That depends... Was it Sony, RCA, Loewe, Toshiba, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, ProScan, etc,.....
There were many CRT's of different sizes, aspect ratios, features, etc.... What equates to "great" for one individual, probably won't equate to "great" to another.
Costs would vary from free to whatever one is willing to pay.
Yes. "The greatest" is too vague. The largest? Probably the Sony KV-40XBR800 at 40 inches and over 300 pounds not including the stand. Highest resolvable resolution? Any of the Super Fine Pitch FD Trinitrons, but then their screens were not as large as the 40 incher that came before them. Pleasing picture? Highly subjective, but many CRTs were/are excellent for color accuracy.
Topic makes me wonder if there was a monster CRT made for a special application/venue akin to the Cowboy Stadium HD screen (recently trumped by the Texas Motor Speedway HD screen).
Back then, rather than have a single large CRT, video wall engines were employed to distribute a broadcast aligned to multiple televisions or monitors, and they would be stacked and side by side to achieve the effect of a single huge screen. Remember U2 during the Zooropa tour? That was what the Zoo TV was made of.
Looks like 61" is the size winner but GL finding one, possible only prototypes although the article stated "produced." About 45" for the commercial genre.
I did not see a lot of big screen crts but most of them had some problem,whereas the little 14 inchers looked great.I always wanted too see one of those 34 inch widescreen hdtvs but never did.
I think the Sony 40 inch was good all around because SD looked good on it and you still got 34 inches in 16:9 mode but the Loewes had the best color.
They were able to make 38 inch 16:9 CRTs. I wonder if they could have made a 42-inch 16:9 that was 960p--that way it would do the greatest with 480SD material and still have given a pretty 960HD picture good picture?
i wish I could get a set like that today provided that it hads the Sony's detail with the Loewe's color accuracy.
Actually 37" which makes it ideal for all the things you mentioned about a CRT but at the expense of even more weight. 40" would be nice for 4:3 with a tube.
My mom's Sony 40 inch is still running. I just wish that Sony would have made it with automatic stretch modes to fill the entire screen--defeatable of course if you didn't mind black bars at top and bottom.
If you are talking about the Sony KV-40XBR800, it can fill its 4:3 screen entirely at greater than 480p, and it can do it without stretching. You need to use a computer in order to send a broadcast this way though because nothing else that you own will even create a resolution of this non-standard type.
Go into the service menu by pressing [DISPLAY][5][VOL +][POWER] on your remote control, each of these buttons need to be pressed within one second of the last. The TV should turn on in service mode. Go to the 2170D_3 section and change the setting JUMP from 1 to 0. Save and you're done. You'll need to be in 1080i mode to begin with. At this point you will be able to use 960x720, in progressive scan, this is the highest resolution that this TV should be able to physically resolve. You will likely need to create a custom resolution in your PC's video control panel for this, but it will work.
Going into the service menu shouldn't be taken lightly. To quote my other post
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These Sonys were often sent out from the factory very badly set up with severe overscan and severe "red push". It is possible to fix these problems in the service menu but respect that a mistake in editing the service menu can brick your television so great caution must be shown while using it. Don't "reset" everything. http://www.avsforum.com/t/531494/the-sony-service-codes-articles-comments-discoveries /
I'd say the Sony KVFS100L is one of the greatest CRT's ever made, it's good enough for me, with it's outstanding true to life wonderfully bright picture, perfection motion(heck, this is the case with ALL CRT's) great color(Although cnet said the reds were oversaturated, yellows were a little orange and the picture overall had a slight blue hue to it. None of this bothers me, it all looks GREAT) The only downside i can think of and i personally don't find it a downside are the black levels.....Component cables make them a lot darker, and while they are deep they aren't as deep as something like the entry level panasonic S60. but they're still good!
I remember seeing this in the showroom of an upscale A/V store in the mid to late 90s. You can find them on searchtempest (craigslist multi-city search engine).
I remember seeing this in the showroom of an upscale A/V store in the mid to late 90s. You can find them on searchtempest (craigslist multi-city search engine).
I saw one of these today at a yard sale in Denver. The guy wants $5 for it if anyone is interested I will put you in touch.
It was working with a good picture sitting in this guys front yard about half and hour ago. If I had somewhere to put it I would get it! Manufacturer date is May 1995
I know around that same timeframe they were the only makers of the big tubes for other companies, something like 30" and above. Don't know about the flat tubes.
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I know around that same timeframe they were the only makers of the big tubes for other companies, something like 30" and above. Don't know about the flat tubes.
Avant-garde Mitsubishi (at least in the consumer market)... first to 30", first to 35", first to 40" (and the first to 80" rear-projection), and then -- what do you know-- one of the first to exit the CRT TV business.
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