have you ever been at a restaurant or bar or in a waiting room or anywhere in public that
had a tv playing and it's set to a channel you can't stand or it's playing way too loud
and you just wish you could change the channel or turn down the volume or
mute it entirely well with this device you can't because i tried programming this to
work with several different TVs and a digital tv converter box and it didn't work with any of them
but rather than give up entirely on the video i was planning to make about this
i thought i'd make a video about this tv that i was intending to control using this remote
because you may have seen this in some of my past videos and i think it's a very neat little tv
it's a gateway and yes that is the same gateway that used to sell computers
originally known as gateway 2000 this dates from 2003 when gateway has some retail stores
and they were trying to expand into the home entertainment business instead of just computers
so they had several different models of TVs that they sold back then and this was one of them
it's a 13 inch 4:3 aspect ratio standard definition lcd television and monitor
so it's pure standard definition it does not upscale it to hd so there is no upscaling lag
which makes it ideal for classic video games and computers the built-in speakers don't
sound very good but they are in stereo unlike most crt televisions of this size
on the front you get a composite video input with stereo audio left and right a headphone jack very
simple controls which are handy because i did not get this with the remote and good luck trying to
find one and i doubt you'll find any universal remote control that includes this on its list of
TVs it supports input selection the menu volume channel up and down and an ok button and over
there is the power button which does light up when you turn it on and the remote sensor
it has a finger grip built in which makes it very handy to pick up and move around
wow that's a long model number gtw-L13M103. it's universal voltage and frequency 100 to 240 volts
50 or 60 hertz manufactured in october 2003. and there it says it was made in korea so maybe this
was made by samsung or daewoo or lg one of those companies and at first i didn't think this was
a vesa mount because the holes are awfully small and spaced close together but this turns out to be
the smallest possible size of vesa mounting it's 75 millimeters spacing horizontal and vertical
it comes with a tilting base unlike some much bigger TVs i've seen there's a retaining
clip for the power cord i don't know if they originally came with some kind of
decorative trim over this or not tucked away and there's a standard iec power cord socket
very convenient to have a built-in power supply because i've seen and used
much much bigger TVs in this that do not include a built-in power supply
here are the rest of the inputs on the back antenna input this is only an analog
tv tuner because 2003 is a little bit too early for something like this to have a digital tv tuner
but it does support both antenna and analog cable tv so it's great for classic
video games and computers just connect it directly to that if it has an rf output
it has a composite output you can use this jack on the back as well as the one on the front
there are another set of stereo audio inputs which work with both
the composite input and the s-video input for better picture quality and if you have
something like a commodore 64 that has luma and chroma video outputs you can get a cable
that converts that to s-video since it really is the same thing it just uses a different connector
which is exactly what i did with this commodore 64 video cable i know it looks like it has
composite video and stereo audio but the colors were not standardized back then
in this case the yellow is luma the red is chroma and white is audio
and i made this homemade adapter to convert the luma and chroma to an s-video connection
there's a kensington lock slot and i think this would have
been a retaining clip for the antenna cable except it got broken anyway for
only in america they're supposed to be selling watches instead they're talking about guns
but here it is connected via rf to my digital tv converter box
now they're talking about horoscopes so they really have nothing to talk about
trying to sell those watches
as much as i love old game shows i was getting tired of that crappy digital tv reception so i
pulled out this panasonic dvd vcr combo unit which has a couple unique features including
a proprietary vp speed on the vcr which may be worth doing a video about in the future
but more importantly for this video is that this has all three of the outputs we need for this tv
it has rf through regular analog channel 3 or 4 it has composite video output and s-video output
here's a close-up look this is analog rf
this is composite video
and this is s-video
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now i have it connected to my commodore 64 through that luma/chroma to s-video adapter
that i made and i think the color scheme works pretty well with it it would be an
almost perfect match for an older breadbin style commodore 64 because it's a darker
beige kind of color which almost perfectly matches the function keys on this one
i know this camera isn't going to do it justice but the image is about as sharp as you'd ever get
with a crt monitor here's a close-up of that image from the commodore 64 using the s-video input
that s-video input is also useful for displaying a high resolution monochrome video signal from a
computer such as an apple II or a pc with cga in 80 column mode so if you don't need color you can
get a very nice sharp video image by connecting it to only the luma pin or the y pin of the s-video
input how's that for an extreme close up of 80 column cga text mode on this gateway monitor
one disadvantage of this tv is that it is not multi-system it only supports ntsc video
signals not pal for an example of that i have it connected to this sony mavica floppy disk camera
whose video output is switchable between ntsc and pal
currently it's set to ntsc if i go into the menu here and change it to pal you'll see what happens
the image is black and white it's flickery
and it looks like the framing isn't correct because it's going off the bottom of the screen
probably because it's delivering more lines of video than what it's expecting ntsc is 525 lines
pal is 625 lines so that's why it's getting cut off and i don't know if it's going to get through
the processing and de-interlacing of this video but it's very flickery and kind of shimmering
and you can see that sony didn't think of anybody ever using this camera with a black and white tv
because the different colors they show in the menu are not really visible in black
and white but nonetheless i'll switch it back to ntsc and now we get a perfect image again
it also has this quirk where it tries to auto center the video image but it
doesn't always get it correct for example you can see the sylvania logo of this dvd
player is shifted off to the right when it's supposed to be centered the way you fix that
is very easy you just turn the tv off and turn it back on and when it comes back on you can see
it's centered more properly now oh and there goes the screen saver but i'm not going to
wait and see if it ever ends up directly in the corner see it just missed it there
the audio quality of the built-in speakers is obviously not very good
due to their small size that's one thing this can't really compare to a crt television is
the size of the cabinet of a crt gives it much better audio quality
but it does surprisingly have bass and treble controls for the built-in speakers as well as
stereo balance you can switch it between mono and stereo and it has auto volume leveling
now it's time for a direct side-by-side comparison between the gateway lcd monitor
and an old-fashioned 1980s panasonic crt television this is not going to be comparing image
quality or color accuracy or anything like that because there's simply too many variables involved
my main purpose of this is to see how much if any lag the lcd has compared to the crt which may or
may not be visible to the naked eye but i have this sony handycam which has a slow motion mode
which records 240 fields per second so if there's any lag with the lcd versus the crt
we'd definitely be able to see it with the slow motion mode of this camcorder
one thing i can say right away is that there is no audio lag with this lcd tv because you
know how you go into an electronics store and they have a whole wall full of TVs playing
simultaneously and you hear an echo effect because they're all not playing exactly in sync
well this lcd tv side by side with the crt they're perfectly in sync at least in terms of the audio
so
so that's about it for the little gateway lcd tv it's by far not the best tv or monitor ever made
and i still love CRTs as you can see from the one in the background that i use with my tandy 1000
but if i just need something quick to test an old computer or see what's on a VHS tape this is the
one i grab because there's no messing around with different settings for upscaling aspect
ratios interpolation de-interlacing anything like that you just plug it in and it works
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