That might literally be the worst color rendering I’ve ever seen on a crt. Did they actually used to be that bad or is this an age+noisy downscaling issue? And what’s up with the verticle bleed?
I’m going with that TV only has a coax aerial connector and whatever they are using to convert the signal is not great. Add to that the reflections on the glass and it looks crappy.
CRTs used to really suck. Especially early color NTSC units. It’s probably not doing so hot after 40+ years. But even 80s color TVs were bad. Add only supporting RF and not even composite/RGB and they looked like butts. Then pile on all the conversions needed to get from HDMI to RF and yeah…
We mostly just remember the end of the line CRTs when they’d largely perfected them.
The vertical bleed is moire. Beyond that it’s hard to say if the colors are just a poor quality photo or if the TV is out of adjustment, or the TV really is in bad shape. The dark colors are really crushed, and maybe it’s even coming from however they’re converting the signal.
It looks normal to me for a 1980s tv, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen one. I remember it being almost unwatchable during the day with the curtains open. I suspect that the bleed comes from the digital camera capturing the crt scan lines as they are refreshing, which would be too fast for a human to see.
That might literally be the worst color rendering I’ve ever seen on a crt. Did they actually used to be that bad or is this an age+noisy downscaling issue? And what’s up with the verticle bleed?
I’m going with that TV only has a coax aerial connector and whatever they are using to convert the signal is not great. Add to that the reflections on the glass and it looks crappy.
Looks old enough to not even have coax. I’d bet it’s 75ohm screw terminals that require a balun
Looks like it’s this one: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/hitachi_ctp_235ctp23.html
CRTs used to really suck. Especially early color NTSC units. It’s probably not doing so hot after 40+ years. But even 80s color TVs were bad. Add only supporting RF and not even composite/RGB and they looked like butts. Then pile on all the conversions needed to get from HDMI to RF and yeah…
We mostly just remember the end of the line CRTs when they’d largely perfected them.
The vertical bleed is moire. Beyond that it’s hard to say if the colors are just a poor quality photo or if the TV is out of adjustment, or the TV really is in bad shape. The dark colors are really crushed, and maybe it’s even coming from however they’re converting the signal.
The colours probably look better in person.
It looks normal to me for a 1980s tv, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen one. I remember it being almost unwatchable during the day with the curtains open.
I suspect that the bleed comes from the digital camera capturing the crt scan lines as they are refreshing, which would be too fast for a human to see.Edit: like the other commenter said, it’s going to be the Moire effect. https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/crt-photography/
It looks like Potato³ Quality™