If you're implying it's a fake video, why would anyone keep these cables, no matter how broken the TV is there would be no reason to also keep the cables for it, it'd make more sense to throw the cables with it, especially if they're already plugged in
You were very fortunate with that one. That monitor/TV has all the inputs for retro consoles and for sure you can get component rgb from that scart connector. Pure gold.
@@RandomGaminginHD This is honestly much more fun to watch than LTT showing off yet another 4090 build with a 1 trillion dollar monitor setup. I DON'T CARE, lol. Keep doing your thing Monsieur HD.
@@tsu177 Indeed, but it gets boring when they only focus on the best of the best. Show me something normal people can actually afford and get their hands on. People can't relate to a lot of the stuff they're showing.
About two years ago my sister brought one of those small TVs to me from a thrift sale. She thought it was a monitor but it is a small 720p Panasonic Tv. I decided to buy an antenna for it and it can pull a surprising amount of local channels. I've left it in a corner of the house and watch local news on it when I like. Great little TV.
Nice find! I used to do this all the time. I once found a CRT monitor on the street, brought it home and hooked it up to my Xbox 360 with a VGA cable. It was capable of 1080p and even though the image was letterboxed, it still looked great.
@@HappyBeezerStudios The best resolution for budget gaming is 1920x1200 at 16:10 aspect ratio , 16:9 is actually TV standard . This gives you clearer images with virtually no drop off in performance from 1080p .
@@PhilipKerryIf you're talking about CRT, sure. But choice of aspect ratio is purely subjective and there's no "best". I own 16:10 and 16:9 displays and I prefer 16:9 for most things. I would prefer 21:9 if I had one. It offers more immersion for both games and movies. And for web browsing and other stuff using a 16:9 monitor vertically would be ideal.
@@berkertaskiran No 16:10 has always been the PC aspect ratio and 16:9 the TV aspect ratio . Monitors are made in 16:9 for one simple reason - cost , the companies that manufacture flat screens due so mostly for TV's and rather than incur extra cost by making screens in 16:10 for PC's they simply use left over TV screens in 16:9 . This has been known of since flat screens first came out so I guess that you are young and didn't know this .
@@PhilipKerry I am a filmmaker and I am familiar with all aspect ratios. There's no such thing as "tv aspect ratio" and "pc aspect ratio". Monitors have been 4:3 before 16:10 you do realize that, don't you? And where has that aspect ratio come from? The original tv format maybe? Sure manufacturers do all sorts of things to lower costs but TVs and monitors have different specifications that makes this not so viable. TVs will usually have more ghosting, worse response time etc. I haven't seen a factory on how they do these things but they probably use the same panels for all sorts of aspect ratios. So your 16:10 or 21:9 screen will probably come from the same panel of TV. If anything, today some TVs have better color reproduction than most monitors, including some of the best ones. I choose my aspect ratio based on my needs and not based on some preconceived idea. It's all made-up, in the end.
Just recently found a great Acer 1080p 75Hz monitor for £8 at a carboot sale, I didn't even bother trying to barter down the price being such a good deal
A 720p monitor @ 60 hertz would be a great gift for someone starting their PC journey. I remember my first PC experience was on a 480p monitor so the jump to 1080 was a blessing
i once picked up three free 4:3 monitors from my local internet cafe, i gave one away and the other two became my side monitors, had to recalibrate the colors tho as they we're awful and bland. good times, i remember playing racing games and Euro truck 2 and feeling so immersed.
While not free, I picked up a bunch of 1280x1024 and 1680x1050 screens over the years. Not for high end gaming, but I usually throw videos, office, and hardware monitoring on them.
these older displays are always so interesting, and it's a miracle that it still works! also i have to agree that the increased saturation made cyberpunk 2077 look very nice indeed.
Every TV in my home has been free from either from marketplace or my apartments dumpster. Most of the people that live in my complex are software engineers that either buy a house or move back to China/India and leave a lot stuff behind, mostly like new. My main gaming monitor came from craigslist, 32" Samsung 1440p curved for $20. It has a crack in the corner, about 5mm but it was enough to bother the original owner so he sold it cheap. My eyes rarely see it while gaming and a lot of games, the screen doesn't even use that portion of the screen.
The big issue with these TVs is that they will chew through your electricity, so make sure to top up your meter before turning it on. One my mate had used 1,200w, though it was significantly bigger than this one.
@@mrbobgamingmemes9558 It was constant, too. Those plasma screens just suck power. The heat coming off it was mental, it was practically unusable on a hot day. This one was 50", but still. The smaller ones still use at least twice as much power as a modern one.
