The Panasonic AG series were meant for professional and industrial purposes. Some low budget TV stations used AG gear for broadcast master control. There were AG edit and switcher consoles, SVHS edit decks, etc. Worked on one project where we had to present videos to a convention event and we used all AG-series gear. A broadcast network came in to share some video we needed to play so we used an AG-1950. The network people were watching their tape like a hawk so we wouldn't copy it or something. We had every intention of doing exactly that, ha ha, but they left us no chance. They were slightly impressed with our AG equipment.
I've seen some of those Panasonic AG-series video switchers/editing stations pop up for sale locally from time to time, I'll absolutely have to snag one of those to mess around with. I would love to edit an entire video on analog equipment just for the novelty of it. The more experience I have with their products the more I find myself really loving the quality of what Matsushita was putting out back in the day. For instance I find that a lot of Sony VCRs tend to be a crapshoot for reliability as they age but every Panasonic/Quasar VCR that I've had has worked perfectly even if it had sat dormant for years or even decades.
This unit actually has 3 video heads for good freeze frame and slow motion. There's one single head on the drum and one double-azimuth head. Great video. Subscribed!
Pretty fitting video considering that Panasonic just announced their return to the US market. Always thought that Panasonic was kind of an underrated brand in the realm of us retro gamers: there always seems to be an absolute ton of Panasonic tubes in my area. Sony and JVC get all the attention, while other Japanese brands were absolutely popular back in the day.
Panasonic rapidly has been winning over my heart as far as how good their tubes are, I have four Panasonics from all different eras in my collection right now and image wise I think they really stand toe-to-toe with what Sony was putting out at the same time.
The production of your videos is second to none! This is the second video I've watched on your channel and I'm simply blown away at how few views, so far. This is so professionally and perfectly done. Love the 'Brave Little Toaster' thrown in there!
Comments like yours make it all worthwhile, thank you so much for the kind words! I'll do all I can to keep the good content cranking out on my channel for sure.
I remember using these in the library at university a VERY long time ago. 1992! Panasonic was known as Panasonic here (UK) from the 70s, previously National Panasonic - I used to have a 1972 hifi with that badge... I think generally National was Asia and Panasonic was the rest of the world. (I'm prepared to be wrong, that's what I've considered fact since the 80s!) Anyway - great to see one of these running again. Subbed!
Matsushita used to have a bunch of different brands under their umbrella, come to think of it I believe you are actually right being that National was mostly exclusive to Asian markets and the Panasonic name did show up in the UK and other parts of Europe. I'll have to do more research on it and sharpen up my history! I've owned a wide variety of A/V equipment from different brands but all were simply rebadged Matsushita products. Off the top of my head I know Technics for audio, Quasar for televisions, and even RCA for some of their early VCRs all were manufactured by Matsushita/Panasonic.
It was National everywhere in the world except for the UK, Western/Mainland Europe and North America. I have many National-branded VCRs, all of them having the "EM" suffix in the model number, meaning they were meant to be sold in Middle Eastern countries. I am in Greece but back in the 80s our market was flooded with Middle Eastern and German-market VCRs, mainly because we used SECAM B/G as our broadcast TV system, so we had both National and Panasonic-branded VCRs here.
I think my last run through Ghosts n' Goblins I did with my AG-500, granted as per usual I didn't make it far at all but even so you are right, this thing pairs excellently with a NES!
Nice set. I love the thumbnail picture. Personally, i have never been a fan.of CRT tv's despite being brought up in the 70's. Having to watch a black and white set for the first 7 years of my life didn't help with that. (Here, in the UK, we have to have a TV licence to watch tv, and the black and white licence was a lot cheaper than a colour one was. So were black and white tv's.) I would never go back to a crt after discovering LCD, though. But, even so, i do have nostalgia for the flickering mess of scanlines. I used to fix these things back in the late 80's along with video recorders, and, even today, i still shudder remembering when i had to remove the high voltage cap off the crt tube thinking of all the 25,000 volts that were under there and what could potentially happen if I accidentally touched it! Are you strictly a CRT guy, or do you have any LCD's in your collection? It amazes me how that shelving is holding up under all that weight of CRT's! Thanks for the video.
