You can go to an industrial supply store like Grainger to custom order electrically insulated gloves. That’s where I went to get mine - they helped me get properly fitted and find one that was suitable (Ansell Class 0).

Whatever you do, don’t rely on Amazon for stuff like this. These kinds of gloves are vetted for protection for only a certain amount of time and you can’t rely on random resellers to guarantee that. Careless packaging and handling can also potentially damage the gloves and render them useless, another reason to order directly from an industrial supplier.

Also, don’t allow yourself to be careless when operating on a CRT just because you have electrical gloves. Do your research thoroughly and plan out exactly what you need to do beforehand. I haven’t gotten shocked yet with mine, but I don’t want to put it to the test for obvious reasons.

There’s not a whole lot you can do to improve things with RF - it’s the lowest quality signal type supported by most retro consoles, and CRTs that only had that as an input were generally older or budget sets.

Make sure you get good quality coaxial cable that isn’t fraying or super old, and keep daisy chaining of adapters to a minimum. Also, try to get RF Modulators that are OEM whenever possible. It’s still going to look rough compared to other signals, but that’s all you can really do.

By the way, there’s a CRT magazine on Kbin if you or anyone else would like to join (questions like this are encouraged over there!)

I tried searching for Philips CRT 90s on various search engines, and only found one that could be a match. The link to the original listing no longer exists, and Wayback Machine doesn’t have it archived. Speaking of which, Wayback Machine also doesn’t have any archives of philips.com since they requested to be omitted, only complicating things.

I couldn’t find any pictures of a remote that matched the one in your photo. Is there a model number on the remote or any sort of identifying information, perhaps under the battery case? The TV might potentially be identified by association.

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. Just totally missed the boat when they were in the zeitgeist - I ended up loving them 15 years later though.

Cool - what’s the IR bar along the top for?

Nice, the FS320 is a good one. If you play any newer 16:9 content on it (like certain Wii games), be sure to use the “16:9 enhanced” mode for an improved picture. It’s a really cool feature that makes 480i look way better than it has any right to!

Sweet deal, subbed. The best part about /r/CRTgaming is the community, not the fact that it happens to be on reddit. Here’s hoping we can build it up on the fediverse!

Good question - CRT Database has some articles covering it. There’s also this large shmups.org thread with a lot of detailed technical discussion, but would probably take a while to parse.

Retro Tech on YouTube also has several videos covering RGB mods too, if I recall correctly.

How do you like that Gateway? I have the VX1120 and it’s been way better than I expected.