In Finland we have these places called Ekotori, where you can bring old devices to have them junked for free or re-sold if they´re still working. But I think this monitor could have been sold for a few quid anyways.
My main screen is a 19" 1366 x 768 Hanns G panel. I work from there and game on it. Saving up for a 1080p panel along with saving for a 3700x ryzen 7 cpu
If you have low resolution monitor use resolution downscaling, for Nvidia is DSR and AMD is VSR. It won't magically make 720p monitor into 1440p monitor, but you will get more detail than native resolution.
I will normally play games on 720p with amd fsr enabled on my 1080p £22 monitor if the game that I'm playing on supports it I can hardly tell the difference between native res and amd fsr 1080p most of the time Managed to gain just abouts 30 fps with my amd radoen pro wx 2100 fanks to amd fsr
I've had one of them once, a 4:3 TV at 720p resolution and it was great to play with my old Xbox 360. Games looked better at that TV that in my 4K 50 inches main TV
Nice! I have found quite a few TV's and monitors in the wilds of the city trash piles and not a single one I've brought home has been broken yet. I've sold some and kept some. I recently brought an extra one to use at work because they had me using this tiny square thing that looked terrible and this one that I wasn't using at home is an old 1080p LCD from more than a decade ago that still looks great!
Ayyy I have a few free monitors that I've found in the street, near a dumpster, or something like that haha. I got a Gateway 19" 1440x900 LCD monitor, a Lenovo 21" 1080p LCD monitor (sold it with an old Core 2 Duo PC years ago), and a 23" Lenovo 1080p LCD monitor. Surprisingly, all of them work.
Considering the monitor was free, there's certainly nothing to complain about here. And it (mostly) worked fine, which is better than nothing. Good find, and good video 👍
The problem with older displays like these is heavy reliance on overscan, to the point you can't even turn it off on some tv's. Panasonic Vierra plasmas do this. You lose quite a bit of screen, which also messes up the upscaling.
Those old LCD monitors are kinda nostalgic in a way CRT monitors never were. I mean ,they were relatively short lived compared to CRT and what we use today.
I used to use my PC with a little 19 inch Technika TV not dissimilar to this. It was out of necessity more than anything as I didn't have room for my big Dell CRT Trinitron monitor when I moved out of my parents' house. It did the job, but it wasn't a patch on the CRT. It wasn't til quite a few years later that I could finally afford to upgrade to a nice 24in IPS monitor.
yeah it's a blessing to use a TV as a display for a gaming setup so you can hook a console or even a VCR (if you don't want to bother with using open source media players with setting up upscaling and etc)
My neighbour was throwing out his old TV recently. A Samsung series 5 40" 1080p.. So I grabbed it. Stand is a bit wobbly but it still works fine. Although you can tell its age by how huge the top/bottom 5cm and side 7.5cm bezel is. Compared to current modern screens.
I’ve tried finding an old small LCD TV for retro gaming since new TVs don’t have SCART anymore but the issue with TVs from around 15 years ago is ghosting. I played rogue squadron on GameCube and everything looks like a blurry mess as soon as you move the X wing compared to a CRT. The pixels are just so slow that everything leaves trails of severe ghosting.
It was such an issue my family went from CRT to Plasma first, even though plasma was hellishly expensive... my sister later went on to burn the wii menu into it.
@@blunderingfool burn in is another issue. I was talking about the pixel response time which means the pixels simply can’t change fast enough to show the content on the screen if things are moving fast like they can in games. Burn in isn’t really an issue with LCDs but for plasmas it was a problem for sure.
@@wertywerrtyson5529 That's what I meant. XD My family at the time could see how smeary those LCD TVs were and went for a plasma instead, which my little sister ruined.
I ran a similar era and sized Sanyo Vizon with my core 2 duo e6600 and 9800 gt setup. The GPU came with Crysis on disk, it blew me away compared to the Wii that I had. The backlight bleed and contrast levels were atrocious but coming from CRT TVs it was amazing.
I have currently 8 monitors and a solemn promise to my wife not to bring home any more strays. I use 3-4 of them. One of my desktop monitors was a reasonably priced Dell E2311H that has served me well for the past 3 years. I say reasonably priced BC I did have to supply both a power and a DVI cable for it. Otherwise our prices were the same, zero(FWIW the cables were all previously used as many other YT denizens will also have done) Hard to beat that price somehow.
