#trinitron — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #trinitron, aggregated by home.social.
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Okay, so atm my theory about the curbside Trinitron is... complicated? It appears I'm not the first person whose been inside of it... well, maybe, but if so, I really don't know if they just opened it then got confused/spooked, or if they attempted to adjust anything (would be nice to believe that they messed with SCREEN, but made it darker instead of brightere, but I doubt it lol).
Here's what I do have to go on: on the RF input (not that I have anything connected, so just a dead channel), it's really dim, but if I turn the lights off, I can tell that there's snow, so it's not just pure black. The channel is not nearly full brightness, but it's bright and clear enough to see in a lit room.
On the AV in, the screen is basically black and depending what I have connected, I either get occasional red points, or right now, I have a LaserDisc of Black Rain playing, and the Paramount logo card with the mountain and stars is actually visible (but all red). If I leave it playing, sometimes it's basically all black for minutes, and other times I can make out a shape or skyline, but always in red. It's consisteent though. The same piece of content displays the same red dots/edges/figures/Paramount title card. It's not like it's intermittently all black or displaying a red image, it's more like it only displays the red past a threshold of brightness.
What's interesting is that in TV mode, the green OSD is the only truly visible thing, and then in AV mode, I'm getting red. No green in the image. Which leads me to believe that there's something up with either the jungle IC, or jungle IC adjacent passive components.
I'm not going to just assume that means there's no issue with the tube, but the fact that I'm getting green OSD, but no green in the image, is telling. Blue is... another thing. Idk yet, lol.
It is entirely possible I'm in over my head, but I wanted to at least figure out if the issue could conceivably on the board and not in the tube before I decided to potentially spend any amount of money on this. ...
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Is there some secret technique for photographing CRTs without having to race the beam?
Anyway, my Trini has a colour blotch.
And bad geometry (slight curve on top)
And it's off-centre.
I think the blotch can probably be fixed by an external degausser (TV's built-in degausser doesn't fix it), but what about the geometry and placement problems?
I see people practically giving away Trinis here. Not sure if I should try fixing mine or just getting a "new" one.
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this week's thrifting find: a 1987 cbs fox home video theatrical cut of Aliens on VHS
watching it exactly the way James Cameron intended it: pan and scan, monaural audio, on a 9-inch trini
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Man, folks today have no idea what monochrome CRTs looked like. Something just so pure about that picture.
Trinitrons came close, but only so much.
Maaan, #Trinitron... that was what we lusted after back in the day! No more janky tri-dot shadow mask that blocked most of the "light"! XD
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i have no idea how well known this is, but i never see people talk about it.
when Blade Runner: The Final Cut was released in 2007, there were several different dvd/blu-ray/hd-dvd editions. there was a single-disc (film-only) version, a 2-disc, and a massive 5-disc edition.
the 2-disc, and five-disc editions both include an incredible 3.5h making-of documentary called Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner.
it's not easy to find a streamable copy online unfortunately. there's a low quality version with spanish subs burned in here, at least:
https://archive.org/download/dangerous.-days.-making.-blade.-runner./Dangerous.Days.Making.Blade.Runner..mp4#film #bladeRunner #movies #documentary #dvd #physicalMedia #crt #trinitron
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Finally got tiny #CRT for my study! These 10in #Trinitron TVs are awesome looking. Can’t wait to play Alex Kid on it!
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I found a better monitor. #trinitron #retroComputing
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When somebody tells you they'll meet you in the Wal-Mart parking lot at 11 o'clock at night to give you a free Sony Trinitron, you go meet that person in the Wal-Mart parking lot at 11 o'clock at night for a free Sony Trinitron
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It''s always wild to me when I see regular everyday CRT TVs being sold for real actual money on Marketplace, with "TRINITRON" in all caps in the title. People are actually spending $100+ on the kinds of TVs that were in a large chunk of living rooms as recently as when the PS3 dropped.
I have to assume these are younger people getting into vintage gaming, reading online about how Trinitrons are the be-all-end-all of CRT TVs, but somebody really needs to tell them that these aren't the Kirby's Adventure of CRT technology; they were the best from the late 60s to the very end, and many are still kicking in basements and play rooms, ready to be given away for free to the first person who offers to carry them up the stairs.
