I just took this photo. Is my setup next level? I RGB modded the Sony if it helps.That a RetroPie setup at the bottom left?
I think it’s a MiSTer.
it is!
A7thStone is right, it’s a MiSTer in a custom “case” i made.
Those trinitrons were the goat of the day.
I had that TV back in the day. It was an amazing TV for it’s time.
Sweet man, that setup right there is next level!
thanks!
No Saturn?
I’ve been wanting a Saturn for a while now, but not yet! I usually play Saturn games on my MiSTer.
Oh nice, how good is the MiSTer with Saturn games?
it’s not perfect, but still quite good!
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It allows it to accept higher quality analog signal input for old video game systems. RGB separates the signals into 4 (in this case) separate inputs, one each for Red, Green, and Blue colors in the image, as well as sync on the fourth input. the image is much clearer than you’d have typically seen from systems on this TV back in the day using composite, or S-video if you were fancy. It’s the highest quality analog signal you can get for a CRT.
I’m old enough to remember when this was peak entertainment technology.
See, now that’s just the TV stand for the newer TV on top!
But seriously, why the fake drawers in these? The drawer handles even rotated, but you’d just be pulling against the wood.
I remember back in the 90s I found a cabinet just like that, but without the TV. Since I was broke back then, I took it back to my place and used it as a computer desk.
That’s eerily similar to what I grew up with. Like: “are you my sibling, and is that actually my old house”-level similar.
Edit:nm - we had wood floors, and the fan on the right was white.
Wow, old memory unlocked, we had that exact tv (or maybe another model that looked very similar). It was the good TV for a long time but never made it to be the less good TV in the basement because, well look at it, it’s a tube TV built into a fucking cabinet, just throw it out.
I remember my parents had a Magnavox wood finish tv console. That fucker weight more then a collapsed star I swear it took 3 people to move it from one corner to another.
Peak would’ve been a grey Zapper.
Oh my god !!! That’s the TV we had when I was a kid !!!
My grandparents had one very much like this. It was so much fancier than ours. It even had a remote!
We had a Zenith version of this idea, but it still had the clunky dials for changing channels instead of those fancy buttons.
I remember as a child, and occasional green spot would happen in the lower right of the screen and I would have to go hit it with a hammer until it went away.
great picture. I’ll bet that TV didn’t even have one of the old style remotes to change channels
Looks like model used in cs_militia in Counter Strike Source. Or at least reminds me of it
Oh man, this reminds me of the Sony Trinitron my family had growing up. We inherited it from my grandparents on my dad’s side when I was very young.
My grandpa died before I was old enough to remember him being alive, and my grandma we lost to dementia/Alzheimer’s not long after… So we got their TV.
Worked great for so many years, but somewhere around the 25-30 year mark, the picture had all but lost most of the color and I’m pretty sure that we had a failure in one of the emitters so one of the colors would only sometimes be there. We didn’t keep it around after that started happening regularly.
It was like this, a huge cabinet on wheels, and it was flanked by two massive speakers the full height of the unit, and about 10" off each side of the screen.
That TV was home to our NES and SNES consoles for a long time, and eventually our Sega Genesis.
We had a lot of good times sitting on the floor playing games on that thing.
Twenty-seven years ago that 27 inch TV was huge!
Now most people need massive TVs, but still spend most of the time looking at the small screen on the phone.
Not me, I will refuse to watch any movie I’ve never seen on a tiny fucking phone screen. I at least have some standards
Same, I got a 65 inch OLED big boy for the cinematic experience. I’m going to use the bastard.
Dam. I was only able to afford the 55 inch in 2020 so I’m just rocking the CX. Which did have the hackable firmware to remove all ads from YouTube so I’m not complaining. https://rootmy.tv/
I got a CX too but I have no ads by just not signing the user agreement lol.
I’m talking about sponsor block for in video ads, but that’s very cool that you can just not agree to that, are you in Europe per chance. I’m also talking about ads before the YouTube video start
Nope, I’m in North America. All LG TVs no matter where you are let you do this. Also, I use an Nvidia Shield with smart tube and it has built in sponsor block + ad blocking.
