :(
Makes me sad...

The Admiral I picked up a few weeks ago slid around in the back of my Forester and the UHF knob busted off. I buckled it up in one of the rear seats to secure it. I swear the mat in the back of that car is made of teflon and soaked in silicone......you take a gentle turn and everything slams and slides around back there.

Anyways a co-worker threatened to give me a 30-something inch HD CRT TV but I declined....I don't know where I'd put it and it weighs as much as a console. I wouldn't kick a GDM-FW900 outta bed though :yes:

In reality it may have a problem or the customer thought it did. He looks
for a TV shop & dosnt find any. Now he picks up a new LCD BIG screen & gets rid of the bulky, ugly & heavy set. He is as we say " keeping up with the Jones" with the new set also.
At the shop we had to rent a trailer to store junk TV's. The recyclers emptied
it ever 3 weeks. Most was still working or had simple problems. On a good day
we would get businesses junking monitors by the truck load. We often made more $$ junking sets than in sales & service. Being an old "yankee" I
detested the waste of perfectly good things....

enuf fer now
73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !

Been there, done that. A hernia set (as we called them in the business).

Have a 32 Insignia 'who ever made them'Probably Funai here.It was heavy as a mother but glad that I got it.

I picked up the Sony 34XBR960 34" with the Superfine pitch CRT and tuner about 8 years ago. I did a board swap for the known bad chip that kills power up. I just did the whole board as the internet was not up to date on the errant chip then and bogus chips were a problem. 21 board connections.

The CRT pixel light source...good for 65 years now...is to my broadcasting trained eye the best. Flat screens to me just look like a bunch of venetian blinds trying to make color.

Mine has a bit of a bow on the UL and LR corners but not enough to mess with the service controls. Have another glass of wine and it goes away. Last summer I did go after the focus which was getting soft. It is on the right rear corner as you face it on a diagonal...and the master screen is just below it. You can get to it through the back vents. You can see it with a flashlight and use a needle nose and break off a few vent lines. A long tuning stick will get to it and it is back in focus...but a bit soft at the edges.

It only has one HDMI in so I use a switch to see others but now I am finding that some HDMI will not work on it. Maybe an updated HDMI that it cannot see? It is also on my OTA antenna and those signals are way better than my same Comcast channel.

I found a Target house brand 4K set 2 years ago to replace it. Still in the box. It will not die.

Hi, Dave-

The issue may be that many newer devices no longer have 1080i outputs but only 720p and 1080p. It is so long since I had any CRT HD device, that I forgot if sets such as your Sony could also accept a 720p signal. Perhaps your suspect devices can be manually set to that mode to test it.

Yeah I had a projection TV that only liked 1080i and only had a DVI+HDCP port. It was a DLP set strangely enough, as far as I know my Roku still outputs that and it’s a few years old

Anyone remember that 38" 16:9 tube from RCA? 200 pounds, plus even more with the stand! Biggest widescreen tube, and the only TV I know that ever had a built-in DirecTV receiver.

I have a Toshiba 30HF85C (2005 build) CRT widescreen that I picked up for free (all 111 pounds), even had the remote and manual . The previous owner was just glad to get it out of his garage. Not a bad set, it works almost perfect but the edges of the picture show some colour separation, perhaps covergence needs to be performed? Also the HDMI, while working perfect with my Telus Optik box, refuses to work with my Playstation 3. The set will do up to 1080i, and I have seen this issue with another Toshiba HDTV model similar to mine where it didn't cooperate with a gaming system using HDMI. I just use the analogue component ColourStream inputs with the PS 3 as the games I play are only 720p anyway. I did miss out on a free Sony KV 34XBR920 at about the same time I got this set but then I would have needed to make space for that, and probably would have put my back out too:)

My friend and I were disposing a really dead Sony 36" Trinitron using his GMC Safari van and while we were driving he had to hit the brakes hard ( 'cause idiot driver cut him off), the Trinitron fell over in the back of the van and the tube broke! Glass was EVERYWHERE in the back half of the interior! Took us four hours to clean up the mess! Note to self: secure thy load!

