Old TV's....

Keith47

Apologies if this subject has been raised before, and for not being cycling related in any way but there seems to be such a wealth of knowledge on this forum I'm hoping someone can help. Over recent years the Wife and kids have all had to have the latest retina burning flat screen TV's and I now find myself with 4 perfectly good CRT TV's of various sizes taking up valuable space in the loft. Is there such a thing as a charity that redistributes them to disadvantaged families/the elderly etc? It seems a crime to take them to the local tip

richk

Alternatively, you could try the British Heart Foundation as they will take electrical items to resell.

As an aside - we recently gave a local charity our old sofa & dining table (Betel of Britain, but think they're furniture only). They asked if I would 'gift aid' them £10 for the collection costs. I've just received a letter back - they sold them for £175 but can put it through the books as a donation from me & collect the tax on top of that. I call that a result.

Pigtail

I don't think many people want CRT TVs. Our recycling point had 3-4 dumped outside it on boxing day.

We moved to lcd about 18 months ago. We were having a clearout anyway and took two large crt tvs to a carboot sale. I think I sold one for £10 and gave the other away. Even sticking a free sticker on it didn't shift it for sometime, people were suspicious and asked a lot of questions before someone took it.

James

mrushton

Nobody wants them even tho' they are still excellent. Flat screens just take up less room and come with eg Freeview and are cheap at places like Richersounds. You may e able to give them way but all this Tv stuff is now 'disposable'

tailwindhome

IMHO BIg screen LCD/plasma TVs were one of the causes of the current recession.

Muppets in there thousands dumped perfectly good CRT TVs and replaced them with LCD/Plasmas bought on credit.

Keith47

TailWindHome wrote:

IMHO BIg screen LCD/plasma TVs were one of the causes of the current recession.

Muppets in there thousands dumped perfectly good CRT TVs and replaced them with LCD/Plasmas bought on credit.

Couldn't agree more, for the amount of tv I watch I would have been quite happy to stick with the TV i'd got, but swmbo insisted on the latest fandango sh!te which is old fashioned technology almost as soon as you leave the shop :?

Keith47

RichK wrote:

Alternatively, you could try the British Heart Foundation as they will take electrical items to resell.

As an aside - we recently gave a local charity our old sofa & dining table (Betel of Britain, but think they're furniture only). They asked if I would 'gift aid' them £10 for the collection costs. I've just received a letter back - they sold them for £175 but can put it through the books as a donation from me & collect the tax on top of that. I call that a result.

Cheers for that, will contact BHF tomorrow to see if they want them.

meanredspider

Best take them to the tip where they will be recycled or redistributed. When I took my kids bikes there, they have a charity that collects & refurbishes them for re-use. Maybe best to mark them up as "in working order"

ColinJ

meanredspider wrote:

Best take them to the tip where they will be recycled or redistributed. When I took my kids bikes there, they have a charity that collects & refurbishes them for re-use. Maybe best to mark them up as "in working order"

And remember to tape the remote control to the TV too!

I'm still using my 28" widescreen CRT TV but I'm being given a 42" HD LCD TV next week which I'm going to try using as my PC monitor (I prefer the CRT picture quality for TV).

andy162

Book yourself into the nearest Travel Lodge or similar budget hotel. Take your old TV into room( them old CRT goggle boxes are quite heavy, I suggest putting it in a pram & covering it with baby blankets)

Then simply throw the telly through the hotel window like what 70's rockers did.

In a similar vein if you have an old Rolls Royce that needs disposing of take that to your nearest outdoor swimming pool & drive it in.

Instantly you become Keith Moon or indeed Lemmy.

hugo15

British Heart Foundation came and took our old CRT TV away.

Ollieda

Consider putting an advert on something like gumtree or a local paper. From my time as a students most of my friends had CRTs as LCDs are too much money and too much of an insurance risk!

You'll probably shift them quicker like this than a charity shop could and if you do make money on them you can always give it to the charity as a donation.

(if your still looking to get rid of one of the bigger ones and your ever heading in the cheltenham direction I could be interested! We're still using the TV that a previous housemate is still "getting round to collecting sometime")

Harry182

patchy

Don't forget to keep one for the turbo dungeon!

redvee

Harry182 wrote:

Isn't that Evil Edna from Willo the Wisp

rick_chasey

Pffft LCD, with their CCFLs.

