1976 Sony Trinitron KP-4000

[@PTP8712]

My grandfather had one. He had a lot of health problems at the end, my grandmother bought it for him thinking that since TV was pretty much all he had left, maybe he’d enjoy it. I think it was in the $2400 range, which would be over $13,000 now. I liked it, but I was 12, so, of COURSE I would. Pretty much anyone under age 40 thought it was great. It was viewable at about a 30-degree angle from the center, not much more than 15’ away, you had to be SITTING, and the room needed to be kinda dark. I watched Super Bowl 11 on it by myself, because the “old” people couldn’t get used to it. I remember it had great sound, I’m guessing it had a larger than average speaker. Changing channels was a pain, because it only rotated in one direction. Our channels were 3, 5, 10, & 13. No UHF yet. Most of the time we watched 3 & 5 (CBS/NBC). Going from 5 back to 3 could wake the dead. I remember changing channels I caught my grandfather off guard one night, and the “hammering” noise of the dial turning scared him. I thought he was going to have another heart attack. He didn’t, but I felt awful about it and don’t think I ever watched it again in their house. Some friends of my parents bought it after he died, and I remember showing them how it worked.

[@vinniejackson3245]

My mother has this same tv in her garage. It’s been there for over 30 years. I loved this tv growing up. The first time I watched the original A nightmare on elm street was on this tv. Brings back memories.

[@matthewweflen]

This is Sony at its most Sony. Love it.

[@karelkroon]

Amazing piece of Sony tv! Imagine having this in the 70s! Love it.

[@vwestlife]

The Zenith Space Command remote used ultrasonic as well, but generated it by striking a tuning fork, hence the loud click when you pushed the button. The Sony remote is generating it electronically.

[@mijofeo]

My dad got us one of those around '87. You're right. It was cool. Even 10 years later after they came out. I used to use it as a building for my G.I. Joe "missions ". Of course, this tv could only be watched in the dark. Or under very dim lighting. It definitely stood out in the living room.

[@TheIpodziak]

I love vintage gear but this is on a different level💪

[@mark902]

old sony was the coolest company. they just made so much neat stuff. i'm really happy you get the preserve stuff like this too. to think of stuff like this getting trashed... it's like someone trashing the pyramids.

[@dmcintosh1967]

Very cool old Sony kp-4000 TV nice to see its in good safe hands. The coolest TV I have which doesn't hold a candle to that Sony is my 1989 25" Magnavox console TV. Saved it a couple years ago from getting thrown out. The set is hooked up in the den and is what I watch on in that room and hooked up to it is late 80s JVC Hi-Fi VCR, blue ray player, Wii, and SNES.

[@vintagevideobasement]

That's awesome! Keeping these out of the landfill is important. Enjoy them for as long as you can.

[@ryanhuang8498]

I still use my old CRT TV as well. From 1987,except I connected to a DTV converter box and Antenna. Really good picture even on digital TV channels.

[@Svante]

Never seen that one before. Beautiful design. It would be really cool to play some Atari 2600 on that TV, like Missile Command. 😁The viewing angle, seems much better, than some of the CRT backprojection TV:s, even as late as the mid 90:s, where you really had to sit dead center, to get a good image. Glad I found this channel. Love your content. 👍👍

[@GoLion]

Christ this thing is gorgeous!

[@Captain_Brown_Beard]

Amen

[@PTP8712]

@@GoLion They truly don’t make ‘em like they used to.

[@peterbondmusic]

Probably quite rare and in amazing shape too. Great you saved it! Thanks for the demo.

[@gonzoret]

Very cool TV, glad your preserving media history. 👌🏼

[@tileslasher]

Coolest thing I’ve seen in a long long time. Just totally cool man 👍👍👍

[@tremorist]

Beautiful machine. A relative had a Sony 3-tube projector which was integrated into the living room table. The table was fastened to the floor, so the projector would not move out of alignment. He had a VCR, Laserdisc and satelite tuner connected to it. It was a very high-end experience for the day.

[@vintagevideobasement]

I also have a KP-7220 known as the coffee table projector, which sounds similar to what you are describing.

[@tremorist]

@@vintagevideobasement I know this device, but akaik his was 'custom-made', no moving lid. It has been a while :-)

[@Magnetar83]

I LOVE your basement and your Christmas decorations!

[@no1DdC]

Interesting video. I was surprised to see it still in working order. That's exceptionally rare with old projection TVs. Tiny pedantic correction: 40" is not twice as large as 19", but about 4.4 times, since this number is the length of a screen's diagonal between two opposing corners. Nowadays, people are often making a similar mistake with 4K (3840x2160) vs 1080p (1920x1080), thinking that it's twice as many pixels, but forgetting that both axis are twice as large and it's thus four times as many pixels (thus the name 4K, since 1080p is also known as 1K; 2K was a common standard for Hollywood post production for a long time).

[@teddine7366]

My cousin had one in his family's home when we were growing up. He was always showing it off. It was an RCA though I believe, but could be wrong on that. I thought it was the coolest thing since my parents only had a 19 inch regular, crt tv back in the day. This one does look smaller than the one my cousin's family had though, but that is still really cool. First time on this channel so I'll have to look around and give ya the good ol like and subscribe.

