 Well hello again everyone and welcome back to another episode of Retro Tech. Today I've got an unboxing for you. So in the past I've done unboxing videos of Sony PVMs and it's been about a year and now I'm going to unbox another PVM. This is a Sony 2030 and again I have ordered the 2030s online before and had some success with them shipping properly and some that were destroyed during shipping. So today let's take a quick look at the box. You can see the outside of it, how it managed to survive a little bit of its trip from California. We're going to go ahead and open it but I do have to warn you I'm not feeling too great because they pretty much made their own boxes here. It looks like it's a nice big 24 by 24 cube but it's actually 24 by 24 by 12s rectangular boxes that were pieced together to make this one. So I'm not sure even what side it shipped up or down or you know right side or wrong side because there's no markings on the outside of this box. Now I did try to reach out to this seller and say hey you know I've made quite a few videos and how to pack these things properly. Would you like any tips? I never heard anything back. So hopefully they knew what they were doing and didn't just destroy this monitor. Without wasting any more time let's go ahead now and open the box. All right so I'm just going to start by of course cutting the tape at the top. You can see on the other camera here it was actually shipped upside down and that means there was no padding on the bottom of this over brother except for these two priority mailboxes which uh okay I don't know how really so much protection that has then we've got the foam or not even foam these are just some bow wrap around the outside so I hope for the best. I feel like it's been collapsed or anything's cracked I've been shaking loose uh power cable it has seen some better days and look at that mess. Oh holy moly everything else appears to be like it may have survived this trip. Let's just look and see what else we got in here for packing materials because it doesn't seem like a whole lot and it's really not. It's just a bunch of anger-sized bubble wrap and a bunch of priority mailboxes. So thank goodness the students probably get destroyed unless it doesn't turn on because I don't really believe this would have met I don't think this would have met any of the requirements that FedEx has for shipping. Anyway let's fire it up and see if we can get a picture. Let's go ahead now and run a test simple power on test it's plugged in and I've got composite running to it now out of my Super Nintendo. I don't want to push it and try anything else yet we'll just do a simple composite test see if anything shows up here on the screen look at that that's a really good sign okay so see I bought this monitor pretty much untested the person who sold it to me set it powered on and that was it we've got red green and blue colors stable screen might just need a little bit of adjustment but yeah see I've got some yeah let's see okay look at the vertical hold button was just a little bit off but other than that just a little bit of a pin cushion adjustment on the corners definitely needs that there's a couple more adjustments on the geometry but overall it looks like it survives and and passes the test well sometimes you just get lucky and I feel like that's the case here I don't think that this would have been enough packaging to get any kind of coverage from FedEx if it would have been damaged so I'm thankful that it isn't I've seen monitors packed a whole lot better than that get damaged a whole lot more on a lot less of a journey against this one came from California so it came a long way and FedEx did a surprisingly good job of making sure it didn't get damaged even though it wasn't packed to what I would call high standards I did make a buy it now offer on ebay on this monitor and I think I paid about $240 to have it shipped to me but you can see it has a lot of work to do some calibrations I don't think any parts are going to need to be changed however I will take an opportunity to make a fresh new video about the 2030 coming up and we'll get this one looking great and have it ready to be used thanks again for watching make sure you're subscribed and hit that bell notification so you can catch all my great retro and crt related videos and I'll see you next time with some more retro content