my wife is currently playing Knights of Valour 2 on our PGM on our Trinitron, all’s right with the world 
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Cool vid.
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Pretty sure my PVM just died. The colors looked a bit off when I was playing a game then the picture went black and it made a hissing sound. I turned it off then turned it back on and it hissed for a while until it just shut down and won’t power back on.
RIP Sony PVM-20M4U
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Now the KV-24FS120 gets to come out of retirement to replace the dead PVM!
Honestly my PVM experience was super finicky. The thing lasted about four years, but I had to be extra careful doing certain things. Powering off most consoles with the RGB input active would power off the PVM and turn on the tally light at the top.
Now that I think about it, I may have killed it by accidentally sending an RGBHV signal when I mean to have sync combined for RGBS. I’m not sure. But that thing always felt like it was fragile.
I still want to possibly fix it one day if it turns out to be something simple.
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Gorgeous!
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Hey DaleNixon are those speakers shielded? I’ve become paranoid now that I know modern speakers don’t use magnetic shielding due to no one using CRTs anymore.
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Yep the Polk T15s are magnetically shielded!
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fitted castors to the TV cabinet for the Trinitron, and tightened all the screws, now we just need to lift the thing back on and we’re in business
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Black Frame Insertion Fatigue (Receiving)
it’s very cool and all and I can’t see any flicker, but my eyes know, ya know?
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lesser setups cower
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chaotic homeowner energy
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I’m more worried about the guitar hero in the corner
If I had the space and the means I would probably do something like this (not guitar hero)
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I just hope the wall inset is at least somewhat ventilated
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how do you even access…it…I went from cool to AAAAHHHHH.
Anyways came here to post this:
https://www.chrismcovell.com/gotRGB/rgb_compare.html
Everyone of the composite shots is way better.
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The RGB capture is straight into the digitizer, though, so it doesn’t really look like that when rendered onto a CRT.
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…unfortunately a side-effect of this vertical-only dithering (“transparency”), besides smearing, is a nasty rainbow effect:
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I think it’s important to separate the style/blending/colors from the versatility afforded by raw signal quality. There’s only so much you can do with an input signal that is pre-degraded, and modern scalers will let you recreate the look of what you think composite should look like from an RGB source instead of what a scaled composite signal actually looks like.
(might as well state that my personal preference is that scanlines are more transformative to my enjoyment of retro graphics than the colors and blending of a composite signal)
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