From British TV detector vans half a century ago to 1980s scare stories about espionage, it was certainly easy enough to detect an analogue CRT with nothing more than an AM broadcast radio receiver.

The biggest CRT TV ever made is most likely the Sony PVM-4300 ... This could be delivered over component cables, or even HDMI, depending on the model. The thing is, these TVs are generally ...

So when we saw this retro portable TV turned into a cyberdeck ... but none that dared use a CRT monitor. It may be a far cry from HDMI, but we really appreciate that [Lucas] chose this way ...

Both consoles technically support CRT displays but don't provide ... with these HD consoles. A modern 4K TV will have no issue scaling a clean 720p HDMI image into something passable.