My recent lucky curbside freebie was a Lenovo thinkcentre All-in-one sporting a 3Ghz Pentium and 2gb of DDR3. What's really neat about this PC is it's also a monitor for other inputs and outputs.
The moment I saw that front grille I was like "yeah that's a tele." These old shimmery boxes have their appeal, it's like built in anti-aliasing! The poor kind, but still!
I discovered a CRT in these exact circumstances the other day. I try and rescue them where I can, so it's always nice to see one just waiting there for free.
Woah scart! awesome. Im against hoarding but would love to house one of them obscure lcd's maybe for just a cctv monitor. A corner news screen or just general television. Maybe a karaoke machine. How about a pinball cabinet? So many things i could think of
I got a 24" Yakura monitor (or something like that), an i7 4770, 16GB DDR3 RAM and a Z87 motherboard in a CM Cosmos tower (the HUGH behemoth with handles on the top) for free a couple of years ago. It really is amazing what pops up on the free sites from time to time.
I just picked up a 22 inch RCA off the curb a week ago! Had all the cables and the remote, has a built in DVD player, and it's 1080p! Everything works! My Xbox 360 never looked so good.
a cheap generic HDMI switch box will give you 2, or 3 HDMI ports if you ever really need them, but with the cheap ones if you ever plug in a PC to it, you might be limited in the refresh rates, which means you might not see the boot screen, or anything else till your OS boots up at the default 59.95Hz, or 60Hz.
I got a free 24" full HD LED monitor when my local libary was having a referb. Minor scratch on screen but brilliant for 2nd monitor when I'm waiting for a game to load.
Very handy for late 90s, early 2000s gaming these older LCDs. Command and Conquer and other such titles with tiny sprites that are far too small to play comfortably on a modern display for example.
I found a monitor in the trash dump and it worked and was still in good condition, it has a stand which allows you to rotate the screen in vertical mode and for 1080p 60hz, not bad.
While I have not used any free TV/monitors, I did find at a thrift store a small 2009 Acer 17 inch 720 p monitor that worked for $3 US. I did recently bring that to another thrift store because was not using it. I am using a 2015 Dell 1080 p 22 inch monitor I got from a thrift store for $30 US. Might have been less but that is still marked on the monitor.
The only thing I don't like about this TV is its humongous bezels, which make it look more cumbersome than it actually is. Otherwise, great finding! Really nice for playing PS2, OG XBox and any retro console that supports SCART RGB.
I used a small TV like this as a monitor over a decade ago. The trick is to use VGA, not HDMI. That will allow you to run at the display's native resolution without any overscan, typically 1360x768.
Best deal I ever got was a $60 Asus turbo GTX 1080 here in the states. Sold for $250 at the end of the 2021 mining boom. Second deal was a $60 EVGA ftw GTX 1080 I sold the next day for $140 recently. It's surprising to see how much more affordable computer components are here relative to the rest of the world. Thanks for the great content as always!
I got an HP 243i on the street and it just worked. I also stayed for a bit to see if it was someones but no... I guess someone was moving out on a rush!
The problem with me and high levels of colour accuracy is that accurate colours don't reflect the way that certain colours 'feel' in your memory. High levels of saturation (and lower colour temps overall) far more closely resemble how i remember things feeling (snow is a good example)
It's amazing to me how often I see tech tubers who will take a lower powered computer, hook it up to their 1080p monitor and then downres to 720p which looks a mess when they could literally just get a large 720p-ish monitor and it'll look beautiful because it's running native.
So cool! I do the same thing. I hope it doesnt rain when I "donate" things like that. One man's trash is another man's tresure! 🙂 I picked up 4 chairs the other day. Someone had them sitting by the bin and I was like "woah" it matches the color of my house! I swiped them up. 😀
I use one of these older tvs to play my Steam Deck docked. As long as it's the display's native resolution, 720p look just as good as 1080p in my opinion, and of course it means you get great performance.
I have a similar small tv that I just keep around to test stuff because it has practically every input. I call it my accidental tv because was browsing a local ebay like site and fell asleep then somehow managed to bid on it.
I recently purchased Asus TUF Vg259qm via FB, the screen was fine, no scratches but the IPS panel shattered. Is there, at this point , anything I can do with it?
I picked up a really nice old sony bravia 40 inch lcd ,once i turned off the auto brightness the picture was superb and it had front mounted speakers that sounded decent worked fine in 720 p as you could alter the screen setting by default it was to zoomed in on pc vga or hdmi it could display 1080i by down scaling but the option to alter the zoom was greyed out so it the picture was always off the screen .so it was no good for my needs and i gave it to a mate who found someone else that wanted it .
