Much later than the 1980s. I recall being very tempted by a 15" 4-3 LG LCD TV reduced from £1000 to £650 back in around 2001. I actually bought a completely flat IBM CRT monitor for £130 and then about three years later a 22" LG LCD Monitor TV for £200 which I am still using today. A very important lesson to me on the expense of being an early adopter.
One reason, among so many, that I love your channel is that you always select clips that give me a good chuckle. It's always subtle but I do feel seen.
@@vdochev I bought a, (rather expensive), Toshiba 42 inch TV a few years ago with 4 HDMI, 2 Composite A/V, VGA, Component and 2 SCART inputs and Digital and Composite outputs. It only worked for a year though, just after the warrenty ran out. Typical. (I hated it though. It had the worst menu system I've ever seen). I bought a 2007 second hand 40 inch Sony Bravia with pretty much all the same inputs and outputs for £30. I've had it for about 2 years now. Great menu, too.
@vtec5862 Don't get me started on Smart TV's. They are more annoying than smart. And, yes, you get one 3.5mm socket that doubles up as composite in and component in, depending on which adapter cable you use. If you want to plug in two things at once, too bad.
@@frankowalker4662 Yeah, I also like SONY TVs. But if you want a newer one - there's only HDMI. And that 3.5 mm jack analogue crap, they don't even give you a cable for.
I got/still use a Viore 24 inch LCD, that I've had, literally, since 2011. The reason the circuit boards are (likely) being sold is because the capacitors tend to leak and cause issues. Like, my TV doesn't turn on correctly. It'll light up for a second, then turn back off. Sometimes it works on the first go, sometimes it takes 10 or more tries. Once it's actually "on", it stays on, but getting it to stay on is the problem.
I love those little TVs with loads of inputs. I've picked up a few similar ones when I see them at the thrift store here. Nice to see so many of your computers in a video again!
Hey, I recognized that row of inputs from the thumbnail! I have almost this exact TV, but it's a Proscan brand and with a proper 16:9 display. Everything else is the same. I seriously use it everyday as my own jack of all trades, kind of a master at some TV.
I had a small Westinghouse Tv in my room on the wall with the same OS (Interface) as this one! I suspect that this tv and the Westinghouse were made in the same factory. Nice video!
I suspect the same TV was sold under dozens of brands. In the U.K. a popular catalogue shop sells Bush and Alba TVs. Those ancient names probably mean nothing to people in other countries.
0:06 Volaré mention!! I’ve been daily driving an Aspen for over a decade now, first and current car, and I love it a lot. Thanks for saying Volaré correctly and not “Vol-air”
Nah, been doing it for years. No reason to hold off on dropping the like anyway - when was there ever a video on this channel that didn't duly deserve every single like it got and then some?
I was a factory home service rep and serviced quite a bit of these. You CAN adjust the aspect ratio but you need a special USB key inserted into the service port to unlock the additional menus. I used to have to go in there to recalibrate the flybacks after replacing a tube. I still have the key. Works on Craigs too.
Oh wow, I've never seen a 16:10 display used on a TV before. What a bizarre choice. 2011 was pretty late for 16:10 even on computer monitors, so I wonder if this was built around old stock LCDs. I recently saw a DVD/VCR combo for sale near me with the same Viore name on it. I'd never seen it anywhere else until this video.
It was basically normal for the lowest tier of small HDTV for a small time (mostly the era where your small cheap TV would usually come with a built in DVD player). It's so weird. My theory is that it was a combination of cost savings and catering towards older content (a 16:10 aspect ratio allows for a bigger viewport when viewing 4:3 content, something that could be common depending on what kinds of things you are watching on DVD).
@@awesomeferret I guess I never really paid attention to low end TVs from this time period. I did work in electronics retail half a decade earlier, when 16:10 computer monitors were a thing. But back then every TV I saw was 4:3 or 16:9.
Small TVs tended to use laptop panels at the time as they were low cost and mostly 16:10 in the ccfl days. When led panels became ubiquitous, they were 16:9 and then most laptops went that way.
My current computer monitor (bought in 2020) is 16:10 (1920x1200), and I prefer it very much over 16:9. I like the additional vertical pixels. And even when watching 16:9 YT video it's useful, because the video controls or then displayed below and above the video, instead of being cluttered over it.
@@hiram1923 I just sought out a Lenovo like that for the same reasons. As for old LCD TVs I bought a 19" LG about 15 years ago and quickly got rid of it as it had the permanently stretched scaling
This is a perfect screen for a retro console collector like me. I have some old European consoles with RF out only and only a very few TVs support PAL here in the US.
