Three are better than one - Vintage TV repair

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[@BradNakken]

That part where David pulled out the second and third TV, it almost felt like a Technology Connections "Through the magic of buying two of them" moment. Nice job on the repair.

[@dfuserxyz]

Through the magic of buying three of them, we can figure out what's wrong.

[@BlackStormMC]

"oh god, he has a third one"

[@BobofWOGGLE]

"This TV was given as a gift to AST employees after the samsung buyout. Through the magic of knowing two of them, I now have 3 TVs" yeah that checks out.

[@a.r.s.e.n.i.o.]

he didn't want a collection of those, and now he has 3

[@Crazy-qi1gw]

Yoooooo, I love Technology Connections.

[@Eddy0042]

I bet in 30yrs time we don't see anyone saying "well that classic Samsung OLED 80 inch 8k TV was an easy repair"

[@patterisepi]

Just swap out the capacitors and you are going again...

[@someguy9175]

Everything from this era is designed to be unreparable trash, ask any repairman lol, quite a miracle people still manage to fix these things with parts being hard to source and schematics being a holygrail.

[@m0rc1us]

With OLED It's more complicated than capacitors 😀😀😀

[@WELLINGTON20]

50/50. In 30 years time I think they’d be a lot more intelligent than right now.

[@aidanbrooks771]

Even cars now are the same, I’m in college to be a mechanic and like 90s and 00s cars are downright simple and easy to fix compared to the modern computer on wheels design that most manufacturers are using, for Tesla’s it is actually illegal to log the communication signals on the data lines and to work on one you need to drop about 15k and fly out to California to be certified every 5 years. Honestly I hate the modern corporate bologna where they make almost nothing end user repairable

[@chriscutress1702]

This is the reason that an actual person who can repair circuitry is worth their weight in beer and friendship. Especially when old equipment is involved. The number of times I've had equipment that only needed capacitor replacement or the re-soldering of components and traces will never cease to amaze me. Equipment that is now impossible to replace with new devices because the new versions either don't exist (economy of scale) or just aren't as well made as older versions representing the same technology (cassette machines, reel to reel machines, DVDR recorders, VHS & Beta machines, MiniDisk, DAT, turntables, etc.). Not to mention old computer devices running old software and applications necessary to interface with ancient hardware.

[@fyreantz2555]

Well said, though you forgot to add skittles or burritos to the whole beer/friendship ratio.

[@SonicBoone56]

Wish I knew people who appreciated that I attempt to fix old shit

[@herrbonk3635]

@@fyreantz2555 More often strong black coffee with cream cake on the side, in my country. (But beer, vine or likör is never wrong, especially with food.)

[@avtips4779]

Yeah, computers with old BIOSes get barely any virus/malware “Support” and most tech made before like 2005 are all plausible to repair with the same tool kit you used to replace your transmission and maybe a few rubber bands from the asparagus you ate 3 days ago.

[@Adrianatoras]

"is worth their weight in beer and friendship" Probably the best quote I heard in a long time. It's a privilege then for someone to be your friend.

[@tiporari]

Those are from the magical era of CRT's when they were cheap, plentiful, and peak design quality. No surprise they still work. Even with cheap parts and built down to a cost they had pretty much been perfected. Peak art

[@RCAvhstape]

Just like steam locomotives and piston airplane engines after WWII: just as the technology gets mature it gets replaced.

[@Capdukeymomoman]

you could probably use those damn things as a high powered weapon

[@semuta2752]

@@RCAvhstape He does cover many other things, but the above topics are the meat and potatoes of his channel. Cheers

[@RCAvhstape]

@@semuta2752 So?

[@ccricers]

I feel the same with Technics SL-1200’s. Those turntables are tanks and the mark 2 from the 70’s and 80’s, aside from a pot replacement or two are still reliable today.

[@TheyreStillOutThere]

I theorize that those connectors are on an easily accessible breakout board like that because they’re a major wear and tear component, so warranty repairs would’ve been very fast and simple back in the day. Good engineering.

[@Wheagg]

I thought it was because that area didn't have any other logicboards around, but that's also likely.

[@nneeerrrd]

Indeed

[@MrGoatflakes]

Also so the mainboard doesn't have to come right up to everywhere they want a port.

[@TheyreStillOutThere]

@@MrGoatflakes good point.

[@bobblum5973]

That vintage of TV uses the case as the chassis, so flexibility with options makes it cost effective. Like the SCART connector he mentioned, used in specific models, a blank panel in others. I've seen TVs and VCRs that were monaural, but you could see the spot for the second connector in the stereo model.

[@TheGeekPub]

If this TV ever dies, we're going to have to break out all of stops and give it a huge send off to the TV afterlife.

[@Angelgreat]

Only if we send a console with it, so that way the TV can be used in heaven.

[@wallypop86]

You thinking viking funeral, or pyramid burial? What would you build the pyramid out of?

[@TechTipsUSA]

And Klingon death ritual

[@kevinnichols6000]

@@wallypop86 80 of the remotes for that tv

[@bryanjensen2614]

if David Letterman was still on NBC he could drop it off the top of a building.