I remember that television license being a thing over in the UK, all the reason why the Vectrex game console had a ton of success over on your side of the pond since with its built in CRT it skirted around that license rule! LCDs certainly deserve their merit when it's due, namely I could never mount a CRT on the wall in the same way that I have the flat screen in my living room mounted right now. My computer monitor is also a modern flat panel simply because the CRT monitor that I have now is far too large to ever fit on my current desk. I've got a lot of nostalgia for CRTs and have always had one around in my life at one point or another, so that's why I always gravitate towards interesting tubes to add to my collection. That plus the majority of the media I consume tends to be from the same era as well (both with game consoles and television shows using 4:3 ratio standard definition video) which naturally looks totally fine and sometimes even better when displayed on a tube. And those racks are tremendously sturdy! Apart from being bolted into the studs in the wall behind them, underneath the carpet in that room is just a concrete slab so there is no risk of it falling through the floor!
@@StevesAssortedStuff lol. That's good, cause you would hate those TV's to go through the floor! Fair enough and I, too, have nostalgia for the CRT, but probably not in the same way as you. We had a few crt's in our home (I lived with my parents for over 40 years,) from 14" black and white to a 22" Sony Trinitron, which, to be fair was ok. It was supposed to have a 100hz refresh rate but we could never get it to work at that frequency. But the FST looked nice. I am 53 and have owned more CRT TV's than LCD, but I still would never go back. Thanks for your reply.
There is a microwave with color CRT and stereo radio/cassette somewhere. It was in the Sears catalog (could have been Wards?) early-mid 80’s. Tried to convince mom and dad to get it….
I wish I knew more about what the exact purpose my AG-500 served under Hoover's ownership! My particular monitor passed through the hands of a few different collectors before it wound up in mine, so unfortunately I'll probably never know.
One of these makes a brief appearance in David Cronenberg's film Dead Ringers. First time I ever saw one and had to have it! That unfortunately did not pan out and they've since become ridiculously expensive. lol
I can't remember the model but I do now in the 80s zenith made a VHS VCR that vertically and too the tape in side ways. Very rare do to them being unreliable and expensive.
im from britain, and my school had these. at least in the classroom i was in had one of these. i want one but have no real use for one, so im not really going to fret about it.
when i worked at KFC in the early 2000s we would watch training videos on one of these. when we moved to online services for these videos my boss asked if i wanted it. i did. it had the acrylic panel, it had the control flap. it was near done perfect. then my dad biffed it from the crawl space... and a pvm-2030... biffed. oh and a sony gdm-f400. biffed. sigh. i do still have my XBR trinitron though. don't worry.
3:33 so you have to stand there and hold the rewind button the entire time? damn I saw this on Instagram a couple weeks back and it's the first I'd ever seen it (Aside from that Wendy's training video which I did see years ago), and I think this is my fourth time seeing it since then in that time. It's suddenly gotten popular? Not sure about the microwave nickname though, I feel like any old TV has the exact same shape with the controls being on the right hand side like a microwave. If you Google "old TV" almost all the image results have the dials/controls on the right. Then again I'm not a CRT connoisseur so who am I to question it.
I knew I seen this before, it’s in one of those late 80s/early 90s Wendy’s rap training videos: th-cam.com/video/aRBY9x1YlIQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=31LwLZPa5nXAV8HI
I do have a couple VGA computer monitors (my big one which isn't terribly visible here is a Samsung 1100MB, an absolute BEAST of a unit), however most of the content I view on CRTs tends to be standard def anyways so naturally my focus is more towards consumer sets. I do on occasion bring out that Samsung to play some Xbox 360 on it, and my goodness does it look glorious through VGA on that monitor!
I'd guess these are rare for the same reason they wouldn't make a good "regular TV" at the time of production. Who really wanted a video cassette player only with no built in tuner in the early 90s? Wendy's, for one haha
this video was so well-produced that i thought for sure you'd be some well-established retro channel i simply hadn't heard of and was shocked when i saw only 61 subscribers! well, make it 62 now :) p.s. i think this CRT would look great paired with the lofree block 98 keyboard & mouse on the desk of some retro-futuristic spaceship battlestation
Thank you so much for the compliments! I've done some video production before but never for my own channel here, since I've been out of practice for some time I figured documenting some of my favorite things in my collection would be a good avenue for me to create more content. I'm glad you liked this video and hopefully you'll also enjoy some of the other video ideas I have coming up!