If you are determining the value of an item from eBay listings, you are going to have a bad time. I promise you they made more than 12 copies of MUSHA back in the day. I'd be willing to bet they even mass produced them for a time.
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Et hop ! J’ai trouvé à pas cher ma nouvelle TV cathodique #Sony #trinitron en 60hz.
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My 5th monitor is also a Trinitron.
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@Recta_Pete Ah, that small Sony PVM in the corner, I love them.
Here is my little fellow, between his bigger brothers.
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Last night my Tandy 1000's sweet Sony Trinitron monitor quit working. 😭😭
Because I'm me I had a NEC multisync sitting in my room doing nothing so I swapped it in and it's fine.
Not the same but fine.
I've had some success in fixing monitors before, so I'm definitely going to attempt to fix this Sony....
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I used to have two of these on my beloved PowerMac G4 dual 800. One of these is the CRT in question, the other I gave to my niece along with that G4 tower years ago when I moved to a G5.
Best CRTs I've ever owned.
I still have 14 CRTs in use in the Cellar, but this one is the best. :-)
#CRT #display #monitor #notLCD #Sony #VGA #scanlines #trinitron #DOS #DOSgaming #Amiga #PC #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintagetech #tech #ByteCellar
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My 20 year old, 60lb, 19-inch Sony CPD-G420 Trinitron CRT is so incredibly sharp -- I just love this display. (It's in use dual-input on my AMD 5x86 and Amiga 2000 (as a second display).)
#CRT #display #monitor #notLCD #Sony #VGA #scanlines #trinitron #DOS #DOSgaming #Amiga #PC #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintagetech #tech
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YouTube creators have been on a bit of a roll the last 2 weeks … multi-year project of getting a partly-mythical 43-inch #Trinitron #CRT #TV (circa 1988, with optional RGB 480p60 inputs) found & working & rescued & delivered around the world for preservation
The Bugatti Veyron of SD CRTs? Insane engineering from Sony at its peak. The YouTuber is asking for help to get #Sony to give permission to one of the original engineers to talk all about it.
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Asianometry takes a very in-depth look at the both the history and technology behind Sony's hugely impactful Trinitron aperture grille CRT display.
My preference for aperture grille over shadow mask technology cannot be overstated. Once I purchased my first aperture grille CRT in the early '90s (a 17-inch Nokia 447Xi with Trinitron tube), I never went back.
(And I still have one that I use daily, my Sony CPD-G420.)
Excellent deep dive:
https://youtu.be/TOh3jEJGynA?si=PcNsSdP7P3-CLrvY
#CRT #Sony #Trinitron #aperturegrille #shadowmask #displays #TVs #technology #video #monitors #cathode_ray_tube #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintagetech #deepdive #documentary #tech #phosphor
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Sony's Breakthrough Color TV
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It's a Sony!
(I saved the sticker)
#trinitron #sony #crt -
It should be criminal to look as gorgeous as this Sony Trinitron CRT monitor.
#retroComputing #sony #Trinitron #CRT #LongIslandRetroGamingExpo
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SONY bu güne kadar beni üzmeyen tek markadır!
İlk televizyonum Trinitron tüplü SONY idi, diğerleri ise ÇÖP!
2011'den beri ise artık Televizyonum YOK! -
I forget if I asked Fedi for help with this in the past and if I did I completely forgot everything about it so it might as well be a new question.
I have a Sony Trinitron CRT that has a really bad green bleed at the bottom. Is there anything I can do to remedy this as someone who does not know how to open a CRT up without electrocuting themselves?
I finally also grabbed the model number which I've been meaning to do for a while. Would really love to not have to ask reddit. Boosts welcome, I know a lot of people here work on these kinds of things.
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Mine. :blobcatreach: #retroComputing #trinitron #clarisWorks.
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This is one bloody amazing game!
#Turrican2 #Amiga #AGA #Gaming #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #VideoGames #CRT #Trinitron #EnoughHashtags