Retro gaming on CRT monitors often looks better because the pixels get stretched out and these games were designed to make use of this, which is why they look more full compared to if you hooked up a SNES console to a modern day display will look flat.
That's the thing, the technology is different and the developers understood that. Old games didn't have that pixel look often seen nowadays in retro stuff. With the afterglow and the fact that the pixels are more round and brighter points are also bigger gives a completely different look.
I have a monitor from a different brand with the same UI and also the joystick tends to turn off the monitor when trying to adjust anything. Easy fix with a universal remote which can train then you can use the remote to set things up. Although options are NOT abound, you may be able to fix stuff to better standards of resolution. Never plugged mine to a PC, as it works as a kitchen TV
Call me easy to please but native 720p still looks pretty good on a smaller display (as long as the panel itself is of high quality). Worth it alone for the improved frame rate with lower end hardware. 720p gets a bad rap when it's upscaled or on bigger displays.
A Free working TV I call that big win, and I have a few monitors like that in my collection of backups, and for when I'm building a super cheap system for someone else who also needs a monitor of any kind. Also yeah I still use a 21in Sony 5:4 VGA 75Hz LCD monitor at work on my small desk, and it's it's great for web pages, and office documents with it's taller screen aspect ratio, and YT videos still look good a sudo 720p rez.
A lone grandma across our cottage got a 2005 philips tv from a rich austrian neigbor my grandpa and dad tried to set it up but it didnt pick up a cable signal so she gave him money to buy her a tv to swap it from a crt now i use it on my big desk as a second pc monitor pushed up a wall it has dvi and scart,av
I like the fact the donators included all the needed cables.
A true bro 👍
If you're implying it's a fake video, why would anyone keep these cables, no matter how broken the TV is there would be no reason to also keep the cables for it, it'd make more sense to throw the cables with it, especially if they're already plugged in
@@thompsonevergreen8006 No dude, he's not telling it's a fake video.. 🙄
@@thompsonevergreen8006 you're implying that he's implying
cables are his, monitor was someones else, he only made that intro for comedic reasons is this this hard to understand?
You were very fortunate with that one. That monitor/TV has all the inputs for retro consoles and for sure you can get component rgb from that scart connector. Pure gold.
also love the aspect ratio
@@Profielzondernaam It's 16:9 like everything else.
Idk man that display isn't so great for retro gaming I would get a VGA crt monitor
why do people always say "THIS WILL BE GREAT FOR RETRO GAMES!!1!!" when it comes to outdated dump tech
@@jeanvaljean6433older games are made for older displays? So they will look better, or have better quality in older games.
Videos like this are part of the reason this is my favorite tech channel 🙃
Thanks! My favourite videos to make as well
@@RandomGaminginHD This is honestly much more fun to watch than LTT showing off yet another 4090 build with a 1 trillion dollar monitor setup. I DON'T CARE, lol. Keep doing your thing Monsieur HD.
@LordManhattan I like both, it's cool to see the best of the best aswell
@@tsu177 Indeed, but it gets boring when they only focus on the best of the best. Show me something normal people can actually afford and get their hands on. People can't relate to a lot of the stuff they're showing.
@@RandomGaminginHD 😁good to know
Love this era of TVs! "What ports should we include?" "Yes."
What about bezels? YES!!
What about built in sound? Yes
About two years ago my sister brought one of those small TVs to me from a thrift sale. She thought it was a monitor but it is a small 720p Panasonic Tv. I decided to buy an antenna for it and it can pull a surprising amount of local channels. I've left it in a corner of the house and watch local news on it when I like. Great little TV.
Free - That's a price I can get behind lol!
😁
Nice find! I used to do this all the time. I once found a CRT monitor on the street, brought it home and hooked it up to my Xbox 360 with a VGA cable. It was capable of 1080p and even though the image was letterboxed, it still looked great.
I remember downgrading to 1080p when I went from my CRTs to to flatscreens.
@@HappyBeezerStudios The best resolution for budget gaming is 1920x1200 at 16:10 aspect ratio , 16:9 is actually TV standard . This gives you clearer images with virtually no drop off in performance from 1080p .
@@PhilipKerryIf you're talking about CRT, sure. But choice of aspect ratio is purely subjective and there's no "best".
I own 16:10 and 16:9 displays and I prefer 16:9 for most things. I would prefer 21:9 if I had one. It offers more immersion for both games and movies. And for web browsing and other stuff using a 16:9 monitor vertically would be ideal.
