Fixed up the setup a bit - we don’t have a ton of room to work with, so I’m going the wheely cart route. Grabbed a cart from IKEA and added a pegboard and some bungee cables to tie down a power strip in the back, so now I can wheel it about the ground floor of the house with impunity. Kind of surprised at how not terrible the Trinitron speakers are, although there’s definitely room for improvement there.
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This setup looks really nice and now I’m legitimately considering a frame TV for a similar situation!
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The Rolling Caaaaaart (Daytona USA Voice) is a really cool concept, helped loads with my setup too. Being able to pull it up to your bed is an amazing bonus.
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Sweating a bit over this one. I don’t think I’ll hear back from them tonight. I’ve been waiting for one of these to show up in my area.
EDIT: I’m picking it up at 4 today. I’m excited that I’m being more unholy clutter into my house.
@Jockel I’m so envious over your widescreen pvm. I didn’t even know they existed and now I’ll probably never be able to get one at a price under what they went for new.
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Found a Toshiba 27AF45 on the street with some horizontal overlap. The case was pretty scuffed up, but the screen is perfect. The issue is pretty common on this series of sets and only needs a single cap replaced, but the solder pads and some of traces broke away when I desoldered the cap.
Luckily I was able to do a makeshift repair by scratching away the solder mask on the traces and soldering the cap legs directly to the PCB copper. I also unplugged a velocity modulation unit that was supposed to increase video sharpness but caused artifacts in 240p content.
Working great now and looks amazing! Glad I saved it from the dump!
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Found an excellent Sony universal remote at the thrift store. I had worked fully on everything I have thrown at it. Everything from my receiver to a preamp, every new and old tv. There are 7 components all of which can be a different tv and not limited to the type of device labeled. Perfect for my growing collection.
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Good find! This will control basically anything with a Sony badge made before last year, when they tragically started changing their TV & audio remote codes for literally the first time ever.
It’ll still control some new stuff too though. Higher-end stuff still seems to use the old codes, entry-level is now using whatever cheap control hardware they can get. 
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That’s good to know about new hardware. I just tested it on my lg GX oled tv and thankfully it worked with the last code. I’m kind of shocked how well this has worked. I’m not used to universal remotes actually being fully functional with menu and arrows, and input select. I have one crt that has no physical menu button except for the remote. Sadly I have an oppo preamp that is not supported unless I can find what it blaster sequences it shares with another device.
Check Onkyo or Arcam.
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Nah, that in the picture is a BVM D20. That’s 4:3. Supports HD resolutions tho.
The only real 16:9 pro monitor worth having is either a D24 (used to own one of these) / A24 or a D32 / A32. And those are grails. There’s an actual PVM I’ve seen that’s 16:9 but from what I remember it was really low TVL (I think 300?), basically worse resolution than a good consumer set. If you want that professional feeling I’d say try to get something with at least 600 TVL. For reference, the BVM D series has 1100 TVL, I believe.
Uh basically tl;dr get out of the rat race and enjoy that Philips, it looks good. I hope it’s not 100hz.
Edit: oh I just saw it’s HD. Maybe check for details regarding your specific model but from what I remember 1080i is usually the way to go, as other resolutions can introduce a lot of input lag. So maybe even consider an upscaler if you want to play retro games and they feel / look bad.
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The rat race is a terrible grind to find oneself in for sure. That guy posted listed the Philips as sold and hasn’t sent me his address. It may not be mine after all. I have a friend in Chicago that I stay with when she’s not busy, I’ll be able to get one eventually when visiting her.
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Best of luck. If you haven’t already, set up alarms for offers. Sometimes you can still get amazing CRTs for good prices. That Bang & Olufsen MX8000 I posted above running God Hand was free for example. And I got two BVM D14 units for 20€ each last year. Phone up TV stations and companies that work in film / TV / ads in your area. Ended up with a huge haul (including a D14, 20F1E, two 17" JVC DTV) for free a few years ago. I only got so much stuff cause I kept looking and collecting for over a decade.
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The guy I picked this up from didn’t even know if it worked and it does! This was sitting in a house he night and was doing renovations and hadn’t even hooked power up to the house. A little dawn powerwash and a sonic care toothbrush cleared out those grills fantastically. It still needs a lot of cleaning but I’m am not complaining as it was free.
Oh yeah, I have alerts. I got a little 9” jvc broadcast monitor last week got 50 bucks. I just have to not be in a hurry
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Looking good so far and fitting nicely on there! I’d be interested to see and hear about your impressions at 240p, 480i and 1080i.
I need to find my copy of PS2 shadow of the colossus, the first widescreen game I played on the ps2. Seen it since I moved so it may not have made it from Washington to Illinois. This Phillips doesn’t have an HDMI port unfortunately the 30 inch does. I’m going to wait the long wait for my mister clone to put this thing through its paces. I sold almost all of my snes era and before Consoles and Games before I moved here. My favorite thing about gaming on CRT’s is how good it makes my OLED television look when come back to it.
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If you want to try HD resolutions, you can use a component cable for PS3 or an HDMI to component transcoder. They are pretty affordable and don’t add any lag.
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Yes, I need to get some. I have them for the Wii U but nothing else. I also should get a 360 to round out the last gen of consoles that has analog out. I also think I have an hdmi to component converter somewhere. We’re at the part in this generation of consoles where games are almost free except for the niche ones. I still have demons souls and Nier. I’m excited to try some things out. I’m going to head to my janky game store and see what they got.
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Oh god, what is the best way to get hdmi to 1080i component? Should I go gaming to dsub to component? This seems challenging.
Now I’m having fantasies about disassembling a rear projecting crt to make it front projection.
I have problems and I must be stopped at all costs
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Pretty simple, just use this https://www.port-ta.com/products/n3cvhr/
And re: CRT projectors: don’t
Or at least get one that does HD too.
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