LED - backlit is the way forward.

Just bought mine (cash, not credit ).

Waiting for it to be delivered.

bompington

Keith47 wrote:

Is there such a thing as a charity that redistributes them to disadvantaged families(

In my experience disadvantaged families are more likely to have the latest & biggest flat screen TVs

Pross

TailWindHome wrote:

IMHO BIg screen LCD/plasma TVs were one of the causes of the current recession.

Muppets in there thousands dumped perfectly good CRT TVs and replaced them with LCD/Plasmas bought on credit.

Really? Bought mine with cold, hard cash (well, debit card but you know what I mean). These TVs are as cheap now as CRTs were 5 years ago (cheaper in many cases). I gave one of my old ones to my sister when she went to uni and another to the parents room at a hospital but it is hard to get rid of them even for nothing!

dilemna

IMHO The image quality of CRT is still miles ahead of Plasma/LCD/PCV/HGV. CRT images don't blow out where the contrast is high eg skin tones or pixelate when there is fast moving action. CRT any day for me. My monitor is an Ilyama CRT extremely sharp inage quality and my TV a Philips 14" stereo TV which again superb image quality. I go into Curries, Comet and John Lewis and look at the huge flat screens and it is clear to see the image quality is sh1t in comparison. Yep lemmings ditching old CRT TVs for very expensive new plasma and LCD TVs contributed to the massive consumer debt that was racked up in the naughties. An environmental disaster was created as well if truth be told making millions of new TVs that we didn't need and binning perfectly good ones. The same will happen with radios when the analogue signal is switched off so they will have to be digital to receive a signal, car radios as well. Madness.

rick_chasey

dilemna wrote:

IMHO The image quality of CRT is still miles ahead of Plasma/LCD/PCV/HGV. CRT images don't blow out where the contrast is high eg skin tones or pixelate when there is fast moving action. CRT any day for me. My monitor is an Ilyama CRT extremely sharp inage quality and my TV a Philips 14" stereo TV which again superb image quality. I go into Curries, Comet and John Lewis and look at the huge flat screens and it is clear to see the image quality is sh1t in comparison. Yep lemmings ditching old CRT TVs for very expensive new plasma and LCD TVs contributed to the massive consumer debt that was racked up in the naughties. An environmental disaster if truth be told.

The better LCD/LED TVs have 100hz rates which is all you need.

Also, I didn't know CRTs could be genuinely 1080p quality?

IF your TV is 1080p, then the limiting factor that is noticable is the input quality. 1080p is the best quality I've ever seen on a TV.

dilemna

Rick Chasey wrote:

dilemna wrote:

IMHO The image quality of CRT is still miles ahead of Plasma/LCD/PCV/HGV. CRT images don't blow out where the contrast is high eg skin tones or pixelate when there is fast moving action. CRT any day for me. My monitor is an Ilyama CRT extremely sharp inage quality and my TV a Philips 14" stereo TV which again superb image quality. I go into Curries, Comet and John Lewis and look at the huge flat screens and it is clear to see the image quality is sh1t in comparison. Yep lemmings ditching old CRT TVs for very expensive new plasma and LCD TVs contributed to the massive consumer debt that was racked up in the naughties. An environmental disaster if truth be told.

The better LCD/LED TVs have 100hz rates which is all you need.

Also, I didn't know CRTs could be genuinely 1080p quality?

IF your TV is 1080p, then the limiting factor that is noticable is the input quality. 1080p is the best quality I've ever seen on a TV.

See this is what techies try to do. Look if you put a top CRT TV alongside a top LCD/LED/HGV TV and judged the image quality, the CRT image would STILL be better.

rick_chasey

But they're not?

Have you seen an genuinely HD TV with an HD input? Not "HD Ready" but actually HD.

It's really something else.

It's hard to describe, but it's like you're actually watching it with your own eyes, rather than on a TV screen. It's a big big difference.

