This Kawasho 5.5-inch Color CRT from 1988
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- Unboxing and testing out a 5 ½" color CRT TV clock radio made by Kawasho! It's one of those neat little portable boxes from the 80s that can be powered by batteries, by 12V DC, or standard AC and mounted underneath a cabinet. Neat.
The grandparents had a small TV like that in their kitchen. We absolutely used it to hook up the genesis when we got kicked off the living room TV. Doing sonic 3 split screen time attack on a 5" screen was something.
Similar. Remember my grandma had a small tv like this in the kitchen also.
Played 4 player offline mode with the Gamecube Phantasy Star Online on a screen about the same size.
@@Kara_Kay_Eschel Pretty sure that game came back on xbox360 and pc
My grama had one in her kitchen to...lol.
Used to try and play toe jam and earl on genesis on one. Split screen is impossible on that game that small of a screen at least back then on crt
I just can't imagine 14-year-old me in 1988 thinking that in 33 years I'd enjoy watching someone set the time on a mounted 5.5" TV.
I was 7 that year.
It's weird isn't it? 12 for me for most of 88.
i was -7
Im from 1993 and still found this nostalgic!
I work on the old VCRs.
The silver toploader ones!
Also recently decided to hold on to a tiny color GE spacemaker set that I found on the side of the road.
It still works and is so surreal to watch youtube videos of vaporwave, old 80s music etc its like having an aesthetic time machine.
It still picks up the signal from my modern cable box with the builtin antennae and I keep it in front of my treadmill.
I was 18 and had a weird mindset ;)
Schematic INCLUDED in the package. It's amazing how far backward we've gone.
Agreed...especially considering how few people know how their own electronics work, anymore.
This pleases Mr Clinton! R2R
CRTs are the last thing I’d want to open up and repair (though this one probably isn’t that bad), but it’s really disappointing how electronics are treated as disposable now. Our first flat screen in 2006 failed after a few years and we tried to get it repaired, but the store ended up selling us a new one because it was cheaper.
Kind of reminds me that they say the VW owner's manuals used to tell you how to adjust the valves...now they tell you not to drink the contents of the battery.
It's "easier" to pollute this beautiful planet for green paper than to be conscious and educate people. The filthy rich will pay, you reap what you sow.
Im addicted to these small CRT TV's. My collection continues to grow. Fortunately one can usually buy for less than a Big Mac.
I would hook that thing somehow to the cheapest media player, load a downloaded youtube video of Saturday morning cartoons with commercials in a loop, set the alarm to it, and every day would be a Saturday in the 80s
I like your style.
That would be so freakin awesome dude!
this is such a good idea
Saturday mornings in the 80’s really were the best.
Cartoon Express.
This was my first tv! Thank you Clint! I couldn't ever find the exact model. My grandpa bought it for me from a garage sale. It will run on the batteries and TV for up to 6 hours.
It will also play Halo 4 player death match split screen while resting perfectly on top the Xbox. Thanks Clint for the nostalgia trip.
BTW the AM radio picks up Korean broadcast like no ones buisness.
Clint's ebay search history must be fascinating.
How’s them boilin’ terlets?
Woodgrain handcuffs?
He goes to Google and the page says "Hello LGR".
just watch his video history...I think it's it! :D
@@stridermt2k Yeah legit, I was thinking we probably see most of it. ^^
"What's all this churning and bubbling! This isn't a radar screen..." " no sir.. This is Mr Coffee" - - Spaceballs
Today I learned I can still hear that old CRT whine. Loud and clear. Directly into my ears. Oww…..
Yep, as soon as he turned on the TV I instantly remembered how much that sound could drive me crazy
I remember as a kid in the Summer walking down the street and when people had their windows and doors open I could tell who was watching TV and who wasn't because of that whine even though I couldn't hear the TV itself.
