I’m old enough to remember when this was peak entertainment technology.
Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be
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WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 months ago
baronofclubs@lemmy.world 2 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 2 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 2 months ago
Peak would’ve been a grey Zapper.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 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 2 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 2 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.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Oh my god !!! That’s the TV we had when I was a kid !!!
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago
Looks like model used in cs_militia in Counter Strike Source
jawa21@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 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.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Twenty-seven years ago that 27 inch TV was huge!
tehWrapper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Now most people need massive TVs, but still spend most of the time looking at the small screen on the phone.
dickalan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not me, I will refuse to watch any movie I’ve never seen on a tiny fucking phone screen. I at least have some standards
Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Then they put that massive TV so close to where they sit that it’s just painful to actually watch anything on because there is just no way you can get the entire image in your field of vision comfortably.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because unless you’re buying a quality panel the difference between a 45 inch and 65 is usually $150. For something that you need 3 or 4 of (tops, if you have a family or large house) that’ll last 5+ years, the value proposition is high enough to spend the extra money.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Those TVs were in a lot of middle class homes. I think huge is pretty exaggerated. Having a house on the block with those 4 person 40-50 in TV’s was pretty common in a lot of areas IMO.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
They weren’t huge at all. They were huge for that day.
Sure there was 40+ inch tvs if you were willing to shell out 10k plus.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
WereCat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 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 2 months ago
What do you use for you irregular Nintendo?
I’ll see myself out 🤣
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
It still is next level.
iamericandre@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have a stereo system still, complete with tape deck and turntable.
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I definitely would if I had the space and time to build it. Too many projects too little time (and space)
bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not that compact stereo system. My old sharp boom box sounded better than those.
zod000@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yeah, I’m a little jealous of that cool ass setup. I used to have something like it, though not as nice.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 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.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think that’s a ps3 to the left of the TV
makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I disagree, that looks like a record player. You can see the plastic cover and what looks like part of the plate on top. There’s also a VCR and I doubt there were many instances of PS3s and VCRs being plugged into the same CRT. I don’t doubt it happened, but this is giving more late 90s/early 2000s than mid/late 2000s
wavebeam@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s definitely a record player and not a PS3
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh, I was thinking this was late 90’s setup, but if that’s a PS3 then it’s like 10 years later…
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 months ago
I have a N64 plugged into the back side of my TV. It has a flush mount, as in I plugged the N64 in before I hung it on the wall.
haywire7@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That is one strong unit, the thought of the weight of those devices gives me back pain.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Especially if you had to hookup a new system or player to it.
badelf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Fuck. I remember when that setup was science fiction.
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Kind of still is.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 months ago
When the TV perfectly fit the cabinet. That’s when you knew.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 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.
tempest@lemmy.ca 2 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.
fox2263@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We must go back
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 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
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To play games from that era this is a next level setup.
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Today it’s all about finding a dumb display.
atticus88th@lemmy.world 2 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.
LavaPlanet@lemmy.world 2 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.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thrift stores couldn’t sell those cabinets 10 years ago and now they won’t take them at all.
Hotrod54chevy@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I mean, it’s still pretty dope.
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
That sound system stack needs at least 6 more components.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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…
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
The turntable isn’t even on the top of the hifi separates unit. Pathetic!
Jinarched@lemmy.ca 2 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!
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yes, I played Nintendo games in emulator on mine, it was so great.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 2 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.
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Today’s next level iPhone , zyns/vape, gem butt plug.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Was it common for people to have a turntable in their setup at this time?
realitista@lemmus.org 2 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.
Krudler@lemmy.world 2 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
wavebeam@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Image I just took this photo. Is my setup next level? I RGB modded the Sony if it helps.
Finadil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That a RetroPie setup at the bottom?
A7thStone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think it’s a MiSTer.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
No, that’s a Playstation 2 /s
wavebeam@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A7thStone is right, it’s a MiSTer in a custom “case” i made.
ironcrotch@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Those trinitrons were the goat of the day.
dufkm@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sweet man, that setup right there is next level!
wavebeam@lemmy.world 2 months ago
thanks!
realitista@lemmus.org 2 months ago
I had that TV back in the day. It was an amazing TV for it’s time.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
What’s the CRT on the bottom left?
wavebeam@lemmy.world 2 months ago
G3 iMac 333Mhz
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 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 2 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 2 months ago
No Saturn?
wavebeam@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve been wanting a Saturn for a while now, but not yet! I usually play Saturn games on my MiSTer.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I’ll call it “Starry Night over the Rhone” because it’s an extent masterpiece of a bygone golden era.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
wavebeam@lemmy.world 2 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.