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The Panasonic AG series were meant for professional and industrial purposes. Some low budget TV stations used AG gear for broadcast master control. There were AG edit and switcher consoles, SVHS edit decks, etc. Worked on one project where we had to present videos to a convention event and we used all AG-series gear. A broadcast network came in to share some video we needed to play so we used an AG-1950. The network people were watching their tape like a hawk so we wouldn't copy it or something. We had every intention of doing exactly that, ha ha, but they left us no chance. They were slightly impressed with our AG equipment.
I've seen some of those Panasonic AG-series video switchers/editing stations pop up for sale locally from time to time, I'll absolutely have to snag one of those to mess around with. I would love to edit an entire video on analog equipment just for the novelty of it.
The more experience I have with their products the more I find myself really loving the quality of what Matsushita was putting out back in the day. For instance I find that a lot of Sony VCRs tend to be a crapshoot for reliability as they age but every Panasonic/Quasar VCR that I've had has worked perfectly even if it had sat dormant for years or even decades.
This unit actually has 3 video heads for good freeze frame and slow motion. There's one single head on the drum and one double-azimuth head. Great video. Subscribed!
I didn't even notice this, you are right! I should have realized this too since the player is able to produce a stable freeze frame image.
Pretty fitting video considering that Panasonic just announced their return to the US market.
Always thought that Panasonic was kind of an underrated brand in the realm of us retro gamers: there always seems to be an absolute ton of Panasonic tubes in my area. Sony and JVC get all the attention, while other Japanese brands were absolutely popular back in the day.
Panasonic rapidly has been winning over my heart as far as how good their tubes are, I have four Panasonics from all different eras in my collection right now and image wise I think they really stand toe-to-toe with what Sony was putting out at the same time.
Ive never had a Panasonic device NOT outlast my desire to keep using it. Vhs, tv sets, portable/dvd players....
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Your cat is adorable!😻❤
She absolutely is! (even when she's being a teeny bit crabby because I've spent more time recording video than I have spent petting her)
@@StevesAssortedStuff that’s unforgivable, you’re there to provide petting services 32 hours a day!
The production of your videos is second to none! This is the second video I've watched on your channel and I'm simply blown away at how few views, so far. This is so professionally and perfectly done. Love the 'Brave Little Toaster' thrown in there!
Comments like yours make it all worthwhile, thank you so much for the kind words! I'll do all I can to keep the good content cranking out on my channel for sure.
I remember using these in the library at university a VERY long time ago. 1992! Panasonic was known as Panasonic here (UK) from the 70s, previously National Panasonic - I used to have a 1972 hifi with that badge... I think generally National was Asia and Panasonic was the rest of the world. (I'm prepared to be wrong, that's what I've considered fact since the 80s!)
Anyway - great to see one of these running again. Subbed!
Matsushita used to have a bunch of different brands under their umbrella, come to think of it I believe you are actually right being that National was mostly exclusive to Asian markets and the Panasonic name did show up in the UK and other parts of Europe. I'll have to do more research on it and sharpen up my history!
I've owned a wide variety of A/V equipment from different brands but all were simply rebadged Matsushita products. Off the top of my head I know Technics for audio, Quasar for televisions, and even RCA for some of their early VCRs all were manufactured by Matsushita/Panasonic.
It was National everywhere in the world except for the UK, Western/Mainland Europe and North America. I have many National-branded VCRs, all of them having the "EM" suffix in the model number, meaning they were meant to be sold in Middle Eastern countries. I am in Greece but back in the 80s our market was flooded with Middle Eastern and German-market VCRs, mainly because we used SECAM B/G as our broadcast TV system, so we had both National and Panasonic-branded VCRs here.
@@crashbandicoot4everr Fascinating, thanks!
I love looking at it so much
The individual design is exquisite.
Beautiful tv set 🤝👍👏📺
Love that thing! 💪📺🤘
I had one of these for decades!
beautiful crt, beautiful cat, very nice video. thank you! left a sub.
