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·
      1 day ago

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

      • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        1 day 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·
          1 day ago

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