How to select an Oscilloscope

Another awesome Kiss analog video! That GW Instek mdo is a beast! I like the front panel color schemes on both the siglent and the instek they are very clean looking.

Excellent. Learned a lot. I bought my first DSO 8 years ago. You are making me think I need to upgrade.

Thanks for explaining all this in one sitting. I'm a hobbyist and slowly buying equipment that will be useful. There are a lot of options out there and I always wonder if I need all the bells and whistles. Thanks again, really helped make up my mind.

I'm setting up my first home electronics lab and just discovered your channel. Really appreciate the video. A lot of good, basic information. Thank you.

I'm so glad I found this video, probably the only one on youtube, best video on how to select a oscilliscope for a beginner such as myself...thanx!

This video is really good, professionally opinionated and very experienced advices (seems like :) ) on what is needed and what is wanted. I want to buy my first oscilloscope and, after reading tons of unsubstantiated opinions, fanatics points of view, and click baits, this is one of the first videos that I can classify as (mega-) useful. The searching is getting really hard, but at list you bring some clarity :) Thanks for teaching us!

Thank you for the great info!

Thanks for the video(s)! Love your presentation.

I liked your explanations, great job !!!

Thank you,That was very helpful. I am in the process of looking for a digital scope.

THanks for your explanation!

Great introduction. Thanks!

Thanks a lot for sharing great information, so helpful for me

This was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

Awesome vid, thank you!!!

Don’t skip ahead - the whole video is gold

Excellent rundown. Didn't get the deep memory thing completely until now. The old CRT scopes would leave the vertical amplifiers running during the retrace, they would just kill the cathode drive (blanking). I had a couple of scopes where you could turn off the blanking in case you were concerned about missing something. My 1st scope was a (very old) rack mounted unit purchased at a Hamfest and didn't even have retrace blanking. I think it was originally used for monitoring modulation level at a AM station. The single trace analogs may be very fast, but with the old dual trace ones, you had a choice of alternating channels or chopping, both of which would miss things, especially on the early digital era stuff. I still have my Heathkit dual trace I built in high school, and several other CRT scopes, including a fairly recent (<20yrs old) Agilent, but I now find myself looking for a more modern piece. The 4ch GW Instek seems a nice unit, but I do a fair amount of CANBUS and I2C stuff, so the decoder option would be a plus. Sorry to ramble on about the old days, thanks for your videos, you have a new sub.

Hi Eddie, awesome video.

You're a cool dude and teach well. Thanks for the insight.

So glad you are making this series! I have just got my Rigol scope inside my door. :-) By listening to you, it sounds to me as I have chosen good specifications. Bandwidth 70 MHz Analog Channels 4 Real-time Sample Rate 8 GSa/s Max Memory Depth 200 Mpts Waveform Capture Rate 500,000 wfms/s Screen 9-inch