Speaking of widescreen CRT sets, Some time ago I coulda woulda shoulda picked up a Sony CURVED SCREEN 16:9 Trinitron, about 13", NTSC Japan market analogue only tv ( with mono a/v inputs). Can't remember the model number, but was a mid to late 90's set similar to the KV13xx or 14xx style of sets from back then. Was 30 bucks at an independent thrift store, Still kicking myself for letting that one go...

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I recall seeing a Sony 40" Trinitron (flat face) 16:9 set, don't recall the model number, but it was fairly rare from what I remember.

Are you sure it was 40"? I thought they never were able to get them much bigger than 34" in the 16:9 format. As you say, that would be pretty rare.

I've seen 40" sets in the 4:3 format.

This one claims to be 1080i HD, but it appears to be 4x3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4euXYR-fkB0

Sony did make a huge 16x9 CRT if I recall correctly (can't find a picture). It had places to fasten two sturdy steel pipes to the sides as handles for moving it (it took at least four men, easier with 6).

Biggest Sonys I remember were the 40" 4:3 and the 34" widescreens.
After delivering the first 40" we had a moving co move them, also the
34". We were getting old ! They were easy on an appliance dolly but
out of the box tricky. The 40" had to be strapped to a sheet of plywood
or the bottom could cave in ! That beast was so heavy it took 2 men
to move the matching stand. IIRC the stand alone was $500.
A widescreen 40" would be heavier due to all the extra glass.

I went to the seminar for that early RCA. It was named the "bat TV".
Worked on one. They had a cooling fan with a "wind" operated
shutdown circuit. I just changed the module. The trainer said so
much went into the set you could leave out 1/4 of the parts
& barely tell the difference. It was all out engineering.

Keep in mind when comparing sizes your source. In most other countries
they measure dead glass & other masked off areas. So our 40" Sony
was probably sold in Japan etc as a 43 or 44" set.

enuf fer now
73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !

The KV-40XBR800 was the Sony with the 40" 4:3 WEGA tube. 34XBR960 I think was the top-of-the-line 16:9 flat tube, which was only 34". RCA's 38" 16:9 tube was curved.

Ol' Mad Man Muntz would have been proud.

Thanks. Wasn't sure I remembered it correctly.

Toshiba 30 " HD1080i/720p model 30HF85 from 2004, has built-in ATSC tuner. About 88 pounds, sharp and bright for its age. It was decent on the OTA and sports were best watched on the Toshiba CRT but it was replaced with a newer Sony 42" DLP that still has a good "bulb" and a slightly better digital OTA tuner.

It may have actually been 4:3 , it was awhile ago and my memory isn't what it used to be...
If I do find out if it was in fact a 40" 16:9 I'll update here with model number.

Hello! I haven't been around here for about 6 years. I've been over at AK. My daily TV is a Sony KD-34XBR960. I bought it new. It hasn't required service.

When I bought it I did a lot of research. I considered buy a slightly used '960 because of the praise it was receiving, but the circuit failures scared me away. IIRC the 960 was US-made and the 970 was Mexican.

The writing was on the wall regarding the end of the CRT era. I think I was lucky to get it before those days ended. The brief era of CRT HD. My family knows I'm the old radio and tube audio guy in the family. But other people ask why I still have that "small" TV. Most seem to care more for quantity rather than quality.

Still running a Panasonic CT-34WX54 Tau series for the daily chores, it's a 2008 model and the CRT is starting to show it's age but no problems on the PC boards. Anyone know how to set the red gamma? I've been thru the service menu many times and no luck yet.

I have a Sanyo Vizion 30 inch HDTV crt tv, free to the first person who wants it. The tv is in perfect working and cosmetic condition. I'm located in Richmond, VA just minutes from I-64 and I-95. It has a HDMI input along with Composite, Component and S-video inputs. I am the original owner and only reason I'm giving it away is I no longer use it much and want it to go to a good home. Thanks, Tony

My current "garage tv" is a 1950 RCA that had been turned into a fish tank, I installed a 2004 Sanyo into it. It's a 20", flat crt, model ds20424 with 1080i resolution.