I miss non-smart TVs, they are easier to use, no internet connection required, and have legacy connectors like VGA, composite, components, RGB, and S video ports! I still use my decade old Vizio tv for older game consoles that lack HDMI, also modern TVs only have coaxial as their legacy connector since it’s used for OTA broadcast. They eliminated RCA connectors on new TVs. These simple OS on Voire and older TVs are better for flipping multiple inputs and OTA channels!
Roku TV, Sharp Roku TV, Hisense and TCL still have composite inputs. You need an RCA to 3.5mm 4 pole minijack for some of them (widely available online).
I still have a little 15-inch Dynex LCD TV with all those inputs and features, and dated July 2010 based on the sticker on the back. It is a 16:9 aspect ratio. I still use it from time to time as it can be handy to have a little TV like that around. Still works perfectly. I even still have the original box and manuals and everything it came with, as I still use that to pack it away if I am not using it.
6:03 OMG, an Apple IIc Plus? Wow, that brings back some memories, my parents had one back in the day, though I remember my brother and I used it a lot more than they ever did, we goofed around with BASIC a lot and played a few games!
Good overview, cheers! I have a similar thing to this (maybe more like the Coby), a Powerpoint LDT1530 from around 2008, which is a 720p 16:9 TV, which can switch to 4:3 mode automatically or manually. It has the same video inputs, though Instead of YPbPr it has RGB scart. Last I measured it for 240p/480i analogue, had latency of no more than 1 frame. It handles PAL and NTSC, though it also has a built-in DVD player rather than the USB port ... not sure if that's region locked. I would assume not for the price / era.
My parents had a TV about the same size that one (along with its larger twin for the living room), it was a Sylvania, it had nearly as many inputs as this one does (and the larger one we got from my grandpa who won it in a raffle has even more inputs, and it's actually newer), and it was HEAVY!!! We gave it to my grandma to put in her bedroom after my grandpa died, because we wanted to modernize to a larger, newer TV a few years ago, and the one in the living room just burnt out one day so in came a new TV stand (to replace the one we had from our original CRT and kept with the Sylvania LCD because it was the same height), and a free 50" TV because my grandpa kept trying to win hunting rifles at raffles and always got TVs that went mostly unused until long after he died 😂
Hey, I’m also a bayou city resident. Your vids are amazing and thank you so much for the level of detail. I’m also a TiVo / cable card user still and I heard recently that cable card support is being dropped. It would be an interesting video idea. FCC protected cable cards for a long time although Xfinity made it hard to have one in modern times.
Oh! My grandparents used to have a 16:10 22" Vizio from the late-2000s as well. That one was 1680x1050, and I believe that it too might've been based on a computer monitor. Luckily, it was programmed to understand its aspect ratio, and so let any 16:9 signal be cropped down or zoomed slightly so as to be anatomically correct (same kind of deal for 4:3 content). And given that there was a decent bit more 4:3 content in those years than 16:9, it was a good compromise all around. I think it still lives on to this day.
I see about 10 TVs a day in my job. Most are absolute junk, but what's also interesting is when I'm programming the Xfinity remote to the TV, it'll auto detect the brand as something other than what's on the front. "Is this TV made by Vu?" I should start posting shorts of this phenomenon 😂
Can you please post a list where X brand uses the same codes as Y tv? I have a local brand tv, which i suspect uses the same codes as some other "white label" TV's
I believe it's because they were built by an ODM and sold under many brands around the world. If it's anything like the Google TV feature where the streaming box remote can control the TV (e.g. on Google TV Streamer and newer Xiaomi TV Box models), it's likely that the set-top box reads the manufacturer ID from the EDID of the connected TV.
I have a similar age TV from Visio. It's got all of the same inputs and is very light, but it's a 24 inch and uses AC power. It was my main TV when I was younger. I used to use it to watch digital TV, play Wii games, and watch DVDs via composite from my portable player. I now use it as my go-to test display and the one I bring with me if I know I'll need one.
I search the local thrift stores ALL the time for NTSC/PAL tvs. They are rare as hen's teeth here in northern Idaho, but i've found 2 in the past 6 or 7 years to use with my PAL Commodore 64s.
The "transition period" between analogue and digital is still going: even my 6 -month-old 65" 4K HDR TV has composite, component, RGB, and S-Video via SCART (supporting PAL, NTSC, and SECAM), and a DVI input - the only thing it's missing is an analogue tuner, but that's understandable. No idea why SCART never caught on in the US!
What make is that. SCART is very rare on TVs these days. I'm a bit surprised there is no analogue tuner as in the U.K. Sky multi-room utilises that. Some people have found that by changing a TVs country to somewhere like Greece enables it.