[@hawaiianryan1890]

A friend gave me a "dead" Apple Macintosh Plus. All it needed was to reflow the solder on just the right joint that connects the luminosity signal to the built-in screen. Apparently, this is also the most common cause of malfunction in those machines.

[@leandrotami]

I wasn't that lucky, I bought 2 Apple Macintosh Classic II and both had their batteries explode inside making a mess of rust and stains

[@MrGoatflakes]

@@leandrotami oof. Was the board damaged beyond repair?

[@MrGoatflakes]

Good to know ;)

[@MrGoatflakes]

@@leandrotami sad that the rtc and nvram battery has literally destroyed so many systems. Seems almost a feature not worth having in light of that. Also seems like a mercury or silver cell would have worked as well, and I've only seen a few of the leak. But maybe that's cause I've not seen so many of them?

[@hawaiianryan1890]

@@leandrotami imagine, though, what the Apple Store would say if you tried to get them fixed there. 😉

[@dwaynezilla]

I like that you closed out with a "give it a shot." Honestly a lot of the times you open it up and it's pretty obvious what is broken, haha. Just a screwdriver and a soldering iron and you have a fixed device. And you can ride that high for a week at least!

[@bghoody5665]

Agreed. I recently had a CRT repair which was even easier than the one in this video - not even any soldering involved, just reconnecting some wires. I would never had known if I didn't bother to open up the TV.

[@mottzilla4858]

I have a TV that I wish was something like that. Someone was probably moving the TV and dropped it or sat it down hard and the PCB cracked where the flyback transformer sits. I've been thinking about trying to repair it as a challenge. I've been hanging onto it because I have an identical model TV and I figure worst case it's spare parts for the other working TV.

[@modysocjalista3665]

@@mottzilla4858 How did it go?

[@diegocrusius]

I have no problem with short episodes like this. I cant express how happy I am to see old hardware being recovered and used.

[@konni6694]

"Somebody probably tripped over a wire or something and yanked the connectors" MOOOOM!!! NOT AGAIN!!! - Every kid in the 80s

[@rawr51919]

Still happens sometimes even now

[@ClassicGameSessions]

Great to see you that you salvaged these vintage tv's. No point in wasting good CRT's like this!

[@KofolaDealer]

Especially since they can't be recycled. There's no point in throwing away a CRT

[@ClassicGameSessions]

@@KofolaDealer Well said

[@AiOinc1]

"Good" CRTs maybe not but functional for sure. Either way if it works it's nice to keep around.

[@ClassicGameSessions]

@@AiOinc1 Yes, functional is the key

[@herrbonk3635]

I agree. But if you call 1990s and early 2000s stuff "vintage", what do you call a TV from the 1950s or 60s? Antique?

[@MrEightThreeOne]

Lucky you! Not even a yanked cable can deter this model from never breaking. And yeah, it was short but still fun to watch anyway and just goes to show how you never know just how easy or hard a repair will be. I swear we used to have a TV just like this in our kitchen, I'm nearly convinced it's the same model. Sadly we got rid of it a long time back, but oh well. Good as always!

[@drg5352]

I think I had one as well as a kid. It was one of the many things that got blew up by a lightning bolt in the early 2000's, leaving me only with a C64 and Commodore monitor. Both of which still work. I used that Commodore for a TV for years, until I was given a somewhat newer (but still old) lcd that I still have. That lightning bolt took out the AC, fridge, all my consoles except my PS2 and C64, and most of the TVs in the house.

[@app0the]

I'm over 90% sure it was not a yanked cable, but just cracked solder from the shitty "eco" lead-free solder used since the late 90s in everything (how is that "eco" if it makes most people throw out the device in a decade!)

[@Trekeyus]

@@app0the technically lead-free solder is not eco-friendly the reason it's lead free is because lettuce is toxic and some politician decided ban the use of lead in solder. The other big issue of silver solder is tin whiskers resulting in shorts

[@FCV0511]

It always warms my heart to see a CRT repaired. I've always been somewhat hesitant to crack one open due to the risk of latent-electricity-death, but I'd love to get into it someday.

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

I love how passive you wrote literal imminent death

[@Christopher-N]

Anytime I hear the word 'latent', I imagine Alec of *Technology Connections* talking about heat energy.

[@andreasklindt7144]

CRT's are not nearly as dangerous as most of the electrical devices of the 1930's. Their's a channel, Mr Carlson's Lab, where very very old devices is brought back to life. You die already when you see the wiring of those things.

[@Christopher-N]

@@andreasklindt7144: Some of this was mentioned in _The Secret Life of Machines,_ s1e6. It's a wonder more houses didn't burn down, with the electrical codes of that era.

[@bruinflight1]

This is a great example of recycling old tech with a minor repair! Great job Dave, thank you!

[@simaesthesia]

Not only is it cool, it's a lesson in being friendly to the environment. We should go back to "make do and mend" a lot more. Well done on the repair :)

[@danielt.8573]

When it comes to the environment there will always be an idiot somewhere who will complain about CRT's energy consumption.

