I picked up some old CRTs from an ewaste find and had real trouble getting them to work around 2022.
I found a guy in southern California that can fix them but he was 2+ hours away and the monitors weighted around 100 pounds.
Just a few weeks ago I finally made the drive and got the first one repaired. It needed a few small parts and a service, but had a new picture tube installed.
It was a Sony BVM-D24E1WU.
The other monitor takes about 10 minutes to warm up. Pat the repair guy told me it would only support sd resolutions (480i) I didn’t take it for repair since I didn’t know what I would hook up to a SD only monitor. That one was a Sony BVM-20F1U.
Doing some quick searches it seems I got super lucky in the model both displays they were, as well as finding someone who knows how to fix them.
It seems that I should do some retro gaming. My retro system is a PS3 . Is there anything that just wows on these displays?
Does anyone have an HDMI to sdi recommendation? How do I de-embed the audio?
Update:
I realized that my Taiko Drum Master machine is a PS2. I tried hooking it up the the 20" monitor and discovered the BVM does not have a composite input, component only. I’ll get a component cable since I can’t imagine I’d get an input card for less.
Is there anything to look out for in PS2/PS3 component cables? I had a Sony set I got by mistake and can’t seem to find them now that I need them.
The D24 is a 1080i monitor. I’d been reading around and it seemed that was a better way to connect it them the component cables.
Not sure that HDMI to component would be any better than just going straight component if your PVM doesn’t accept HDMI. Even if it does accept HDMI, it probably would be better to do straight component anyway. I would defer to your research as I’m not an experts on PVMs.
But personally I would probably just play ps3 on an LCD rather than a CRT. Most games, especially the last half of the generation were designed to plan on an LCD and it’s the easiest to connect and get good picture quality.
Checking on this the HDMI can be converted to HD-SDI which is a digital signal. The BVM internal DAC’s are reported to be better than what game systems came with. However I’m not sure if it is worth the cost /effort.
It’s just that I have one, so in this case I wouldn’t have to drop ??? $$ to get a different retro system and a game. It also plays PS1 games so that opens things up a bit.
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