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.

      • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
        14·
        2 days ago

        Speak for yourself, I used to play my Xbox 360 on a bad boy like this one

        spoiler

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          2 days ago

          The adapters probably cost more than replacing the tv at that point. That wouldnt have RGB, or even a video right? What did it have other than coax?

          I assume svdieo and left right audio

          • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
            6·
            2 days ago

            At least here in Europe we had SCART for CRTs. SCART is multipurpose connection, that supports variety of cables, including RGB. There was no adapter needed.

        • worhui@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Do you have any xbox360 recommendations? I just found a broken one looking in the garbage.

          • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            Maybe stylized racing games like Blur. Or COD: Black Ops for the atmosphere. The 360 had a ton of great games. I remember playing GTA4 and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty on the CRT back then. Though I really can’t recommend the latter.

            • worhui@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              Thanks. I had a working xbox 360 gifted from a friend the RROD on the first disk of Mass Effect 2

      • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Dude, I was there and this is not true. Ps3 is what pushed me to opt for HD, and 90% of the time I spent on that system was in HD. That shift happened everywhere very quickly, especially by the time Skyrim came out - the text of which is damn near unreadable on a CRT.

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          One of the things that sold the PS3 was it’s blue ray player. At a cheap price. As someone who also “was there” I never saw anyone playing blue ray on a crt. Like I said, it was short lived to see any ps3’s being played on one as well

            • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              5 hours ago

              You don’t want to fight to the death? Lol. It’s all good friend. We are all on edge with the world at the moment, and it makes us lash out easily. Not that you did. But I have to often

          • worhui@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            The last of the CRTs were 720/1080i. I didn’t have one but for HDDVD/ BD disks it was killer to watch compared to an LCD. Plasma was a very deep pocket purchase, even for someone who could afford an early PS3/Xbox 360 HDDVD.

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          I used a projector and optical out to a receiver with a duel boot of yellowdog Linux on my first PS3. The “bread box” I guess they called it later. Great machine.

          • FunkyCheese@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            Yeah i tried linux on it too but… at the time it was pretty useless for a gamer with a brand new console

            I regret selling it these days

      • worhui@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        it was on a crt when I first got it. It was some years before I got the LCD TV it was still hooked up to.

      • worhui@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        It launched in 2006. A 40" was still more than $1000. A 32" Crt TV could be had for $400300. I’m guessing a lot of these wound up attached to CRT tv’s