Barco Graphics 801 CRT projector preview

[@BigSaulo]

I just got a Barco Graphics 801s and Sony VHP g70 for $50. I got really lucky to get them at that price and they are in great condition. I'm pretty pumped about it.

[@frozenvodka]

Omg!

[@thehighwayman78]

Amazeballs

[@terrellgill2619]

You really can't beat stuff like this back in the day to made great high quality products and not just try to sell you something

[@Nickword1]

I had to stop the music playing on my itunes just to hear this soundtrack on this video.. Smooth!!

[@es2056]

I installed the 801 Data my dedicated theater and ran it for many, many years. I found it at a flea market with 6,000 hours run time. Paid 150.00 for it. It was a great projector but now I am running an Epson 1080p 3D projector and I do not regret the change. Technology moves on, the Epson is a snap to set up and hardly ever needs any tweaking. But I still look back at the great times with my Barco, the image would blow me away every time I used it.

[@Blu0tuth0ninja]

I watched a documentary once where they were talking about advancements in tv displays, and there was a project being worked on to make hundreds of tiny crt displays and line them up into one large display, so it was thin and it had great color.

[@snesfan8935]

Scanline effect in low res mode. Impressive.

[@Blu0tuth0ninja]

If only crt tech wasn't so big. It has better picture quality and hz than the super expensive LCD tv's now.

[@talkingonthespectrum]

Oh how times have changed

[@Blu0tuth0ninja]

Not true. CRT has always had better color reproduction than any other form of display because it uses a similar method to plasma, but in a different manner. The reason the contrast ratio is off is because most media then was shot with old cameras. I've compared my old crt to my new led tv, and though the led is nice and thin, and i can mess with the settings to make it look better, but in all honesty, my crt still had truer colors.

[@es2056]

Man, I used to have one of those. It was a great little 8" projector.

[@JMaldonado64]

Agreed, CRT TVs were excelent (remember Protons?). I can't wait for the next generation of big AMOLED screens to arrive. Being an emissive technology, they have the potential to deliver the very best image quality ever!

[@gparyani]

Today, the majority of people carry an AMOLED screen in their pocket/purse

[@MRHOLI-ed2cc]

Damn the comment was 11 years ago​@@gparyani

[@WickedEngineer]

love those beasts ! i won 2 bg808, both not 100% working yet and a really well preserved nec xg135

[@Blu0tuth0ninja]

AMOLED TVs are gonna be sooooo cool. I've played with some of the phones with amoled, and they look fantastic!

[@WickedEngineer]

crt is still king :) i own a vdc marquee 9500 lc ultra with all good mods and moome card, connected to a crystalio2 vps3300 it will blow you away !

[@joshuahelmeke]

WickedEngineer, yep, that’s the way to go: congratulations. 4K laser projectors are still a step behind and have yet to be affordable to the average consumer...way to fellow hobbyist.

[@nbelsky]

I'm running an 808s and, while I love the quality of this unit, I'd like to get an idea of the improvements I can expect with my projector. Thanks in advance.

[@GoTeamScotch]

This felt like an intro to a deep dive video. But nonetheless, it's an impressive view into this world.

[@Oldbmwr100rs]

Just saw a Zenith branded 3 tube "digital" projector at a thrift store, thing was almost twice the size of this one, and at one time I would have been all over that thing. Not any more..

[@KiwiClawDHA]

You could use a QXGA vga cable and hooked it up to your computer and you can get achieve a higher resolution. Depending on what the manual says.

[@CykPykMyk]

recently i bought barco graphics 800 in really good condition, but hell, I have no idea how did you get such great picture geometry and convergance, fcus and everything. It's really hard to setup this thing.

[@wrhalver]

Oh....the memories!

[@NachosPizza]

this is super comfy

[@rajkiranthomas3579]

After real film projection CRT is the best projection system 🙁

[@erasmojuarez1786]

Hi, I have a BarcoData 708 projector, I found it recently in a warehouse, I looked for information on the internet to put it to work but I can't find anything concrete, could you help me? or any idea what i can do with its pieces?