I never could, even as a child, which is weird because my ears are overly sensitive. Maybe the whine is the same pitch as my tinnitus? (I tend to get upwards of three or four tones ringing in my ears, but not at the same time. It's genetic; had it even as a kid.)
EDIT: Unless you were talking about when there was no signal coming in. I could hear a whine behind the static, then.
Wait you heard it through the video? I couldn’t 😞
@@kemy6775, I had headphones on. That may have been why.
My parents give me a 14 inch sony crt back then, and that coupled with SNES are the greatest gift i've ever received
Seeing Clint playing on this tiny fuzzy crt brings a little tear on me
Good stuff Clint, good stuff
Cathode Blurb Tube? Why yes, we are all CBT fans here.
I've never thumbed up a comment this fast in my life.
Oh no
Christians Beware This, cockpit byte transfer in progress.
-Curly Reinard Tepsen aka The Wizerd
Glad to see going to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is so popular.
@@djackmanson yep nothing like some CBT to get you motivated.
Nostalgia overload on this one. I used to watch Saturday Night Live with my parents in their bedroom on this exact model in the late 80's and early 90's. They later upgraded to one of those TV/VCR combos and I had this as my alarm clock up till around 99 or 2000.
Dear god, this looks like it fits right inside the DeLorean, like an upgrade Doc made to preview where you're going to end up.
That would have definitely helped avoid 1985A, or that time they set the DeLorean for the early 2020s. 😂.
One thing I love about solid state TVs that were made before the HDTV era was how they instantly turned on. Meaning when you turn the TV on, it immediately shows you a channel. No sitting for 5 seconds through a brand name logo. The only delay was a split second canon warmup.
And if anyone is concerned about screen distortion, it really comes down to build quality and age. I have a 30 inch CRT in my living room with a Roku plugged into it via RCA jacks. Crystal clear visual.
@Nobody comments are not funny you troglodyte None of the ones I've bought have. And the ones I bought always came from either Walmart or Amazon so they're obviously not exceptions.
Well... aside from the ten seconds it took for the screen to warm up. But sure, you could _hear_ the channel right away.
And what I love about tube (hollow-state) TVs is the sound and picture changes as everything warms up, where you can _feel_ something going on. The bootup and splash screens of 'smart' stuff is just boring.
@@stevethepocket None of the ones I have ever had took 10 seconds. At most maybe 2 or 3 depending on age and mileage.
Honestly, why isn't the profession "Retro Tech Sommelier" a thing? Valuating the build quality, condition and ripening of tech just by smelling it is such an underrated talent.
And the smell.
"This CRT has an excellent bouquet, 1987 was a fine year for Kawasho."
Antique appraiser with a specialty in retro electronics.
Can just imagine a group of nerds gathered around someone sniffing their Walkman aggressively...
@@cadikaorade828 Not a bad idea to add it to your ebay item description.
I dont sniff my electronics unless I think somethings up electrically lol
Not gonna lie: My GE spacemaker set smells kinda like salon hair drier if it has been left on for a while
like those that went over your head.
How do I know?
My mom had one when I was a kid and I would play in it lol.
Oh my god, we had this when I was a kid. We used to take it on long car trips to watch shows along the way. I specifically remember watching the Golden Girls down at my grandpas’s place... lol
Oh dear that fuzzy image on that tiny crt takes me back to when I was just a little boy and my dad had found a tiny little black and white tv set for me. Moving antenna's about and trying to tune in and then suddenly you got a picture and sound... pure magic!
same, would stay up late and try to find 3 stooges
That devious laugh after “it’s never been mounted” made my day. Thank you, Cllint.
I used to love handheld TVs. Back in the 80's my dad would find them at tag sales for cheap and even though I could barely get even one channel and they were always black and white, I still loved the novelty of them.
Something like this was still like $100 after 2000. I remember wanting them for the car.
@@thepuzzledsage Do you have android auto? You can mirror your phone to android auto and you can also watch youtube. Not the same but close.