[@sarahskileth6925]

Sadly companies don't want us to repair devices because they make more money if you just buy a new device when yours breaks. I'd LOVE to go back to being able to easily repair devices

[@bill_clinton697]

@@danielt.8573 With how little CRTs are still being used, its likely that having a few more in use isn't going to impact anything.

[@Warp3326]

Most crt's use less electricity than many modern displays@@bill_clinton697

[@matt.604]

I found a yamaha stereo receiver that was going in the trash because of the same problem. Simply resoldering the audio jacks on the main board fixed it up and I've been using it daily for years.

[@Tediz421]

It might be a little repetitive to do but for the sake if safety it may be worth mentioning precautions you take when approaching some of these repairs. Stuff like discharging caps and working on non conductive surfaces is second nature to tech sort of people but a layman could be very seriously injured or even killed for not taking the same precautions. That part where you turned on the TV with the back end exposed made me wince a little. Some of those color tubes took in as much as 25k DCV, albeit at a low amperage. In a month or less this could be one of the top 5 videos to show up when searching for "Vintage TV repair".

[@cardboardboxification]

let the dumb ones figure it out on their own

[@TedWilder]

Good catch. I'm a new hobbyist and this was my very first CRT repair video. I'll be sure to do more research before carrying forward

[@zorktxandnand3774]

Bad solder joints on single sided boards are a common cause of problems when equipment gets older. Can highly recommend to reflow all bigger and heavier components such as (line) transformers, big caps, and semiconductors on heat sinks, as well as connectors. parts which get hot can also create bad joints. Big diodes, power resistors etc. It can prevent a lot of issues. Good luck keeping them working.

[@SegaDream131]

And flimsy boards are able to take no abuse at all on nearly all raised connections....better be extra gentle....

[@thear1s]

All parts with mechanical stress, so everything on the front panel.

[@arnolda.lampel6087]

Nothing beats a Sony Trinitron CRT TV with S-Video and SCART RGB input when it comes to Retro Gaming...

[@Blasterxp]

Nothing! Trinitron is the best!

[@Breakfast_of_Champions]

The three 20-year old Samsungs look pretty solid too, but the tube isn't very flat, looks like it was the generation before everyone had *tron tubes.

[@The8BitGuy]

Trinitrons were popular with computer monitors in 1997. I am not sure about televisions at that point. But this Samsung was considered a budget TV.

[@arnolda.lampel6087]

@@Breakfast_of_Champions I recently found a very late Sony Trinitron 23" from around 2005-2006. The tube is almost completely flat and the image quality is AMAZING. Even C64 BreadBin or Atari 2600 via RF signal looks awesome on that thing. S-Video signal is super crisp and looks even better than on a 1084S. Oh, BTW: Trinitrons are know for their weight, too...

[@brunor.1127]

The best CRT is the one you own

[@iannicholson1675]

I could watch videos like this all day long!! Please restore and fix up more old electronics!! I can never get bored of them!!

[@bladactania]

I love how in all your videos, you show every step, no matter how "mundane" or repetitive it may seem, this is very helpful. Also, I enjoy all the fun facts you sprinkle into your videos. Would much appreciate a more liberal addition of them! Keep up the great work.

[@ps5hasnogames55]

liberals are cringe

[@markingfeat]

My grandma has had one exactly like yours for the last 20 something years and is still being used, and my parents had one without the inputs in the front when i was little.

[@brandonb1681]

That opening music makes me smile every time. I have an old Sylvania 13 inch TV with a built in VCR. Twenty-two years old and still works great. When I want to go old school and watch VCR tapes, it is always there and ready.

[@Martin4982]

Still got my Samsung 51cm CRT Tv, which someone gave to me as "faulty". When I got home, I switched it on and only had a "black" screen with audio, so after fiddling around, I found the onscreen menu showed up, then I realized whoever owned the set, turned down the brightness and contrast to zero. I adjusted it, and it worked perfectly. I owned the TV from 2010, and today, 2021, it is still working and in daily use. It even outlasted 2 SmartTV's that both failed 2 years apart. In general, I still think old CRT tech is more reliable than today's flat screens, I see too many of them with backlight failure....

[@borzowsky]

The truth is repairing stuff is fun. The satisfaction of taking something that people thought belonged in the trash and restore it to glory is immensely satisfieing.

[@GoldSrc_]

I wouldn't call reflowing solder a "repair", it's so simple and obvious. It's like changing a lightbulb and saying that you "repaired" the light in your room. This is more like a fix. His other video where he had to replace a diode, that was more interesting.

[@borzowsky]

@@GoldSrc_ repair is the act of making something broken, working again. In this case the repair is also the diagnosis and understand what is the problem,that is fun as well. But for me soldering is like black magic, so Dr Freeman i let you have the last word, you have more experience than me in experiments,even if not always super successful. Cough cough black Mesa cough.

[@thear1s]

And the process of stockpiling it in your cellar, never to be seen again after that :)

[@GoldSrc_]

@@borzowsky That's a fix, not a repair. A repair implies that parts got replaced. You don't call tightening a screw on a loose connection a "repair" but a "fix", and reflowing a bit of solder is more like tightening the screw again. Change a resistor? That's a repair. Add more solder? That's a fix. Yeah yeah, both can technically achieve the same result, but they don't mean the same thing.