Picked up a similar 32" model at my local Goodwill. The port layout is identical. The stand is identical. But this one was branded as Viewsonic and has their boot logo. Never seen high reliability with this brand but the set works. Speakers are shot. It was $20 and suits what I needed.
Back in the 80's, an old friend from High School, now married and 2 children, had an Aspen and Volare, and they both were rusted badly like many did back then .😅
I have a a 23" LG M2362DM - made March 2010 with all the ports as that monitor. As well as DVI and two HDMI ports. Still works. This series started in Europe. The LG made the M version for America. They also made a 27" version as well. This was the beginning of Monitor/TV combos. I still keep it due to the old connectors allow me to use with older technology. Just you are using the Viore monitor for.
Why are bezels so hated by people? Its not few extra inches of a screen would give u any kind of improvment You can grab ur phone without obscuring the picture, u can put stuff before ur tv, without obscuring the picture, you can grab ur tv without geting ur fingerprints all over the screen, etc
@@Veso266 I went on an odyssey to find a phone which doesn't have a blob or hole in the screen for the camera. These weird display shapes of modern phones make me insane.
Viorewestlife 😂🤣 jk Nice video mate I missed small tv videos. Here as always because I love your videos. I love the inputs that tv offers pretty great for old consoles.
You look at websites now and they suggest things like a 32" for the bedroom. We lent a 13" similar to this to someone in a nursing home. I did consider taking a 22" I have much when installing the 13" realised even 22" would have been too big for a nightstand.
Local thrifts have suddenly got a glut of sets like this (and even the exact same Philips universal remote!), and I think I even saw a Viore. The VGA input on some sets is always enticing but I don't think I have a use case for them.
Interesting TV, nice that it has everything covered from RF to HDMI! Considering the size and resolution, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a repurposed LCD from a laptop, something with leftover supplies and they repackaged it to sell. The small power supply and lightweight housing definitely makes it convenient as a testing display.
Why is it like all my favorite TH-camrs are reading my to do list? Haha. This reminds me I need to make a video on my tech channel (not the one I'm commenting from) where I finish repairing that Dell monitor I have that (if I remember right) has even more inputs than this.
I agree if you have the space to store an LCD TV from this time period into the mid 2010's, they can come in very handy indeed, I have a 32in 720p Emerson branded LCD(really a Funai TV) from a few years back that I use as a 2nd TV in my game room, that comes in handy for retro stuff as it has composite, component, VGA, 2 HDMI, an ATSC 1.0 that has a build in signal meter in the menus, and even accepts 1080p signals, plus when I got it from Walmart, it was not that expensive.
I thought this was gonna be similar to the TV I own, but it's very similar, but older. Mine has some improvements. Mine's a Philips branded model from 2017, which has all the same jacks, but an extra HDMI and SCART in place of composite. It's also 21" and is a 1080P panel. It can also be used for my Amiga 1200 using my Amiga RGB to VGA cable. I don't even need to use a scan doubler to play games; when I originally used the machine, I needed 2 monitors hooked up, with VGA(672x576 at 50Hz vert. and 31KHz hor.) for Workbench, productivity and Sim City 2000, but most games would default to 320x256 at 50Hz vert and 15.5KHz hor. and had to switch to using a TV via the RF out for those. Being able to do both over 1 cable and monitor has simplified things for that machine. Of course, for those wondering about how to use composite, a few of the pins on the 21-pin connector are reserved for composite, and you can plug composite into that using a passive adapter that has the 3 RCA sockets.
I wish 16:10 computer monitors were still a thing. I recently got one that needed its CCFL backlight replaced, I did replace it with LED strips, but in the process I damaged one flex cable and one edge of the screen became a bunch of vertical lines lol. But oh well, one can't have everything I guess.
i work at a thrift store that often gets in TVs like this one...i've always wanted to buy one but don't have the room! the coolest one to me is this teeny little AVEiS brand one, it's only around 11 or 12" in 4:3! those old TVs are so neat...
These were sold under the very similar "Vivo" brand in Australia back in the day, around 2010-2012 for 99 AUD. Model LTV13HD, there's a scan of the manual online. I believe Cathode Ray Dude also uses a variant of this one in some videos, it has yet another brand on it but is clearly the same guts.
The number of inputs is rad. I found another brand (forgot what it is called) that hadd all those inputs in the eWaste shelf at work and nabbed it. It, too, was small and had mounting arm attached instead of a normal stand, so I suspect the client that we removed this from used it in their kitchen. I stored it somewhere in the garage with the hope of mounting it someday when I set up my retro room, maybe in the next home.
