What to do with an old CRT Televison

wba31

Deposit it in the front garden as a feature..?

I concur with putting it on somewhere like freecycle, I know a number of people who prefer CRT TV's to the modern LCD/Plasma things.

KxMx

A local "Furniture Project" have a contract from the local council to recycle and scrap electrical items, they pick them up for free.

May be worth seeing if you have somewhere like that locally?

SailorSam

If you can contact somewhere like a battered wives home who have left their partners with only a bag of clothes they'll be grateful for anything and everything when they get a new flat to furnish.

baby_frogmella

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

Is there any picture that is better than a CRT?

Well my 8G Pioneer Kuro plasma gives me a picture which is as good (if not better) as my old Sony trinitron CRT. RIP Pioneer

Norman_Castle

I'm planning on changing my 21" Panasonic simply because most programmes are now widescreen and I'm missing part of the picture. After looking at a lot of new flat panel tv's the pictures are sharp and clear, but lack something (smoothness?) compared to crt screens. Is it just me that thinks this?.

PollyOnAMission

I recently sold a similar TV (32 inch Sony Trinitron that was absolutely HUGE and needed three people to lift it). I stuck it on Ebay for collection only and someone bought it for £20, which I was surprised about!

I think next time I'd stick it on Gumtree/Freecycle though. If you live in an area with students I expect it would be snapped up.

duchy

My council does a three large items pick up once a year which you book-(you can do it more than once but you pay £12 for subsequent collections which is still pretty good). You put them on the street the evening before. One of my three items was a large old style TV-it lasted 10 minutes before disappearing......half a cylinder hoover took five minutes,...... basically I spent all evening finding more junk to replace the items as they vanished -it was fab. Only thing that didn't go was an old divan base . I had no problem with the stuff disappearing. I'd rather someone made use of it than it went to landfill.

SuperHan

Your local Currys/PC World will take the TV for free (you will need to drop it off there) and they will recycle it.

almillar

Norman, firstly, the TV picture will look worse because you're likely to be looking at the same picture, but on a bigger screen. Both screens will be showing you 500 ish lines vertically, but you're sortof zoomed in more on the bigger screen.
Apart from that, CRTs do look nice as smooth as they don't have physical pixels like LCDs do. They also generally have very good contrast and colour saturation, but if you look at the latest LCDs (make sure they're not last year's model) by top manufacturers, set up correctly (as in, not Technika TVs in Tesco!) you'll find that they've caught up a lot. If you look at plasmas I think you'll find that they give the best picture, but it's a matter of opinion, so get out and have a look for yourself.

tombruton87

PC World or Currys will recycle it for free. they say its because there good compaines in all honesty its a massive tax write off.

You could allways take the screen out build an arcade cab put a pc in it and make it into an arcade machine

there are loads of ppl on mame forums looking for working crt's