I am Selling my CRTs

Hey guys, we're uh going to look at six CRTs today. Uh these are all CRTs that you have the opportunity to buy and they're all from my personal collection here in my CRT vault. And uh we're going to get into all six of these. There's PVMs, there's Shadow Mass tubes. They've all been repaired, restored, refreshed, calibrated, and they are ready to go. Now, there's um one catch to all this, right? There's always a catch. You have to come to the Retro World Expo to buy these CRTs. That's the only place they're going to be for sale. I always have a booth at the Retro World Expo. Many of you have come and visited me before in this booth and said hello. But you have to come to my booth and that's where these will be listed. They'll be up on demonstration and you'll be able to buy them there and take them straight from the convention floor and u they again will be ready to go but you can only buy them on September 12th and 13th and this is at the Hartford Convention Center in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. I'll have a link to more details uh pinned in the comments on how to get info on the Retro World Expo. Please, you guys, if you want to get one of these CRTs, you have to come to this show. I will also be having a course, but I'll talk more about that in a little bit. Uh first off, I want to let you know that we have a PVM, a 20-inch PVM to look at, and that's the first one that's for sale from my collection here this year. But again, you got to come to Retro World to get it. So, uh, anyway, check out these CRTs. [music] So, up first, I've got a Sony PVM, and this is going to be a value PVM. I'm going to tell you some good things. I'm going to tell you some bad things about this one. It is a Sony PVM 20N5U and it is from the year 2003. So, it's one of the newer newish PVM models and it has been RGB modded. It has been fully recapped. All the electrolytic capacitors have been changed. It has had a solder reflow, boards cleaned and all that good stuff. And uh it looks really nice. The picture's clean. Now, let's get to some of the bad stuff. Let's look around to the rear. And first off, there are a couple of cracks on the back casing here of the shell. Here's a hairline crack. And the pretty severe crack was down here. And it's been repaired with epoxy. So, it's, you know, not moving at all. And it actually worked. The repair did, but it is cracked. That's one problem. The second issue is there's no sound. There's no audio out or in um or the audio in is not functioning. And I've tried to figure that out. I don't really see anything wrong. And I couldn't really troubleshoot it fully. And so I'm going to just sell it as is without audio functionality because the audio really is lousy on this PVM anyway. Um here's the RGB input. So you have red, green, blue sync, and then the line A and line B. And um the one thing I will note too is that the Svideo on line A does not function properly. So, it's it's losing color, and I'm not sure whether that has to do with the modification or the way all that was set up, but it does work fine for composite video, and Svideo works fine on line B. So, you have three basically problems with this. You got no S-video support on line A, no audio support, and then finally the cracked back, and that's why it's going to be at a discount. Uh, everything else on it is in great condition. The tube's really nice. There's not a blemish on it. Colors are strong, nice and balanced. And you'll get to see all that in person more. Um, but I'll throw some footage in here of this thing running. Uh, this is more of an entrylevel PVM, but it's going to be probably the only 20-in PVM that I'm going to have available this year at the convention. Again, fully recapped, fully restored in that fashion, but it still has those issues. So, if you're looking for a Sony PVM that's 20 in that does RGB that's restored, this may be a great deal for you. Next up, we have the largest of these monitors and TVs that I will be bringing to the show, and this is an RCA XL. L 100 stereo monitor if we're being technical, but it's more like a television. It is 25 in. It has stereo audio. Uh really good audio actually. It does support a remote control. And then it has a nice array of buttons on here. And if we look at the side, this one has a really cool old school faux wood grain side paneling that's all in really nice condition. No major chips, breaks, or anything. It's really just a beautiful old school TV set. Now, if we look around behind it, to be exact, we're looking at the F25163WN, and it's by RCA from the Thompson Consumer Electronics, Inc. And you do have just one input here for composite video which we we're using in that demonstration there. So that's what you can hook up to it. It does have highfidelity audio out. It accepts analog through the antenna and that's really all you get for video inputs. You do have some potentiometer slots here that you can get adjustments done through. I've set it up nicely. It has been partially recapped, not 100% recapped. It's been restored to the point where it's in good shape. And really all in all, if it's some if you're looking for something that's in the larger 25-in variety, you don't want to invest a huge amount of money and you want to have one that's in nice condition, this is going to do somebody really right. Um, I'll show you some video here again of it running. And, uh, some good things about this one is you can play multiplayer games, you can run light gun games through this, and it's going to be a good experience. And uh again, you can use a remote control with it. But uh anyway, this one will be um for sale at the booth and the price uh probably about $300 for this one. All right, everybody. So, if you can make it out to the Retro World Expo, the best day is going to be Saturday because I'm going to have a CRT Wizards workshop