I have a Vizio TV that has all of these inputs as well at 2 HDMI and an optical input, component inputs and separate AV/S-Video inputs.. Just about anything you could want to view can be displayed on this machine. It is a Vizio Model VM230XVT. I never plan on getting rid of that thing.
That reminds me of my very first flat screen display, I got it cause it had VGA, composite and component video. I've always wanted to use the same display for my PC, old game systems and DVD player. And later on I got an Xbox 360 and Blu-ray player that also streamed Netflix. I still have that TV as a second display for my current PC...
16:10 is an awesome aspect ratio for computers at least. I am still using 3 16:10 displays for my main desktop PC! Glad you got a display you can use on your boat! 😄
I've used 16:10 monitors for my computer for a long time. I like the little bit extra height. Of course, in my context, there's no stretching. I really get more area.
Quite a few of those smaller "widescreen" sets were actually 16:10. Even Samsung was selling 19" tabletop TVs with 1440x900 native resolution. Those offered much more flexible scaling options though.
We had one of these in the breakroom. A good little thing, albeit sorta small for several people to watch at once. Glad to see another Texan on here. Would you know what movie was playing there at 5:00?
*_When you have all the jacks, but the ratio's whack, that's Viore_*
Comment of the year award goes to you
Only VWL can buy an off brand $8 TV at the thrift store from 2011 and make an amazing video. I love this guy. ❤️📺
Seriously?! That cost $8. That was the stuff of our dreams back in the 80s. Incredible. So versatile and portable. Great review.
23 boxes of Junior Mints.
Much later than the 1980s. I recall being very tempted by a 15" 4-3 LG LCD TV reduced from £1000 to £650 back in around 2001. I actually bought a completely flat IBM CRT monitor for £130 and then about three years later a 22" LG LCD Monitor TV for £200 which I am still using today. A very important lesson to me on the expense of being an early adopter.
One reason, among so many, that I love your channel is that you always select clips that give me a good chuckle. It's always subtle but I do feel seen.
"So what kind of display do you want your TV to be?"
Viore: "Yes."
All of them.
What do you want for your 8 dollars?
My wife had a little 16x10 Polaroid brand TV when we met. The vertical stretching drove me nuts at first but I got used to it. Great video!
Laptops with 16x10 usually cost extra! Maybe they got a deal on a surplus batch.
Nice TV. I love it when they have the full selection of inputs. So rare these days.
Yes. I'd say non-existent.
@@vdochev I bought a, (rather expensive), Toshiba 42 inch TV a few years ago with 4 HDMI, 2 Composite A/V, VGA, Component and 2 SCART inputs and Digital and Composite outputs. It only worked for a year though, just after the warrenty ran out. Typical. (I hated it though. It had the worst menu system I've ever seen). I bought a 2007 second hand 40 inch Sony Bravia with pretty much all the same inputs and outputs for £30. I've had it for about 2 years now. Great menu, too.
Smaller TVs if you're lucky might have component. But on Smart TVs basically zero
@vtec5862 Don't get me started on Smart TV's. They are more annoying than smart. And, yes, you get one 3.5mm socket that doubles up as composite in and component in, depending on which adapter cable you use. If you want to plug in two things at once, too bad.
@@frankowalker4662 Yeah, I also like SONY TVs. But if you want a newer one - there's only HDMI. And that 3.5 mm jack analogue crap, they don't even give you a cable for.
I got/still use a Viore 24 inch LCD, that I've had, literally, since 2011. The reason the circuit boards are (likely) being sold is because the capacitors tend to leak and cause issues. Like, my TV doesn't turn on correctly. It'll light up for a second, then turn back off. Sometimes it works on the first go, sometimes it takes 10 or more tries. Once it's actually "on", it stays on, but getting it to stay on is the problem.
Sounds like me in the morning. 😫
I hate it when stores put the price sticker directly onto the screen itself. It is a pain to remove it.
The only thing worse is when they put price stickers on records
@@ChannelConnorsWinnipeg I have an art book where the store put a sticker on the flap's art sticker. I tried to remove it and now it's worse.
@ChannelConnorsWinnipeg it becomes part of the artwork at that point. Like, i aint risking the sleeve art for a sticker.
I love those little TVs with loads of inputs. I've picked up a few similar ones when I see them at the thrift store here. Nice to see so many of your computers in a video again!
Viore sounds like a possible Westlife member 😂
My cousin.
@@MavinMarquemy brotha
I love the obscure videos and audio used to test out the hardware he finds. It truly adds a massive coolness factor to these VWestlife videos.
input heaven
Hey, I recognized that row of inputs from the thumbnail! I have almost this exact TV, but it's a Proscan brand and with a proper 16:9 display. Everything else is the same. I seriously use it everyday as my own jack of all trades, kind of a master at some TV.
