A nice 32” trinitron (KV-32fs120) is sitting behind a goodwill and it’s starting to snow. They can’t sell CRTs anymore right? Should I go in the dock and offer $10 for it?
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Just take it, moron
No one will call the cops on you
fpbp
they put it out there to go out with the trash anyway, fricking save it before it’s too late OP
You really figure they're gonna call the cops if you just grab it and go?
I used to see 32" and even 36" Sony Wega TVs in the trash constantly like fifteen years ago. Shit was worthless even back then cause they're a pain in the ass to even throw away due to their weight.
I’m pasty white guy the odds are against me
Wear a balaclava to hide your disability
Baklava?
I hope you decided to just take it.
That thing is like 200 fricking pounds. Please take it but get another strong guy with you to help lift it.
I have the exact same TV and I nearly died taking it down a flight of stairs by myself
Lucky bastard, go get it
>nice
Looks like it’s seen better days.
You're not taking that thing anywhere by yourself. You're going to need at least a couple friends.
if you can lift it / fit it take it!
i've had this curb find for almost 3 years, it's served me beautifully but the picture is losing horizontal stability and getting wobblier. i'm gonna be frickin mental when it dies...
oh boy a free no parking sign!
damn i remember when you got this, how sad is that
it sucks watching the geometry slowly decay and the picture losing stabilization, but, i sure as frick got a ton of enjoyment from it the past few years, whatever happens.
it might force me to learn some intense CRT repairs though, which would be fun if i don't end up with 30,000 volts surging though my body kek
Discharging a CRT is simple, but if you want to be extra safe, just let it sit unplugged for a week. Replacing old capacitors and reflowing solder joints will likely clear up a number of minor issues, so if you know or are willing to learn how to solder, it might be worth the effort to fix it.
>if you know or are willing to learn how to solder, it might be worth the effort to fix it.
yeahhhhh i've had thoughts about taking it apart and reflowing some joints / replacing some caps, but, working on a CRT seems like a heavy, daunting and brutal task. i can solder a bit. pic rel
Why is there a plane headed for the twin towers?
My tube was a free curb-find, too. It's been close to 10 years now. Not perfect, but it's been a reliable workhorse.
I have two, a 21 wega that aint working anymore and a 21 toshiba that is about to kick the bucket.
im about to just get the schamatics for both of them and try and service them myself since i dont trust anyone on my shithole city/country.
Wish me luck motherfrickers, hopefully ill have em both running good again sometime soon.
Don't worry, likely a dying cap, should be easy enough to replace, but u never know, sonys are known to have proprietary shit thats hard to find.
Take it, moron. If you dont have a crt moving shopping cart left behind by a hobo by now, you are not playing the game correctly. If you are such a pudding man, go in and ask if they take still "old tvs".
Every Goodwill has crackheads discriminately sorting through their dumpers on a nightly basis. No one's going to call the cops in you and even if they do no one will come. If you don't take it someone else will.
frick I don’t think it will fit in my car
Nevermind i broke it trying to get it into the car, oh well
Dropped it?
Post a pic of your non-existant muscles so we can all laugh at your weak ass. Or at least post a pic of the mess you made.
It wouldn’t fit in the trunk so we were trying to get it in the back side door of the sedan and it slipped on the seat and the Plastic bezel frame cracked from being brittle
Oh so nothing important is actually broken.
Yeah now it looks like a true crackhead CRT with a corner of the Tv missing
Just wasn’t meant to be
kys you worthless moron.
imagine unironically being that moronic that you cant even load a tv into a car.
Isee where you were gogang with this, but tje exuecutionn was awful. Truks were not meant to lug around heavy duty ceral , but you acted likey theyndid. Sing! Not hard, and helps boxvoicevoicebox with ease of use!
Non chain thrift stores usually still sell them.
Im not seeing the issue here.
You weak fricker.
>ww3 is coming
>can't even load a tv
it's so over for america
should have taken it
Probably was not worth it anyway. You can get a comparable 32" flatscreen for like $50 that you can carry in one hand and won't hiss at you when you turn it on
Now post this on r/crtGayming
>32” trini curb find but
>calling my wife’s trans she/her/xey/xim gf to carry it with me
>cant find tv’s pronouns, can u guys help me out finding the pronouns?
Your brain has been ROOTED by wasted betrayal. Clense it rubby rubby tubby tap. I gotta zap that crap. Frick, do you accept starws!?
Mine's a KD 34".
That looks incredibly cozy
Christmastime~
I mostly have the television on for rain/fire/snow/oceanfront scenes on loop or Weather Channel "Local on the 8s" loop. I'm big on cozy music.
both very good sets. i replaced the former with the latter around 10 years ago
>be thrift store worker
>some boomer drops off an old CRT
>I'm not moving that shit, it's heavy and it's starting to get slippery from the snow, I'll leave it outside, it probably doesn't work anyway
>some pale nerd in baggy jeans comes up to it
>he's taking a picture of it
>MFW he's asking his online friends what to do
>they give him permission to steal it
>he picks it up
>slippery snow activated
>he protected the CRT from the snow but not himself
>it breaks
>he takes another picture and wanders away mumbling something about how it wasn't fate
Still haven't figured out how we're getting rid of the fricking thing.