@@John_Locke_108 I just stick my phone in the dash.
@@thepuzzledsage Yeah, I can see how that would be much easier. I like to make things complicated just for the satisfaction of finally getting it to work.
You know this is not a handheld at all, right? Handheld and CRT do not usually match together, primitive TFT technology instead, very compact for the time, and ACTUALLY made with battery operation in mind. You're thinking of simply mini tv's instead.
Greetings from Kamchatka, cool device. Good content!
9:00 oh wow, a schematic! it's almost like we had the right to repair our stuff back in the day...
My Sony CRT has a service manual that has super detailed schematics and even a bunch of different diagnostic procedures. It's kind of unbelievable how corporate attitudes have changed.
@@alistairblaire6001 s'what happens when you treat them like shit just for being corporations.
@@KairuHakubi corporations aren't people and don't need sympathy.
Ham radio products made in 2021 are still that way. They give us schematics and we can repair our stuff.
@@tangoseal1 ham radios are just special though. they're the linux of radios.
I use to have that growing up. That was our kitchen tv and radio. I would watch tv there when my parents had the big tv in their room. Tv went out about 10 years later and we used it as a radio until it kicked the bucket a few years later.
LGR Blerbs: supported by Clint's late night alcohol infused browsing
We've all been there
@@nrdesign1991 yes! I once bought a pink animated twerking llama that danced to Uptown Funk. After trying to blame the purchase on my spouse, I realized I added it on to a purchase 🤣. I put it with the rest of my llama herd. Not joking but LoL
Too bad you can't get any Schultenbräu over there (from the Aldi ;) )
@@Dosgamert I dunno man, they do have Aldi over there.
@@catfish552 If they do sell it, which I don't think that's very likely, then let me know :)
When you showed that Best Buy advertisement from 1988. I went and googled it. And Best Buy has been around since 1966. They only started showing up here on Long Island, NY maybe on the late 1990’s and early 2000’s.
My mom had a under the counter radio cassette player and a separate portable 5" black and white TV. She used to watch red Sox games while she would be working in the kitchen or whatever. My mom passed in 2017, Haven't thought about that in a long time. Awesome episode! 🖖
I'm very very impressed for something that was made 1988, it still works like the buttons and switches like it was brand new. This is only goes to show that things back then were meant to last a long time. Pretty neat! Thanks Clint for showing this to us.
"It's at least never been mounted.... (creepy voice) heh"
Woahhh chill! I thought I was watching EDP Blerbs for a second! 😂
EDP Blerbs 😂
"The antenna is not even fully extended."
When I was a kid, families that had these were ultra mega rich. The rest of us watched Columbo in black and white with foil on the antenna.
Oh my god this is the ultimate retro alarm clock
Imagine being able to be wake up by your sega genesis !
And just think when your sleeping in your car if you using the car port you can have your coffee maker Brew you a cup when you wake up!! 🤠👌
My Alarm clock may not have a TV in it but it has a Cassette Deck. Its a GE from the 70s. I have 2 of them. Identical. Each with 2 Alarms. I could wake up to a tape. :D
My grandfather still has a smaller radio-tv-clock like that on his office desk. I remember observing him watching TV on it when I was a kid.
I had the black & white version of this, too. There were SO many nights I spent watching TV when I should've been asleep. Guess my parents found it easier to just let me watch the late night shows rather than keep telling me to go back to bed. 😂
I used to need a TV to fall asleep to or at least it made getting to sleep easier.
Same😂
Oh man, I would have so loved to have this in my bedroom as a kid! And 80's electronics smell is just the best!
"It's almost like fertilizer with a hint of lime or something . . . " KABOOM
Crazy. I have a working one pretty close to this model, and I treasure it.
Imagine if your Macbook came with schematics? Louis Rossman would cry with happiness
It'd need an entire bound book. There's a reason a C64 motherboard came with a schematic and computers from the 90s onwards don't. Would probably make some cool wall art, though.
