Old digital TV good for analogue video synthesis?

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How’s it going everyone? New here.

I was just getting into analogue video and circuits for it, and was wondering something.
Would I be able to use an old Sony Bravia TV (that has analogue inputs) for analogue video stuff as well as analogue glitch effects i.e. if the sync isn’t correct there will be diagonal bars across the screen etc? I want to get a CRT but the YPbPr ones cost a bloody fortune and I haven’t found any on the side of the road or anything. Will the Sony TV work? If not any suggestions for cheap YPbPr CRTs in Australia?

Cheers.

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…as far as i know Sony-TVs are great! - i have some Trinitron-Sonys which work for the analogue stuff an have the additional advantage of a very flat screen…

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Thanks for the quick reply!

Just wanted to check because I thought there might be some funky digital stuff that would mess it up if the signal wasn’t correct but seems all good.

Thanks legend.

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an LCD TV will work for much of what you need if it has the right inputs. if you run into signal drops, you could consider getting a TBC. there are some rack mounted units that can go for under about $80 in the U.S., not sure about availability in australia. but you may be pleasantly surprised and not need it. a CRT will often do better with being able to display glitchier signals but if you wanted to record it off there you’d need to rescan which is a whole other can of worms

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Yeah righto

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this would be a good topic in general to list things out, how analog glitches appear differently when directly viewed on a CRT vs some kind of digital encoding being used in the pathway (mixer based frame synchronizer, lcd tv, projector, etc)

the big one i can think of off the top of my head is losing h/v sync. on many (but not all) CRTS distortion on the horizontal/vertical sync pulses means you get per field drifting or in frame warping in the horizontal/vertical axes. to the best of my knowledge, digital encoders are more inclined to just toss the field and either use the last one buffered or blue screen if the sync signals are too distorted to parse.