I still have my first color TV, purchase AFTER my first VCR (I actually watched all my early video footage in B&W. It was (is) a 19" Sony Trinitron. Had to replace a small HV capacitor about ten years ago, and also every five years I have to "wipe" the three gun controls back and forth because they corrode and I lose one color. Other than that, it has given me twenty-seven years of almost daily use. Fantastic set.

I've got a 12 year old Wega in my basement - daily use with kids. I still believe that the trinitron series was one of the best tube telies ever built. Loved the PanaBlack Panasonic models, but for some reason Sony kicked some major but on the trinitron. Much like my beloved Snelgrove ice cream (Utah thing...), I guess you have to say good bye eventually.

I got a 20-something Sony console TV in the basement and a not so old HD tube tv in the living room. Can't remember either one ever needing any repair.

I'm going to miss the Trinitron, I've got a half-dozen of them. I'm a big fan of the venerable CRT, they do take some tweaking but, when they're tweaked, nothing looks better (yet.) There has never been any collectible, "vintage" video gear like there is vintage audio gear. The Trinitron TV could be the first.

I had a working SONY Trini for 20 years. It gave a new meaning to PAL clarity.

well i'm still monitoring on my 14" hr trinitron - and highly unlikely to give it up in the near future. (it's running component, 16:9 switchable etc.,)

so, if we're all bemoaning it's demise, what exactly are you all monitoring on?

leslie

Anybody remember QuadraColor (i think that was the name)? Might have been an RCA innovation, but i don't recall for sure. The first time i saw one was in the local appliance store when i was about 5 years old. Interesting system that used 4 phosphours instead of 3. The additional yellow phosphour was supposed to make up for the fact that the old red & green ones didn't mix together well. I remember there also being an argument that 4 dots arranged in a square could reproduce straight lines more clearly than the triangular arrangement used in most three color sets of the day. All i remember about the picture was that it was way oversaturated and very yellow-greenish, though that might have been due to improper calibration.

The last time i saw one was in the local appliance store when i was about 5 years old.

so, if we're all bemoaning it's demise, what exactly are you all monitoring on?
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A JVC CRT monitor. Used a Trinitron TV before that. Still use it to A-B the image. You can keep LCD. Long after the pixels in them get so bad everyone in the video looks like they need Clearasil the CRT monitors will still be working.

John

so, if we're all bemoaning it's demise, what exactly are you all monitoring on?

For the last four years, the JVC TM-H150CGU in 4 edit suites.
Excellent picture, 750 lines of resolution, underscan, monochrome mode, blue gun switch, 4:3/16:9 switchable, NTSC/PAL mode, 2 composite/1 Y/C inputs.
Component & SDI inputs are optional extras.
BTW, my field monitor is a JVC TM-910SU but it looks like it's been replaced by the TM-1011GU

Mike