How to watch VHS on Smart TV

brewerdave

We have kept an "old" 32" LG TV with SCART input ,specifically for watching our old VHS tapes . Much cheaper than paying to have them converted, and having watched some old stuff on a 55" 4K TV - much easier on the eyes !!

MyRealNameToo

flaneurs_lobster said:

MyRealNameToo said:

That said I did have a 32" 16:9 CRT that supported 720p but it was crazy heavy and had the most stupid handles any person has ever designed

Phillips? Built in surround sound with wired side-speakers? Absolute sod of a TV.

Panasonic, I'm 99% sure

The indented handles had a spring loaded plastic panel over them so when not in use the sides of the TV looked flat. The problem was that they folded inwards from the top so actually what you are lifting the 72kg on was the edge of the panels. Had to wear two pairs of gloves and even then it left a deep red line when carrying it down 3 flights of stairs. 

Neil_Jones

MyRealNameToo said:

VHS PAL was 576 interlaced lines (ie each frame was only 288 lines but each frame alternated between odd and even lines) so yes those 576 lines have to be expanded over 2,160 lines of a 4k TV plus as you say expanded from the more like 21-24" TV to a 61" (which would have the same height in a 4:3 screen as a 75" 16:9 screen has)

Thank you, interlaced was the term I was after in the first place..

CRT TVs bigger than 22" were available in the 1980s  but they were expensive to buy (though I dare say you probably could have rented them at the time)

MyRealNameToo

Neil_Jones said:

MyRealNameToo said:

VHS PAL was 576 interlaced lines (ie each frame was only 288 lines but each frame alternated between odd and even lines) so yes those 576 lines have to be expanded over 2,160 lines of a 4k TV plus as you say expanded from the more like 21-24" TV to a 61" (which would have the same height in a 4:3 screen as a 75" 16:9 screen has)

Thank you, interlaced was the term I was after in the first place..

CRT TVs bigger than 22" were available in the 1980s  but they were expensive to buy (though I dare say you probably could have rented them at the time)

Parents replaced theirs mid 80s, think it was 22", maybe 24" but we were limited as my mother wanted it to fit into a cabinet that the old TV had come with which is from before my living memory. That one lasted to circa 2000 because remember the neighbour has a plasma screen by then but my mother didnt like it so got a 28" CRT