 You know, one of the most polarizing topics when it comes to pro CRTs, especially like Sony PVMs and BVMs has to be the topic of price and especially how much, you know, we've covered with my channel how much money it costs now in 2020 practically to get a pro video monitor. And so I thought that maybe I'd do a follow-up video to those videos that show you kind of what the prices were originally on these Sony PVMs and BVMs back when they were new. I was combing through some old files and I managed to find some pretty interesting statistics and I'll just show you basically what I had originally. Now this was sent to me maybe three years ago from somebody basically it was just showing a link that they had found and saved some screenshots of pricing figures from 2003. This was like March and April of 2003 specifically from a Sony dealer that was selling PVMs and BVMs and I mean there was all kinds of data in here. They had a list of everything that was still available at this point that they could get and what the list price was. So I want to show you some of these list prices as it's quite interesting. I think to know what these monitors originally cost back in the day. So again this has been about the 2003 point and here's the prices on these monitors. Now these would have still been being made back by this point 2002 and 2003. So first we've got these medical analog only monitors. We've got the M series and the L series. Now this isn't the M4U. I didn't have pricing for that but I did have pricing for the M2s and the L2s and they were pretty much the same price right on at the list price level. And that was $1360 for a 14 inch monitor and then if you went up to the 20 inch monitor you were going to pay right at about double that $27.25 for a 20 inch PVM. Now I could have imagined back in the day maybe somebody with a lot of money might have gotten a 14 inch monitor for some kind of use maybe home use outside of what they would have used it for in the medical arena at that time if they had any idea what to use these monitors for. But anyway that's kind of what the going price. So these prices were right at the end of that life cycle for the CRT especially that one. And then of course we have the L5 series which is the first multi format series here. This does do up to 1080i and all the way down to 240p. Very great monitor so this list price was $3,551. So in 2020 a very good newer conditioned one of these is going to cost you well over $1,500 more like $2,000 probably at this point for a brand new style almost conditioned one. And then there are some upgrades that you need to make to those two which I will be discussing in a further follow-up video this year. And the 14 L5 that one was right over $2,000 $2,025. So if you look at it well I'll show you how much BVMs are and you can understand that this was actually more of a value than those BVMs would have been back in the day. So first let's talk about the big one that everybody's always looking for that's the BVMD series specifically those wide screen series. So I mean just hold on to your chin straps here and check out this the 32 inch wide screen monitor back in 2003 when it was top of the line for production equipment was listed at almost $40,000 $39,055 and that probably did not include a video input card that was probably for the monitor itself because I did get some accessory pricing included with my quotes that I had good give it to me so that one $39,000 and then the 24 it wasn't I mean it was cheaper sure but at $24,000 almost $25,000 so even though those prices those monitors are starting to push upwards of over $3,000 for a good condition one we're still way lower than what these originally cost I mean even a D20 was $13,000 and then if I get down here the unbelievable thing to me is that the 9 and the 14 inch was were so expensive the 9 was $5,200 almost and 14 was $6,000 almost now I will tell you those two at the bottom those did could include the controls in the setups and everything so you could use those as a master monitor but they would have been a lot smaller in the screen but again that's the actual listing price for these when this was a new monitor back in 2003 so the A series now I didn't have any included pricing in the A series and that might have been simply because it was so new that maybe they left some of that out in their quotes or they didn't have that ready but I did come across this monitor accessory page that gave us quotes for the input cards and accessories new on on some of this equipment and especially the input video cards for example the A series so the funny thing on this one is you could see how much the cheapest card listed on this whole page is the 68x which is the analog RGB and component card and that one today is well over that it's the most expensive input accessory card on the market you know they sell I don't know how much they actually will sell for but never again when we see one for $700 or less most likely they've actually flipped to where they're more expensive on the lines of these two other ones and this became 62 HS has fallen to where it's only a $50 card plus shipping I mean with shipping so you can find that one extremely cheap there were tons of the S SDI and HD SDI cards made so that one is still really cheap but again that 68x there's a very low production number on that I believe it's less than 300 possibly are in existence even anymore but I'm not 100% sure on that that's just what I've gathered from other data something like the auto probe the L 14 L looking at still $850 and then this is interesting the 15 R which is the enclosure for the unit actually is about $1000 so you know something like that would have easily going to spend over $30,000 probably for a fully set up D series monitor that was like a 24 inch and then if you jumped up to that 32 inch you would have been spending well over 40 almost $50,000 on the monitor plus accessories most likely so that's pretty much it I thought I just thought these this information was very interesting to take a look at and see what the prices really were compared to back in the day as today you know we know what we're dealing with with pricing where it just keeps going up well it's still not the highest that it ever was because it still was pretty expensive new back in the day I appreciate you watching this quick video with me have a great week and I'll see you next time with some more retro content