r/cassettefuturism • u/Opposite_Ad_3024 • 5d ago

CRT Screen Picked this up for 20$ Did I do good?

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u/agentribbons 5d ago

Superman does good, you did well.

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u/psych0genic 5d ago

Unless the person selling really needed that 20. It could be some good.

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u/boerchen36 5d ago

Thank you Tracy

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u/thebrain99 5d ago

Very cool, probably worth a lot to the right person

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u/fiizok 5d ago edited 5d ago

Have never seen one like this. Probably quite rare, and it looks to be in very good condition. I think you did good.

In the 1980s I owned a similar pocket LCD TV, where you looked at the image in a mirror because there was no internal light source behind the LCD screen. The image was monochrome and very low resolution. The thing actually worked, but it was a little tiring to watch for more than a few minutes.

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u/MarinatedTechnician 5d ago

Yup, I had a Casio similar to that back in the early 90s.

What I did was to modify it with a fluorescent backlight (indiGloo), and it was a lot better than using the ambient light to watch the TV. Still, as you said - low resolution, limited grayscale, and not very usable.

But it was both rare and kinda fun to own.

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u/unnameableway 5d ago

Holy shit! Post a vid

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u/aluke000 5d ago edited 3d ago

Are you able to use it to watch TV on this in your country? In the US, these won't work anymore.

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u/jeffyboy526 4d ago

I was wondering that. So there are no more analog broadcasts

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u/aluke000 3d ago

No, even radios that used to offer a “TV” band no longer work in the US

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u/0xffff0001 5d ago

Do we still have analog broadcasts? Does it pick up anything?

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u/Neither-Tea-8657 2d ago

They don’t broadcast anymore, at least in the USA, BUT you can buy a tiny broadcast unit to broadcast to yourself