@@berkertaskiran No 16:10 has always been the PC aspect ratio and 16:9 the TV aspect ratio . Monitors are made in 16:9 for one simple reason - cost , the companies that manufacture flat screens due so mostly for TV's and rather than incur extra cost by making screens in 16:10 for PC's they simply use left over TV screens in 16:9 . This has been known of since flat screens first came out so I guess that you are young and didn't know this .
@@PhilipKerry I am a filmmaker and I am familiar with all aspect ratios. There's no such thing as "tv aspect ratio" and "pc aspect ratio". Monitors have been 4:3 before 16:10 you do realize that, don't you? And where has that aspect ratio come from? The original tv format maybe? Sure manufacturers do all sorts of things to lower costs but TVs and monitors have different specifications that makes this not so viable. TVs will usually have more ghosting, worse response time etc. I haven't seen a factory on how they do these things but they probably use the same panels for all sorts of aspect ratios. So your 16:10 or 21:9 screen will probably come from the same panel of TV. If anything, today some TVs have better color reproduction than most monitors, including some of the best ones. I choose my aspect ratio based on my needs and not based on some preconceived idea. It's all made-up, in the end.
Man, the 780ti Lightning looks great on that display base... What a lovely desk-topper!
Just recently found a great Acer 1080p 75Hz monitor for £8 at a carboot sale, I didn't even bother trying to barter down the price being such a good deal
Great deal!
What model is it?
@@kire929 kg241
A 720p monitor @ 60 hertz would be a great gift for someone starting their PC journey. I remember my first PC experience was on a 480p monitor so the jump to 1080 was a blessing
i once picked up three free 4:3 monitors from my local internet cafe, i gave one away and the other two became my side monitors, had to recalibrate the colors tho as they we're awful and bland. good times, i remember playing racing games and Euro truck 2 and feeling so immersed.
I used to play games at 3840x1024@75hz on 3 matching 5:4 monitors, was fun. =P
While not free, I picked up a bunch of 1280x1024 and 1680x1050 screens over the years. Not for high end gaming, but I usually throw videos, office, and hardware monitoring on them.
Free free for free.
Say three free 4:3 5 times fast
@@HappyBeezerStudios I used to play on a 1680x1050 screen, it was perfect for my GTX 1050ti,
I have one very similar. Really handy for old consoles and playing console games on your desk thanks to the inbuilt speakers/headphone jack.
these older displays are always so interesting, and it's a miracle that it still works! also i have to agree that the increased saturation made cyberpunk 2077 look very nice indeed.
Your random tech videos that shy away from the usual formula are always the ones I find most intriguing! Keep on keeping on
Image softness, could be ideal for old game consoles where they relied on the crt's softness and color blending to get certain effects to work.
I really like these videos of yours. One of the main reasons why I watch your channel.
Every TV in my home has been free from either from marketplace or my apartments dumpster. Most of the people that live in my complex are software engineers that either buy a house or move back to China/India and leave a lot stuff behind, mostly like new. My main gaming monitor came from craigslist, 32" Samsung 1440p curved for $20. It has a crack in the corner, about 5mm but it was enough to bother the original owner so he sold it cheap. My eyes rarely see it while gaming and a lot of games, the screen doesn't even use that portion of the screen.
The big issue with these TVs is that they will chew through your electricity, so make sure to top up your meter before turning it on. One my mate had used 1,200w, though it was significantly bigger than this one.
What ? 1200 watt , not even high end pc would exceed that value unless you have multiple gpu for 3d rendering stuff
@@mrbobgamingmemes9558 It was constant, too. Those plasma screens just suck power. The heat coming off it was mental, it was practically unusable on a hot day.
This one was 50", but still. The smaller ones still use at least twice as much power as a modern one.
1.2kW! Sry' don't belive you
@@dallesamllhals9161 And that's perfectly fine.
@@fattomandeibu Plasmas are true but LCD back in the day were not. CRT used more power then lcd monitors.
Cyberpunk looks friggin charming on that monitor.
Yeah it does haha I was surprised
Walking the dog really is a boon for discovering curbside treasures.
In Finland we have these places called Ekotori, where you can bring old devices to have them junked for free or re-sold if they´re still working. But I think this monitor could have been sold for a few quid anyways.
My main screen is a 19" 1366 x 768 Hanns G panel. I work from there and game on it. Saving up for a 1080p panel along with saving for a 3700x ryzen 7 cpu
One man's trash is another man's pleasure
This is the sort of content I didn't know I needed.