[@borzowsky]

@@GoldSrc_ the dictionary disagrees with you Mr Freeman.

[@gamewizardks]

I know you were careful, but it would probably be a good idea to encourage discharging the caps before working on it or at least advise of the danger for newbies who might try this.

[@Christopher-N]

If for no other reason, then to show people how easy it is. Apparently, some individuals insist on using the household ground, purely out of ignorance.

[@byronduvall]

This would be a great disclaimer to add to the description.

[@bas9752]

Thanks! Was searching for this comment. Was realy surprised he didnt mention it in the video.

[@danceswithdirt7197]

4:05 - yes, great troubleshooting idea! I enjoyed that! I don't know much about these TVs but as soon as you mentioned I was like "of course they would've done something to ensure input from a single source". I love this stuff dude.

[@aktronics]

He gave you his daughter and his TV... What a nice guy ☺

[@cll1out]

I've resoldered about half a dozen TVs' inputs like this in my life. One of which was outright given to me for this problem, they were going to haul it off to the dump. It's a real shame how much stuff gets thrown away because of seemingly minor issues like this.

[@alexfinns6162]

Never have I been let down David. You, Mat from Techmoan and Clint from LGR! Wow. Thanks for all the effort you put into these videos!

[@secretjazz93]

repairing old stuff is BASED and will never go out of style. never stop rocking, 8-Bit Guy

[@phs125]

When I was in college, our hostel didn't have any water heating facilities, so everyone just used one of those immersion coils you would use with a bucket of water. And every so often, they would stop working and throw them out. And I soon discovered that 90% of the thrown away coils just had their wires yanked off from the inside, all I had to do was to open it up and cut a small length of wire and reattach with a screwdriver. I never bought a single one of those coils in my 7 years of college, and I always had a handful of them in my room to lend...

[@jk743]

Really liked this video. Showing that repairs don't always have to be complicated might motivate some people to try to fix their things themselves. Of course always gotta be really careful with old TV's like this.

[@Stefan-]

It may be easy, well at least if you know a thing or two about electronics and soldering, most people dont and would never even open it up and i dont recommend that these people do that since they may get the shock of their life (an electric one). Im a service tech myself since over 30 years and i was actually educated in repair of CRT TV´s although i never worked in that area, i would of course do repairs like this and much more. I actually had a quite similar Samsung TV with connectors on the front although it was a 21" one and it had scart on the back.

[@stitchfinger7678]

@@Stefan- Agreed. Most people who wouldn't know how to fix this offhand or at least immediately upon opening, have no business mucking about inside an old CRT at all.

[@martindejong3974]

Yes you must be careful with CRT's as they can shock you with very high voltages, even when they are not plugged in, the CRT itself is a capacitor that can store lethal voltages for days. Perhaps he should have shown how to discharge the CRT, especially as he opened it just after it was turned on, it can be very painful to be shocked with 20.000 to 30.000 Volt from a charged CRT tube. Just take an end of solder wire wrap one side of it under the strap that holds the CRT in place, and wrap the other end around the metal of a flat screwdriver, (one that has a plastic handle) and stick the flat part of the screwdriver under the rubber cap that sits to the side of the CRT. If you hear or see sparks fly then you did just discharge the CRT, and its now safe to stick your hand in there.

[@Roblilley999]

They are a great TV, one I used to have as a teenager in the 90s. As I was in the UK mine had a start socket

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

Cries in low end 27" thrift store find. the only CRT tv I could find for my retro gaming setup If only somebody hadn't gotten rid of the commomador monitor we had for the SNES...

[@jushiromegafan66]

I feel that. Only cry I could find was a 27 with green tint splotches throughout the screen. Still works fine tho...

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

@@jushiromegafan66 oof! That must be a pretty sight lol

[@kenchorney2724]

I fixed a bin rescue tv for a friend once. It had a cold solder joint on a connector in the degaussing circuit. The only "soldering" iron he had available was so old and crusy it looked like it had been used for woodburning. He was quite impressed!

[@owenmorgan857]

Cool Repair, I would have got myself some epoxy and stuck that other connector to the board after reflowing the solder making is stronger than factory so it does not stress the remaining trace, but hey we are all armchair experts :-)

[@Angelgreat]

Please RGB mod them!

[@christiancoding]

Why ? Just why?🤣

[@unknownwolf4046]

@@christiancoding I miss old CRT tv sets there better than modern tv sets

[@srfrg9707]

@@christiancoding If you were European you would know.

[@janhumpolicek8373]

@@christiancoding He did it with his first one a while back. Why should he not? It is veey handy to be able to use rgb video signal and composite as well. If you thought it was RGB lighting, no it is not, it is adding a rgb video input.

[@emanperson]

"20 hours ago" posted 11 minutes ago....

[@mutosanrc1933]

even i have not much connection anymore to the old stuff, I really like to watch you videos. Brings me back to child hood every time. Especially with the t-shirt

[@jimcurt99]

About 99% of us out here don't have the the experience or intelligence you have to make this "easy" repair- I'm glad you do- learn something new EVERY time

[@Markimark151]

I found an old eMac that screen won’t turn on due to the capacitor, I’m glad you know how to fix CRTs. Especially with old school games work better on CRTs!