[@vintagevideobasement]

Yeah, after this model, it seems most front projection TVs went to bigger sizes usually around 50" to 72".

[@anthonyb.9336]

This video came on my stream randomly. You may have hit the KZbin algorithm perfect here. Thanks for making this video, it was a neat TV view. The brightness, I wonder if the bulb is not as bright as it should be. Maybe it was replaced with a different wattage bulb at some point in its life.

[@vintagevideobasement]

Thanks! Yeah, these old projectors didn't take bulbs. They were CRTs that do get dimmer over time, but it's not as easy as replacing a bulb to change one.

[@ronaldbeerguy]

Intellivision would be awesome on that bad boy! That’s very cool.

[@chase055]

Dude.. Seeing the dial click on its own was mind blowing! Lol... 🤯

[@datassetteuser356]

Wow, this is amazing, never saw it before. Great condition and it actually works - just wow. Glad you saved it! What a great piece of history. Must weigh a metric ton 😅. Love this channel, enjoy your content so very much! Cheers and all the best!

[@snowymatrix]

16 minutes of preamble before we get to see the vintage goods in action! Off to watch the room tour next! 👍🍻🎅

[@no1DdC]

Good thing fast forwarding is a lot easier these days than with tape back then.

[@boriscovidscamson2911]

Never seen anything like this in the UK, pretty amazing and beautiful cabinet. 40 inches would be considered a small TV I suppose in 2024😂

[@jasonschubert6828]

Nice! I know that Panasonic (National) used the VTR nomenclature at least into the 90s.

[@m.m.radiochannel1969]

I remember being in the hospital as a child with a wired remote that had motor driven tuner like this one here. And to turn TV off you held the channel button for several seconds and TV would go off as there was no power button on remote.

[@darthboman]

That is really cool. Thanks for sharing. 😍

[@THX-2208]

Where are the HDMI ports? How do I connect my PS5 Pro to this?

[@evil1st]

Thats funny but you literally can hook one up to an old TV using a uhf transformer to analog RCA adapter and then an RCA to HDMI adapter. (you cant go from uhf to hdmi because you need to convert uhf to analog and then analog to digital)

[@michaelreeves1429]

Dang! Loving the channel also - looking at your other videos, vintage SONY all the way. My media equipment is a mesh of 90s Sony and modern Sony, Love your collection!

[@carlmorenor]

Amazing 🎉 1976 unbelievable, since then they manufactured dose! I believe it was from the 90s

[@chrisgrenga1595]

That is a beautiful Sony

[@HomeCinemaEnthusiast]

Nice looking set 👌👌👌

[@stephenmcallister2169]

i wanna watch gremlins now. and like every 80s movie that has that nostalgia

[@PlanetCHH]

Absolute beauty. Thanks for sharing

[@josecarlos11]

Amazing find!

[@carlosoliveira-rc2xt]

Awesome piece of video history, but the size of things like this make collecting difficult.

[@tigheklory]

I love this video! I don't know if I would want to get one of these though.

[@tonymanzo3766]

A neighbor of mine made a homemade projection tv by revering the horizontal and vertical coils and using a mirror that projected the reverse and upside down image correctly on the translucent screen. He used a standard 19” trinitron. Umbrage from the Harry Potter movie, she was a meanie

[@MarquezDaniel]

It’s funny how are mind perceives things over time with technology. A 40 inch tv was considered huge even in the 90s when I was growing up. So I can imagine walking into someone’s house in the 70s and seeing one of these things and thinking what a massive screen it is lol. I have a 43 inch tv in my room and I was just thinking the other day how small it was lol how times have changed.

[@Alexlfm]

Not necessarily just the mind. With a 16x9 television you need a 50” class TV to display the same sized 4x3 image. A 40” 4x3 CRT actually has a larger screen area than the equivalent 16x9 lcd.

[@malcolmmurphy2924]

That is beautiful you would definitely need a few people to move it.

[@donmorton7282]

Wow, and I thought I was vintage with my Zenith 13” color TV from 1987

[@joshmos]

Just found you...this channel rocks!!

[@StrikerObi]

This thing is so weird and cool. Would love to see what retro video games look like on it.

[@DarthHater100]

Hard to believe it's only 40 inches! I use a 42" 4K TV right now as one of my computer monitors, which I sit 2-3 feet from. Although you probably gain more than 100 square inches by it being 4:3 aspect ratio vs my 16x9 monitor. I guess the whole cabinet and design makes it feel larger. Would have been dope back then though. Especially if you sit a proper distance (pretty far), like we used to back in the day with CRTs. My first big screen TV was a 4:3 HDTV rear projection CRT, 50 inch, which seemed huge at the time. That thing was over $4000, and was one of the cheaper TVs, compared to others at the time. Wonder how much this thing went for.

[@vintagevideobasement]

That's awesome. This one was originally $2500.

[@willierants5880]

I've seen similar TV's like this growing up. I was never really impressed by the picture they produced. For best results the room needed to be dimmed and there were often alignment issues. Still you weren't going to go bigger without something like this.

