80's Hitachi CRT TV - Using A CRT In 2021, Streaming Youtube, Netflix, Hulu

Retro game pirating is usually considered okay if the games are not available to buy, so you can find rom sites everywhere. But the problem with old movies is we don't have an option to download old low res movies and watch them the way they were intended. Star wars ep. 4 was modified as well because they didn't like certain things on modern tvs, but that was the beauty back then

This was beautiful.

i remade the tv with cardboard

It's my old TV! Got this exact bad boy when I was 12 as a hand me down. Played NES on this. Watched TNG on this. Good times.

I use an old PVM broadcast monitor on the desk. Never been a big image-quality stickler, S-Video is good enough for me lol

Try doing a video with the proper equipment. You would be surprised how good it can look. Don’t use rf or composite if you can. Or does the tv only support rf?

can someone help me out? i have this same set up for my tv but for some reason i get video on channel 3 and my audio on channel 4 does anyone know why im having this isssue

an actual crt monitor is great

Nice set, it’s a shame that it predates on-screen settings though. (That’s required for RGB mods that make a MUCH clearer image)

Oh wow, nice AW11! Got one myself brother

Dude u talk waaayyyy too much!!! Get to the point!!!

I'm gonna guess that you are a Virgo.

i have this exact crt lol

I need a old TV

that picture quality sucks alot

Had a TV just like this when I was a kid. I remember I would stick my head up against the screen and then pull the knob out.... (Clunk, hair stands up 😮) also if the picture got a little fuzzy dad would send me outside to manually rotate the antenna attached to the side of the house " hey that's too far, turn it back a little " 😅

i gotta play my own game on one of these lol

Some of these retro channels have nothing on you. Turn knobs are real.

I still use a knob TV in my bedroom, and keep my old vcr and SNES on it, mainly because the SNES and VHS looks better on it, but my old TVs sound is way better than any flat screen I've ever owned, it's nice to fall asleep to that old warm tube sound.

I only use vintage because I hate the future this world is living in. Only 24 and I don't know how half of this tech shit works.

Might be good after a bowl

I've held onto my LG 29' flat CRT TV from 2005. Not exactly vintage yet but I plan to keep it for as long as I can. It's my last CRT TV.

Old school horror movies look way more realistic on CRT. In modern TV they look goofy. You can see all the special effects and breaks the immersion.

This would be great with x files

You might never see this but seriously if u don’t want and don’t use the TV I will take it because I’m planning to make a thriller series based in the 80s and I need a TV and that one is the perfect one! 😭😭

I used to have this model in the 80's. Thanks for the flashback.

for some reason your face reminds me of Ferris bueller

the extra dial is for another higher band of tv signal known as UHF. on that band one could recieve up to 58 (i think?) other channels that werent very good because the signals just didnt go as far as those on the standard VHF band. i have a CRT TV specifically for playing PS2 and older games because the new TVs dont seem to express the shading correctly. either turn the contrast up and wash it out to see things in the dark or turn it down so everything but the dark parts of games can be seen correctly. Other info; if your CRT begins to display the colors, contrast incorrectly or the screen begins showing distortions it may just be that the inside is dirty. Remove the back of the case and clean the board with canned air but dont use anything that conducts electricity unless you know what you're doing. there are capacitors in there that still contain thousands of volts of electricity even when the TV has been unplugged.

Is the Hitachi still around today?

I still have a old CRT ill boot up every so often to play a few classic games. Its fantastic, reminds me of my childhood

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I work at an old mall and found this exact tv model in a back room. I was thinking about taking it to use it exactly like this or even have it in the back ground of house shows my friends have. I’m going to attempt to find the proper converters to put hdmi on this

get yourself some electronics contact cleaner to spray in that volume POT, it will help alot if it is dirty.

This is pretty much how I use my old TVs. My main TV is a 1985 Zenith System 3 which I use on a daily basis. I am not a gamer, and the idea that CRTs are only good for gaming bothers me. LCDs make me sick when I use them for too long, so my main monitor is a CRT and my TVs are all CRTs. I do have cable, so I use that as well as a firestick. Works just as good as a new TV and the picture is just as good as a new TV as well aside from resolution.

what was the model number on that tv

You sure this is 1985? This looks pretty old fashioned for 85. I been a TV engineer for 40 years, and TV's had advanced beyond those clunky dials by then, but maybe American TVs still used the older tuners.
As for your volume knob, get some switch/contact cleaner (NOT WD40 or oil based) in a can with a little hose attachment and squirt some right in the base and work the knob fast through the full range quickly, as it evaporates.

What I love about recent classic game re-releases is that they offer various filter modes to emulate the look of a CRT TV. The actual games themselves look uglier and more pixelated on our LCD displays than they actually appeared on tvs of the day when they came out, so these filters help recreate the original look, removing that ugly pixelation and completing the experience.

I myself have both a 65” LG OLED, and a 30” Sanyo HT30746 HD CRT.

80s movies aren't always better in HD

It's a start to a collection. I have about 50 vintage tv sets black and white as well as color sets in wood veneer cabinet.

That TV can't do 480p. 240P and 480i only.

Our main tv is a large Maganvox CRT from 1995, we use a roof antenna with a VCR and PS2

Why stream when you can get cable and DVD's/VHS tapes

Not sure if someone said it yet, but getting a HDMI to Composite to RF looks better.
I recently got acouple 80s CRTs with the same adapter you have. There was to much like bad connection ig. Screen noise and red moving lines almost. The screen also wasnt centered wich I couldnt change for some reason.
But when you run HDMI to Composite then a Composite to RF the picture improves slightly and it looks alot better. This being getting rid of any flickering or bad connection that the HDMI to RF brings. Probavly cause its hard for just one converter to change HD to analog.

When you connect HDMI to a crt through the hdmi2av converter are there scanlines?