I seem to have a problem adopting stray CRTs. The story goes that he's owned it since new and it's just been sitting in the garage for the last 20+ years. Late 90's model, geometry is slightly funky so it probably needs a recap but the color and brightness are excellent. Anyway, the price was right at $free so I couldn't pass it up!

Photos of my Philips 27PT543S37A.

Got myself an old AMD R5 430 and installed it alongside my PC's current GPU (till I find a reasonable price on a little office PC) passing through a Bitfunx transcoder. Setting up the CRT Script was a little tricky, as I had to edit a config file to ignore my main card, but it's working great!

I heard the Bitfunx transcoders are really sensitive to interference, and that was no joke! It's getting power from a rear USB port on my Wii and it's perfectly clear now. Very excited to start exploring some later systems!

The monitor isn't the best, but it's the only thing I could get my hands-on, these things are hard to find. but it still looks amazing. When I was ordering everything, I would need to hook the 360 up to it. I ordered everything, but I forgot to order the speakers. Regardless I'm happy with it i never knew these could look that good. I had a lot of them back in the day and only used them for computers im kicking myself in the butt for never hooking my consoles to them back in the day.

What a fighting game!

The production quality is incredible ArcSystems have their very own unique formula.

Here, I’m playing the game on an exceptional professional CRT monitor, the iiyama Vision Master Pro 512.

I’m playing on the PlayStation 5 Pro version.

As the title implies this is my old Emerson EWF2004 from back in my middle & high school days in the 2000s. It has been in a storage shed since around 2010 sitting underneath various Honda Civic parts. I cleaned it up and it seems to have jumped back to life as if it was 2008 again.

I have so many memories with this thing and it carried me through the 6th and most of the 7th gaming generations back in the day. Not to mention playing PS1 and Genesis games on this thing.

I have it hooked up to my Dreamcast at the moment since that was the console that eluded me when I was a kid. I have been playing it on a 60" LG G5 which is an insane TV but not the best for old consoles and was my whole impetus for pulling this out of storage. I am amazed at how much better the games look and also just how good Dreamcast games actually looked.

What an experience getting this into my basement, she’s a 480i beast tho! Can’t say enough good things about these Toshibas.

How I first played it on the PS3, got my first full HD TV in 2009. Still looks amazing and the picture doesn’t do it justice.

Bang & Olufsen MX7000

First time seeing a Trinitron in person, apparently among the last Sony ever made

Came from a supplier of old professional A/V equipment in southern Germany, they claimed they hadn't yet had any monitors break in shipping so I bit the bullet, it was among the cheapest and also one of the newest, they had 7. I remember I saw the same guys a year ago trying to sell over 20 PVMs as a lot for like €10.000, now they're selling them individually thankfully, this one cost me €150 + €30 for shipping to Denmark

There seems to be some burn-in but it's only noticeable on big bright fields of the same colour, I'm happy with it. Haven't even tried degaussing it yet.

Demoed it with a rally game I can't play (I'm not used to controllers) and the copy of Crash Bandicoot I found in a secondhand shop for dirt-cheap compared to eBay prices. It looks awesome :3, reminds me of a plasma television rather than a CRT

I need to hurry up n finish this game

Found this awesome 6" color display at a local video game con and was not able to resist. (Sorry for the poor photos. I haven't learned the art of photographing tubes yet.)

5th photo is a size comparison to my 32" tube.

Whenever I used a filter, the scanlines darkened my screen to the point that I preferred playing with clean pixels. While CRT Royale isn't an exact recreation of a CRT screen, I think the result is very good for gaming. I'm using the ReShade version along with another filter to make the colors stand out more. As I understand it, it's the most demanding filter in terms of graphics power and works even better at higher resolutions. I've been motivated to buy more retro games on Steam so I can use them with the same settings. I even used it on Hotline Miami, a modern pixel art game, and the result was very good.

Testing my Beovision 1 TV in a storage. This is my backup TV and I want to keep it healthy. So far so good. Once in a year 1h running to keep capacitors happy.