Thank you! Daisy is adorable, I'm really tempted to include a cameo of her in every video that I put out 😆
your video is very pleasant to watch, please review more of your crts!
Thank you so much! And I assure you there certainly are more CRT reviews in the pipeline.
wow it's beautiful
I have one of these
and I love this cutie.
this thing would fit so well next to an NES
I think my last run through Ghosts n' Goblins I did with my AG-500, granted as per usual I didn't make it far at all but even so you are right, this thing pairs excellently with a NES!
@@StevesAssortedStuff yeah now i need it too .... i already have anything efor my PC aswell in NES design thanks to 8bitdo 😅
My University's library has a few of these for playing some of their archived VHS tapes. Neat video!
i had one of those back in the day.. was pretty cool item..
You can add basic automotive tint on inside of the acrylic cover. It'll look great. 👍
I didn't even think of that, I'll have to try it out! Thanks for the suggestion!
Fantastic! I loved this and I had to subscribe. Oh! Kitty at the end! yes!
I promise I'm going to find a way to sneak Daisy into every video I produce going forward! Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice set. I love the thumbnail picture. Personally, i have never been a fan.of CRT tv's despite being brought up in the 70's. Having to watch a black and white set for the first 7 years of my life didn't help with that. (Here, in the UK, we have to have a TV licence to watch tv, and the black and white licence was a lot cheaper than a colour one was. So were black and white tv's.) I would never go back to a crt after discovering LCD, though. But, even so, i do have nostalgia for the flickering mess of scanlines. I used to fix these things back in the late 80's along with video recorders, and, even today, i still shudder remembering when i had to remove the high voltage cap off the crt tube thinking of all the 25,000 volts that were under there and what could potentially happen if I accidentally touched it! Are you strictly a CRT guy, or do you have any LCD's in your collection? It amazes me how that shelving is holding up under all that weight of CRT's! Thanks for the video.
I remember that television license being a thing over in the UK, all the reason why the Vectrex game console had a ton of success over on your side of the pond since with its built in CRT it skirted around that license rule!
LCDs certainly deserve their merit when it's due, namely I could never mount a CRT on the wall in the same way that I have the flat screen in my living room mounted right now. My computer monitor is also a modern flat panel simply because the CRT monitor that I have now is far too large to ever fit on my current desk.
I've got a lot of nostalgia for CRTs and have always had one around in my life at one point or another, so that's why I always gravitate towards interesting tubes to add to my collection. That plus the majority of the media I consume tends to be from the same era as well (both with game consoles and television shows using 4:3 ratio standard definition video) which naturally looks totally fine and sometimes even better when displayed on a tube.
And those racks are tremendously sturdy! Apart from being bolted into the studs in the wall behind them, underneath the carpet in that room is just a concrete slab so there is no risk of it falling through the floor!
@@StevesAssortedStuff lol. That's good, cause you would hate those TV's to go through the floor! Fair enough and I, too, have nostalgia for the CRT, but probably not in the same way as you. We had a few crt's in our home (I lived with my parents for over 40 years,) from 14" black and white to a 22" Sony Trinitron, which, to be fair was ok. It was supposed to have a 100hz refresh rate but we could never get it to work at that frequency. But the FST looked nice. I am 53 and have owned more CRT TV's than LCD, but I still would never go back. Thanks for your reply.
Amazing little futuristic gadget, now I want one too :D ... and lovely bonus content at the end.
I can highly recommend getting one for yourself! (both an AG-500 and a Daisy!)
Just from the thumbnail I immediately thought Grill Skills!
Now that is super cool
No, it is a microwave! Even though you as a tech channel owner, can not differentiate a microwave to a tv, I still subscribed
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
I remember these from elementary school.
There is a microwave with color CRT and stereo radio/cassette somewhere. It was in the Sears catalog (could have been Wards?) early-mid 80’s. Tried to convince mom and dad to get it….
Cute kitty!!! Nice bit of mrrrrp :)
I'm curious about that Hoover Company label on the back!
