The PVM Appreciation/Enthusiasts Thread!!

I was a huge Sega Mega Drive fan. Did that make me buy a Saturn? Hell naw I went for a PS1 because it had a much better software selection in Europe. Brand loyalties are silly. It's not like Sega make televisions anyway.

I got burned on RCA when I bought one of their TVs years ago and it only lasted about two years before it wouldn't power on. It was a larger set and cost me around $300. This actually seems to be a common complaint with RCA's. My sister's 14" truflat did the same thing. It's funny when I try to buy something good it doesn't last, but I can walk into a store and buy the cheapest piece of shit there and it will last forever. I still have my first Emerson stereo tape deck I got for Christmas when I was a kid, and it still works.

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Originally Posted by old man

It's funny when I try to buy something good it doesn't last, but I can walk into a store and buy the cheapest piece of shit there and it will last forever.

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This made me laugh because it is true on so many levels :)

RCA went south when Thompson bought them. Thompson is one of the worst disposable consumer item companies I have found, right next to Sony. For a while I thought Samsung and Sanyo were worse but those companies seem to have gotten their acts together product quality wise. I just hope Toshiba hasn't gone the consumer product route, I keep hearing the term "toshitba" and would not even bother to replace my LCD TV if it decided to die.

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Originally Posted by old man

I want one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-KV-30HS42.../dp/B0002F7I9O

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I really can't recommend CRT based HDTVs. They suffer from the same problems than LCDs but don't offer most of the advantages. This one is widescreen too so the 4:3 image will be rather small-ish in relation to the size and bulk of the TV, probably in the 23" range.

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Originally Posted by Christuserloeser

I really can't recommend CRT based HDTVs. They suffer from the same problems than LCDs but don't offer most of the advantages. This one is widescreen too so the 4:3 image will be rather small-ish in relation to the size and bulk of the TV, probably in the 23" range.

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They're garbage. I got a Sony one from Goodwill and took it back the same day. Everything was stretched and blurred all to hell.

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Originally Posted by sheath

RCA went south when Thompson bought them. Thompson is one of the worst disposable consumer item companies I have found, right next to Sony. For a while I thought Samsung and Sanyo were worse but those companies seem to have gotten their acts together product quality wise. I just hope Toshiba hasn't gone the consumer product route, I keep hearing the term "toshitba" and would not even bother to replace my LCD TV if it decided to die.

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Samsung has done very well by me with their LCDs. I also have a Sammy CRT that I use for the majority of my retro gaming, but the PVM is set aside for RGB applications because it is just so purdy compared to anything else.