@sᴀᴠɪᴏᴜʀ ᴍᴀᴄʜɪɴᴇ sort of defeats the purpose of having one.
Archive that Schematic now!
I mean it's looking like apple will have to release schematics in the next year or so a lot of states have right to repair legislation going through atm
@@Bobis32 Good. Fuck Apple. I should be able to repair the electronics I buy. They have seriously even made their computers so hard to upgrade compared to how they used to be.
I love how you bask in the smell! It's so nostalgic, glad you brought it up
Ah, that well-known electronics brand that everyone loves: Kawasho!
A part of the Kawasaki Group!
When you turned on the TV, my dogs went crazy 😂
Sticker says your unit was manufactured January 1987👍🏻
That means the previous owner must have stuck a fresh battery in the box when they packed it all up to go in the attic for 20 years or so.
@@stevethepocket The date on the battery is the install by date. It could have been manufactured at about the same time as the TV.
That's interesting. In January 1987 I was 12 + couple of months old and I had gotten my first computer & new little colour TV with it in spring 1986. The TV lasted until 1999, but of course it was much more used than LGR's Kawasho. Cool and very 80's looking portable TV set!
I was hoping to see what's inside though ;)
My grandpa has one of these still mounted in his kitchen under the cabinets! I always thought it was so cool - you can watch tv while you cook :D
LGR has been turning into an ASMR channel so slowly that Clint himself hasn't noticed it.
I had to google ASMR. I'll admit it.
That other monitor cleaning video was really hitting that spot.
Maybe a third dedicated channel ID needed for that, LGASMR.
its been an ASMR channel for me for like 6 years.
Watch his early videos. He's ALWAYS had this calming effect on his audience.
Ah, thank God. I'm still young enough to hear the CRT whine. That brought me back.
That blip when he shut it off was much lower frequency than the 15khz operating frequency.
I can't say I miss playing on RF, but this level of visual fidelity is certainly familiar from my youth.
Oh that box picture. Giving me the nostalgia feels for all those old magazine ads.
We need a video on your over-the-air TV solution!!!
I've watched enough Oddity Archive (Man I need to get back to that channel) to know that Clint is still trying to get it perfect for prime time. Hell Even Ben M at Oddity wants to update his video on the subject matter.
I came here looking for a link to that after an unfruitful search over his channels' videos. Now I'm waiting for him to see this
@@maaltagabriel Sorry I took so long to reply, but that would be this: th-cam.com/video/ekJIM5T_A_g/w-d-xo.html
Also there's a guy who compiles a playlist of all of his vids under the moniker Micheal Roden. It's very comprehensive. Also there's an auxiliary channel called Archive Annex.
My grandma had one in the loft at her lakeside cabin when I was little in the 90s. I was so fascinated with that thing even tho it was small.
Dylan Scott: “Yeah, nobody, nobody…” *volume turns down*
Clint: Nobody? Nobody at all…
Also, the bit where Clint was humming along to “Prince Ali” “Hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm, tiny CRT” was great too
Aladdin on the Genesis. What a classic! I can remember playing that for hours on end at a friends house. When I rented it for SNES at my house, I was so confused at the time why it was so different.
Now, looking at this video on a 6 inch display really puts perspective on how things will be different in the next 30 years.
If you could predict how things will be different you could make a fortune just buy buying the right stocks. When this TV was made Apple was going downhill, and companies like Google didn't even exist.
Feeling the nostalgia!!! Reminds me of my uncle's giant van with a similarly small tv we played Nintendo on for those long trips.
This little portable TV/radio is as old as I am. My dad still has some pretty old tech from before the 1980s like his vinyl turntable and a pair of really old stereo speakers.
Also: Seeing Sonic the Hedgehog on an old CRT makes it feel like the mid-90s again.
