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Sorry for the Aussies, testing EU version later today, scart 1 and 2 have rgb, scart 3 is s-video/composite. The set also features h.position and rotation adjustments in the normal menu.

philips is shit, stop promoting it.

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I frequent the e recycling bins in my local area and are finding it much harder to pic up decent crts compared to a few years back, I reckon in the last 12 months they have started to really dry up, even in council clearances. I remember in 2020 being able to pick up at least 2 crts a week from nature strips now it feels like a see them once every 6 months, give it 5 more years and they will probably totally dry up.

That's like finding gold in this day and age, RGB or component on little sets is hard to beat. Great thing about small CRTs is you can store 4 14 inch ones vs 1 29 inch set and you don't have to visit the chiropractor after you lift it.

It looks good!

looks nice but a little bit dim. I wonder how it would look in a dark room.

God. One was listed near me for the equivalent of $50, but I promised myself to hold back on buying CRTs for a while 😅

Honestly, for 480i content like VHS, PS2, 3rd party Gamecube, etc, these seem like the perfect displays. Wouldn't use it for scanlines but definitely would use the huge 480i screen and sound system to play Vice City how it was meant to be played. I'm really regretting passing so many of these up on the streets. Hope I see another one soon. Got a 27 inch Trini and an old cabinet Zenith as well as an HD Wega and plasmas for everything else. Do I need one? No. But it would be a rad final edition for that specific era of gaming.

I bought one of these televisions online a few years ago. Even though it is now quite an old model, the sound quality was absolutely unbelievable. Watching a action movie I would often literally jump out of my seat because of a special effects explosion. 😂😂 The couple I bought it off still had the original receipt for it and they paid £4,000 when it was new. Ok, it doesn't have HDMI inputs, the screen may be flat but the back is still pretty deep like tv's of old and it weighs a ton. But tge upside is that you can pick them up nowadays for very little money for what is still a top notch television with sound quality that you can't fail to be super impressed with.

Thanks for the valuable information. I was able to fix my PVM by adjusting the trimmer cap for NTSC.👍

This tipped me off on what to look for, thanks!

Do you know how to access the service menu on a siemens tv?

Hi my pvm I just bought randomly went black and white and then after maybe 30 minutes went back to color. Should I be worried? I’ve never had to solder anything before and the idea of opening mine up and soldering it scares me. I bought mine for a pretty good price but it was still expensive. The guy I got it from hadn’t used it in a long time

Did you check out the subwoofer on it? Its very famous among the tv speaker community

Hello, many thanks for your work, I really need your advice and professional opinion, I recently saw a monitor from the Phillips MC15601 HD11 ultrasound equipment at a flea market, it is about 14", has BNC connectors on the back with the inscription "B", "GV", "R", "SYNC" and also VGA. On eBay such a one costs about $ 400-800. And at the flea market such a one costs 2000 rubles, tell me is this a good option for a mister, and should I expect that this monitor has a higher quality tube than in ordinary monitors. With respect, Maxim.

I bought one recently (2023) for its NTSC input - which is rather rare in the UK - to play with the CGA composite output of my IBM PC5150. Looks nice next to vintage computers, doesn't take much space, the build quality is fantastic (save for the obviously missing flap...). Too small for txt applications, but games designed for CGA composite mode run perfectly!

Anyone watching, don't sleep on this model, I have 90's version and yes it still has the annoying need to chose ntsc/PAL, but besides that it's definitely a 500+TVL tube(scanlines are well defined) with awesome geometry and convergence. Love the old school look and the external speakers!

How do you connect to firestick? Help please. Thanks

Can you definitely not change the aspect ratio without the remote?

I have one that must have been from the same location as yours, has a number on the back in permo with the same handwriting

Needs recap 😂

I got this one for free!!!

I have the opportunity to pick this up in Korea. Was hoping it would be 480p compatible, but I guess it's not 😢 If it came down to this ($25) vs a 15 inch JVC pvm-type crt ($150), which would you go with? I think both top out at 480i

Hello Rob, thank you for your sharing, it's very interresting. Could you tell me if you can switch this TV model in 60Hz for the RGB SCART input. Thank you. Yves

MX8000 manuals & website all state it has S-Video in & couldn't see it on my model, so I came here to see if I was missing something & thanks for being so thorough - glad I'm not going mad!