Monkeypump

dilemna wrote:

IMHO The image quality of CRT is still miles ahead of Plasma/LCD/PCV/HGV. CRT images don't blow out where the contrast is high eg skin tones or pixelate when there is fast moving action. CRT any day for me. My monitor is an Ilyama CRT extremely sharp inage quality and my TV a Philips 14" stereo TV which again superb image quality. I go into Curries, Comet and John Lewis and look at the huge flat screens and it is clear to see the image quality is sh1t in comparison. Yep lemmings ditching old CRT TVs for very expensive new plasma and LCD TVs contributed to the massive consumer debt that was racked up in the naughties. An environmental disaster was created as well if truth be told making millions of new TVs that we didn't need and binning perfectly good ones. The same will happen with radios when the analogue signal is switched off so they will have to be digital to receive a signal, car radios as well. Madness.

14" is a little... er... small... isn't it?

And as mentioned above, 1080p screen (of whatever size) with good HD source and decent HDMI leads gives a pretty good quality image as far as I can see.

Monkeypump

Rick Chasey wrote:

But they're not?

Have you seen an genuinely HD TV with an HD input? Not "HD Ready" but actually HD.

It's really something else.

It's hard to describe, but it's like you're actually watching it with your own eyes, rather than on a TV screen. It's a big big difference.

This.

It actually takes some time to get used to, because the image is not "like watching TV" at all.

dilemna

Monkeypump wrote:

dilemna wrote:

IMHO The image quality of CRT is still miles ahead of Plasma/LCD/PCV/HGV. CRT images don't blow out where the contrast is high eg skin tones or pixelate when there is fast moving action. CRT any day for me. My monitor is an Ilyama CRT extremely sharp inage quality and my TV a Philips 14" stereo TV which again superb image quality. I go into Curries, Comet and John Lewis and look at the huge flat screens and it is clear to see the image quality is sh1t in comparison. Yep lemmings ditching old CRT TVs for very expensive new plasma and LCD TVs contributed to the massive consumer debt that was racked up in the naughties. An environmental disaster was created as well if truth be told making millions of new TVs that we didn't need and binning perfectly good ones. The same will happen with radios when the analogue signal is switched off so they will have to be digital to receive a signal, car radios as well. Madness.

14" is a little... er... small... isn't it?

And as mentioned above, 1080p screen (of whatever size) with good HD source and decent HDMI leads gives a pretty good quality image as far as I can see.

Never had any complaints. How big is yours?

It's quality as opposed to quanitity.

I suppose if one was standing 100+m away from a huge LCD/LED screen eg at a concert or sporting event then it would seem the image was of high quality. But up close it's poor.

rick_chasey

I just bought a 32"

Pross

Up close with a Blu Ray disk the quality of my 42" LCD TV is superb. As Rik says it needs a high quality input to make the most of it (that said I haven't seen HD on a CRT screen).

northernneil

the british heart foundation collect unwanted electrical items FOC

Jez mon

dilemna wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

dilemna wrote:

IMHO The image quality of CRT is still miles ahead of Plasma/LCD/PCV/HGV. CRT images don't blow out where the contrast is high eg skin tones or pixelate when there is fast moving action. CRT any day for me. My monitor is an Ilyama CRT extremely sharp inage quality and my TV a Philips 14" stereo TV which again superb image quality. I go into Curries, Comet and John Lewis and look at the huge flat screens and it is clear to see the image quality is sh1t in comparison. Yep lemmings ditching old CRT TVs for very expensive new plasma and LCD TVs contributed to the massive consumer debt that was racked up in the naughties. An environmental disaster if truth be told.

The better LCD/LED TVs have 100hz rates which is all you need.

Also, I didn't know CRTs could be genuinely 1080p quality?

IF your TV is 1080p, then the limiting factor that is noticable is the input quality. 1080p is the best quality I've ever seen on a TV.

See this is what techies try to do. Look if you put a top CRT TV alongside a top LCD/LED/HGV TV and judged the image quality, the CRT image would STILL be better.

I have, in my rented accommodation we have a giant crt sony 32 inch monster, and my reasonably cheap 32" full hd toshiba. Not only is the flat screen much smaller, depth wise, and much easier to move about, but it also has vastly improved definition, even from non hd sources.