Still got a Saisho TV/Radio like that. I used to take it with my Commodore 64 to my Dads work when he worked on Saturday mornings. Set it up in his managers office and grabbed a coffee from the machine and play all morning till Dad finished work!
So "Cathode Blerb Tube" is what CBT stands for! Nothing else, obviously.
There's nothing shameful about being into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, okay!?
Pepegas are leaking to LGR now are they?
cock and ball torture
Cathode Boob Tube is another one
@@MkwRa from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I really love Clint’s voice and the funny jokes or lines. I feel like we’re friends. I’m glad I can experience all these things as I don’t have the money or know how to do anything like what he does.
Damn, you don't often see mini-tvs of that form factor in colour. I have a bunch and only one is colour, the rest are b&w Very cute!
My awesome mom and dad got me a portable radio and black and white TV for Christmas when I was little. I think it was in the mid 1970s. I was probably around 10 years old. I absolutely loved it. I watched and listened the heck out of it. I also played my Atari on that little screen. This brings back good memories.
Clint I would love to see how you set up the analogue signal in your house!
Yeah i wanted to see this too. Was this in another video?
Man I love these little TVs. I found my old set top box converter that the feds gave $30 coupons for back in the late 2000s when they converted all the analog TV broadcasts to digital. Dang thing still works great when hooked up to an old portable B/W TV I have in the ham shack. Surprisingly picks up all the local stations on my longwire antenna lmao.
Whoaaa! You playing Sonic on the gem really brought back some childhood memories. Me playing Sonic on a small black and white crappy tv. Loved it! Thanks Clint. Quality content.
This was my only TV as a kid. Mine was black and white. I played through all the Sonic games on it.. I think it is the sole reason I now need glasses as an adult.
I had the b&w version too! I lived with this tiny t.v. for a long time.
Clint:: Yesbody? Yesbody at all…
A new blurbs on an old CRT tv? What more could I ask for on my birthday :) thanks for the entertaining stuff as always, Clint!
Edit: thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone!
Happy Birthday!
oh happy birthday
have a happy birthday man
Brings me back to the 80s and early 90s when people had these installed in the kitchen under the cabinets in our homes.
This video brought back so many childhood memories.
17:38 The humming and the "tiny CRT~" melted my heart
Finally, a device that I can use for listening to Country Music and playing Sonic all in one!
My great grandfather had this model, always watched stuff out in the back porch with it! Thanks for sparking that memory!
Man I'd love to load a raspberry pi with some old news footage and commercials from the 80s and 90s and just have it loop in the background
www.twitch.tv/retroweatherchannel this is a cool twitch channel with a retro weather station
“Leave me to do my dark bidding on the Internet!”
“Ooh! What are you bidding on?”
My desire for this is palpable. This is everything I'd ever need
Well this deserve a complete review on the main channel, it's cool and pretty neat
"You'll go blind
trying to see those scan lines
As your eye doctor wonders what the heck...
'I was gaming on a CRT!
And this is what's it's done to me
My eyes are the size of golf balls!' "
I've been in front of a CRT from 12 to about 25, my vision is still quite good, no glasses.
I've used CRT FOR YEARS before migrating to LCD.
most of the CRT makes you blind was debunked years ago, since this was mostly pushed to make people migrate from it, even Plasma to LCD.
And LCD image quality even for gaming and even working was garbage, fortunately Led buried LCD forever and people are seeing that CRT always had better image quality besides its high energy consumption.
Thank you Welle and A.C. Tully.
When we need another gag ruined- we'll be SURE to come yank your leash. *rolls eyes*
OMG! I had one of these! I bet it just smells of the 80's. Used to lay on the floor and listen to the radio late at night and then wake up and watch cartoons in the morning! The little red, green and blue on the top left corner bring back memories of old TV's too. I miss the hum/whine...
A follow up with better cables and a clearer picture is definitely a requirement.
