The turntable isn’t even on the top of the hifi separates unit. Pathetic!
Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be
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Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
wavebeam@lemmy.world 1 day ago
realitista@lemmus.org 15 hours ago
I had that TV back in the day. It was an amazing TV for it’s time.
Finadil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That a RetroPie setup at the bottom?
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
No, that’s a Playstation 2 /s
ironcrotch@aussie.zone 20 hours ago
Those trinitrons were the goat of the day.
dufkm@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Sweet man, that setup right there is next level!
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours 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
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
What’s the CRT on the bottom left?
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
No Saturn?
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
I’ll call it “Starry Night over the Rhone” because it’s an extent masterpiece of a bygone golden era.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
My grandparents had one very much like this. It was so much fancier than ours. It even had a remote!
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 hours 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.
baronofclubs@lemmy.world 11 hours 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.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
great picture. I’ll bet that TV didn’t even have one of the old style remotes to change channels
zexyqag@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Looks like model used in cs_militia in Counter Strike Source
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Peak would’ve been a grey Zapper.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Oh my god !!! That’s the TV we had when I was a kid !!!
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 19 hours 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 19 hours 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 19 hours 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.
jawa21@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
We had a Zenith version of this idea, but it still had the clunky dials for changing channels instead of those fancy buttons.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
WereCat@lemmy.world 57 seconds ago
zanyllama52@infosec.pub 12 hours ago
What do you use for you irregular Nintendo?
I’ll see myself out 🤣
Jinarched@lemmy.ca 6 hours 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!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 hours ago
It still is next level.
zod000@lemmy.ml 2 hours 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 4 hours ago
I have a stereo system still, complete with tape deck and turntable.
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 18 hours 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 17 hours ago
Not that compact stereo system. My old sharp boom box sounded better than those.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 10 hours 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
IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Twenty-seven years ago that 27 inch TV was huge!
tehWrapper@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day 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 19 hours 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 18 hours 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.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think that’s a ps3 to the left of the TV
makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day ago
It’s definitely a record player and not a PS3
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh, I was thinking this was late 90’s setup, but if that’s a PS3 then it’s like 10 years later…
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Yes, I played Nintendo games in emulator on mine, it was so great.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
To play games from that era this is a next level setup.
badelf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Fuck. I remember when that setup was science fiction.
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 11 hours ago
Today’s next level iPhone , zyns/vape, gem butt plug.
LavaPlanet@lemmy.world 19 hours 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.
fox2263@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
We must go back
haywire7@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That is one strong unit, the thought of the weight of those devices gives me back pain.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Especially if you had to hookup a new system or player to it.
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Kind of still is.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 day ago
When the TV perfectly fit the cabinet. That’s when you knew.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Was it common for people to have a turntable in their setup at this time?
Mickey7@lemmy.world 4 hours 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 2 hours 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 12 hours 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.
shalafi@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Thrift stores couldn’t sell those cabinets 10 years ago and now they won’t take them at all.
realitista@lemmus.org 15 hours 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 16 hours 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
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Today it’s all about finding a dumb display.
Hotrod54chevy@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I mean, it’s still pretty dope.
pseudo@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Up to this day this is still next level. Seriously flat screen was an improvement but it ended up with people growing up TV size to a scale that is certainly not an improvement. Image quality has gotten better but what is the point of me seeing more detail in TV than in real life?
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That sound system stack needs at least 6 more components.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Was? It gets better ping than my current setup
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 hours 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.