Actually laffed
Almost certain I had that exact model of trinitron. Huge fricking heads up, light gun games don't work on it.
It’s ok, I still have my main CRT a Philips from 2004 with component video that I hope lasts for a long time
Hey, I've got that same set.
It hasn’t let me down yet, got it brand new in 2004, and the fact it has svideo and component is nice
Yeah, mine's been in a hoard for a bit but some windex and it seems fine. Had my PS3 hooked up to the component and MGS1 and 3 looked better than I remembered.
They work on mine. Had to calibrate it for virtua cop, but duck Hunt worked perfectly.
I have that exact same model that I got for free. The geometry is kinda bad but it serves me well for 3D games.
Autism
Why can't they sell CRTs any more?
I think something about environmental recycling. I recall about ~10 years ago the GW near me having a big sign saying they will no longer accept crt tvs
They're taking all the good Trinitrons and PVMs for themselves
On a serious note it's really fricked that *reusing* CRTs through (typically) grassroots nonprofit businesses is taking a backseat to whatever the EPA has in mind for them. I'm willing to bet this ends up with *more* CRTs in landfills rather than less. As usual, a gov't program has the opposite intended effect.
It's nothing to do with recycling, it's the weight. They don't want their staff to hurt themselves lifting big ass CRTs. My local thrift stores will still stock a small CRT from time to time.
I had that TV I left it at my moms because I couldn't move it right away. And she dismantled it and threw it away.
Posting here rather than making a new thread. I picked this up out of trash of my apartment earlier today. Powers on but I can't get a picture, I think the rf box is busted. Disc drive is definitely dead. Looking at needing a new video cable, a PS2 memory card, hard-drive adapter, mounting bracket, optionally a upscaler and a 1 tb drive. Should I just put it back at this point?
If it matters btw its 30001 model
just get an usb and the video cable, you can play 95% of the PS2 library using OPL with Virtual memory card, with that you are already set and you just need esr to run games like jak and daxter. (with jak 1 having already have better pc version and 2 and 3 being works in progress).
sorry for saying esr, ps2esdl.
buy a freemcboot card as well, sorry for not saying it.
the card obviously makes the virtual memory card optional but still have it for games incompatible with it
Lmao thanks for the laugh OP. Not only did you have to ask the internet what to do, you then couldn't even load it into a car with help, without damaging it and you just gave up like the spastic you are
> git stronk
165 mother fricking pounds. Trinitrons are no joke. they are wayyyyy heavier than other CRTs, something about the glass having to be ultra thick to structurally support the flatscreen as opposed to having it convex. i doubt either of your dumbasses are lifting that either.
lifting my 27" trinny at 120lbs is frickin brutal, it's awkward weight too. can't imagine if it were 40 pounds heavier and a few inches wider...
>homie making excuses because he hasnt learned the katamari roll up make-shift stairs technique
He literally had a friend with him and he fricked it up.
>zomg 165lbs!!!!!
That's nice. I'm 150lbs, 6ft1in, practically no muscles. Two years ago I had a job hauling full-sized beer kegs up and down stairs. Full, they are 161lbs, and I was working solo. I'm far from being in good shape, but I still was able to haul those beer kegs up and down those stairs.
If you are weaker than my anorexic-looking Skeletor ass, then for gods sake do some physical activity before your muscles completely atrophy away.
I mean, not trying to defend OP's frickass, but whenever i carry around 29 inch CRTs around the house it isn't the weight that gets me, its the fricking grip, some TV's are much easier to grip than others.
Regardless, dude had someone to help and still managed to frick the TV up.
Yeah it's a bit of weight, but with 2 people that should be easy, that's only around 35kg each and maybe park the car next to it and use your brain before trying to stuff it in the boot. Get a job where you lift shit and then you get fit too, then you don't have to pay for the gym and you could lift that on your own you scrawny dweeb
I used to carry these tube screens in my second job as a teenager, including 37" ones occasionally. I lift this kind of shit all the time with my job, AV, sound and staging is heavy so yeah I'm confident I could lift that into a car and not frick it up
You people and your CRTs.
>op cant get a fricking crt into his car
b***h ass shouldn't be collecting them old videogames, you should invest your money and time into a gym membership, gay.
Just go there with a friend and save it bro. Nobody gives a shit.
T.used to work at a thrift store
If I saw two autistic guys waddling away with a trinitron I wouldn’t bat an eye.
I have a 27 inches one, the quality is incredible with YpBpr, I have hooked a wii and the emulators running at 240p look gorgeous.
Sadly the Wii U only outputs 480i and looks really bad, 480p is not supported and you cannot hack it to output 240p like the wii.