What does it do?
What does it do?
Tv, radio, mic, speaker
https://swling.com/blog/2021/03/the-sony-fx-300-jackal-a-holy-grail-technological-marvel-of-the-late-70s/
I own one that is almost identical. The only difference is mine has the badge of the 310 and no Jackal on it. Which, from what I have read just means its a US model instead of the Japanese one. Here is one picture I have from the post on my profile.
How did you connect the famicom? Really want one but I’m not sure what converters etc I would need
That is the dopest shit I've seen in a while. Would be such a cool movie plot.
U mean prop?
I did mean prop, yes.
Same thing your phone does without those annoying phone calls.
Wait. You guys are getting phone calls?
Fucking spam calls
It shines blue.
This is a cool piece of tech, but respectfully, this isn't cyberpunk.
I understand where you are coming from but I disagree. In the original Blade Runner movie (and 2049) CRTs are used heavily as set pieces and props for effect. The Voight Kampff test machine has three portable CRT screens crammed into a single machine. Deckard has a couple Panasonic TR-535s hanging upside down in his apartment, the video call phone booths are CRTs as well.
A big part of cyberpunk is a retro futuristic aesthetic and I think this thing lands neatly into that slot. There is an argument to be made that most genre defining cyberpunk media was created during a time where CRTs were the only display technology that was cheap enough to use en masse, but I think that is why it's so embedded into the genre now. Plus all the extra switches and buttons I think lend to the "high tech" feel of it.
Ok, but Blade Runner is still set in a future setting with futuristic technology, adapting old technology into that is fine, im just saying that simply retro technology on its own is not cyberpunk.
Okay, I think I understand your point better and yeah, I can see where you are coming from. This alone is not cyberpunk sort of like how a futuristic gun is not, or a particular outfit. They could be pieces of a cyberpunk world though but on their own they lack context, is that correct?
Uh yeah thats why i said this picture isnt cyberpunk, its just retro tech.
Okay, yeah still not sure I follow the same reasoning because its the pieces that make the puzzle whole. Not the puzzle that makes the pieces. But to each their own.
Old tech isn't cyberpunk.
I love this era of technology. Trying to cram in a bunch of useful stuff with nice designs.
These days everything is getting smaller, sleeker, and trying to be elegant yet ditching useful features.
It was more practical and interesting, and less about looking cool and fancy.
Honestly, while I appreciate what they were trying to do this is probably my least favorite of that era of tech, it's just too messy and noisy with everything on the face for me. But at the same time I 100% agree with you on the trying to go the opposite way and going to the extreme.
Does anyone know the technical reason why the screen couldn’t be any larger at this time? Seems like CRT monitors and TVs had screens as wide as they were deep.
My guess is as good as yours but it’s probably due to power. I’d imagine every extra inch of screen would draw exponentially more energy
That's true, but most of the space inside a CRT is empty. The actual CRT mechanism requires it to be about as long as it is wide. The Light Gun has to scale with the size of the screen because its a projection, not individual LEDs like on a modern screen.
TLDR: Think of CRT projections like normal projectors. The further it is from the wall, the bigger the image. Same concept.
The only real exception to this wasSony's tubes that were turned 90 degrees for the Watchmen line of handheld TVs.
That's clever as fuck. Wow.
Sony were the kings at CRTs. Really had a ton of cleaver and amazing innovations with them. So freaking neat!
The phosphor in those tubes, if you look closely, is at about 45 degrees to the gun - you had to hold the device at a slight angle to watch, which wasn't really a problem with a hand-held.
The only truly 'flat' CRT was that in the Sinclair TV80, which used a lot of clever beam-shaping to throw the electrons onto the right path. It cost them £4 million late-seventies pounds to develop and arrived just in time to be made obsolete by the LCD.