If you have low resolution monitor use resolution downscaling, for Nvidia is DSR and AMD is VSR.
It won't magically make 720p monitor into 1440p monitor, but you will get more detail than native resolution.
I will normally play games on 720p with amd fsr enabled on my 1080p £22 monitor if the game that I'm playing on supports it I can hardly tell the difference between native res and amd fsr 1080p most of the time
Managed to gain just abouts 30 fps with my amd radoen pro wx 2100 fanks to amd fsr
Might even worth into setting up custom resolutions. A bit more work, but the result can be quite a bit better when you do proper scaling factors.
A video very worthy of the channel name, bravo.
Looks like my late gradma's old TV, which came in handy when my old 19" Mirai widescreen died and I was looking for a replacement. Thanks grandma 🥰
I've had one of them once, a 4:3 TV at 720p resolution and it was great to play with my old Xbox 360. Games looked better at that TV that in my 4K 50 inches main TV
Well yeah.
Nice! I have found quite a few TV's and monitors in the wilds of the city trash piles and not a single one I've brought home has been broken yet. I've sold some and kept some. I recently brought an extra one to use at work because they had me using this tiny square thing that looked terrible and this one that I wasn't using at home is an old 1080p LCD from more than a decade ago that still looks great!
Ayyy I have a few free monitors that I've found in the street, near a dumpster, or something like that haha. I got a Gateway 19" 1440x900 LCD monitor, a Lenovo 21" 1080p LCD monitor (sold it with an old Core 2 Duo PC years ago), and a 23" Lenovo 1080p LCD monitor. Surprisingly, all of them work.
The dump is a great place to pick up old tech for free, I've found a fully working Xbox 360 and a 1080p projector during my travels there.
Considering the monitor was free, there's certainly nothing to complain about here. And it (mostly) worked fine, which is better than nothing. Good find, and good video 👍
The problem with older displays like these is heavy reliance on overscan, to the point you can't even turn it off on some tv's. Panasonic Vierra plasmas do this. You lose quite a bit of screen, which also messes up the upscaling.
Those old LCD monitors are kinda nostalgic in a way CRT monitors never were. I mean ,they were relatively short lived compared to CRT and what we use today.
Disagree, crts occupy a special place in my heart.
CRTs ages quicker than LCDs
@@pyeltd.5457 Your point being?
Score! Congrats! So glad it found a new home with you and didnt end up as landfill.
I used to use my PC with a little 19 inch Technika TV not dissimilar to this. It was out of necessity more than anything as I didn't have room for my big Dell CRT Trinitron monitor when I moved out of my parents' house. It did the job, but it wasn't a patch on the CRT. It wasn't til quite a few years later that I could finally afford to upgrade to a nice 24in IPS monitor.
yeah it's a blessing to use a TV as a display for a gaming setup so you can hook a console or even a VCR (if you don't want to bother with using open source media players with setting up upscaling and etc)
I'll never understand why people in the first world just throws away perfectly working stuff like that for free, I wish they did that here
The perfect monitor for emulation (Duckstation/PCSX2 etc).
My neighbour was throwing out his old TV recently. A Samsung series 5 40" 1080p.. So I grabbed it. Stand is a bit wobbly but it still works fine. Although you can tell its age by how huge the top/bottom 5cm and side 7.5cm bezel is. Compared to current modern screens.
this kinda looks like one those screens you would find in a motel /doctors office or something like that ..
I’ve tried finding an old small LCD TV for retro gaming since new TVs don’t have SCART anymore but the issue with TVs from around 15 years ago is ghosting. I played rogue squadron on GameCube and everything looks like a blurry mess as soon as you move the X wing compared to a CRT. The pixels are just so slow that everything leaves trails of severe ghosting.
It was such an issue my family went from CRT to Plasma first, even though plasma was hellishly expensive... my sister later went on to burn the wii menu into it.
@@blunderingfool burn in is another issue. I was talking about the pixel response time which means the pixels simply can’t change fast enough to show the content on the screen if things are moving fast like they can in games. Burn in isn’t really an issue with LCDs but for plasmas it was a problem for sure.
@@wertywerrtyson5529 That's what I meant. XD My family at the time could see how smeary those LCD TVs were and went for a plasma instead, which my little sister ruined.
I ran a similar era and sized Sanyo Vizon with my core 2 duo e6600 and 9800 gt setup. The GPU came with Crysis on disk, it blew me away compared to the Wii that I had. The backlight bleed and contrast levels were atrocious but coming from CRT TVs it was amazing.