[@Dukefazon]

Happy to see you are posting videos a little more regularly! 2:11 - I can imagine having a wall of TVs on set as decoration but they are also hooked up to the same source if you ever need to use it, kinda like in the arrangement in old cyberpunk movies like Johnny Mnemonic :D Even if it's a simple fix like this, it's still so satisfying to see get it done :)

[@TheTechAdmin]

0:14 Back in the late 90's and early 2000's, everyone and their mother had one of these 13" Black Samsung TVs in their kitchen. I had one in my bedroom for my NINTENDO. I remember wanting to play while I fell asleep, so I tilted the TV on its side to match my head laying on the pillow, and the display turned a hue of green!!! I was so angry that one, I didn't know why it was happening, and two, I couldn't fix it.

[@matthewray6008]

I love this format. Just a quick little demo about something in your shop and something you are working on. More of this please :)

[@user-mc8zf1sp9i]

A very reliable TV model. I once had one (version for Europe, with a SCART connector), used as a monitor for the ZX Spectrum and watching TV. It was bought in Russia and worked without repairs for about 15 years, until the kinescope lost emission.

[@jameslewis2635]

Nice getting those old TV's going. I would say that fitting an RGB mod to these (possibly replacing the rear connections) would be well worth the effort allowing you to get a much better picture than you would do on composite.

[@tubbunny]

mod already exists on his tv. not the other ones.

[@Oddman1980]

Back in the dim preindustrial days of 2005, my brother was giving me a ride home. We were in a little mid-1990's S10 with a regular cab. I was carrying one of these Samsung TV's home in the bed. My brother neglected to look to the *left* when pulling out onto the highway from a stop sign, and we were hit by a fullsize dodge truck of a similar vintage. It spun our truck around, knocked the back window out, but we were OK. The little TV flew out of the bed and landed face-down 50 feet away. I went to pick the TV up, expecting to see CRT McNuggets when I picked it up. Other than a scratch on the face of the TV tube, it was perfectly fine and still functioned.

[@dwaynezilla]

Nice catch with that front port overriding the back port!

[@doctirdaddy4876]

this is literally the only channel i watch every single new episode on. david is a delightful person

[@lharwest1571]

I used to have this style of Samsung TV with literally the same buttons, but a bigger screen. Once it stopped working and my father made a weird custom mod to it since it was not working and that prolonged it's live by 10 years, but after it failed again we decided to get rid of it. I am kinda sad that we got rid of it since it is possible it could have been fixed..

[@vap1777]

8 bit guy upload makes my whole day! I watch these while I code every day.

[@4KbShort]

Found a 48" flat screen in the dumpster in my apartment complex. Screen was fine, but backlight was toast. Used the flashblight test, looked up how to fix it. Soldered the two boards in it back together (common problem) and now have a 48" TV for free! Amazing stuff.

[@CoolDudeClem]

Wait, something from 1997 can be considered as "vintage" now? Wow I feel so old!

[@vineheart01]

in college we had like 2 dozen of these TV's that were broken but kept that way for troubleshooting reasons. I can remember poking around 3 of them that i simply could not figure out and apparently those 3 were beyond even the teacher's skills so it was marked unknown/unrepairable. The others almost always boiled down to something incredibly stupid and easy to fix, such as this TV's broken solder joints.

[@johndododoe1411]

Your college had repair classes? Ours mostly focused on the design phase, such as "build a CPU with this instruction set", "Design a CRC calculation chip" or "build this barbeque design with your own hands"

[@vineheart01]

@@johndododoe1411 Sort of. The class wasnt technically a repair class but it was rather a "discrete components" type class. The instructor just had tons of these TVs and used them as teaching tools

[@vineheart01]

@@johndododoe1411 Its also worth noting that my degree is in a general electronics field, just a 2yr thing to basically say i know basic electronics and programming but im not specialized at all. Which is funny because now i work on testing multi-site radio software...something i dont know why they wanted that education for because i almost NEVER solder at work and i definitely dont do any programming.

[@dwaynezilla]

Love the little shot of the board going in at 6:00. So quick but makes all the difference.

[@PatriciaCross]

That was genius level troubleshooting. Not many people would figure out the front jack was the problem.

[@Th3Pr0digalS0n]

This is the exact same tv we had in our living room for about 15 years. Our 1980s 20 inch console tv broke in about 1995, and my dad replaced it with this little guy. He bought it at a rite aid because it was a sale special one November. My father was cheap.

[@turrican4d599]

A mini TV as a living room TV?

[@stitchfinger7678]

I know all tvs had to be smaller back then but having to SHARE something this small...that's real rough. And Im old enough to at least remember the last NEW CRT we had.

[@truthdoesnotexist]

I still have a working console TV

[@Pasi123]

My parents bought a new cheap 21" CRT TV back in 2005 because it was on sale and it was stereo unlike our old one. It was our main TV until 2010 when it was replaced with an older 29" Sony Trinitron

[@turrican4d599]

@@Pasi123 Do you all watch TV with binoculars?

