I'd avoid it for a normal LCD or 4:3, 5:4 CRT

If you can get your hands on a 34" CRT HDTV with a DVI port for free then its worth the trouble. It can probably show 4:3 content correctly and you will not find any 4:3 CRT HDTVs anyhow. There are a few 4:3 CRT monitors that are larger than 30" but they are ultra rare and normally won't go very high in resulotion so a 16:9 CRT HDTV is probably the best you can get.

You can read about your new CRT HDTV here.

http://www.toshiba.ca/productdetailpage.aspx?id=6559

The specifications look good. I would drive 500km (311 miles) or more to pick up that thing if I had the chance. 😁 Sweden got HDTV transmissions very late so there are very very few CRT HDTVs here. The early HDTVs we had were expensive 65"+ back-projection ones, they were not even that good.

I have a Panasonic 34" CRT HDTV. I'm at work, so I can't give you the exact model, but it's part of the Tau series. It doesn't have any fancy digital inputs, but it does take up to 1080i through component. It weighs a frickin ton, but produces a fantastic picture. Great color saturation, and the black levels are as good as on my big F8500 plasma TV. When the screen is blank you can't even tell it's on unless all the lights are out.

I use it all the time for laserdisc viewing. It also serves as the display for my basement HTPC. Netflix HD looks gorgeous on it.

I've seen them but the Sony models seem to have awful comb filters so even with DVI/HDMI in it doesn't look all that nice on the screen.

Samsung has a slimfit series of CRT HDTV's I currently have a 4:3 that's around 20some inches. has everything from RF to 1 HDMI port and does up to 1080i. the biggest selling point of these sets is despite being CRT's they don't weigh a ton or take up as much space as a traditional CRT of the same size. They do tend to suffer from some geometry issues though. I pretty much use it for 480P stuff like the Wii, original Xbox and select PS2 games since my Wii looks absolutely horrible on my 4k LCD.

It does the job but I'm not to impressed with the 4:3 model I currently have, maybe its just the set but I will say way back in the mid 2000's I bought a Samsung slimfit 30" widescreen model and it was probably one of the nicest TV's I've ever owned. classic games actually looked really good on it (for being HD)

Skyscraper wrote:

You can read about your new CRT HDTV here.

http://www.toshiba.ca/productdetailpage.aspx?id=6559.

166 lbs! It'll be horribly heavy and awkward to move around.

Yeah that weighs more than I do. It also won't fit in my car, but I can borrow one that will swallow it with the rear seats down.

Fortunately this thing comes with its own matching TV stand that has lots of space underneath for consoles, etc. Otherwise I wouldn't bother.

Still not sure I'm gonna go for it though, I hardly get time to use the one I already have and it's going to be a crap ton of effort to move it in.

GoblinUpTheRoad wrote:

166 lbs! It'll be horribly heavy and awkward to move around.

That's impressive 😁