I had one in my 18 wheeler sleeper. It worked great! I watched TV while they loaded & unloaded my trailer. I sure miss those days. I did get one of those Boomerang Limo antennas for better reception.
I have a place that looks like that today. My partner is way into the 70's vibe.
That’s really cool! We’re trying to recreate a 50’s home ourselves.
👀
We have an 80s floor
Serious 90s nostalgia from this video, even though I barely grew up in the 90s.
2:46 I nearly spat out my drink at the "Heh heh." Great minds think alike.
Had one of these back in 1994 as a kid. I went on a date with a girl at her parents backyard. We were about 9. We watched the tgif line up on Friday. I was poor and she was rich. My dad gave me his favorite tv to take with me to impress her and family. Best date of the 90s
Sweet! a snooze alarm, for those that just sleep right there in the kitchen. I can just hit the snooze and get 5 more minutes before making breakfast in bed. AWESOME
I think you're underestimating how many sad bachelors / divorced dudes would have used this little TV in their tiny bed & a hotplate rental room.
I remember this. There was a time when I was young and the ad for this thing came on TV and I was mightily mesmerized. I wanted it very much but for my poor family, just having one TV was the most we could afford.
Nostalgia overload seeing Sonic played on a CRT. Good times. :)
That's total nostalgia for all the older heads out there. Today's teens would never get how much static we had to deal with.
Ahh, that 80's electronics smell, I remember it well 😂
i remember seeing stuff like that back in the day as a kid and it was like a dream to be able to get one. great find.
1:29 This sounds like Doctor Seuss.
1:52 I need to remember this next time I'm on a date. Yeah, baby. I'm "deluxe" 5 1/2 inches.
My grandpa had one of these in his RV since RVs don't really have room for full TVs. Pretty cool.
Ah man! We had one of these when I was little. A PAL version, since I'm in the UK. The trouble with these (and why you rarely saw colour versions of these small TV's) was that tuning it precisely enough to get colour reception was almost impossible with the analogue tuning dials. You could get a passable black and white signal, but (at least for the PAL system), colour reception requires very good signal, because of the way the colour signal was encoded. And with the telescopic antenna, you could forget about colour reception completely.
Wow, I remember playing on one of these with my NES and Punch Out at my Grandparents, literally identical to this unit with all the colored dials and switches on the front.
Get you a woman that looks at you the way Clint looks at old CRTs
''It smells awful, mmm, *slurp* , so good!''...
Impossible.
I always wanted one of these… It reminds me of the little color TVs you could watch at the airport for a quarter while you waited for a flight.
Wow what a nice retro oscilloscope... _Oh wait_
It's a good bet that the plastic mold WAS an oscilloscope at some point in it's past.
We had exactly the same TV from the 90's. It was a nice black one. That's a throwback.
Those are some serious late 70s/early 80s pics for sure. Hehehe...
having this in your kitchen in the 80´s must have been amazing. i want one too :D
I remember being a kid back in the 80s huffing the electronics. High tech actually had a smell at one time.
I think my grandparents had a very similar, if not the exact same model. I remember thinking it was amazing that it was color. My uncle got it for them for Christmas in 1990 maybe, although I might be mistaken. They used it until 2002 and had it mounted under the kitchen cabinet until my grandma moved out when my grandfather passed. Your videos always spark some deep seeded memories with me, lol.
If I had this as a child, I would have disappeared from society completely. 😂
to the country haha
My dad had an older model of something like this.
Black and white but we used it on camping trips. Watching the Simpsons in the great wilderness...with like 20 DD batteries.
Good memories just ooze out of that thing. Nostalgia solidified. Something about using older beat up TVs just to sit and play a game away from the world makes me wanna get myself one and an NES and hide out playing it 😂
That thing is so cool, Ive been on the goodwill hunt for a mini color crt.
My grandfather had one of these in his camper we spent summers at. Watched Who Shot Mr. Burns on it. Feels so long ago now.