[@GORF_EMPIRE]

Samsung has always been great quality in my experience. Not surprised that they still work and look great.

[@henrykhenrykowski2745]

When it comes to TVs - yes. When it comes to their other products - well, not exactly. (I'm talking here about their products from that era, not the modern ones).

[@GORF_EMPIRE]

@@henrykhenrykowski2745 I've never had any bad experience with any samsung from today and yesterday.

[@henrykhenrykowski2745]

@@GORF_EMPIRE Well, I've both. TVs, monitors & VCRs worked pretty good through the years, but HDDs, optical drives & portables were not done properly & very often they went from 'solid' to 'trash' in months of normal use (the longest kept up to almost 2 years, the shortest... just 2 days :D for real.).

[@GORF_EMPIRE]

@@henrykhenrykowski2745 I've never had a bad Samsung drive. I had one bad WD out a few... I've been pretty lucky with HD's

[@mockier]

Nice little reminder that sometimes repairs can be quick and easy to do. So best to get on and try to fix stuff, or at least check the basics.

[@SuhinaSeppo]

such an easy fix. My way of thinking has developed to this because of you. I've managed to fix my own electronics from the things i've learned from you, and i am very grateful.

[@bleiglanz]

These CRT monitors will live long after all their flat fancy new ones are gone. I have one that was built in 1992. When it breaks, I'll buy a new one. Maybe 30 years from now...

[@KofolaDealer]

CRTs are great I got one for free and it was wasn't turned on in at least 20 years, the only thing that it needed was a new fuse and it worked like new. Made in my country too

[@jonathaningram8157]

Well I prefer my hdr 4k oled TV dying early over any CRT that make my eyes hurt.

[@Framed_Niner]

@@jonathaningram8157 Yeah. CRT TVs are reliable but they look horrible by todays standards.

[@stitchfinger7678]

I prefer having literal orders of magnitude more detail. Also I've literally only had one flatpanel monitor fail in 15 years of computing, and that was cuz I punched it accidentally while playing Pistol Whip

[@turbinegraphics16]

I hope so, I have some crt's that are showing signs of wear such as buzzing and a bit of a dim picture.

[@LegoWormNoah101]

I got a video idea David: Digital mod. Try adding Digital tuners to various analog TVs of various screen sizes, from a 5" B&W portable, to a massive 40" Goliath

[@johndododoe1411]

They do (or did) sell settop boxes to do that.

[@LegoWormNoah101]

@@johndododoe1411 that's not as fun or a challenge!

[@johndododoe1411]

@@LegoWormNoah101 Those settop boxes could donate the circuits for an easier mod. A harder challenge is to run the protocol decoder on a vintage computer while using the vintage screen output system. So the CPU needs to be fast enough to decompress the real time MPEG4 data, decompress the AAC audio, do the high speed ECC decoding, plus the splitting of the bit stream into channels. Maybe a coprocessor of some kind is needed to offload some of all this work, but it'll still take vintage skills to make it work.

[@LegoWormNoah101]

@@johndododoe1411 both methods can be done, and would make for either two interesting videos, or one interesting long video

[@DygDyg1000]

In Russia, we have created a neural network that can recognize video and make a localized audio track. It works fantastically. Now I can watch 8-bit without KZbin subtitles! How glad I am that I can enjoy your videos!!!

[@martinthompson2584]

My dad was a broadcast technician and started his career in TV repair. He pretty much knew which parts failed in particular models, which was typically only one simple component. Our house ended up full of repaired CRTs in every room as he'd pick up TVs off the road side that people had put there for hard rubbish collection and then repair them using a few cents in components. He'd repair everything. Even our first PC was put together from parts others had thrown away.

[@dreammfyre]

Can’t you mod one of these to have scart? It’s usually the easiest way to get RGB out of old consoles.

[@herrbonk3635]

Hmm? Old video games have scart contacts? Is that what you mean? However, there are simple converters between scart contacts and those coaxial RCA-plugs. You see them on flee markets everywhere here in scandinavia, and you can probably by them new as well.

[@johndododoe1411]

It's clear the PCB has no SCART provisions, so that must be on the foreign model PCB that uses the same plastic box.

[@ballyastrocade5672]

SCART was never really used here in the USA, so it would probably be far more effort than it's worth to modify a US-market TV set to have a SCART port (just finding the connector would be a challenge; he'd probably have to find a European parts shop to mail-order it from), and there's almost nothing over here that would have a matching SCART output port to connect to it anyway.

[@K-o-R]

Three identical RGB-modded TVs? Sounds like a great plan!

[@LohTec]

PETSCII LAN party?

[@Funlu]

I had one of these as a kid, this takes me back! Played everything from ps1 to Xbox 360 and wii on it.

[@MAGNETICDOGZ]

Nice repair 👏 I used to have what I think is that exact Samsung TV model in my room when I was a kid. I don't know what ended up happening to it after I got a new TV from my parents, but I miss it. Seeing the model in this video and that menu for changing the TV's settings took me back.