Hey Rob can you advise what type of cable you used to loop ?

i have a philips 32pw9551/12 but the service menu is not showing for me it's driving me insane, do i have to be on a specific channel or input ? i don't watch tv on it and don't have the connector for that plugged in, is that the reason that it's not showing up ? it should be the same code for my tv i even got the friking original remote

I like your videos

How did you get the grid up in the service menu . I need to sort out the geometry thanks .

I wish we got these in the UK, pretty sure Sony never released these HD CRTs here, I’ve never seen one. Literally the perfect 360/PS3 display.

Hello. the guncon2, do you know if there is a problem with software from another region? taking into account that this version is japanese, which model is yours?

I just bought one of these, because I love the design and look of it. I don’t mind that the screen is a standard CRT. I used to drool over high end PVMs wishing I could have one, but I’ve come to the philosophy that older games were made to be played on average family TVs. So while near-perfect fidelity is really cool, using a regular consumer-grade CRT is also perfectly fine and arguably what the games were designed for.

I have a similar Sony 30XS955 with HDMI port. I should hook up a PS3/Xbox360 via HDMI rather than Component, correct?

Another update: this TV does function marvelous as DVD playback machine. It has beautiful frame doubling and decombing. Where you don't want 100Hz for games, it is very welcome for DVD playback. So this is my favourite DVD display, and the Panasonic Viera Plasma is the best in 1:1 pixel perfect Blu Ray playback. I have to say that sharpness and detail on the Viera with Blu Ray is a huge leap forward, expect to have 5x as many pixels. But since goodwill is still flooded with cheap DVD's, the Avant is the best way to watch them. Incredible sound too.

I got a free Samsung UW17J11VD last week not much info but it all goes vhs & DVD player to so can still be used in 2024

Shame about the Sharp at 0:20. I have the same model! It might be worth pulling the CRT and chassis for another project. Also recall the little 10' portable at 9:15 was sold here in the UK as the 'Nikkai Baby 10', though there were other OEM iterations available with A/V etc, mostly from the catalogue brands. I believe it uses an Onwa chassis (see Michael Dranfield's video for more info).

nice find on those arcade chassis! awesome pickups as usual. that signal generator is awesome - i've followed you on twitter. keen to see you post there, i browse it every day!

Amazing finds mate. Didn't think you could find stuff like that in Gippsland these days. The sig gen will be for some kind of monitor calibration setup and I'm really interested in finding more out about this telecom Sinclair devices.

Most of those NEC Multisyncs will run at least basic VGA resolution with a 9 to 15 adaptor or cable. I used to pick them up for $5 each as only good for parts, and spend $10 on a cable, and sell them for $80-100 each. That Sharp 10" 3 in 1 tube is the same as in the Philips KA910/920 portables that were also made by sharp. They used to get dropped all the time and the tubes broken. You could sell those sets second hand for a couple of hundred back in the day, since something like that crappy Masuda 10" 12V cost about $600 new. I would keep the Sharp and drop the Masuda off a cliff.

from witch year is this tv

It should display 1080i but 50hz instead of 60. This tv has the best 480p display I have ever seen plus a bunch of options you don’t see on other crt TVs

Did you repaired it?

There are widescreen cheat codes (or modified game images) for Dreamcast games so autostretch on VGA is no big deal IMO.

rare to see such a small set with component and a curved tube

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in the past this monittor make sound of pokemon gameboy emulator..... i dont know why and how... the monitor burn afther 2 month.... i never see this again ...EXPLAIN VIDEO PLZ i wwant see this again PLZ its probably ground overpower or somethink like this

I have a GOLDEN EYE 59cm CT-25H32EN, it only has composite and RF input. Its an Australian television, manufactured in Korea like yours. 50Hz. Can my model by modified for Scart and S-video?

I have 3 of these in Thailand. 2 Saba and 1 Thomson, exactly the same chassis. I've never seen the RCA model though, must be for export. One very neat feature of that set is the power on/off via SCART: turn on/off your console when the TV is on standby and it will turn the TV on/off.

I bought a General Electric branded Scart set from ebay, had the same chassis, tube and osd but the outer shell was different. It was $90 AUD free shipping and had one layer of bubble wrap in a single layer box. Made it safe somehow