Retro Tech Pickup! PVM (Professional Video Monitor) - H4G

H4G showcases John's latest pickup: a Sony PVM (professional video monitor)! PVM's are considered the absolute best way to experience and display retro games. John's PVM is a Sony PVM-1953MD.

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[hardgames]

Somebody gave this video a thumbs down. They must HATE degauss!

[gutter_onion]

When my wife was getting her first sonogram.... I was just as interested in the monitor. Wife was not happy.

[RageInTheFaradayCage]

FYI that is the prototype T-Shirt we printed to see what we needed to change on the logo. I recently found it in my closet, but we forgot to mention it in the episode.

[ZachAttackIsBack]

I have a 20" JVC PVM. Picked it up for about $5 and couldn't pass it up for that price. A video production company was having a garage sale with old equipment they were trying to clear out. It's frickin gigantic and heavy, though. I looked it up online and found a 1993 article that put it's retail price at $2600. That's the difference between a PVM and a consumer grade CRT. PVMs were built for extreme accuracy and reliability.

[nutzgunz]

Check out the Sony BVM-D24E1WU, it typically sells for $2500-3000. It will do 1000 tv lines in 4:3 and 16:9.

[liquidtch]

i found a really nice 27" electrohome CRT manufactured in 2002. it has component but doesnt do progressive though. paid 30 bucks for it. has 2 big speakers on it and the flat glass style. been working great for years now

[qaywsx]

Damn that's awesome. Good find, I'm jealous.

[samadams]

I picked up this exact PVM at the beginning of 2017 and I'm very happy with it. SNES via RGB Scart, PS2 via RGB Scart, N64 via S-Video all look absolutely fantastic. When paired with a set of nice stereo (shielded!!!) monitors its out of this world. And you've gotta love Brightness Contrast etc analog dials right on the front. Plan on building a cabinet around it one day. Paid $100 and travelled an hour to ATL to pick it up from a Medical Equipment Re-Seller. I'd check those places out if you're looking for one.

[theucidone]

I love this channel so much, it's stuff like this that gets us Hard4Games. :X

[TPW_ThatOneGuy]

I had a pipedream of getting a PVM many moons ago after spending too much time on /vr/ until I remembered that I was, in fact, poor, and did not have the ability to drop over $200 for a decent one at a nice size.
So I settled for a nice 27" Trinitron that I picked up for a single dollar, and it was the best decision of my life.

[SinisterSally]

I remember seeing them all the time at the local Goodwill all the time for like 10 to 20 USD. Now that i know how good they are i wish i pick one up. I now they were good for gaming but I had know idea how to hook like a SNES to one. I was lucky to pick up a small Trinitron right around the same time they started just tossing out CRTs.

[HowPettyful]

I just moved back up to Michigan in the Rochester Hills area, glad to be closer to one of my favorite YouTube crews n.n Glad you found one of these, CRTs in general are getting harder to come by now unfortunately

[bneyens]

12:29 - BVM-D24’s now sell for $4, 000 on eBay (same 4:3 viewable size as this)

[Kush-fwfr]

These are the videos i come for . i saw one of these in the trash but had few inches on water around it i was sad . but the next day i found in the trash a 55samsung smart tv so win some loose some. cheers

[FlintG]

Very nice pvm! I hope to get one of these one day!

[andrewgoulson]

Just was GIVEN a JVC BM-H1900SU and it has SMPTE-C!!! Thanks so much for this video!

[FinalBaton]

I just want to share something I find important here : I see people in the comments mentioning "you need 800 TVL, you need 800 TVL..." Well I just want to say, you do NOT in fact need 800 TVL to get a perfectly crisp picture. The picture these 800 TVL and up sets give is very far removed from what an arcade monitor gives. If you like that type of picture then fine, but to say you "need" it is ludicrous.


BTW shadow mask tubes are awesome too and shouldn't be discarded from your search

[Howema]

i have a 20L2MD which has a very similar shell to what was featured here but was made in 2005 and has an option card slot in the back, i have a BKM-129x installed for an extra set of RGB/Component input. you can even take it further with the L5 series which is able to do higher resolutions.

[VinchVolt]

It's interesting watching this video after having already seen My Life in Gaming's video on PVMs and CRTs as a whole; there's certain things in this video that weren't discussed in MLiG's, and vice-versa, making the two of them come off as unintentional companion videos.

[FnkyNinja]

I got a JVC equivalent, completely unused new in box, for free. I got incredibly lucky, 17 inch 750 scanlines, BNC/Composite and S-Video. No RGB, but the S-video looks amazing.