Cliff Clavin
Well-known member
I need some advice fellas. I love the look of CRT but I am not skilled at working on them. I have a few monitors that I would like to replace with a 19 or 20" Sony pvm. I have been searching for awhile and have a somewhat sketchy local source. It's some kind of media company that bought the assets of an old tv station. Supposedly has a bunch of them on pallets that he exports out.
His prices are not cheap by any means but similar to eBay. He is very difficult to deal with. I suspect I can look at them at pickup but will not be able to power it up. Sounds like he sells higher volume so for 3-4 monitors he is not going to bend over backwards.
I have tried using Sony trinitron tvs with an encoder but the image is not great. It's hard to describe why, but while the dots are crisp there are some extraneous artifacts rendering the sprites not perfect.
Has any discerning klovrs used Sony pvm in games like robotron or stargate? How was the image? I know the Sony pvm can be used by classic gamers playing nes but I haven't seen reports of image quality in arcades. I have also seen reports that some pvm models do not accept rgb natively. Not sure whether this is an issue or not. I asked for the model numbers but did not receive them.
I have some cap kits on the way so I will try my hand at cap replacement but this seemed like a decent solution to decaying arcade monitors.
So be kind, are the Sony pvm worth pursuing ? Is the image as good as an arcade monitor or will it be like using an encoder?
Cheers fellas.
His prices are not cheap by any means but similar to eBay. He is very difficult to deal with. I suspect I can look at them at pickup but will not be able to power it up. Sounds like he sells higher volume so for 3-4 monitors he is not going to bend over backwards.
I have tried using Sony trinitron tvs with an encoder but the image is not great. It's hard to describe why, but while the dots are crisp there are some extraneous artifacts rendering the sprites not perfect.
Has any discerning klovrs used Sony pvm in games like robotron or stargate? How was the image? I know the Sony pvm can be used by classic gamers playing nes but I haven't seen reports of image quality in arcades. I have also seen reports that some pvm models do not accept rgb natively. Not sure whether this is an issue or not. I asked for the model numbers but did not receive them.
I have some cap kits on the way so I will try my hand at cap replacement but this seemed like a decent solution to decaying arcade monitors.
So be kind, are the Sony pvm worth pursuing ? Is the image as good as an arcade monitor or will it be like using an encoder?
Cheers fellas.