[@drowningin]

It's definitely good to own a CRT. Even if you don't always keep it plugged in. I was upset they made all the signals digital. I live in Houston, and I had 2 hand held TV/Radio combo. It was great to have TV during hurricane power outages to get information. When it froze last year & had no power for a week, no cell service I tested my hand tv's & nope no tv channels anymore. Such a horrible idea to make them all digital

[@stitchfinger7678]

There's lots of very real and very complicated reasosn the digital switch was made. But as I understand, some local low-power stations still operate analog TV (usually for suuuuuuper remote areas with literally no useful TV infrastructure)

[@emmatitova2154]

In my area we got digital to a station, then analog sent to all the homes. Works okay-ish. Quality is shit and they need to increase funding to keep it this way. Doubt they will get approved funding for that. Think it will be shut down entirely and use fiber for tv

[@Roxor128]

Making them digital isn't the problem, it's not making replacement devices to fill the same niche.

[@drowningin]

@@Roxor128 it is a problem. How would the signal work without power?

[@Roxor128]

@@drowningin If the issue is no power, why bring up making the signals digital?

[@GabMacedoo]

This is very nice, but please be careful when handling with CRTs. The voltage and current levels of the tube are very high, so it is very dangerous to work near the actual cathode tube. Just be mindful of that.

[@stitchfinger7678]

He's been doing this for years, he knows. That's a useful message for everyone watching tho

[@martindejong3974]

@@stitchfinger7678 Yeah, but perhaps he should have shown how to discharge the CRT, especially as he opened it just after it was turned on, it can take days for the CRT to fully discharge, and it can be very painful to be shocked with 10.000 Volt from a charged CRT tube. Just take an end of solder wire wrap one side of it under the strap that holds the CRT in place, and wrap the other end around the metal of a flat screwdriver, (one that has a plastic handle) and stick the flat part of the screwdriver under the rubber cap that sits to the side of the CRT. If you hear sparks fly then you did just discharge the CRT, and its now safe to stick your hand in there.

[@DemonApple1982]

That's how I got a 52 inch HDTV that was left by the dumpster. All it needed were the capacitors to be replaced which was only $5 total!

[@marklane5372]

Totally agree about binning serviceable equipment, I had a Samsung 40” LCD that kept going into ‘shop’ mode I chucked it in the shed for a year and bought a new set. The new set developed panel issues within less than a year and a half, funny how it started just out of warranty. Anyway, frustrated I searched the net and found some tips on the exact problem I had with my old lcd. I dragged it out of the shed and basically had to cut the wires to the front touch controls and low and behold it worked again. Granted only by RC but still I had my old tv back, I am still using that tv now and the pictures quality is spot on, so I am 100% for resurrecting old tech where possible :)

[@fkthewhat]

I think I’d just be too scared to open a CRT! But the picture does look great on them! If it were a scart port would that mean it was rgb? Or was scart composite also?

[@hexagonist23]

Ofcourse big tech scared you into never even thinking about fixing your electronics because they want you to buy a new one, not fix it

[@SamplersAndThings]

@@hexagonist23 the tube can explode if you take it apart wrong

[@DaedalusYoung]

Yeah, the high voltage in them freaks me out. Same with microwaves, some things I won't be messing with.

[@fkthewhat]

@@hexagonist23 not quite! I work on electronics for repair and diy projects. I pick my battles, and CRTs aren’t one of them due to the potentially lethal shock they can give you. You have to be very confident in what you’re doing when working on them or else it may cost you your life!

[@ballyastrocade5672]

@@hexagonist23 Yeah, no. "Big Tech" didn't scare me into being wary of working on CRT monitors; seeing the lovely plasma arcs that result when 20,000 volts escapes confinement due to a crack in the insulation and arcs towards the nearest path to ground is what made me wary of working on CRT monitors. :-P

[@tarstarkusz]

Someone who doesn't know what they are doing should NOT just open a TV and start guessing, especially plugged in and running. The danger of high voltage is often overstated, but it's not like there is NO risk. This TV in particular probably has 20 thousand plus volts for high voltage. Depending on the TV, B plus voltage could be pretty high (though well under a kilo volt.. IMHO, when you deal with TVs or other corded appliances in unknown condition, ALWAYS ALWAYS plug them into an inverter hooked to a FUSED DC power supply or hell, plugged into your cigarette adapter in your car. You fuse or circuit breaker panel should be tested by a qualified electrician, NOT a shorted corded appliance. The WORST case scenario is serious bodily injury or death and or severe property damage. Don't tempt fate.

[@tarstarkusz]

@@pedrocx486 I never said anything about "David" (we're not on first name basis with him) or his abilities. He was encouraging people to open TVs because it might be a simple fix. Now putting aside I never said what you claimed I said, what in my comment do you have a problem with.? What is wrong?

[@tarstarkusz]

@Les You can't point to what is in other videos. If someone searches vintage tv repair and gets this video, you cannot reasonably expect him to know what is in every other video by him. Besides, the average person is just as likely, probably more likely to create new problems without even fixing the old problem.

[@DashPadGames]

Ohh man I loved these TVs!! This one in particular was my childhood TV! I played so much Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast on that TV.

[@ronsku57]

18 hours and 140k views already! Love the videos always so fun to a watch when bored. Keep it up!