I had a small Westinghouse Tv in my room on the wall with the same OS (Interface) as this one! I suspect that this tv and the Westinghouse were made in the same factory. Nice video!
I suspect the same TV was sold under dozens of brands. In the U.K. a popular catalogue shop sells Bush and Alba TVs. Those ancient names probably mean nothing to people in other countries.
@MrDuncl I suspect so too
@@MrDunclThe Chinese OEM is still around. Quite big now.
0:06 Volaré mention!!
I’ve been daily driving an Aspen for over a decade now, first and current car, and I love it a lot. Thanks for saying Volaré correctly and not “Vol-air”
mad respect for putting the money shot right at the beginning
As an European (Italian) the lack of a SCART bothers me! 😁
Nice video as always! 😉
We no speak SCART here in North America.
@@vwestlifeAs a French, it's more complicated (as usual), we say Péritel (Péritélévision) for SCART.
We speak JP-21 here. Try plugging one of your fancy SCART cables into our TVs.
Red. All red. Nothing but red.
If only we had SCART here in the US!
You can get a Scart RCA adapter, it's not a problem if it's not on the tv itself.
4:49 “He likes to give a big tip to all the delivery boys” what the heck does that mean 😭 lol
LMAO....I want to know what movie or show that scene is from.
@@juststreaming012 It's from the movie "Finding North".
@@vwestlife Thanks so much!
liking before watching a Vwestlife video is the new hotness.
Nah, been doing it for years. No reason to hold off on dropping the like anyway - when was there ever a video on this channel that didn't duly deserve every single like it got and then some?
I spy a box for a Hitachi Blu-Ray camcorder in the background! I hope we get a video about that sometime in the future!
It's broken. See my video about 2000s camcorders.
I was a factory home service rep and serviced quite a bit of these. You CAN adjust the aspect ratio but you need a special USB key inserted into the service port to unlock the additional menus. I used to have to go in there to recalibrate the flybacks after replacing a tube. I still have the key. Works on Craigs too.
Is it just a regular storage device you could dump to Internet Archive?
Any chance you could image it?
He's singing the praises of Viore like Volare
This is a great TV! look at this viewing angle on the last scene. Better than most modern ones!
'Viore' sounds more like a brand of wine with herbs rather than a brand of an HDTV. And a fully-working one after your Coby stopped working.
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This channel is insane and I love it
Oh wow, I've never seen a 16:10 display used on a TV before. What a bizarre choice. 2011 was pretty late for 16:10 even on computer monitors, so I wonder if this was built around old stock LCDs.
I recently saw a DVD/VCR combo for sale near me with the same Viore name on it. I'd never seen it anywhere else until this video.
It was basically normal for the lowest tier of small HDTV for a small time (mostly the era where your small cheap TV would usually come with a built in DVD player). It's so weird. My theory is that it was a combination of cost savings and catering towards older content (a 16:10 aspect ratio allows for a bigger viewport when viewing 4:3 content, something that could be common depending on what kinds of things you are watching on DVD).
@@awesomeferret I guess I never really paid attention to low end TVs from this time period. I did work in electronics retail half a decade earlier, when 16:10 computer monitors were a thing. But back then every TV I saw was 4:3 or 16:9.
Small TVs tended to use laptop panels at the time as they were low cost and mostly 16:10 in the ccfl days.
When led panels became ubiquitous, they were 16:9 and then most laptops went that way.
My current computer monitor (bought in 2020) is 16:10 (1920x1200), and I prefer it very much over 16:9. I like the additional vertical pixels. And even when watching 16:9 YT video it's useful, because the video controls or then displayed below and above the video, instead of being cluttered over it.
@@hiram1923 I just sought out a Lenovo like that for the same reasons. As for old LCD TVs I bought a 19" LG about 15 years ago and quickly got rid of it as it had the permanently stretched scaling
Viore sounds like a name for perfume
This is a perfect screen for a retro console collector like me. I have some old European consoles with RF out only and only a very few TVs support PAL here in the US.
I miss non-smart TVs, they are easier to use, no internet connection required, and have legacy connectors like VGA, composite, components, RGB, and S video ports! I still use my decade old Vizio tv for older game consoles that lack HDMI, also modern TVs only have coaxial as their legacy connector since it’s used for OTA broadcast. They eliminated RCA connectors on new TVs. These simple OS on Voire and older TVs are better for flipping multiple inputs and OTA channels!