I have currently 8 monitors and a solemn promise to my wife not to bring home any more strays. I use 3-4 of them. One of my desktop monitors was a reasonably priced Dell E2311H that has served me well for the past 3 years. I say reasonably priced BC I did have to supply both a power and a DVI cable for it. Otherwise our prices were the same, zero(FWIW the cables were all previously used as many other YT denizens will also have done) Hard to beat that price somehow.
Ay welcome to England where everyone just leaves working monitors and TVs on the street
Sweet pickup! That's like the I can hook up to anything monitor. Scart for me in America is pretty interesting.
My recent lucky curbside freebie was a Lenovo thinkcentre All-in-one sporting a 3Ghz Pentium and 2gb of DDR3. What's really neat about this PC is it's also a monitor for other inputs and outputs.
The moment I saw that front grille I was like "yeah that's a tele." These old shimmery boxes have their appeal, it's like built in anti-aliasing! The poor kind, but still!
STILL my favorite tech channel!!
I discovered a CRT in these exact circumstances the other day. I try and rescue them where I can, so it's always nice to see one just waiting there for free.
2:49 720p gaming isn't going to be a problem for the 4060 because that's the resolution it was meant for
Woah scart! awesome.
Im against hoarding but would love to house one of them obscure lcd's maybe for just a cctv monitor.
A corner news screen or just general television.
Maybe a karaoke machine.
How about a pinball cabinet?
So many things i could think of
I got a 24" Yakura monitor (or something like that), an i7 4770, 16GB DDR3 RAM and a Z87 motherboard in a CM Cosmos tower (the HUGH behemoth with handles on the top) for free a couple of years ago. It really is amazing what pops up on the free sites from time to time.
I just picked up a 22 inch RCA off the curb a week ago! Had all the cables and the remote, has a built in DVD player, and it's 1080p! Everything works!
My Xbox 360 never looked so good.
a cheap generic HDMI switch box will give you 2, or 3 HDMI ports if you ever really need them, but with the cheap ones if you ever plug in a PC to it, you might be limited in the refresh rates, which means you might not see the boot screen, or anything else till your OS boots up at the default 59.95Hz, or 60Hz.
I got a free 24" full HD LED monitor when my local libary was having a referb. Minor scratch on screen but brilliant for 2nd monitor when I'm waiting for a game to load.
Hats off to the mate who knows the colour settings for modern games
Very handy for late 90s, early 2000s gaming these older LCDs. Command and Conquer and other such titles with tiny sprites that are far too small to play comfortably on a modern display for example.
This thing can power a snes so that's pretty cool. I would definitely take such a monitor home just for that.
Perfectly usable.
I go through the rich areas and pick up entire pc's, TV's and power tools all the time, they throw away good stuff. 😂
I found a monitor in the trash dump and it worked and was still in good condition, it has a stand which allows you to rotate the screen in vertical mode and for 1080p 60hz, not bad.
nice I got an OK LG 22LE3300 tv last week its very slim even has a remote and was free for me. its good to watch the news or crap on.
Surprisingly the display is still intact. Old LCDs can have that weird warping on the display due to the age of the panel.
While I have not used any free TV/monitors, I did find at a thrift store a small 2009 Acer 17 inch 720 p monitor that worked for $3 US. I did recently bring that to another thrift store because was not using it. I am using a 2015 Dell 1080 p 22 inch monitor I got from a thrift store for $30 US. Might have been less but that is still marked on the monitor.
I love older tvs since some of them got inputs for almost everything. I could connect a ps5 and a super nintendo to the same tv for example.
The only thing I don't like about this TV is its humongous bezels, which make it look more cumbersome than it actually is. Otherwise, great finding! Really nice for playing PS2, OG XBox and any retro console that supports SCART RGB.
My 37 inch Goodman's HDTV from 2008 still works 😅
Its really hard to find cheap monitors like this one, i just dont know where to look.
I used a small TV like this as a monitor over a decade ago. The trick is to use VGA, not HDMI. That will allow you to run at the display's native resolution without any overscan, typically 1360x768.
You had me with that "lack of base" shot for a minute.
Best deal I ever got was a $60 Asus turbo GTX 1080 here in the states. Sold for $250 at the end of the 2021 mining boom. Second deal was a $60 EVGA ftw GTX 1080 I sold the next day for $140 recently. It's surprising to see how much more affordable computer components are here relative to the rest of the world. Thanks for the great content as always!
