My next level is going back to that. Not with a huge CRT or a full-blown hifi system, but a nice place with a screen, some offline way to play music/audio, a few books maybe…
Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be
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cley_faye@lemmy.world 8 months ago
atticus88th@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If I walk into a house and see that setup I know there is a dead cat under one of the old sofas.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 8 months ago
raises hand
glitchdx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I remember. My family was always poor but my parents understood the value of technology. all of us had pcs, and we had a nintendo in the living room.
Granted, we were poor, so the tech we hooked up to the tv was a bit behind. I was hype as fuck to finally have a copy of The Guardian Legend for NES while my best friend was playing mario sunshine.
I think I had the better childhood.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
I don’t feel nostalgic for the dark times when our televisions weighed 80 lbs just to beam us an inferior image. Sure, maybe for when being a teenager at the mall meant meeting girls and having a good time with friends walking around, buying nothing because we were all broke. But only the social aspects were better. I’ll take today’s entertainment any day of the week.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
CRT contrast ratios were unmatched until plasma. LEDs never compared until OLED. Flat screen CRT HDTVs were amazing.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
But only the social aspects were better.
ok…
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Hey, we socialized in person more before smart phones. There are a lot of studies that say so. But this isn’t even an appeal to authority. I remember the first time seeing a couple sitting across from each other in a restaurant, both staring at their phones. My buddy and I gave each other a look. It’s everyone now.
tempest@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
The quality of the media was not as good perhaps but I do miss when the world moved just a little bit slower.
No 24h news cycle, no social media, no being pressured to be connected and available to work at all times.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Superior image*
*for the time when flat screens initially came out
Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 months ago
The turntable isn’t even on the top of the hifi separates unit. Pathetic!
Jinarched@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I have two AF Toshibas. One 27 inches and the other 14. I would have more if I had a house. They are still awesome!
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I have that exact Aiwa music player.
Last Sunday when I went back to my parents house, I noticed that the clock was blinking because there was a blackout, so I turned on and I saw that the 5 CD changer not only gets stuck but the laser doesn’t see the discs anymore 😢
I’m sad
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Probably a relatively easy fix.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I don’t want to brag but I have my 1985 Bang & Olufsen music system still in use. Cassette player, CD-player and vinyl player all work well. They don’t make devices like that anymore.
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Today’s next level iPhone , zyns/vape, gem butt plug.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Yes, I played Nintendo games in emulator on mine, it was so great.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Was it common for people to have a turntable in their setup at this time?
Mickey7@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes it was. The next jump after traditional records was cassettes. I find it hilarious that people are going back to records vs. digital
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
To be fair, if a record is made correctly, it actually has significantly more sound information than any digital recording.
It’s hard to compete with analog since analog doesn’t really have a bitrate or anything. The precision is functionally infinite.
Meanwhile, they gave us the Redbook standard and unless you go looking for it, pretty much everything is a similar quality or worse, digitally. Digital is convenient, but not higher quality.
Records (true, genuinely analog records) are the Holy Grail of sound quality as far as I am concerned. The problem is that a lot of companies are taking CDs and just playing them back on to vinyl, making them sound like complete shit.
To demonstrate the point. Have you been on hold recently? Hold music sounds like shit huh?
What if I told you that hold music used to be kind of decent. That’s right, most companies are using VoIP, which is lower quality than the old analog phone lines of old, so anything that’s played is compressed to all hell and back. You don’t really notice it with voice, but as soon as that hold music kicks in, you can hear that something is wrong with it.
Depending on how sensitive you are to the musical distortion of digitisation, that can be similar for CD quality content.
I’m not crazy over vinyl, I can’t be bothered with the inconvenience of maintaining a player, and I don’t have the money they’re asking for a new player; so I’m firmly in digital media. I just understand the appeal of vinyl.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 months ago
yes, but it was only used once because, as you can see, you had to pull the whole system out of the shelf to change records.
Agrivar@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes
realitista@lemmus.org 8 months ago
The TV and stereo aren’t amazing for that time. I had better in my teens and twenties just from my restaurant jobs.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I was always impressed by any CRT that didn’t have dials on the side.
Krudler@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m just here to point out that I look down upon everybody, as I have some arbitrary consideration in my mind that makes me and the things I think, more next-levelier than all of you and what you like
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 months ago
WereCat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ll take it off your hands. Got to strong boys here with me. It took three of us to get this into house. So true it’s freaking heavy. It also swivels which I do find neat. Besides the old game console look better on the equipment they were built for.
zanyllama52@infosec.pub 8 months ago
What do you use for you irregular Nintendo?
I’ll see myself out 🤣
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lol great comment. I say regular because it’s 2025 and some people hear Nintendo and think Switch, or as we used to if you didn’t say regular. People would think Super Nintendo.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 8 months ago
To play games from that era this is a next level setup.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 months ago
It still is next level.
zod000@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Yeah, I’m a little jealous of that cool ass setup. I used to have something like it, though not as nice.
iamericandre@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I have a stereo system still, complete with tape deck and turntable.