there. I've uh been able to secure a longer period of time to have this workshop. So, it's like an hour and a half as opposed to last year's 45 minutes. And my new plan for this year is to pick up uh a TV that well, I've already gotten it, but it's actually from the garbage. And it doesn't even have a power cord attached to it that's been clipped. Uh so hopefully we could save this CRT live together in this workshop. And then we'll go through and we'll do a lot of adjustments and repairs on it uh depending on what it's needed. But again, it is a side of the road CRT. Uh again, that's going to be the CRT Wizards Workshop Saturday, September 12th at the Retro World Expo. There'll be more details in the comment. I hope to see you there Saturday, September 12th. Next up, we have a Panasonic color video monitor. It's a 13-inch monitor, Proline. It is the CT1386 VY. And if we look down here at the profile, we've got mono audio speaker here, headphones, accessory input or output. You can stick your headphone in there. There's a sensor for remote. So, it does support a remote. We got power, volume, channel, action, TV, video. Now, you will notice there's a thing here on the edge, and those are little wires. This one does have a custom overlay on the screen that you can't see except for these lines at the edges. So you don't even see the image at all or you don't see that in the image at all when you're using the monitor. But that overlay was for some type of touchscreen technology. Look at the back of this one. It is basically a security monitor. It's from September of 1998. Again, made by RCA. It does accept BNC form video for composite video and mono audio right there. You can out or send out the video too. You have a couple inputs for that. It also does support Svideo, so you get even a higher resolution than that. Now, that is uh the old interface connection for the custom overlay on the screen. And then right there, it does have RF support. So, this one's actually a little bit of a combo kind of like the last one where it's got uh monitor parts on it, but it also has some television parts on it so you can use RF and co-axle signals into this CRT monitor. Now, I'm going to run through and let you see some play through on this one, but this is a shadow mask tube. And again, you don't need to have a remote control to use this one, but you can. It does support 480i and 240p video just like all of these monitors and TVs do. And again, you do get higher resolution from Svideo. Um, this that I'm actually using is just composite video, but it'll be set up for Svideo at the show. And it's just a great little monitor for something that's like a starter piece again for somebody. I'm not expecting a huge uh payout or anything for this one, but it has been partially recapped and it's been cleaned up, adjusted, and uh solder flow. So, all the good like restoration stuff that you would want done for this one. And this one's going to run $450 for price tag on the Panasonic CT1386 VY monitor. [music] >> [music] [music] >> All right. This is a Sony PVM 1351Q and this one is really a beautiful performing pro video monitor. The CRT tube is gorgeous. It has a a lot of life left in it. I tested the tube with a BK467 and it has great emissions. The CRT has also been restored. Um, I've gone through each of the vital boards inside of it and replaced the necessary capacitors uh to make sure it lasts a very long time. Now, this one has got a painted bezel uh over here and it also did not have its original badge over here. So, I do have an aftermarket badge uh right there. Aside [snorts] from that, it it's fine up front. Everything else is complete here. And there's no scratches or anything on the CRT tube. If you look up here, there's a little bit of a mark here on the shell, but that's not really anything important. And then on the back side, you've got the markings here for the 1351Q. And this one is from January of 1995. And this is the first and I think only CRT I'll have at the show that will support component video. So you have this input down here which has been set up to use RGB and sync and then audio. You can also do composite video and Svideo and everything works great on this one. And um so you can switch this input down here and you can use RGB or component video. So this one is loaded with extra features that the other CRTs and PVMs do not have. This one has a very robust service menu and standard menu to get into. a lot of great controls up here. And this one is perfect for the starter uh set PVM. So, we will have this one up and uh ready to go for sale. And this one is going to be priced Oh, I think we're going to price this one at about $1,000 and see uh what we can get there with it. It's going to have uh include a BNC to start adapter, so you'll be able to do RGB right away with it. Well, all these CRTs, including this one, will include a power. All these monitors, this monitor is going to include a free power cable too with it, so you'll be ready to go if you decide to go with this one. But all in all, this is a great fun PVM and uh can really do everything you want. [music] This is a really nice PVM and it's got great aesthetics as well as wonderful performance. This has a lovely bezel with the Trinitron super fine pitch logo which predates the high resolution logo. This CRT is a 600 line tube so it does have a little bit higher resolution and it's uh got great color, no scratches. has been calibrated. Um, everything functions properly on this PVM. No problems at all. And it has been uh tested heavily. It's had a cap kit done to it. It's had every board rebuilt and restored to the proper um technique and everything. The great thing about this PVM is it always seems to look really good when it's tuned in and um it's been modified so that you can use RGB um with audio by using the line A on audio. So that modification has been