[@DaedalusYoung]

I think you need to add a disclaimer to say that CRTs can hold very high voltages, even if not plugged in. Don't open them up yourself, unless you know what the dangers are.

[@DaedalusYoung]

@Les Still, all it takes is for one guy to disregard the warnings and get himself hurt. Then sue David for telling them they should fix their own CRTs, without telling them it could be dangerous. When I wrote the comment, I did not see any others saying the same thing, so it didn't seem like it was such common knowledge.

[@martindejong3974]

Yeah, perhaps David should have shown how to discharge the CRT, especially as he opened it just after it was turned on, it can take days for the CRT to fully discharge, and it can be very painful to be shocked with 20.000 Volt from a charged CRT tube. Just take an end of solder wire wrap one side of it under the strap that holds the CRT in place, and wrap the other end around the metal of a flat screwdriver, (one that has a plastic handle) and stick the flat part of the screwdriver under the rubber cap that sits to the side of the CRT. If you hear sparks fly then you did just discharge the CRT, and its now safe to stick your hand in there.

[@quadruple_negative]

I'm pretty sure that my high school had a bunch of bigger versions of these except they all had blown out speakers from playing educational videos at full blast.

[@UltimateTechHub]

Nice Repair! I love these types of videos!

[@CallousCoder]

I recently got an East German Chess Computer of which were only a 1000 were made. (Video on my channel). It said it was in working order, well sorta it turned on but didn’t reset. One of the buttons didn’t work. I spend one evening fixing two buttons and replaced a D103 with a 7403 and its working again. It’s always worth a try to fix something. And often you don’t need to be a true electronics wizard.

[@Frog-ko6uu]

I have an old Sony Discman CD player that my family thought was done for, it would play a disc but sped up and slowed down randomly. I opened it up and found four unlabeled potentiometers on the main board, and just started fiddling with them. The second one I tried fixed the issue, and it still works fine four years later. Always worth giving repair a shot.

[@pauliebb]

Nothing better than a new 8 bit guy video to watch on the train to work!!

[@justin81981]

They are multiplying, lol! Gremlins!! Another great piece of electronics saved from the dump. Right to Repair!! Great content as always. Thank you.

[@FatLingon]

Just wanted to say that I apprechiate your videos. You are one of the few youtubers I have stuck with for over a decade.

[@Watcher3223]

Good deductive logic in troubleshooting that TV having composite inputs that didn't work.

[@CaptainDangeax]

A good and simple repair, well done Dave. Same repair I did on my mother's SABA radio tuner and amplifier from 1974, and still works like a charm. Hope one day you'll put your hands on a European TV set with a scart and enjoy the pleasure of easy RGB connection.

[@tburda823]

There was a LOT of super mario, sonic the hedgehog, need for speed and twisted metal played over the years on my little 13" tv through my childhood. This video gave me some real way back nostalgia.

[@marcberm]

Still have this TV from 1999, and there are still faint remnants of the screenprinted symbol on the power button. 🤣

[@mikefr24]

nice work. Like you I try to fix everything before tossing it in the scrap. I have repaired numerous CRT's and stereos for friends and family. Fixed my first C64 just a few weeks back too. Lots of fun.

[@toecutterjenkins]

Had a check engine light on in my car, turned out it was an electric pollution pump, pretty expensive. I took it apart and found a wire had come off the electric motor. Fixed it and that pump lasted the life of the car . Saved me 600 dollars just for the part .

[@xx_nixiecore_xx1442]

i kinda have grown up on this channel, and it has taught me to not be afraid of recycling old tech :) thank u

[@RestorationRelaxation]

It’s a good day when you upload a video. Thanks for inspiring my own restoration channel and for your awesome content.

[@f.herumusu8341]

That's a great example of story telling ;) In other videos this would be just half a scentence "... which had a broken connector when I got it". You made a decent entertaining 8 minute video out of that.

[@thewaywelive2775]

More often than not I give that intro of yours a second spin. Best on youtube.

[@marcberm]

One of these sets was the first TV I had in my bedroom growing up in the late 90's. Bought at the department store I worked at with my own earnings. As luck would have it, the out-of-stock off-brand sale TV I was going to buy was being substituted with something even lesser, but I was told that if I asked for the A/V jacks in the front, they'd honor the sale price on the better Samsung TV (because the original sale TV had front A/V inputs).

[@jimbos-sen1077]

I love this kind of stuff, so much that I don’t stop trying when I really should stop.

[@audiogarden21]

I had that same TV as a teenager. I think it was also the TV I had when I got my N64. Talk about the good ole days.

[@GodSponge]

I found out many years after I had thrown away my original NES that the problem it was having was easily fixable. I wish I knew then what I know now. I never throw away without seeing if I can fix it first now. This channel is one of the reasons I know how to fix a lot of things. Thanks for all the great content!

[@josericardogs1435]

That era of CRT tv's from 1995 to 2002, those tv's they are indestructible! They are built cheap but with good quality parts. Still have my 1999 20' Philco working great till this day, and I'm not gonna get rid of it anytime soon, or never!

[@ataribowlingcgc4465]

It is so nice when the fix is simple and obvious like that!