I drove about 150 miles to pick one up from the city I go to regularly to vacation in anyway, so it wasn’t out of my way, but was a distance I drove with the intent to pick up a CRT.
What was awesome is that I got super lucky and managed to find 2 32” AA-2D chassis Trinitrons within a week or so of each other including the above 150 mile trip and picked them both up with the intent to RGB mod them both, sell one and keep the other. Worked out as planned for me. Learned a lot and still loving the one I kept!
I tried searching for Philips CRT 90s on various search engines, and only found one that could be a match. The link to the original listing no longer exists, and Wayback Machine doesn't have it archived. Speaking of which, Wayback Machine also doesn't have any archives of philips.com since they requested to be omitted, only complicating things.
I couldn't find any pictures of a remote that matched the one in your photo. Is there a model number on the remote or any sort of identifying information, perhaps under the battery case? The TV might potentially be identified by association.
For the longest time I'd get random signal dropouts every few hours. Observing the GBS-C's output VGA line revealed horizontal sync frequency excursions, and observing the input luma+SoG line revealed high-amplitude noise bursts at 8 MHz or so. After months of debugging and ordering a multi-hundred-dollar oscilloscope, I discovered a malfunctioning light dimmer switch in my wall was likely generating RF interference, causing my Wii to output a garbled video signal to whatever load was present (eg. GBS-C or a 75 ohm RCA terminator). My debugging log is at https://github.com/ramapcsx2/gbs-control/issues/461.
Miniature Wii sensor bar. I ended up moving it below the monitor, since you hold your Wiimotes below eye level, and the Wiimotes weren't built for being held so close to the monitor (so keeping the monitor at eye level and Wiimote at arm level would position the sensor bar out of the camera's field of view). The cable now gets in the way of the front-panel controls, but it's the price you pay for playing Wii games on a 17" VGA.
For me, the flicker looks fine in games... and less fine in primarily-white screens like game loading screens or computer desktops. I've read conflicting information over whether TVs had longer persistence than monitors.
Nice, the FS320 is a good one. If you play any newer 16:9 content on it (like certain Wii games), be sure to use the "16:9 enhanced" mode for an improved picture. It's a really cool feature that makes 480i look way better than it has any right to!
Sweet deal, subbed. The best part about /r/CRTgaming is the community, not the fact that it happens to be on reddit. Here's hoping we can build it up on the fediverse!
absolutely! I hope that these subs can gain traction enough that we’re able to start doing a regular listing thread for folks looking to get into CRT gaming, or to make sure the set they can no longer keep goes to a good new home!
While taking this photo I was wondering just how rare this exact use case must be - playing a limited time release game, with the Switch set to 480p, on a large (and very capable) PC CRT over VGA.
Good question - CRT Database has some articles covering it. There's also this large shmups.org thread with a lot of detailed technical discussion, but would probably take a while to parse.
Retro Tech on YouTube also has several videos covering RGB mods too, if I recall correctly.
These are excellent options. I’ve used that shmups thread a ton, but you’re right. It’s super hard to parse. I really wish it was broken out or consolidated into a more usable format.
It's okay, can hit 1280x960 or 1024 at 75hz, though it loses horizontal detail at 85hz. 480p60 console games look very clear, but the beam focus is too thin for them to look as intended with scanline blending. Geometry is quite accurate and linearity is good (not perfect), but in the current room position, the top-right corner has purity issues unless I tape magnets to the shell, remove or flip them upside-down when degaussing, and flip them back to use the display.
I love them all for different purposes! I also have A random Magnavox 27” composite only set that’s sitting in my garage, maybe someday I’ll do something with it, but i can’t be RGB modded sadly.
They seem very similar - the A60 is newer and has a better comb filter. It probably was the direct successor/next revision of the CX32H60 if I had to guess.
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