completed on this one. This is the Sony PVM 1343MD. It is a little bit older from August of 1991 and there are no menus available on it. So, it is more of an analog PVM. So, you have to do all the adjustments internally. But, like I said, I've actually run through and done all the uh adjustments. And it still has a great set of uh controls here up at the front of the monitor where you can change inputs, do some color adjustment and volume controls, reset, etc. And then there are some ways to set up things and look at different stuff on your uh video monitor setup. So, I'll be glad to demonstrate how to use this to anybody interested in buying it. This one is a premium monitor and it's like the nicest of them all that I have, actually. And um it's going to run at about that $1,000 price point. And it's really, really, really a wonderful PVM. you. Hey. Hey. All right, we've got a really high resolution CRT monitor here. This is a Pelco and it was originally a uh security monitor. It supported just Svideo and composite video. However, it has been modified to support RGB now. And it has a shadow mask tube here. Very lovely black shell. I just love the branding down here with the Pelco logo, speaker, picture controls. All right, let's look at the back here. This is the PMCS15A. So, it has a slightly larger tube than the other two 13-inch PVMs. This is a 15 in and uh it is 700 TV line, so it's the highest resolution tube of everything. We're going to use it for RGB, but the BNC inputs for RGB are not currently marked. So, we've got green, red, blue, sync, and that is how you properly connect this one. And then there's our line two audio in right there. And then our monitor needs to be set up on AU2 and video 2. And that'll give us access to the RGB input. So, a Shadow Mask 2, which is slightly different than the uh other Sony's. High resolution. Again, great colors, very sharp, and lots of life on this CRT. It's been restored with a cab kit. And of course, it has had a high quality RGB mod installed. And uh it's just a really cool one cuz it looks different than most of the other Sony PVMs and other PVMs. I just don't see very many Pelos, especially ones that support RGB. Uh so I again, this is all all these PVMs that are uh professional grade like this and in this package, this size package are perfect for starter monitors. And this one is really a sneaky good uh surprise one with the extra size on the CRT. So, you're getting a bigger screen size and it's also got the higher resolution tube um at that 700 TV lines. So, uh this one's going to be priced kind of around the same price as the others and that is $1,000. All right, I want to go over a few final details here on the CRTs. Now, look, I I do realize that the pricing on these is still really I mean, expensive for the most part. Uh, but I want to let you know that you're basically only paying for my parts and my time slash labor invested into each of these CRTs. I'm not actually really charging anything for the monitors and CRTs themselves. Uh like half of these came in as donations. The other half were part of lots that I bought as uh parts for the shop. I just was able to fix them and restore them and get them all back. And that's really where the pricing comes in. You're just paying for the services to have these serviced here in the shop. Now, since they're so expensive, I'm going to try to bring even more uh entrylevel CRTs. Now, these will be ones that I've just basically cleaned up a little bit, power tested, and ensured that they're working. And these will be hopefully under a hundred bucks. I'll try to grab as many as I can fit in the Sprinter van I've rented to drive up with all these CRTs. So, I will have some things there available for people uh that are not as expensive as say a $1,000 PVM. But if you just want to come and see an amazing piece of restored CRT hardware in use with games and such on it, this will be a great opportunity to just come and look at CRTs at least in like a museum style uh I don't know, you know, setup. you know, it'll be a booth, but you'll have some really cool high quality CRTs there to check out. And uh anyway, I hope that you can make it out. If you do come by the booth, please say hello. I love to talk to people. Tell me what kind of CRTs you're rocking in your setup or what you're working on. Um I'm really excited to be at the Retro World again this year. I love going there. I love seeing all my friends. And uh it's just a great great weekend every year. again, September 12th and 13th. I hope to see you there. If you do come out that weekend and you make it Saturday, please do try to come to the CRT Wizards workshop. It's going to be different than anything I've ever done before. I always try to mix up these presentations each year and uh this one is going to be even crazier than anything I've ever done before because again I get a longer time slot and I think it's going to be quite quite an experience there. Uh, I'll again you'll be able to see more people at my booth. I know at least Bob will be there from Retro RGB and Tito from Macho Nacho will be there and um, a couple other people. Ken Maker will be there and I don't know everybody, but there will be people from the retro gaming community there. They love to talk to people. Kyle Kitur, uh, he will be there and he should have some retro access cables. So, if you do pick up a PVM, hopefully we can get you set up with everything you need to go and use it in the hotel room if you're staying there Saturday night and uh have a I don't know, N64 party or something. Have a melee tournament in your hotel room. All right, guys. Thanks again for watching. Hope you have a great week. I'll see you next time with some more retro content. I just realized I did this entire episode with the sunglasses on top of my head and uh I don't know how I didn't even catch it. Just All right.