Testing a Trash Picked Sharp TV with Grateful42

[@MusicHavenSG]

Nice old tech, works right out of the dumpster! Save that to setup with retro consoles!

[@uxwbill]

As you may know, that set has an (early) ATSC tuner. I found one of them a while ago and rescued it from a recycling bin. It does have stereo speakers. Unfortunately, its ATSC implementation was flawed, with very noticeable interlacing artifacts. I found it annoying enough to be unwatchable, and since the ATSC tuner had everything to do with why I rescued it, back to the recycling it went.

[@lmull3]

I suspect with digital over-the-air TV switching to mpeg4 slowly that the tuner in this TV will become very irrelevant in the future. I plan on using it for the composite and component inputs mostly. Laserdiscs so far look pretty great on the set!

[@JessicaFEREM]

that would be a pretty good TV for early HD era consoles like the original xbox up to the 360 era. and even with a component to HDMI adapter you could plug in modern consoles that's a good find!

[@dmcintosh1967]

The only Sharp TV I have is an 19" TV/VCR combo from 1995. The TV and VCR still works fine. The only thing I had to do to the VCR to get it to play was clean the video heads. I'm currently using at as my bedroom set with a Sega Genesis hooked up via RF. On the composite input I have my trustee old Sony Blue Ray player from 2012 that still has a composite output. On older sharp TVs from the 80s. There is problem that can render the set as trash. I had a Montgomery wards set (OEM was Sharp) and on the yoke were it touches the rubber wedges the yoke windings were completely ate to pieces. With the yoke destroyed I scraped the set for parts.

[@EastAngliaUK]

nice tv for old games

[@lawrencejelsma8118]

Luckily for me I don't need to store analog TVs except for VCR and VHS tapes reasons. I had a vertical problem with my last TV but had a quicker warm up (brighter on mid settings) tube on than this video's tube; meaning, my tube has more hours but other internal electronic hardware failure causes a need for components tradeoff on same model and maker TVs. Its ashame I can't keep TVs I recycle or threw away for now antique reasons but their bulky size and unweildy weight is not worth their value to be storing.

[@computerkid1416]

Trash picked CRT is best CRT.