I just stumbled upon this on YouTube and it made me genuinely smile. The fact that the Trinitron TV was the absolute height of Sony’s entertainment technology during the 80’s made me think to post it here for posterity, enjoy:
I think the Trinitron is still pretty popular amongst retro enthusiasts! Their surprisingly high price on the secondhand market certainly indicates that to be the case.
On a tangentially related note, I recently purchased a 28 inch 4:3 CRT monitor (not a Sony) for a reasonable price and I'm hoovering up scart switches from eBay so I can get all my games consoles set up on it!
@CaptD@ralphdibny funnily enough, I worked the twilight shift at Sony’s Pencoed plant in 1995-96 while doing my A-levels, actually building Trinitrons.
@colonelkilgore oh awesome! So the Trinitron has a special place in your heart then? Did you ever get to meet Bjork? 😃
If you got any tips on fixing up CRTs I'd be happy to hear them at some point. The "new" one I got has two scarts, one is RGB and works fine, the other not so much. Also has a VGA port but no aerial weirdly. I think it's a different version of a consumer model that has a VGA instead of the aerial. I believe it was part of a two monitor set up that would have been used for conference calls in office meeting rooms many years ago. It seems like a bit of a rare find. I can connect up retro consoles and a PC for retro emulation too
@ralphdibny they do have a place in my heart but sadly… I have as much (or as little 😅) knowledge as the next person.
My time at the plant generally consisted of warehouse duties (where I was a particularly competitive pump-truck racer 🤣), a loader at the start of the production line or very occasionally a fixer, where I’d screw the tube into the bezel. It was a means to an end for me… but also more looking back now. The end being having more money than any other 16 year old at the time, the more… experiencing my first taste of being an adult. I look back on it with great fondness ❤️
@colonelkilgore haha brilliant. Mad skills too, I've always found the pump truck to be too unwieldy to race 🤣
It's good that you are fond of (what I presume was) your first job! Mine was back when I was 15/16. I was a Saturday guy at a repair shop for £35 a day, just taking items in, telling customers to come back on Monday when the repairman was in if they're stuff wasn't ready etc. Annoyingly, considering my current interest in old tech, I never learned a lot about fixing what were at the time, top of the line brand spanking new CRTs. Partly cos the owner wasn't there to teach me, partly because I was an empty headed teenager and partly because I probably thought that CRTs (and their repair shops) were here to stay! 😂 At least I am incredibly fond of everything else about my teenage years!
I spent most of my Saturdays on the till computer just looking up Marvel comics on Wikipedia. It's where most of my (then) encyclopedic knowledge of Marvel lore came from. Of course a lot has happened in the comics since then so I'd hate to be quizzed on it now!
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