I used one of these for a while to test vintage computers since it was the only B&W TV I had. Worked fine up until it overheated on a hot day in my garage and the picture faded out. One day I will dig it back out and see what died inside it.

This tv was retailed as several different brands

@The_Studioworkshop

4 ай бұрын

Yes it was, as stated in the video!

@spankthemonkey3437

4 ай бұрын

​@@The_StudioworkshopI took a digital converter box up to one and it worked quite nice then

@t0nito

15 күн бұрын

And several different versions, NTSC-M, PAL-BG, PAL-I, PAL-DK, with RCA AV input, without, etc...

I remember these TVs, they were everywhere lol, I was forced to use one for a while as my main tv... I don't think they are really worth picking up anymore unless you want to make an osc for music of off it otherwise you can get pretty cheap Japanese market TVs in a similar size that are all in color, the one I got was a huge surprise - not only is it color but actually a trinitron tube with super crisp colors even though it was a no name! :D

I had something similar years ago, I think it was $12 at the grocery store. It fit perfectly between the dash and center console of my car, and with a cassette adapter I could listen to TV while driving.

I added composite video to one of these, it was easy to do 😊

i got this tv still brand new in the box. the good side about tv's like this. there are great for camping.

Subbed, you are a legend!

@The_Studioworkshop

4 ай бұрын

Subbed back! Another legend!

People put these down as junk, and they were junk. But I used one at camp, and it served its use well as a radio and television receiver. No electric power there, so its battery operated capability was the main reason I bought it for $20. I powered it with a car battery. It worked okay, but we didn't watch tv much at camp anyway. No such thing as streaming then either. 🇺🇸 version

These aren't bad monitors when you get them to stop vertically rolling. I have a steepletone branded btv510 model which has an rca av input, so the mod you may want to do in the future should be possible)

I got one of these from a charity shop for £2 minus PSU, it has a frame fault which I will get round to one day.....

@The_Studioworkshop

4 ай бұрын

Likely just knackard cheap caps. In out in a swoop and should be up and running again

I wish I could play Fallout on that TV

Does this one really lack a composite input? That's a bit lame, I've seen a few of these and they all had one built in (which would definitely suggest that adding one to this should be straightforward). I occasionally use one of these to briefly test old 8 bit micros using the composite in (sometimes LCDs fail to pick up a bad composite signal that these have no trouble with).

@The_Studioworkshop

4 ай бұрын

Externally it does but I suspect placements on board. I haven’t looked properly yet but will likely be able to get something working within the week to share on KZread’s!

@The_Studioworkshop

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely - LCDs are unreliable with things with bad sync, in fact some later colour sets are too! Tends to be the later stuff with OSD functions from the early 2000s

@andygozzo72

4 ай бұрын

@@The_Studioworkshop yep, they dont like the 'not strictly broadcast compliant' signals from old 'home' computers..

How could you forget Channel 4?! I have a few of those little sets, handy and crap at the same time. some of these have composit video inputs on them.

@The_Studioworkshop

4 ай бұрын

Was it channel 4, 5 or both? I’m sure 5 disappeared in 2010. It’s scary the things you forget sometimes!

@IrishvintageTVRadio

4 ай бұрын

@The_Studioworkshop Both, 5 was the last one, launched early 00's I think. Channel 4 was 83. Don't know if 5 left analog earlier, I thought they all went the same time. Last switch off was October '12.

@The_Studioworkshop

4 ай бұрын

@@IrishvintageTVRadio that’s right. Channel 5 was the last one to join. I never watched 5 which is why I couldn’t remember it. I am sure only two beeb channels and ITV were the only ones which remained until early 2010s. I suppose it all depends on where you are in the UK too. A quick google search showed different transmitters switched off at different times

@IrishvintageTVRadio

4 ай бұрын

@The_Studioworkshop That's right, switch off started around 05 I think. Channel 4 had eurotrash, so hard to forget when you were in you're early teens!

i used to have a woolworths branded one, a1 condition in box, never used it and thought i never would so stripped it out for parts, stupid moi!!!

2:16 Europe isn't just Britbongistan, in Italy having only 4 channels was something people dealt with in the early to mid 70s. By the 1980s in Italy there were at least a dozen channels in a given area. You had 3 RAI channels, 3 Mediaset channels, TV Capodistria (in the North), TMC, Rete A, and a bunch of regional and local TV stations.

@The_Studioworkshop

4 ай бұрын

I was referring to the UK specifically. The main Channels stuck around until the early 2010s however we had freeview (digital TV), with over 100 channels on it, for 10 years at that point - not to mention catch up TV, which was brought in around 2010

@fungo6631

4 ай бұрын

@@The_StudioworkshopI see. In any case, such a TV made more sense in Italy, as there were already many channels broadcasting in analog. By the 2000s the entire spectrum was filled with various TV stations, mostly local and regional ones.

3:45, it wouldn't work anyway because the audio carrier in system M is 4.5 MHz while in the UK it's 6.0 MHz, even if you took it to mainland Europe it woudn't work as it's PAL-BG which is 5.5 MHz, so you would get a picture but static for audio. But these were sold all over the world so I wouldn't be surprised if conversion was as simple as changing a jumper or something.

That begs to run Gameboy games on

This does have VHF its got a radio lol

@The_Studioworkshop

4 ай бұрын

But not a VHF television tuner, which I was clearly referring to in the video, hence no VHF/UHF switch on the front.

@captaintrips2980

4 ай бұрын

​@@The_StudioworkshopUK version, right?

@The_Studioworkshop

4 ай бұрын

@@captaintrips2980 I’m not sure if there were specific versions for the UK. You would think UK models wouldn’t have VHF for 625 lines but I had one back in the days with the switch. These aren’t exactly dependent on PAL and NTSC so a simple adjustment of V hold will make it work on USA tv.

@captaintrips2980

4 ай бұрын

@@The_Studioworkshop I'm not deep into understanding your system, so thanks for that. I always thought it was better than ours. More lines.

@The_Studioworkshop

4 ай бұрын

@@captaintrips2980 In Ireland they used 625 lines on VHF but I think that was phased out many many years before these were made. I suppose the little bit more lines in picture we have, we technically have only 25FPS. I’m sure the actual TVL of the picture is less than 625 lines on this screen though!