[@billg3356]

That projector is awesome and your channel is siiiiiiick

[@genxnostalgia940]

Great video! Love your basement setup.

[@vintagevideobasement]

Thank you!

[@thegood9]

All the rich kids had a "Trinitron", lol. We would always want to watch the VHS tapes on their tvs, of course!

[@rheahayman-xm8ui]

Super cool, Matt!!

[@gamingtv394]

Awesome piece. there’s a lot of things I would like to preserve and add to the collection to get use out of, just not enough space.

[@vintagevideobasement]

There's never enough space. I have to pass on stuff all the time because space is limited.

[@larrytaylor2692]

There was a rich girl when I was younger that would invite a bunch of us over for movie nights and her parents had one of these but it was a wide screen version and much bigger from what I remember. Her family also had movies way before they were out on vhs it was crazy.

[@KUarentaKILLA]

Looks like something a gangster would own 😂

[@bluecar5556]

You should upload the literature on the archive. Preserve history.

[@grandadgamer8390]

Amazing condition 👍

[@nchw68]

13:11 Sony was being deceptive even back then with the "40 inch picture tube" spec there. It's also interesting that they chose to express the contrast ratio in dB, something you don't see anymore.

[@casinoskunk]

Stunning

[@PROGROCK-tr9hw]

It looks great

[@gigteevee6118]

What’s it like with a better source than 80’s video tape? Could be cool for retro gaming, a 40 inch in 1976 is insane whatever the input 😮

[@vintagevideobasement]

I may hook an Atari up to it and see how it looks.

[@chrisduncan3943]

We've come full circle since these are now available again. Now they just call them laser TVs (ultra short throw laser projector and screen).

[@maltronics]

Great vlog ,that is not a tuner its a flux capacitor 6:39

[@rakoontvofficial]

EPIC 📺📼⚡️

[@stereomann83]

Does the RM 302 remote also work with the TV you own? and how do you set the channels for VHF & UHF? and what Connections does it have on the back.

[@LatitudeSky]

That pamphlet is hilarious. They say it has a 40" picture tube. It actually has a 40" projection screen. The tube is whatever is in that Trinitron

[@dmcintosh1967]

Zenith and other brands with click remotes and that set Sony set are both ultrasonic it's just the Sony uses electronics in the remote to make the ultrasonic frequencies to control the various functions. Click remotes used a type of material that when struck by you pushing a button on the remote made the material resonate at a certain ultrasonic frequency.

[@vintagevideobasement]

Yep, I misspoke. Thanks for the correction and clarification.

[@jasonparisi688]

AWESOME !!!!!!

[@IN-rf1pv]

There’s a Sony KV-3000R for sale near me that would look really good next to it!

[@vintagevideobasement]

Where are you located? Is it the one in Texas? I’d love to have one.

[@JohnJohnson-xm2tf]

What was the price in 1976?

[@vintagevideobasement]

$2500 in 1976

[@kmusicmagazine]

So it’s just the tube that creates the projected light? Or is there some bulb inside?

[@weirdpeople103]

I wonder if you can covert the bulb to LED for more brightness

[@vintagevideobasement]

I would rather preserve it in its original state.

[@officalhumblefish565]

Holy shit

[@Tristand0920]

Super interesting tv

[@Epochs33]

50-year-old machine you would think the quality would look better since we were preparing to go to the moon 😂

[@johntrussell7228]

This is amazing, where did you find this???

[@vintagevideobasement]

A couple's family member passed and they were about to take it to the dump. Luckily, I got to it first.

[@DavidSusiloUnscripted]

It’s untrue that you don’t need to focus it. You still need to focus it every time you moved the cabinet.

[@Warntator]

my grand parents had the fold open MGA

[@MuhamadNazrin-y6b]

why i just know about this channel ! 😢

[@AussieTVMusic]

136 Kg in weight. Wow

[@pablosarti1216]

Ya aprieta el maldito botón!

[@tekvax01]

They were horrible to allign... and heaven help you if you moved it, it would take hours and hours to reconverge the tubes and have them match back up again!

[@vintagevideobasement]

Didn't have that problem with this one, since it is a single tube.

[@MyLostToys]

16:33 Leave the poor dog alone!!!!

[@stpworld]

I wonder if elvis presley had one of these he had some kind of true beam tv in his basement there is a cool shot of his daughter downstairs watching it some were online.

[@vintagevideobasement]

Was probably the Advent VideoBeam. Those are super cool too.

[@joshmos]

Thee-ATE-errr

[@wendellporter4875]

its a very rare piece

[@wxman2003]

Nice piece of furniture, but picture quality back in the 70s was really crappy. Amazing how far tvs have advanced since then.

[@pauldorschner5449]

vintage technology are the best, this days we have just chinese garbage

[@macroblockingone]

Chinese projectors are now using the same technology Sony used 40 years back, only difference is the image is reflected from the lcd screen Great video. Great channel. Subscribed

[@Mattyboy88979]

what a terrible picture

[@DavidMander-rs4uk]

Look at that relic piece of junk 🗑️😆

[@mikeg2491]

I’d say the same about your royal family