 Oh my goodness. I don't know why I'm so excited about watching this, but if this was me and I tried to justify this to my wife, oh, she would she would just it's 20 seconds. 20 seconds. Is anything going to happen? Yeah, there's been a lot of amazing sales of the last few years that I've tracked on eBay, but let's face it, nothing's going to be quite like what we're going to review today. Today, we've got a special sale happening, finishing up within the next 40 minutes. And of course, I'm talking about the biggest, rarest, most expensive CRT, most likely ever manufactured, maybe besides the first ones considering they would have had to spend millions probably to develop it. But we're talking about the D32. This is a BVM Sony. That's a broadcast monitor. So this is the highest quality ever made. It's also the largest BVM ever made. And it's one of the best series, that's the D series, as far as versatility. I mean, this thing will do it all. We'll get into it a little bit more details on the monitor itself. But I just hope you're ready because we're about to witness probably the biggest and most grand eBay sale of a CRT. All right, so get ready. But before we jump into the eBay ad, here's some more information on the monitor itself. Hey, so if you want to go ahead and jump ahead to the point where we're actually looking at the finish up of this auction and just skip all this stuff, then check out the marker here. This is going to be the time to jump ahead too. But otherwise, just hang out with me and we'll go through some specific features and learn a little bit more about the D series. Okay, so let's jump in now to the information on the monitor itself, the D32. And we'll just start by looking at what Sony considered this to be. They called this the master monitor. So this would have been largest showcase monitor for either your movie studio or editing studio. I mean, this was a very expensive monitor. So it was rarely going to be sold to anybody that wasn't commercially, you know, licensed or had some kind of commercial use for the machine. And so the newly developed tube would support up to 1000 TV lines for the resolution. And that was in any format, whether it was four by three or 16 by nine, you could get the full 32 inches and there was nothing bigger than that 32 inch version of it. Now you will notice some of these did have accessories such as control units built into them. All of them either need that control unit built into it or they needed to be separate. Most of these were just sold as the monitor only it can accept pretty much any analog format just about you're looking at all the specific ones right here on your screen, they're listed on what it can accept. These monitors did come with a built in analog video component slash RGB and it actually could work with I think even composite. But there's a list here of all the boards. There was a built in board and then there were four slots built into it besides that board that you could use in combination with each other or just in unison by themselves and do different things have different connections come into the monitor and then use your BKM 10R control unit to change the settings on it. Here's a listing of a lot of the compatible cards. There was a handheld unit, a lot of accessories for this. Let's look down here at more of the specifics again on the monitor. If you want to just freeze this and take a look at any of this specifically, you're more than welcome to. I'm going to jump to some important things as far as power requirements. This one can go pretty much worldwide 100 to 240 volts and then here's an idea of how much power consumption so quite a bit. There's some dimensions on the actual screen size but I want to show you how much now this would have just been the monitor by itself with the built in card, nothing else. So those cards can be built in and actually add to the weight of the monitor because they're quite heavy themselves but just the monitor itself is over 200 pounds, 206 pounds on that thing and that is 94 kilograms. A little bit of a warning here. They do have a built in overload feature so there is an overload feature on this monitor but there you go that's some information. I'll leave a link to this PDF that shows a lot of the optional cards and more information if you want to look there for more data on the 32-inch multi-format CRT monitors. So let's do a quick overview of the selling ad you know right before the actual listing closes out in 35 minutes. Currently the bid is 7,000 US dollars and if you want shipping it's available for 550 dollars for freight which is awesome. This one's being sold from Salt Lake City, Utah in the United States and it is coming from somebody with a 100% positive feedback rating which is great. We do have some other information that I have uncovered about this specific BVM, this exact one. I'll tell you a little bit about that as we look through this advertisement here for this is the bid history for it. We're looking at someone came out with an initial bid of $5,000 and then whoever is B all the way to 1, they have been bidding, bidding, bidding and they really want this monitor. So I noticed that you know somebody here probably this person may have tried to bid again and hit the 6,000 and then 7,000 and it sat at 7,000 since the 4th of November and today's the 11th of November and so the same bidder came back and dropped an additional bid on it today. We'll look at some pictures. Nice calibration screen 47,000 hours updated firmware, double handle which is very much of course part of this monitor. Here's a look at the input cards. We've got the standard card right here that comes with the monitor which will do pretty much all inputs on it and then I can't tell what that is. It's analog board next to it at 24n and then a 42hd and that's just the ISR board next to that. Does come with a controller which is important. You need that to even make any adjustments on these larger monitors and that's all the pictures. Okay so here it is. Does not have the original tube replacement tube closer to 20,000 hours but it is as is. So that's your big warning right here. Sorry that's right at the top and so it is as is. Whoever bidding on this you're going to get it. It's going to work or it's not going to work eventually. It could go out. Never could go out a thousand hours. You never can tell with these BVMs. I'm sorry to tell you these BVMs, the higher end ones are some of the more finicky and just complicated really highly engineered machines and so they can develop crazy little shorts that happen in them and it's just something that tends to happen. That's why this one had a tube replaced in it. So let's talk