Because unless you’re buying a quality panel the difference between a 45 inch and 65 is usually $150. For something that you need 3 or 4 of (tops, if you have a family or large house) that’ll last 5+ years, the value proposition is high enough to spend the extra money.
Those TVs were in a lot of middle class homes. I think huge is pretty exaggerated. Having a house on the block with those 4 person 40-50 in TV’s was pretty common in a lot of areas IMO.
They weren’t huge at all. They were huge for that day.
Sure there was 40+ inch tvs if you were willing to shell out 10k plus.
Not that expensive at all.
In the 90s you could get a 40in for maybe like $500.
Not even close. We’re talking about $1000-$3000 for a decent high end. You could regularly find used for $400-$500 if you could find a team to lug them out.
Haha I have this setup to this day.
I use it for my regular Nintendo and Sega Genesis.
I’ll take it off your hands. Got to strong boys here with me. It took three of us to get this into house. So true it’s freaking heavy. It also swivels which I do find neat. Besides the old game console look better on the equipment they were built for.
What do you use for you irregular Nintendo?
I’ll see myself out 🤣
Lol great comment. I say regular because it’s 2025 and some people hear Nintendo and think Switch, or as we used to if you didn’t say regular. People would think Super Nintendo.
I also enjoy retrogaming. Party on.
It still is next level. Modern setups aren’t nearly as cool. TVs mounted to the wall, game consoles on the floor, and who even has a dedicated stereo system anymore?
I definitely would if I had the space and time to build it. Too many projects too little time (and space)
I have a stereo system still, complete with tape deck and turntable.
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
Not that compact stereo system. My old sharp boom box sounded better than those.
Yeah, I’m a little jealous of that cool ass setup. I used to have something like it, though not as nice.
I would never in a million years would consider this as “next level” unless there’s a MegaDrive behind those doors under the TV.
EDIT: those seem like DVD cases by the stereo, so I’ll have to revise my previous comment and demand either a Sega Saturn, a Playstation or a Nitendo64.
I think that’s a ps3 to the left of the TV
I disagree, that looks like a record player. You can see the plastic cover and what looks like part of the plate on top. There’s also a VCR and I doubt there were many instances of PS3s and VCRs being plugged into the same CRT. I don’t doubt it happened, but this is giving more late 90s/early 2000s than mid/late 2000s
Ya now that you mentioned it the plastic part isn’t curved
Didn’t PS3 only have hdmi out, which wouldn’t work with this tv?
No, the PS3 had an analog multi-out still, it’s the PS4 which phased that out and went HDMI-only.
Though not all games were playable, or at least not on the small TV I was playing on. The resolution was low enough and text small enough that I couldn’t read what was going on in some RPG I was playing, which resulted in me buying my first high def panel.
It’s definitely a record player and not a PS3
Oh, I was thinking this was late 90’s setup, but if that’s a PS3 then it’s like 10 years later… but isn’t that just like a book or something?
I have a N64 plugged into the back side of my TV. It has a flush mount, as in I plugged the N64 in before I hung it on the wall.
That is one strong unit, the thought of the weight of those devices gives me back pain.
Especially if you had to hookup a new system or player to it.
Kind of still is.
When the TV perfectly fit the cabinet. That’s when you knew.
To play games from that era this is a next level setup.
Today it’s all about finding a dumb display.
I understood they just don’t exist anymore, am I mistaken?
Last time i checked; you need to look at commercial displays or computer monitors. But they are more expensive than consumer smart TVs.
We must go back
I have that exact Aiwa music player.
Last Sunday when I went back to my parents house, I noticed that the clock was blinking because there was a blackout, so I turned on and I saw that the 5 CD changer not only gets stuck but the laser doesn’t see the discs anymore 😢
I’m sad
I don’t want to brag but I have my 1985 Bang & Olufsen music system still in use. Cassette player, CD-player and vinyl player all work well. They don’t make devices like that anymore.
Probably a relatively easy fix.
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what is the point of me seeing more detail in TV than in real life?
It’ll be bigger than my brother-in-law’s TV.
Then you won’t have to go outside.
