SOLD: Sony BVM-A20F1U 20" multisync Seattle, WA area

[mesmer]

SOLD

I'm selling my Sony BVM-A20F1U. Local pickup only in the Seattle, WA area. $750

This is a 20" multiformat / multisync BVM. It natively scans 240p/480i/480p/720p/1080i lagless. It will display 240p/480i/480p in either 4:3 or 16:9. 720p/1080i is 16:9 only. It has both bezels. It will take component (YPbPr), RGB (RGBS, RGsB), s-video (YC), and composite as inputs.

Here are some pics:
http://s1024.photobucket.com/user/mesmer00/library/bvm-tate
http://s1024.photobucket.com/user/mesmer00/library/bvm-a20f1u
http://s1024.photobucket.com/user/mesmer00/library/bvm-hi-res

And literature:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-dHPgwZF0DJSjJpRHJhUlVXWnc/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-dHPgwZF0DJWVh2bFZEZjRveVU/edit?usp=sharing

edit:

manufactured: october 2006
crt on: 30,379 hours
operation (including standby): 39,424 hours

 

[Skips]

I'm selling my Sony BVM-A20F1U. Local pickup only in the Seattle, WA area. $750

This is a 20" multiformat / multisync BVM. It natively scans 240p/480i/480p/720p/1080i lagless. It will display 240p/480i/480p in either 4:3 or 16:9. 720p/1080i is 16:9 only. It has both bezels. It will take component (YPbPr), RGB (RGBS, RGsB), s-video (YC), and composite as inputs.

Here are some pics:
http://s1024.photobucket.com/user/mesmer00/library/bvm-tate
http://s1024.photobucket.com/user/mesmer00/library/bvm-a20f1u
http://s1024.photobucket.com/user/mesmer00/library/bvm-hi-res

And literature:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-dHPgwZF0DJSjJpRHJhUlVXWnc/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-dHPgwZF0DJWVh2bFZEZjRveVU/edit?usp=sharing

You should probably post the hours as well before charging that much for a BVM. The hours can be found under the service menu.

 

[mesmer]

You should probably post the hours as well before charging that much for a BVM. The hours can be found under the service menu.

Yes, thanks, I need to get that after work. The BVM-Axx series were the last CRT BVMs made by Sony btw.

 

[max 330 mega]

holy tits talk about a killer CRT. ive got a pvm myself, was not aware a CRT that could display 720P even existed. GLWTS, if i was still living in seattle this would probably end up being mine.

 

[Hans Grösse]

holy tits talk about a killer CRT. ive got a pvm myself, was not aware a CRT that could display 720P even existed. GLWTS, if i was still living in seattle this would probably end up being mine.

Sony we gas can, well it's a 1080i system so any signal from 240P on up is converted to 1080i. Great monitor here, an application killer for sure.

 

[mesmer]

holy tits talk about a killer CRT. ive got a pvm myself, was not aware a CRT that could display 720P even existed. GLWTS, if i was still living in seattle this would probably end up being mine.

The PVM-xxL5, BVM-Dxx and BVM-Axx series can all do 720p native.

Sony we gas can, well it's a 1080i system so any signal from 240P on up is converted to 1080i. Great monitor here, an application killer for sure.

Not true at all, every signal is natively scanned

 

[Hans Grösse]

The PVM-xxL5, BVM-Dxx and BVM-Axx series can all do 720p native.


Not true at all, every signal is natively scanned

Maybe I misspoke? My Sony Wega CRT TV displays 1080i, so every signal displayed has been up-converted to 1080i except I imagine broadcast HDTV which is 1080i native in my parts.

 

[Thamiel]

The consumer models upscale (for the most part), the broadcast monitors natively scan. Big difference in quality.

 

[AxelK]

Whoa this is tempting as hell. I'm gonna have to think about it! Is your price firm?

 

[Hans Grösse]

The consumer models upscale (for the most part), the broadcast monitors natively scan. Big difference in quality.

Native scan? It's not like a CRT Monitor has a dynamic display that can take 240P and display it pixel for pixel. If it can display 1080i, that's it, every image s 1080i, it has to be, as that is all the screen can show. So when a 240P signal is shown, it is unconverted to 1080i. How can a display that is fixed at a certain resolution display anything but that?

 

[mesmer]

Native scan? It's not like a CRT Monitor has a dynamic display that can take 240P and display it pixel for pixel. If it can display 1080i, that's it, every image s 1080i, it has to be, as that is all the screen can show. So when a 240P signal is shown, it is unconverted to 1080i. How can a display that is fixed at a certain resolution display anything but that?

It is a multisync monitor. Like a PC CRT, except it does 15khz, and only the other standard video signals. Please read some of the literature.

 

[Hans Grösse]

It is a multisync monitor. Like a PC CRT, except it does 15khz, and only the other standard video signals. Please read some of the literature.

I understand it takes different frequencies. My question pertains to the static resolution and not so much the refresh rate. So as stated before, a monitor that is HD, still has to display in that resolution regardless of it's input signal.

 

[mesmer]

I understand it takes different frequencies. My question pertains to the static resolution and not so much the refresh rate. So as stated before, a monitor that is HD, still has to display in that resolution regardless of it's input signal.

CRTs have no static resolution.

 

[Jibbajaba]

Native scan? It's not like a CRT Monitor has a dynamic display that can take 240P and display it pixel for pixel. If it can display 1080i, that's it, every image s 1080i, it has to be, as that is all the screen can show. So when a 240P signal is shown, it is unconverted to 1080i. How can a display that is fixed at a certain resolution display anything but that?

I don't think you understand how a CRT works.

 

[Hans Grösse]

I don't think you understand how a CRT works.

I have a good idea, I know there is an electron gun that draws the picture at about 60 times a second, and let's say I have an old crt that displays 480i. That's it, that's all I can display. I have an hd crt, it can display 540p or 1080i. So when I hook my Sega Genesis up which displays 240p. Now an older tv takes that signal and splits it up to 480i. My tv displays it up to 1080i. It's not like either device can display 240p resolution. So this monitor can take multiple resolutions and display it pixel for pixel? I don't get that, how can something that can display a sharper image like HD, then also display a perfect SD Interlaced resolution? The pixels are smaller and more numerous in a hd monitor therefore it has to display the image differently than say a tv from the 80's.

That is where I'm getting lost.

 

[Vigormortis]

Here's the simplest way I can think of to explain it: Pixels do not physically exist on a CRT. They are "drawn" on the glass by an electron beam. That's why a multisync CRT can natively scan different resolutions. It's not like a LCD where each pixel is an actual physical object sitting in a fixed position.

 

[Hans Grösse]

Here's the simplest way I can think of to explain it: Pixels do not physically exist on a CRT. They are "drawn" on the glass by an electron beam. That's why a multisync CRT can natively scan different resolutions. It's not like a LCD where each pixel is an actual physical object sitting in a fixed position.

Got it, quite amazing too in fact, I need to get one of these units.