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
bitchkat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not that compact stereo system. My old sharp boom box sounded better than those.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 8 months ago
I definitely would if I had the space and time to build it. Too many projects too little time (and space)
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Was? It gets better ping than my current setup
LavaPlanet@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What fascinates me is going back and watching TV shows designed for these size / type of capability TV’s, and how much less there is going on, in any frame. The characters are central, there’s no background action or skits, no huge flashing lights or whole moving cities, and it reminds me of the problems behind coco melon. I wonder if it does the same thing to adult brains it does to baby brains.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My grandparents had one very much like this. It was so much fancier than ours. It even had a remote!
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Oh man, this reminds me of the Sony Trinitron my family had growing up. We inherited it from my grandparents on my dad’s side when I was very young.
My grandpa died before I was old enough to remember him being alive, and my grandma we lost to dementia/Alzheimer’s not long after… So we got their TV.
Worked great for so many years, but somewhere around the 25-30 year mark, the picture had all but lost most of the color and I’m pretty sure that we had a failure in one of the emitters so one of the colors would only sometimes be there. We didn’t keep it around after that started happening regularly.
It was like this, a huge cabinet on wheels, and it was flanked by two massive speakers the full height of the unit, and about 10" off each side of the screen.
That TV was home to our NES and SNES consoles for a long time, and eventually our Sega Genesis.
We had a lot of good times sitting on the floor playing games on that thing.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 8 months ago
great picture. I’ll bet that TV didn’t even have one of the old style remotes to change channels
zexyqag@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Looks like model used in cs_militia in Counter Strike Source
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Oh my god !!! That’s the TV we had when I was a kid !!!
baronofclubs@lemmy.world 8 months ago
See, now that’s just the TV stand for the newer TV on top!
But seriously, why the fake drawers in these? The drawer handles even rotated, but you’d just be pulling against the wood.
Booboofinget@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I remember back in the 90s I found a cabinet just like that, but without the TV. Since I was broke back then, I took it back to my place and used it as a computer desk.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Peak would’ve been a grey Zapper.
jawa21@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
We had a Zenith version of this idea, but it still had the clunky dials for changing channels instead of those fancy buttons.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s eerily similar to what I grew up with. Like: “are you my sibling, and is that actually my old house”-level similar.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Wow, old memory unlocked, we had that exact tv (or maybe another model that looked very similar). It was the good TV for a long time but never made it to be the less good TV in the basement because, well look at it, it’s a tube TV built into a fucking cabinet, just throw it out.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I remember my parents had a Magnavox wood finish tv console. That fucker weight more then a collapsed star I swear it took 3 people to move it from one corner to another.
badelf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Fuck. I remember when that setup was science fiction.
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Thrift stores couldn’t sell those cabinets 10 years ago and now they won’t take them at all.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve got one at my son’s place we need to get rid of. I probably should just get the sawzall and have him dispose over time
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They’re hilariously worthless for anything but the original purpose. And that’s from a guy who repurposes crap off the side of the road every week.
Even if they’re real wood, the dimensions are useless. Maybe it could be chopped into a couple of tiny plant stands? LOL, now you got me thinking what I could do! Still, haven’t found a use for them after all these years.
fox2263@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We must go back
wavebeam@lemmy.world 8 months ago
umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
[deleted]wavebeam@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It allows it to accept higher quality analog signal input for old video game systems. RGB separates the signals into 4 (in this case) separate inputs, one each for Red, Green, and Blue colors in the image, as well as sync on the fourth input. the image is much clearer than you’d have typically seen from systems on this TV back in the day using composite, or S-video if you were fancy. It’s the highest quality analog signal you can get for a CRT.
realitista@lemmus.org 8 months ago
I had that TV back in the day. It was an amazing TV for it’s time.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Have you softmodded the PS1 to accept backups? There’s a disc you can burn that if you do the swap trick with it it will configure a memory card to be used to load backups
wavebeam@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve got 2 PS1’s, and the one most visible in this photo is an SCPH-1001 with the RCA jacks on the back. I haven’t modded it because I’ve got better ways to play backups of PS1 games and it’s not quite worth the effort. I have used TonyHax on it though, which does the job. the other PSOne is barely visible right next to it. I got it from an estate sale and it actually came with a modchip! So i can play backup discs on that one if i want.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 8 months ago
No Saturn?
wavebeam@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve been wanting a Saturn for a while now, but not yet! I usually play Saturn games on my MiSTer.
Hotrod54chevy@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I mean, it’s still pretty dope.
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
That sound system stack needs at least 6 more components.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I would never in a million years would consider this as “next level” unless there’s a MegaDrive behind those doors under the TV.
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Today it’s all about finding a dumb display.
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Kind of still is.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 8 months ago
i remember when i was little, and went to my grandparents house, they had something like that.