Roku TV, Sharp Roku TV, Hisense and TCL still have composite inputs. You need an RCA to 3.5mm 4 pole minijack for some of them (widely available online).
@ I don’t like using adapters for RCA, either have the three color composite ports or use HDMI adapter.
I still have a little 15-inch Dynex LCD TV with all those inputs and features, and dated July 2010 based on the sticker on the back. It is a 16:9 aspect ratio. I still use it from time to time as it can be handy to have a little TV like that around. Still works perfectly. I even still have the original box and manuals and everything it came with, as I still use that to pack it away if I am not using it.
Tossing out a TV just because its backlight has to be replaced is madness.
6:03 OMG, an Apple IIc Plus? Wow, that brings back some memories, my parents had one back in the day, though I remember my brother and I used it a lot more than they ever did, we goofed around with BASIC a lot and played a few games!
Good overview, cheers!
I have a similar thing to this (maybe more like the Coby), a Powerpoint LDT1530 from around 2008, which is a 720p 16:9 TV, which can switch to 4:3 mode automatically or manually.
It has the same video inputs, though Instead of YPbPr it has RGB scart. Last I measured it for 240p/480i analogue, had latency of no more than 1 frame.
It handles PAL and NTSC, though it also has a built-in DVD player rather than the USB port ... not sure if that's region locked. I would assume not for the price / era.
I just learned a ton about aspect ratios and input signals. Thank you!
My parents had a TV about the same size that one (along with its larger twin for the living room), it was a Sylvania, it had nearly as many inputs as this one does (and the larger one we got from my grandpa who won it in a raffle has even more inputs, and it's actually newer), and it was HEAVY!!! We gave it to my grandma to put in her bedroom after my grandpa died, because we wanted to modernize to a larger, newer TV a few years ago, and the one in the living room just burnt out one day so in came a new TV stand (to replace the one we had from our original CRT and kept with the Sylvania LCD because it was the same height), and a free 50" TV because my grandpa kept trying to win hunting rifles at raffles and always got TVs that went mostly unused until long after he died 😂
Hey, I’m also a bayou city resident. Your vids are amazing and thank you so much for the level of detail. I’m also a TiVo / cable card user still and I heard recently that cable card support is being dropped. It would be an interesting video idea. FCC protected cable cards for a long time although Xfinity made it hard to have one in modern times.
Oh! My grandparents used to have a 16:10 22" Vizio from the late-2000s as well. That one was 1680x1050, and I believe that it too might've been based on a computer monitor. Luckily, it was programmed to understand its aspect ratio, and so let any 16:9 signal be cropped down or zoomed slightly so as to be anatomically correct (same kind of deal for 4:3 content). And given that there was a decent bit more 4:3 content in those years than 16:9, it was a good compromise all around. I think it still lives on to this day.
I see about 10 TVs a day in my job. Most are absolute junk, but what's also interesting is when I'm programming the Xfinity remote to the TV, it'll auto detect the brand as something other than what's on the front. "Is this TV made by Vu?" I should start posting shorts of this phenomenon 😂
Maybe the magic comes from the HDMI CEC protocol
Can you please post a list where X brand uses the same codes as Y tv? I have a local brand tv, which i suspect uses the same codes as some other "white label" TV's
@@MrHack4never I should really do that! I'm usually too busy to make notes, but I'll give it a whirl.
I believe it's because they were built by an ODM and sold under many brands around the world.
If it's anything like the Google TV feature where the streaming box remote can control the TV (e.g. on Google TV Streamer and newer Xiaomi TV Box models), it's likely that the set-top box reads the manufacturer ID from the EDID of the connected TV.
@kbhasi thanks! I wish I knew more about board level function and repair.
This model of TV was what I'd watch DVD's on as a kid in the RV when my family was camping.
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I have a similar age TV from Visio. It's got all of the same inputs and is very light, but it's a 24 inch and uses AC power.
It was my main TV when I was younger. I used to use it to watch digital TV, play Wii games, and watch DVDs via composite from my portable player. I now use it as my go-to test display and the one I bring with me if I know I'll need one.
When I saw all the connections I thought cctv monitor, what a plot twist 👍🏻😁
I search the local thrift stores ALL the time for NTSC/PAL tvs. They are rare as hen's teeth here in northern Idaho, but i've found 2 in the past 6 or 7 years to use with my PAL Commodore 64s.
A lot of thrift stores won't take old TVs anymore. They say nobody wants them.
Bringing a tv on the market that has every video port ever made would be interesting. For example this one misses displayport
Wow! Now isn’t this nice? If only we had this in South Africa.