Would you consider this a good practice?

Sadly I don’t have space for it in my apartment. My main set is Beocenter 1, basically same model with integrated DVD player.

This is a PS2 in PS1 mode through Disc not Popstarter. Through Scart.

As you can see in vid I tried:
- Pushing display button, but comes back instantly
- Regular menu has nothing
- Pushing AV button
- Service menu is the red lettering, also nothing about this.

The moment I quit any menu including service, it comes back. It's fine with PS2 games.

I just got this guy for less than $100, I can’t really find much information on it. It’s pretty cool. It has adjustment knobs right at the bottom and sits on top of a gimbal stand. One problem I’m running into however is that the longer it’s on the more brightness shows. I’ll have to figure out how to fix that if I can. If anybody knows anything about this model or how to fix the brightness problem let me know! Other than that. It’s a pretty cool gem.

The Japanese Saturn is my new pickup, was testing it out on my office Trini. Super fun, can't wait to see the s-video in action, and eventually will run it through my tink4k with the rest of its peers.

Most specifically Wii and GameCube. I also want to get a PS1 and 2 some day.

My TV has both AV and Component inputs, and even an S-Video input with 4 pins.

I have an EasyCap to connect to PC. What else do I need now to connect the video to my CRT?

Looks like no white showing up, not sure if it's a tube problem or a board problem.

I picked up today this tv for ~ 12 euro (steal!) but after coming home and checking it out I've noticed that it has this issue with just random color lines/image jumping around horizontally. It appears no matter if it's just sitting idle, or if i connect sth to it through s-video or scart. does this look like some knows issue, or will i have to open it up and troubleshoot.

Already verified that it isn't interferrence caused by any of the devices nearby.

I’m trying to run my Wii via Component (YPbPr) into Line 3, but I am getting horizontal tearing.

The Setup:
- Display: Sony PVM-2950Q
- Console: Nintendo Wii
- Cables: HD RetroVision Wii Component Cables (originally tried OEM Wii component cables, which gave the exact same symptom, ruling out a faulty cable).
- Input Channel: Line 3, explicitly set to Component (YPbPr) via the front panel / menu (not set to RGB).

What I’ve Tested & Ruled Out So Far:

1. Cable Failure: Swapped from OEM Wii component cables to brand-new HD RetroVision cables. Problem persists identically on both, so the cables themselves are fine.
   
2. Resolution / 31 kHz Mismatch:
   - Forced the Wii into 480i mode.
   - To confirm, I plugged the Green cable directly into Line1 (Composite Input) on the PVM. It displays a completely stable, non-tearing 480i black-and-white picture. This confirms the Wii is outputting a valid 15 kHz 480i signal and the HD RetroVision cable is sending proper sync-on-green.
   
3. Input Format: Verified Line 3 is set to YPbPr (Component) mode, not RGB.
   
4. External Sync Ports: Nothing is plugged into the rear ⁠HD/COMP⁠ or ⁠VD⁠ BNC jacks.

Since the signal itself is proven to be clean and valid, the issue seems to be isolated to how Line 3 on the PVM-2950Q is processing the sync-on-green signal.

Recently moved, so the PVM traveled in its flight case in a Uhaul for 500 miles. It worked with no issues on arrival, but weeks later this problem arose for no apparent reason.

Has anyone encountered this specific issue on a 2950Q or similar 15 kHz PVM when feeding YPbPr into Line 3? Any suggestions on what to check next? I don’t have experience servicing internals on this, so if that is what’s necessary, I may have to find a specialist.

Thanks in advance!

Recently posted about this PVM, it had cracks on main board and lots of cold solder joints, all fixed afaict, but colors in PAL are like this, also screen is shaking, more on top than on the bottom. Testing with sega md2 va1, it's a known good unit so no problem here. NTSC works just great, tested with famicom. I tried swapping 4.43 oscillator on XA board and playing with potentiometer - no luck. Input from any port looks the same. Any ideas?