It's almost bizarre really. I don't know If It has to do with taxes or something like that, but deals like that are non existent in Brazil
This would be ideal to use with on Xbox 360 because most games ran at 720p, so it would be quite authentic
I got an HP 243i on the street and it just worked. I also stayed for a bit to see if it was someones but no... I guess someone was moving out on a rush!
Gratz on your new to you HD compatible TV/Gaming Monitor
The problem with me and high levels of colour accuracy is that accurate colours don't reflect the way that certain colours 'feel' in your memory. High levels of saturation (and lower colour temps overall) far more closely resemble how i remember things feeling (snow is a good example)
i said it before and ill say it again, this channel really lives up to the name "Random"
A perfect Retro-Gaming-Monitor/TV !!
It's amazing to me how often I see tech tubers who will take a lower powered computer, hook it up to their 1080p monitor and then downres to 720p which looks a mess when they could literally just get a large 720p-ish monitor and it'll look beautiful because it's running native.
So cool! I do the same thing. I hope it doesnt rain when I "donate" things like that. One man's trash is another man's tresure! 🙂 I picked up 4 chairs the other day. Someone had them sitting by the bin and I was like "woah" it matches the color of my house! I swiped them up. 😀
Miss my childhood old CRT monitor It takes 1 minutes to fully turn on.
I use one of these older tvs to play my Steam Deck docked. As long as it's the display's native resolution, 720p look just as good as 1080p in my opinion, and of course it means you get great performance.
Do you have a PC 🤔
I have a similar small tv that I just keep around to test stuff because it has practically every input.
I call it my accidental tv because was browsing a local ebay like site and fell asleep then somehow managed to bid on it.
It would be intresting to see a gaming setup by finding old parts in the street
It’s all about gettin em started by showing how simple and easy it is
I recently purchased Asus TUF Vg259qm via FB, the screen was fine, no scratches but the IPS panel shattered. Is there, at this point , anything I can do with it?
I picked up a really nice old sony bravia 40 inch lcd ,once i turned off the auto brightness the picture was superb and it had front mounted speakers that sounded decent worked fine in 720 p as you could alter the screen setting by default it was to zoomed in on pc vga or hdmi it could display 1080i by down scaling but the option to alter the zoom was greyed out so it the picture was always off the screen .so it was no good for my needs and i gave it to a mate who found someone else that wanted it .
Retro gaming on CRT monitors often looks better because the pixels get stretched out and these games were designed to make use of this, which is why they look more full compared to if you hooked up a SNES console to a modern day display will look flat.
Somebody had a good CRT TV out to the curb a couple weeks ago. But I don't have the space for it.
That's the thing, the technology is different and the developers understood that. Old games didn't have that pixel look often seen nowadays in retro stuff. With the afterglow and the fact that the pixels are more round and brighter points are also bigger gives a completely different look.
This has happened to me several times.
I have a monitor from a different brand with the same UI and also the joystick tends to turn off the monitor when trying to adjust anything. Easy fix with a universal remote which can train then you can use the remote to set things up. Although options are NOT abound, you may be able to fix stuff to better standards of resolution. Never plugged mine to a PC, as it works as a kitchen TV
Call me easy to please but native 720p still looks pretty good on a smaller display (as long as the panel itself is of high quality). Worth it alone for the improved frame rate with lower end hardware. 720p gets a bad rap when it's upscaled or on bigger displays.
A Free working TV I call that big win, and I have a few monitors like that in my collection of backups, and for when I'm building a super cheap system for someone else who also needs a monitor of any kind.
Also yeah I still use a 21in Sony 5:4 VGA 75Hz LCD monitor at work on my small desk, and it's it's great for web pages, and office documents with it's taller screen aspect ratio, and YT videos still look good a sudo 720p rez.
Sometimes I really wish hings went differently and 16:10 screens didn't go extinct for the 16:9 compromise.
How much power does it consume? Old tech are notorious for chewing through electricity....
I had this TV for ages!
Playing fallout games with this must've been a good experience
You saved it from turning into more e-waste so good stuff.
The perfect old consol gaming setup
A lone grandma across our cottage got a 2005 philips tv from a rich austrian neigbor my grandpa and dad tried to set it up but it didnt pick up a cable signal so she gave him money to buy her a tv to swap it from a crt now i use it on my big desk as a second pc monitor pushed up a wall it has dvi and scart,av
Some monitors just won't die. I have a Dell 21.5 inch 1050P LCD that still works and even an old CRT monitor, new in box.
Surprised with the graphics card used in Cyberpunk there being some stuttering and taring.
You truly live up to your name. No one else will do this😂