I miss when TVs ACTUALLY had multiple inputs. I found myself frustrated that I couldn't connect up my Wii to a "smart" TV in 480p back then.
The "transition period" between analogue and digital is still going: even my 6 -month-old 65" 4K HDR TV has composite, component, RGB, and S-Video via SCART (supporting PAL, NTSC, and SECAM), and a DVI input - the only thing it's missing is an analogue tuner, but that's understandable. No idea why SCART never caught on in the US!
What make is that. SCART is very rare on TVs these days. I'm a bit surprised there is no analogue tuner as in the U.K. Sky multi-room utilises that. Some people have found that by changing a TVs country to somewhere like Greece enables it.
Thanks for the video, Kevin.
Picked up a similar 32" model at my local Goodwill. The port layout is identical. The stand is identical. But this one was branded as Viewsonic and has their boot logo. Never seen high reliability with this brand but the set works. Speakers are shot. It was $20 and suits what I needed.
Jack of all Trades is master of none but better is he than a master of one.
Back in the 80's, an old friend
from High School, now married
and 2 children, had an Aspen
and Volare, and they both were
rusted badly like many did back then .😅
VO LAR REEEE
Thanks for the ear worm 😂
I love these TVs with a load of inputs. I have a Sony MFM-HT75W and I love it - great design too.
OMG "He like's to give a big tip to all the delivery boys {WINK}" What the actual what?
I have a a 23" LG M2362DM - made March 2010 with all the ports as that monitor. As well as DVI and two HDMI ports. Still works. This series started in Europe. The LG made the M version for America. They also made a 27" version as well. This was the beginning of Monitor/TV combos.
I still keep it due to the old connectors allow me to use with older technology. Just you are using the Viore monitor for.
Back when you could grab'em by the bezel. Not anymore...
Why are bezels so hated by people?
Its not few extra inches of a screen would give u any kind of improvment
You can grab ur phone without obscuring the picture, u can put stuff before ur tv, without obscuring the picture, you can grab ur tv without geting ur fingerprints all over the screen, etc
@@Veso266 not to mention that usual "bezel-less" is usually the bezels wrapped inwards on the sides anyway
@@Veso266 I went on an odyssey to find a phone which doesn't have a blob or hole in the screen for the camera. These weird display shapes of modern phones make me insane.
Quite useful!
I wonder if this is a successor to the Pyle LCD TV he reviewed almost 15 years ago, based on how many jacks it has.
Viorewestlife 😂🤣 jk Nice video mate I missed small tv videos. Here as always because I love your videos. I love the inputs that tv offers pretty great for old consoles.
You look at websites now and they suggest things like a 32" for the bedroom. We lent a 13" similar to this to someone in a nursing home. I did consider taking a 22" I have much when installing the 13" realised even 22" would have been too big for a nightstand.
LOL I drove a 1980 Plymouth Volare about a decade back for my first car, funny reference!
What a coincidence, I just hanked my jib too!
This sounds perfect for a secondary display monitor for streaming. And a steal at that price from the thrift store, it seems. I love it.
Local thrifts have suddenly got a glut of sets like this (and even the exact same Philips universal remote!), and I think I even saw a Viore. The VGA input on some sets is always enticing but I don't think I have a use case for them.
Interesting TV, nice that it has everything covered from RF to HDMI! Considering the size and resolution, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a repurposed LCD from a laptop, something with leftover supplies and they repackaged it to sell. The small power supply and lightweight housing definitely makes it convenient as a testing display.
Why is it like all my favorite TH-camrs are reading my to do list? Haha. This reminds me I need to make a video on my tech channel (not the one I'm commenting from) where I finish repairing that Dell monitor I have that (if I remember right) has even more inputs than this.
I agree if you have the space to store an LCD TV from this time period into the mid 2010's, they can come in very handy indeed, I have a 32in 720p Emerson branded LCD(really a Funai TV) from a few years back that I use as a 2nd TV in my game room, that comes in handy for retro stuff as it has composite, component, VGA, 2 HDMI, an ATSC 1.0 that has a build in signal meter in the menus, and even accepts 1080p signals, plus when I got it from Walmart, it was not that expensive.
I thought this was gonna be similar to the TV I own, but it's very similar, but older. Mine has some improvements.
Mine's a Philips branded model from 2017, which has all the same jacks, but an extra HDMI and SCART in place of composite. It's also 21" and is a 1080P panel. It can also be used for my Amiga 1200 using my Amiga RGB to VGA cable. I don't even need to use a scan doubler to play games; when I originally used the machine, I needed 2 monitors hooked up, with VGA(672x576 at 50Hz vert. and 31KHz hor.) for Workbench, productivity and Sim City 2000, but most games would default to 320x256 at 50Hz vert and 15.5KHz hor. and had to switch to using a TV via the RF out for those. Being able to do both over 1 cable and monitor has simplified things for that machine.
