 Hey guys, welcome back to retro tech today. I've got a new unboxing video. I'm gonna be unboxing this This has a pvm inside And I really want to get it out because I'm concerned that it might have been shipped with the screen up It's set a screen now, which is big trouble for it if that happened But I thought I'd go ahead now and just open it up This literally came within the last 20 minutes. It was dropped off So let's go ahead now and we're gonna take a look around the box. There was a little damage I'll show you down here real quick. Here's the one side that was damaged pretty good So I just wanted to take some pictures of that before I opened it. Okay, something's wrong This this isn't two wall or double walled cardboard. So it's pretty pretty thin pretty much it doesn't look like it dropped Or anything maybe just something hit it Let's go down and open it up. All right. Let me give a box opener Just open up and see what we got inside And I hope it made it here safely so that we don't have to return it or file a claim All right, here's our packing materials Cable Let's see. I'm really hoping it was packed at the screen down and not oh shoot Screen up. This is very dangerous I'm gonna ship that the screen up just because there's so much weight on it So I'm gonna try to get it out of here Because it doesn't look like it's been damaged, but that's just a big problem Yeah This wasn't a terrible packing job mean this is some really thick dense bone that was leased on it And then again more foam in the bottom and then more packing peanuts or I'm sorry more bubble wrap It would have been really nice for a single box packing if it had had the screen down on the face instead of sitting up Let's go ahead now. We'll put the monitor on the bench and see how it looks All right. Here's the look at the monitor. This is an Olympus oEV 143 Which is the exact same as a Sony PVM 14 m2 just has Olympus on instead of Sony so everything feels like It's fine. There was a spot right here that is dinged in I'm hoping that was before transit and not the spot where there was damage on the side of that box Hopefully nothing got hurt There's also a little bit of a bend back here on the shell too. Hopefully that was all done pre Pre-buying this but if we look at the back here for a second. This is a really late model December 2003 all right, so the Olympus oEV 143 Manufactured in December of 2003. It's got RGB and all the regular hookups for 14 m2 So let's just go ahead now and see first if it even powers on and then secondly If we can get a video signal to pull up on it when it's shipped glass side up It's a big risk that a bump could cause damage to it. So just go ahead now and plug it in Powers on sounds good Let's see if we can get the service menu to come up. It looks like we can that's good okay Okay, first I want to go in here and go to configuration Set up my RGB External sync. That's right and then let's turn on a console and see what happens. All right. Look at there So obviously. Oh look at that. It's not even that bad. Just under scan was pushed Okay. Oh, yeah, it looks good All right, so that's good Let's go over some of the details on this monitor again This Olympus and many other Olympus CRT monitors are exact copies of Sony PVMs The oEV 143 is the same as a 14 m2 MDU These monitors support both 240p and 480i video resolutions It has inputs for composite s video and then to switchable inputs Those switchable inputs can be set to accept either component analog video or RGB s analog video and the tube on this monitor has a 600 TV line picture resolution Will show some very nice scan lines But the scan lines are not over pronounced as is the case in some of the higher line count BVMs and other displays This monitor is easy to adjust through the service menu Now these Olympus monitors can sometimes be found for a much lower price than Sony models, especially on eBay I was able to purchase this Olympus oEV 143 for only $200 shipped I did take some risks as the monitor was largely untested But it was powered on and I could see the on-screen menu in the eBay listing And this footage you're seeing is showing the monitor with basically no adjustments done to it yet However, it will be perfect after I get done with it future-proof it Thanks again for watching today. Look for more videos coming up real soon about this Olympus oEV 143 But before that I do have a full tear-down restoration and future-proof of a Sony PVM 1353 MD that I've already finished that will become an even sooner than the Olympus video, but thanks again I'll see you guys next time with some more retro content