about the tube replacement in a second. No BNC cables. It says here's refurbished by Savon Pat and checked out calibrated recap geometry is near perfect. Near perfect picture uniformity and let's talk about the refurbished part. So I talked to my friend who just so you know I do communicate with Pat and I've actually had him help me with some things. He's a great dude. So I mean if you do need his services there's things that I can't do. This guy's got so much more experience than me and maybe in the future I'll go into that a little bit more clearly just to give you guys a I mean a real idea how much more and this is a lifetime that he's been working in electrical engineering and specifically the CRT realm of technology. So you know even for me there's no way I could ever learn as much as he did because he's got 60 years on me as far as experience and knowledge and things. The D32 originally was sold by Pat so of course he checked out the boards and recapped them the vital caps and checked everything out. He runs a lot of diagnostic tests that I'll show you some other time a couple of those on the PSU and other things and then the tube on the original D32 that this one is it's shorted out which does happen on these monitors. I'm sorry it does happen the PA board on these D series especially like 20s 24s and 32s it can be very finicky. There's a couple resistors on there. I've done a video on how the caps can go out in a couple spots on there and so if that happens it can create a short that if you know if you actually turn up your brightness or contrast too high can short out the two. These internals and hardware inside this monitor can drive actually the beams way beyond what the tube itself could handle because these were custom Sony tubes and what would happen is over time you crank up that brightness or contrast too high and then some people who own these know that you'll have an overload that can kick on and shut the monitor off if it gets too high. Well if that overload feature fails and it continues to send that brightness into the tube eventually it just shorts and pops and fails and kills the tube completely. Pat actually took a tube from the A32 inch monitor which he had which had was used I think that's why he's getting this number of 20,000 that's probably how many hours Pat had registered from the A series. So the tube was taken from an A series installed in this D series you can do that I've shown you that with other monitors but especially on those D and A series monitors they are all interchangeable as far as the tube is concerned on those two. So just some crazy information we're really going to get down here let's get back I'll come back to you when we get really close to this monitor auction actually closing out. I don't know why I'm so excited about watching this but it's just the fact that getting to see one of these sell you know that's a good thing about eBay let's face it even if you're not the one buying I mean you know somebody famous could be jumping on this who knows right so I mean I'm starting to get those whoo I get some like chills silly stupid oh let's just have some fun right so let me just look over here my buddy Brutus you know I've never talked to you guys really about Brutus but he's been here and assisted me through every show so jump over and give a quick shot of the Brutus cam how you doing down there buddy yeah you look pretty excited oh Brutus that's pretty much what he does everything but man I've got those chills they're multiplying and I'm losing control we got two minutes left oh this is electrifying all right enough silliness come on could you imagine oh my goodness like if this was me and I tried to justify this to my wife oh she would she would just she would just love me forever I'm sure right because she'd probably love to have this $10,000 CRT in our house I wish oh my goodness here we go last minute let's see how this winds up man I just don't know I don't think there's gonna be a run on it but it's been fun to watch here oh man 20 seconds 20 seconds 20 seconds is anything gonna happen anybody gonna place another bid oh come on come on somebody do it somebody bite somebody anybody nine eight seven six five three two one and I don't see anything any big jumps come on bidding has ended bidding is ended let's refresh make sure there's nothing else well we tried to have some fun with it it's pretty historic still at $7,000 or $7,500 you know who really loves this is eBay they get their they get their piece of the pie they're 10% so I'm sure they're quite thrilled with this old CRT going for that much but yeah that's what you got to remember just for selling this you're going to pay a fee of $750 if you get the shipping paid so it's literally more than the shipping cost eBay is going to charge just to sell it but hey you know where else are you going to get a chance to do something like this I don't know if they were expecting to get more hopefully they're happy everybody ends up happy you know there are some other interesting sales going on as we speak right now on eBay and so we'll see if any of those wind up being special I will tell you there is also a Sony BVM so let's check this out real quick Sony BVM a series that was just listed today and it is zero bed starting at $3,500 so only $3,500 what a steal but the good thing is this unit includes the 68x RGB adapter there might be some issues with this one still it's tested has 60 59 well 58,000 hours technically on it now this is something the a series did see it says operation time and then CRT turn on time so when you would leave these on they would go into like a self turn off mode if you just left them running and then when you put a signal into it or sent the remote control until the remote to turn the monitor back on it would automatically kick on so that's why on these older the late models a series will list operation time which is the time the actual monitor has had some type of power turned on even in standby mode and then CRT turn on time is obviously the amount of time that's actually on the tube itself and so that was fun but you know I'll continue to monitor these things if anything great happens I might do a video about it most likely we will round out the year with a great celebration of all the insane sales and you know go through and do the last look at the last quarter of sales for CRTs overall in eBay and have the year-end market watch episode that will come out probably you know sometime in late December but before that just look for some more great repair videos coming I've got plenty already shot and just waiting to be edited and I'll definitely see you guys next time with some more retro content