The HD, WIDESCREEN Tube TV! Sony Trinitron KV-30XBR910

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  @sam_64 · 1 year ago · pinned

  What you showed on video was a technology called "Slot mask" which came after shadow masks, shadow masks used circles instead of rectangles. Slot masks used rectangles which resulted in better brightness than shadow masks but still not as good as aperture grills obviously

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  @manzoman96 · 1 year ago

  You not knowing the memory stick format made me feel ancient 😂😭 the psp used them

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  @Cakebattered · 1 year ago

  "Full HD" is a term Sony created to describe 1080p images.  There were no CRTs that could accept 1080p images.  If Sony advertised your TV as "Full HD" it would br printed on the front.  Your TV is just capable of up to 1080i images.  Which is fine given 1080p video sources (HD DVD/Blu-ray) didn't release until 3 years after your TV was manufactured.

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  @GalaxyFur · 1 year ago (edited)

  I worked at Circuit City while transitioning between standard definition CRT and HDTVs. We used to sell this TV back in the early 2000s. It was a heavy beast. We even sold a larger 40-inch 1080i 4:3 version. <br><br>From 2000 to 2002, we sold standard-definition CRT TVs, 480p LCD EDTVs, 480p Plasma TVs, &nbsp;720p Plasma TVs, 720p LCD TVs, standard-definition rear projection TVs, 720p DLP projection TVs, and more. <br><br>Multiple TV technologies competed for dominance while transitioning from standard definition to HDTV. I remember when progressive scan DVD players were introduced. Additionally, I recall when HDMI was launched as the true successor to component cables for TVs. DVI wasn&apos;t popular except on the most high-end models. Most TVs use composite connections for standard definition or component connections for HDTV. S-Video was also available. However, most people never utilized it on their standard definition TVs or DVD players. &nbsp;<br><br>I had to know everything about these TVs back in the day so I could explain all of the differences between the TVs to customers. Back then, the internet was a very new thing. Most people still had dial-up with some DSL for slightly faster internet. So, most people didn&apos;t know what resolution, pixels, HDMI, or the i or p meant on a TV for resolution. Information online wasn&apos;t prevalent. They were also very confused about 4:3 and 16:9 back then. <br><br>Many people complained about why their tube TVs suddenly had black bars on their screens, since so many people were beginning the transition from VHS to DVD. 16:9 looked great on HDTVs, but most people still had SDTVs. So, as TV shows started the transition to 16:9, it really pissed a lot of people off that they were getting black bars. <br><br>Many people initially thought DVD was inferior to VHS because of the black bars. (Letter boxing) <br><br>So I had to explain why they had black bars where everything filled out the entire screen before. <br><br>It was an interesting time.

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  @SHIFT-HACKMON · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAjZAT4tz70&amp;t=270">4:30</a> HDMI was also designed to be backwards compatible with DVI, so you can use a passive adapter and get nearly full functionality. This also has the side effect of DVI technically being able to carry audio, but in a way that isn&apos;t compliant with the DVI standard, as it&apos;s effectively like having a passive HDMI to DVI adapter on the source and a passive DVI to HDMI adapter on the display.

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  @AndrewMackoul · 1 year ago

  What&apos;s funny is that today&apos;s digital broadcast is perfect for this TV, since many channels broadcast in 1080i. Modern flat-panel TVs show artifacts with interlaced video, or have to deinterlace it, while this TV displays it without problem.

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  @TheJohnold · 1 year ago

  I find it fascinating how a young person like you is so knowledgeable and well spoken and learning so much at the same time, and isn&apos;t a gamer.

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  @RedBankVintageAudio · 1 year ago (edited)

  Pro tip: If you have a shop vac, buy a second hose for it. Attach that hose to the exhaust of the shop vac. Now, you have a blow hose and a vacuum hose, and don&apos;t have to use expensive and sometimes ineffective canned air! Oh, and DVI can carry audio, it just doesn&apos;t always.

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  @aarongreenfield9038 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I remember my dad showing me an old trick because he was a TV repair man, Just get a little bit of light machine oil, like 3 in 1, and rub it into the scratch, and it will mask it by about 75~80% and it will last a few years. Reapply as needed. &nbsp;😊

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  @RyHerbs · 1 year ago

  I have a 960 which is essentially the same TV, and the sound is almost more impressive than the picture. That little driver behind the tube packs a pretty serious punch. It blew me away the first time I heard it.

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  @robertoXCX · 1 year ago

  My family used to have a 32&apos; LG SuperSlim HD CRT from like 2005 and it was an absolute beast. Speakers were insane on it, picture was fantastic, and it eventually became my bedroom TV. Hearing the newer 360 startup took me back to 2013 getting home from work after school to load up Netflix. If it had been the original 360 startup it would have taken me back to when the TV was in the living room and my besties and I would play Halo 3 until the unholy hours of the morning. The HD CRTs were so great for gaming because they had no input lag! That&apos;s the main reason why I held onto that TV for as long as I did. We finally retired it when I moved out and it had developed v sync issues where you&apos;d constantly see a white line running up the screen.

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  @DerKlemm-Crafter · 1 year ago

  Very good that you saved this TV, would&apos;ve been a shame if it got scraped. <br>There&apos;s something interesting about these &quot;maxed-out&quot; late tube TVs.

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