CRT Fetish Thread

[smokey]

ONLY 440#

Jeez i get depressed if i have to move a 20 inch PVM. Cool story though. I love how to original owner was like back then things were made to last. Like no bro. Early 90 late 80 is the most horrible time for electronics and built quality

 

[Atro]

ONLY 440#

And one was just on the other side of my town's river...

It was from a rich-ass engineer and he was giving it away as he was selling his 5*****Stars apartment and just wanted to get rid of it. It was supposed to go to a friend of mine, but he took long to decide and when he went for it, the appartment was already sold and no signs of that behemoth!

 

[wyo]

440 lbs is insane. For comparison, an XM37 only weighs 228 lbs.

 

[Tarma]

About 5lbs

 

[The Chief]

That video has a chart in it explaining how the larger you go with a tube the thicker the glass and lead lining need to be to keep it from imploding under vacuum. It’s amazing the thing was ever made honestly.

If I ever get one I’m hiring @herb and and one or two of his power lifting buddies.

 

[smokey]

For some reason Sony crt’s are a lot heavier the all the other brands.

 

[wyo]

Trinitrons use more glass than other more curved screens.

 

[city41]

This was a good watch. I especially enjoyed the troll.

 

[Ralfakick]

 

[promking]

BVM-20F1U
Got a non working BVM cheap, bought a refurbished ISR. It’s working great, need a 10 or 11r to really configure it. But the geometry and color settings aren’t that bad.

 

[promking]

I found another 20F1U from a local guy.
This one has a bad PA board, I sent it out to Pat Savon and it can't be fixed it has a bad chip. So it looks like this one will just be spare parts, boards, and a tube. Finding a PA board is really hard, but in the meantime I'll try to find one. The positive was I have spare parts for this finicky BVM, but also snagged off of it the bottom mount bracket for the controller.
I started to calibrate it with a friend, he has the tools, we got the convergence and the colors looking amazing. But stupid me, put a dead battery in the ISR module, and it didn't save the calibration. So next time I need to write down the numbers, and values incase that happens again.

 

[lithy]

Gotta admit, for the price it would be fun to take this home and screw around with it a bit, but I know I have absolutely no real use for it.

Sony KP-7200 at the Goodwill for $35

Had the remote and looked like all of the screen frame was there as well as the screen. Opened it up to take a look, looked to be in good shape.

 

[wyo]

Is that the trololo guy?

 

[max 330 megafartz]

Gotta admit, for the price it would be fun to take this home and screw around with it a bit, but I know I have absolutely no real use for it.

Sony KP-7200 at the Goodwill for $35

Had the remote and looked like all of the screen frame was there as well as the screen. Opened it up to take a look, looked to be in good shape.

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Take that shit home and do goob things with it for real!!!!

 

[Orpheus]

Jeez i get depressed if i have to move a 20 inch PVM. Cool story though. I love how to original owner was like back then things were made to last. Like no bro. Early 90 late 80 is the most horrible time for electronics and built quality

What the fuck are you talking about?

 

[smokey]

What the fuck are you talking about?

Nineties SONY tech wasn't built to last. I never had a sony product from that period that didn't require some maintenance or repair.
Always bad caps, brittle plastic,..
an 80ties sony products almost always works straight out the gate

 

[prof]

 

[prof]

Btw, I only made it about 5 minutes into the video, but that is quite a CRT. Pretty luxurious. I do recall seeing similar sets over the years, particularly in some 80s movies.

 

[snes_collector]

What is the general consensus on JVC I'Art's? There is a free one down the road from me, either 24" or 27" screen. It would be a picture size upgrade over my 20" Sony Wega, just curious if picture quality is decent. Anyone used one?

 

[promking]

What is the general consensus on JVC I'Art's? There is a free one down the road from me, either 24" or 27" screen. It would be a picture size upgrade over my 20" Sony Wega, just curious if picture quality is decent. Anyone used one?

l'arts aren't bad it really comes down to whether you prefer flat or round... and the condition of that actual tv.
I went down the BVM,PVM rabbit hole hard. But some of these small consumer sets like l'arts are very sharp and nice for their size, but it all depends on the tvs history.

 

[snes_collector]

Thanks man, I have a couple PVM’s also but like to keep a consumer tv around for systems that don’t output rgb. The seller ghosted me on this one but it is good to know they are decent if another comes along.

 

[BIG BEAR]

I purchased this a few years back.
I tested it out with Genesis and it worked fine..
FAST FORWARD to today using an NTSC converter, pcbs are displayed in black and white and the AES s-video & composite curls terribly along the top of the screen.
I fiddled around with some adjustments on the back to no avail....
I'm going to toss this one...I can't be bothered.
BB

 

[Neodogg]

I purchased this a few years back.
I tested it out with Genesis and it worked fine..
FAST FORWARD to today using an NTSC converter, pcbs are displayed in black and white and the AES s-video & composite curls terribly along the top of the screen.
I fiddled around with some adjustments on the back to no avail....
I'm going to toss this one...I can't be bothered.
BB

Throw it in a box towards me…

 

[deviljin102]

Wow, I actually never saw one of these until today.

 

[wyo]

If you saw one on a YouTube video, did you really see it?