I don't know how anyone can claim an old CRT is a patch on a modern LCD, have you never watched football in HD on a decent one?
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Does anyone else still have a "tube" telly?
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Posted 6 months ago #
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Any body want a 32" Panasonic crt? Got one sitting in the corner since changing to lcd. Seems a shame to chuck it out, still a damn good telly
I am going to be in the same position, you do struggle to give them away now. John Lewis charge £9 to take it away which seems to be the cheapest option for me. The size of the thing makes them difficult for anyone to collect.
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If either if them are anywhere near Glasgow I'd be happy to take them for our youth club
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We still have a 28" Sony that I bought about 5 years ago. This thing is indestructible. It has broken loads of times then fixed itself!
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If either if them are anywhere near Glasgow I'd be happy to take them for our youth club
Sorry, Farnborough in Hampshire.
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Err thirty odd folk up there ^^^ random! I've watched h footy on a hd ready so admittedly not full hd and I wasn't impressed!
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ditch_jockey - you have mail!
27" in Stirling looking for a home.Posted 6 months ago # -
This thing is indestructible.
Maybe 15 years ago now, I was burgled. Amongst their haul was a large Sony CRT that was several years old.
It was a few days later when a neighbour asked me if it was my TV in the back street. Checked and, sure enough, there it was. The case was split in two, they'd obviously got it out and then dropped it (it was a ton weight). In the meantime, it'd done nothing but pour with rain.
I scraped it up, poured several pints of water out of it, and brought it in. Stripped it down, dried out what I could, then left it in the front room with the heating on for a week.
Put it all back together and, after a few false starts and a bit of fettling, it worked. I got another three years maybe out of it before the power supply gave up the ghost and I replaced it with... another big Sony CRT.
Indestructible is right.
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I have a big Bang & Olufsen (sp?) CRT. It's crap.
Recently I was walking down a street that was having a bulky rubbish collection that day. Practically every single house was chucking out a CRT TV. The number of people replacing their TVs must be huge.
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Maybe 15 years ago now, I was burgled. Amongst their haul was a large Sony CRT that was several years old.
It was a few days later when a neighbour asked me if it was my TV in the back street. Checked and, sure enough, there it was. The case was split in two, they'd obviously got it out and then dropped it (it was a ton weight). In the meantime, it'd done nothing but pour with rain.
I scraped it up, poured several pints of water out of it, and brought it in. Stripped it down, dried out what I could, then left it in the front room with the heating on for a week.
Put it all back together and, after a few false starts and a bit of fettling, it worked. I got another three years maybe out of it before the power supply gave up the ghost and I replaced it with... another big Sony CRT.
Indestructible is right.
We have been thinking about replacing it to be honest, and it will definitely be with another Sony.
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Got an old 14" Sony in my bedroom that is still going strong, bought it when I left school in 1995
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4x3 CRT here too. One of the things that stops me moving to flat screen is watching 4x3 content on a 16x9 screen is just upsettingly ugly. Quite happy watching 16x9 on a 4x3 though.
Flat screens are just ugly objects though. Would hate to have one in the room.
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me - a nice sony that must be 15 or 20 years old. It just works
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Any body want a 32" Panasonic crt?
Try Freecycle. I picked up the similar, and somehow squeezed it into my old Puma. Got it into the house where it worked for 2 days then broke. Currently sitting in the box room awaiting a trip to the dump when I can be bothered.
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Sony Trinitron. 26", I think. Bought it in 1998 and it refuses to die. Don't see the point of replacing something that works fine and meets my meagre TV-watching needs just to fall in line with what our consumerist society expects.
Bah!
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WOW! And there I was thinking I must be the only person still watching a tube telly. I love my 11yr old Sony. And yes the picture is better than my brother in laws award winning plasma (even he admits it). I would hate it when it goes pop. Not for the expense of replacing it but for the dents in the carpet!!
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Got an old 14" Sony in my bedroom that is still going strong, bought it when I left school in 1995
I recycled my 14" TV a couple of years back. Nothing wrong with it, it was just taking up space and I never used it. It was my computer monitor back when I had a Spectrum; I reckon it was 25 years old when I took it to the tip. Pye, that was.