I wish I knew more about what the exact purpose my AG-500 served under Hoover's ownership! My particular monitor passed through the hands of a few different collectors before it wound up in mine, so unfortunately I'll probably never know.
Must be a running theme with Panasonic: I have a Panasonic toaster oven that looks like some kind of old industrial computer monitor.
Playing Sega Saturn and Nintendo 64 games with Microwave looking TV making me feel hungry.
One of these makes a brief appearance in David Cronenberg's film Dead Ringers. First time I ever saw one and had to have it! That unfortunately did not pan out and they've since become ridiculously expensive. lol
Player only videotape machines used to be referred to as VCP's.
Looks like microwave oven! :D
I can't remember the model but I do now in the 80s zenith made a VHS VCR that vertically and too the tape in side ways. Very rare do to them being unreliable and expensive.
You should watch 'is it a good idea to microwave this?' on this tv.
im from britain, and my school had these. at least in the classroom i was in had one of these.
i want one but have no real use for one, so im not really going to fret about it.
1987 - I think I need a cigarette. Step outside of the convention center to have a smoke break.
when i worked at KFC in the early 2000s we would watch training videos on one of these. when we moved to online services for these videos my boss asked if i wanted it. i did. it had the acrylic panel, it had the control flap. it was near done perfect. then my dad biffed it from the crawl space... and a pvm-2030... biffed. oh and a sony gdm-f400. biffed. sigh.
i do still have my XBR trinitron though. don't worry.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I do remember seeing a similar set made by Sony
This tv was made the same year that I was.
I had one of these the tube and mechanism broke so I got rid of it. Wish I'd kept the shell at least...
3:33 so you have to stand there and hold the rewind button the entire time? damn
I saw this on Instagram a couple weeks back and it's the first I'd ever seen it (Aside from that Wendy's training video which I did see years ago), and I think this is my fourth time seeing it since then in that time. It's suddenly gotten popular?
Not sure about the microwave nickname though, I feel like any old TV has the exact same shape with the controls being on the right hand side like a microwave. If you Google "old TV" almost all the image results have the dials/controls on the right. Then again I'm not a CRT connoisseur so who am I to question it.
I knew I seen this before, it’s in one of those late 80s/early 90s Wendy’s rap training videos: th-cam.com/video/aRBY9x1YlIQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=31LwLZPa5nXAV8HI
Oh wow, thats a *lot* of sets you have in the background lol. You interested in VGA monitors too, or just SD stuff?
I do have a couple VGA computer monitors (my big one which isn't terribly visible here is a Samsung 1100MB, an absolute BEAST of a unit), however most of the content I view on CRTs tends to be standard def anyways so naturally my focus is more towards consumer sets.
I do on occasion bring out that Samsung to play some Xbox 360 on it, and my goodness does it look glorious through VGA on that monitor!
@@StevesAssortedStuffthey had this at my school the vcr would jump on some tapes.
now I'm just imagining a slot loading microwave where you slot in a frozen meal and it pops back out cooked
its a cubist's delight
It would be cool to print a PC case like this for an ITX system. I might try that
I'd guess these are rare for the same reason they wouldn't make a good "regular TV" at the time of production. Who really wanted a video cassette player only with no built in tuner in the early 90s?
Wendy's, for one haha
I wonder why the state of Ohio is special and gets their own service number?
Not a microwave oven
I'd like to watch the lain experiment on this ctr :3 I hope the video looks like this: th-cam.com/video/Z_fdgj-camQ/w-d-xo.html
U don't see those anymore dude but I remember how much fun it was to go on a date eat dinner then go pickout a bunch of VHS tapes to rent w the ex gf
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composite at best, bummer.
this video was so well-produced that i thought for sure you'd be some well-established retro channel i simply hadn't heard of and was shocked when i saw only 61 subscribers! well, make it 62 now :)
p.s. i think this CRT would look great paired with the lofree block 98 keyboard & mouse on the desk of some retro-futuristic spaceship battlestation
Thank you so much for the compliments! I've done some video production before but never for my own channel here, since I've been out of practice for some time I figured documenting some of my favorite things in my collection would be a good avenue for me to create more content.
I'm glad you liked this video and hopefully you'll also enjoy some of the other video ideas I have coming up!