Of course, for those wondering about how to use composite, a few of the pins on the 21-pin connector are reserved for composite, and you can plug composite into that using a passive adapter that has the 3 RCA sockets.
Would be a great test bench monitor. Doesn’t need to be good at anything, but can connect to everything.
LOL the Big Tip right before the Short Shorts :)
I wish 16:10 computer monitors were still a thing.
I recently got one that needed its CCFL backlight replaced, I did replace it with LED strips, but in the process I damaged one flex cable and one edge of the screen became a bunch of vertical lines lol.
But oh well, one can't have everything I guess.
i work at a thrift store that often gets in TVs like this one...i've always wanted to buy one but don't have the room! the coolest one to me is this teeny little AVEiS brand one, it's only around 11 or 12" in 4:3! those old TVs are so neat...
VWL needs an intervention
He's all jacked up
These were sold under the very similar "Vivo" brand in Australia back in the day, around 2010-2012 for 99 AUD. Model LTV13HD, there's a scan of the manual online.
I believe Cathode Ray Dude also uses a variant of this one in some videos, it has yet another brand on it but is clearly the same guts.
Great information!
The number of inputs is rad. I found another brand (forgot what it is called) that hadd all those inputs in the eWaste shelf at work and nabbed it. It, too, was small and had mounting arm attached instead of a normal stand, so I suspect the client that we removed this from used it in their kitchen. I stored it somewhere in the garage with the hope of mounting it someday when I set up my retro room, maybe in the next home.
don't wait too long or the TV will become retro-retro.
He loves to give a big tip to all of the delivery boys [wink].
LCD version of that B&W CRT 12v portable you looked at!
Great - now I have “Volare” stuck in my head
Viore sounds like Biore, some beauty product brand.
I have a Vizio TV that has all of these inputs as well at 2 HDMI and an optical input, component inputs and separate AV/S-Video inputs.. Just about anything you could want to view can be displayed on this machine. It is a Vizio Model VM230XVT. I never plan on getting rid of that thing.
You could just split the VGA’s for both HDMI & VGA and get an aux to optical adapter 🤷♂️
I’m beginning to miss the variety of inputs and outputs this TV has..🤔
I picked up one of these from the thrift store some years back! I quite like it
My grandparents had a Plymouth Volare. My dad drove it in high school. He hated it so much he still talks about how bad of a car it was
Looks like a great find😊 All these options for 7,99 Enjoy it!
*_he likes to give a big tip... to all the delivery bois._*
It’s pretty amazing. You should do more videos of that brand if you can find them.
My parents have had the same exact TV in their kitchen for well over a decade!
As an Apple IIGS owner, I'm concerned about your choice of startup sound pitch and screen colors
That reminds me of my very first flat screen display, I got it cause it had VGA, composite and component video. I've always wanted to use the same display for my PC, old game systems and DVD player. And later on I got an Xbox 360 and Blu-ray player that also streamed Netflix.
I still have that TV as a second display for my current PC...
"Did you say Ferarri? No! Volare!!!" :P
Looks like a nice TV for testing various items like vcr's dvd players. your TV uses the same menu as my 24" RCA LED TV from 2010
Likely both from Shenzhen MTC or HKC, were once sold as Seiki. SzMTC is big(ish) time now and makes Roku brand TVs.
I have a Westinghouse TV that uses the same menu UI as the TV in the video!
16:10 is an awesome aspect ratio for computers at least. I am still using 3 16:10 displays for my main desktop PC!
Glad you got a display you can use on your boat! 😄
@@jasonschubert6828 While 16:10 is decent for computer monitors, it simply is not acceptable for TVs at all for numerous reasons
Finally a TV that uses all the inputs supported by the SoC! 😹
I've used 16:10 monitors for my computer for a long time. I like the little bit extra height. Of course, in my context, there's no stretching. I really get more area.
Quite a few of those smaller "widescreen" sets were actually 16:10. Even Samsung was selling 19" tabletop TVs with 1440x900 native resolution. Those offered much more flexible scaling options though.
It looks like a Brooksonic brand set.That was another off-brand label.
This is so neat.
We had one of these in the breakroom. A good little thing, albeit sorta small for several people to watch at once.
Glad to see another Texan on here.
Would you know what movie was playing there at 5:00?
I too, am curious about that movie/show.
The movie is "Finding North".
@vwestlife Thank you.
@@vwestlife Thanks so much!