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One of the things that stops me moving to flat screen is watching 4x3 content on a 16x9 screen is just upsettingly ugly.
I always said that. The Toshiba I bought is one of the few that doesn't (Panasonic and Samsung also); technology has finally caught up, you should revisit it.
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14" Bush from Freecycle.
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My old Panasonic just died this year... Was going to replace it about 5 years ago but the only flatties that could match it for quality cost the earth. But tbh I have to say that the Toshiba I replaced it with is in the same price category and is much better.
Most flatties still seem to be rubbish though, cheap CRTs were surely better than cheap flats.
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A huge Sony Trinitron here. The picture quality is still way better than most of the flat screen TVs I have thus far seen. Bit like the derailer/internal gear debate. The newest technology that isn't yet there or older technology that has been refined to its best. Also no way anyone is going to nick this TV unless they have portable crane with them!
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Most flatties still seem to be rubbish though, cheap CRTs were surely better than cheap flats.
depends what you're using them for, can't even read the text on PS3 games on my old CRT. same size cheapy LCD is crystal clear.you can't aim/drive properly etc. if you can't see what you're looking at
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We have an old Sony the size of a washing machine, it's got to be more than ten years old. The one it replaced is still in service up in Orkney. It must be nearly twenty years old.
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I think GW is right the first LCD I bought was a fairly decent Samsung and when I plugged It into non HD sky It looked piss poor . The minute I fired up Ghost Recon on the X box It looked amazing. My old 32" Panasonic CRT had a better picture on non HD tv. Ive now got a LG with Sky Hd and Its a great picture .
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We recently inherited a nice shiny 36" Full HD LG LCD telly which displaced our 36" Hitatchi CRT that we've had for at least 15 years.
I appreciate the extra space in the living room, but honestly I think the picture was better on the CRT. We're only on standard def freeview so not getting the most out the HD, but the motion blur and posterisation really irritate me.
On the plus side, it takes up much less of the living room and it is great for showing photos.
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I just binned my grandad's old 14" Ferguson telly. That was back from the days when Japanese manufacturers used British-sounding names to flog tellies and British manufacturers used Japanese-sounding names...
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32 JVC. I might actually be now too weak to move it
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One of the things that stops me moving to flat screen is watching 4x3 content on a 16x9 screen is just upsettingly ugly.
I always said that. The Toshiba I bought is one of the few that doesn't (Panasonic and Samsung also); technology has finally caught up, you should revisit it.
Its not the distortion - its having a vertical letterbox - black bars either side of the image. Just wrong. Horizontal letter box - absolutely fine, infact I think its better to watch 16x9 letterboxed than on a native screen. And as objects they're wrong (for me). Wrong on the wall, wrong on a stand. Wrong wrong wrong.
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Had a CRT up until fairly recently. No issues with the picture quality but now it's gone there seems a lot more space in the room, like one of the chairs is missing...
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We've got a Sony 28" flat CRT TV that we got from my other half's parents.
It must only be about 5 years old but not long after buying it, they decided it was too big and chopped it in for a Bush LCD TV, so gave it to us.My other half is desperate to get rid of it & get a flatscreen, but I can't see the point. It will take up no more space, as it's at a jaunty angle in the corner of the room, so the flatscreen replacement will also have to intrude into the same space (it will just be empty behind it).
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ne of the things that stops me moving to flat screen is watching 4x3 content on a 16x9 screen
Is there still 4x3 content out there? Or are you watching a load of old Betamax tapes on it?
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When I first watched SD on an LCD I though it looked a little weird. A few days later I could see no issue. I bought the first one because we had no telly at the time, then I got a larger one because we moved into a houes with a bigger room and I couldn't see to play PS games. Sold the old one on.
I haven't watched a CRT since then so I can't compare picture quality on SD telly, but the LCD wins hands down on HD telly, PS games, and being 40" without being enormous and thereby allowing me to arrange the room nicely.
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yes,a bush 24" (i think) that i paid £25 for
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Is there still 4x3 content out there?
Surprisingly... yes. Even some comparatively recent stuff. I thought I'd pressed the wrong button, but The Wire is all in 4x3
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I've got a Toshiba 36" widescreen. Works perfectly, but it's about to be replaced.
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