Good point, considering the depth of the device is so much greater than its width it might be a combination of the two. An increase in screen size by the amount of x would both require something like an x^2 amount of energy and an x^3 amount of space. Edit: so both exponentially more energy and exponentially less space for a battery
It’s crazy to think that we went from this to displays so thin they are flexible and so power efficient they can just stay on at all times 🤯
And the screen was thick, like a huge lense. I busted a old TV up years ago and was surprised to find this 5" thick glass. I imagine the constraint is due to what was mentioned about the electron gun distance, but aslo the weight of the glass lense that scales up with a larger screen.
It was a vacuum inside. It had to be thick to avoid unfortunate living room implosions (and lead glass in early high-voltage sets to avoid x-raying the viewer).
There were plenty of portable TVs before this, and after this, that have bigger screens. The max it seems is about 5.5 inches and that would be due to power draw. Portable CRTs 5 inches and under can run on 12v at around 700ma. This can be done with reasonable amount of D batteries without adding too much weight. This Sony has a 2.2 inch screen and the only reason I can think of for such a small screen is that it was either what they already had a lot of OR that it just fit the design better.
Source: I collect and repair portable CRTs ( I have about 50 in my collection now) and I also own this model of Sony TV.
It there good resources for info on stuff like this? I had no idea how cool & diverse these are until I saw your collection.
r/crt and r/crtgaming have some good resources and tons of knowledgeable people. YouTube is a wealth of info and a few channels dedicated to CRTs. The portable stuff is all stuff I picked up on my own from collecting and repairing them.
If you have questions though, I am more than happy to help.
Thanks!
do you know any power cable replacement for the sony jackal?
Any two prong Sony power cable works. The one from the PS2 fits perfect.
thanks for the reply
No worries. If you have questions I have mine still and have done a lot of repair work on it over the years.
Looks like a portable unit with casette player, radio, tv (tiny screen) and a speaker (or two).
Glad someone else posted this... That thing is dope.
Needs a bubble compass on the top and a reading light to complete the package.
One of my CRTs in my collection has the bubble compass and even an electronic mosquito repellent.
What does it do?
https://swling.com/blog/2021/03/the-sony-fx-300-jackal-a-holy-grail-technological-marvel-of-the-late-70s/
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as someone who has been spoiled by modern user interface it took me a whole ass minute to find that label even after you pointed it out
Yeah
Lol
I don't even know what it does, but I still want one!
Weird how this shit gets accepted here but if a girl posts a selfie that isn’t Cyberpunk she gets called a skank. Normal subreddit
Yeah, IDK why the people here feel entitled to upvote some posts but downvote others. As if densely packet electronics of occult functionality or use are more cyberpunk that pwetty giwls...
I mean neither are cyberpunk whatsoever but nobody is calling this thing a whore.
First, no one should ever call someone a whore and that is 100% not okay. Second, this is a piece of retro tech that lands squarely in the genre of cyberpunk. Just because CD Projekt Red didn't have it in their game, doesn't mean it's not in the same aesthetic as Cyberpunk. Your argument is weird and I feel like you have an axe to grind rather than trying to make a point.
Lol okay man, whatever floats your boat. Got some sweet pictures of VCR’s if you wanna beat off to that too.
I'm mostly hung up on what looks to me, a combination shutter-button&filmcrank top right, I'm certainly biased towards cameras though...
literally me
In case anyone's wondering, this extraordinary thing was released in, if you can believe it, 1978!
I had a similar model, same features. I actually used it for all of my radio, cassette tape, and tv watching needs for most of 2004. I remember watching Reagan’s funeral on the tiny b&w screen.
It was the closest thing to a smartphone that we had at the time.
"Solid State"
Well they are. They are using solid state transistors versus vacuum tubes. Which in the late 70s (when this was made) some TVs were still being made with tubes. So having it be solid state was a selling point worth branding onto the device.
"Enhance"
Love this
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Everything was so clicky
What's funny is that this picture broke my brain for a second as I tried to figure out if it was a new camera in the Sony Venice line. And I'd say we're living in what is the start of a golden era for digital cinema cameras. In conclusion- boxes with many buttons are peak design.