[@JMaldonado64]

My mistake. I was talking about the new generation Samsung and Sharp LED displays (Sony is not a contender). They look better than any Barco, Runco, or Sony projector I've ever seen. And I've seen a few, as I work for an AV company that sells these projectors for a living.

[@harshitjaiswal5180]

Hey i am also having the sony crt projector..can you help me to repair it.it is going in the protection mode.

[@JMaldonado64]

I owned, installed, adjusted, repaired and really loved the Barco projectors of that era, they provided me with many hours of enjoyment. But right now in 2012 any big Panasonic or Samsung plasma TV delivers triple subjective image quality in 2D, even without speaking of 3D. The Barco 80x and 90x are obsolete junk that nobody seeks anymore. Please be welcome to the 21st century my friend.

[@ManOfAttitudeLP1998]

Wtf

[@eryonzane]

they should start producing them again

[@ManOfAttitudeLP1998]

Oh yes

[@spectralcodec]

Curious what is diameter of those lenses?

[@leonelofraire1556]

Liquido del tubo?

[@mauricetalen6930]

en is dit nou veel beter dan een projector van nu???

[@darklinggolem]

Hmmm..... what happens when you cover one of the lenses

[@DoubleMonoLR]

A few years late, but the colour will be distorted, each CRT tube individually projects red, green, blue. Maybe you had something more specific in mind with your question though?

[@CykPykMyk]

what is the title of the music?

[@mannymarc24]

Add black velvet around the screen

[@TravFryer]

epic.

[@gerhardprins1412]

Mooi

[@KiwiClawDHA]

How did you get 1080i instead of 1080p?

[@Brokenrocktail]

McCormick1215 CRTs are typically interlaced displays. They display even fields during one scan, then odd fields during the next scan. Even if one of these displays happened to have an HDMI input, the image would need to be interlaced before being displayed.

[@DoubleMonoLR]

@@Brokenrocktail CRT TVs are typically interlaced, but CRT monitors and data-oriented CRT projectors supported progressive scan(non-interlaced) There were even some widescreen HD CRT TVs with HDMI inputs near the end of production, though I think they topped out at 1080i. But due to the nature of CRTs, typically any resolution, interlaced or not, when within it's bandwidth/capabilities, will display just fine. Presumably they just fed a 1080i signal in via VGA or similar.

[@JMaldonado64]

Folks, if you really want the very best Full HD experience in 2012, you need a Panasonic VT50 plasma or a Sharp Elite LED TVs (Pioneer Kuro is no longer for sale). Until you experience their image quality when properly calibrated, you will never know how much you are missing. Or wait until next year with the arrival of 1st generation OLED displays, that will provide us with virtually PERFECT image quality!!!

[@tinobarbera9420]

iv got a barco 801s graphis just bought 3dfury connect fom bluray player to 3dfury hdmi input using RGB 5bnc,s no picture.the lead could be no good im using, just ordered a (green RGB to 5bnc,s proper lead from 3dfury.com its doing me head in.

[@Blu0tuth0ninja]

well, when it comes to projectors, you can't compare them to actual displays. I may have not clarified my first comment. I meant crt tvs, not crt projectors. projectors have always had terrible contrast.

[@DoubleMonoLR]

In a dark room, it's fine. Black from a CRT projector can be practically as black as the screen can look in the room.

[@abecoulter18]

I have a barco cine 7

[@JMaldonado64]

I disagree. Contrast ratio is 50:1 at best, 10:1 in a normally illuminated room. Brightness limitations, bandwidth limitations, color range limitations, convergence instabilities, uniformity issues, focusing problems at the edges, halo effects, etc. etc. to name a few. And I haven't even talked about necessary space... It was fun 20 years ago, but now damn CRT is dead! Any cheap plasma can destroy the best CRT projector now.

[@CaseTheCorvetteMan]

12 years on and you're still incorrect. I still have a Barco Cine 9 in my cinema room to handle VHS and DVD as well as retro gaming, even on bluray discs it damn near equals my Sony 4K SXRD, and certainly beats it in static contrast ratio and black levels, the Sony is a very good projector, but it still has a hard time beating the best of CRT. No issues with convergence or uniformity on most high end CRTs either.