 Hey everybody, welcome back today to Retro Tech and I have a special treat for you I'm going to be covering a brand-new monitor today And I'm also going to tease you with this wonderfully large Sony PVM 2950Q That did show up to the shop this week to be serviced So that could be a little teaser on one of the things that will be coming up in the next quarter on Retro Tech will be going through and servicing this and making it nice and clean and ready for the person who belong to But today again, we're going to be getting into a brand-new monitor completely the opposite of the 2950 It is a BVM-D series a nine inch monitor So one of the tiny little guys I just wanted to before I get started into the main video I wanted to show you just some of the interesting things about this particular monitor now there's a picture of it down here and That's the BVM-D9H5U that's the one we're looking at today I wanted to show you this it actually had a lithium ion battery pack now I've not seen one of these battery packs But there definitely is a battery pack for this monitor in case you ever do come across one That means you could use it fully in the field without any kind of power needs Now some of the other important statistics on this monitor first off It does have a high-resolution tube that is nine inches and when it's in four by three mode It does have a TV line count of 450 TV lines I will tell you that it's extra sharp because of the BVM and the power that the BVM has now if you do squish your TV screen down to 16 by 9 On this monitor it will limit your TV lines to 340 and you will want to pay attention to which Which one of these D series or any really BVM that you get you want to make sure you know the exact model You're looking at so that you know what you need because a lot of these did have a la carte monitors meaning that there were just sometimes we just get a monitor with no additional inputs or accessories and You could end up needing an additional Input card which they showed up here I'm sorry interface to input with the monitor like your handheld control unit 11 R or your 10 R Control unit either one of those so that's just a little bit of information on the monitor now This is the specific monitor. I received in the mail and it was shipped here to me From an eBay sale and this was a patreon member He actually bought it had it shipped directly to me from the eBay seller, which was from California And so this was just me unboxing it it did come in this wonderful High-quality professional flight box that I wanted to show with Some accessories in it and then this front compartment did have the actual Mask it had both the 16 by 9 and the 4 by 3 mass so on the back here is a picture of this power supply unit that could be exchanged for a Battery pack and then it came with the HD STI Control card or input card and the BKM 129 X I'm gonna go ahead and test it for RGB and you will notice that you do not need Terminators on this particular BVM now this BVM did have a couple dings in the case and Overall, I still felt like it was in pretty solid condition. There were some other things I'm gonna show you in a second that will need to be repaired Primarily on the bezel now it does have this 16 by 9 mask on currently So one of the first things we're gonna do in a second is change that over to the 4 by 3 mask but here's a good shot of one of the issues specifically right here on this bezel and The power button and all the other buttons. Thankfully we're functioning and we're not damaged but this section was extremely loose and Definitely there was some kind of issue going on here and you could tell it was like that for a while But there's a lot of controls on this unit So it's very handy to have in case you have this and other BVMs that you need to a controller unit for this can Be used for that so There's a way to get this bezel off and switch these masks around it's very simple There's four screws two on each side and then you take the screws out pull the bezel off comes off really nice and easy You can get behind here. Let me move myself out of the picture a little bit and come behind here and clean up your tube nicely and you know get a lot of that smudge off there and things like that because You want to clean around there and then just slip the other bezel right back on or other mask I'm sorry the 4 by 3 mask which just looks I mean that that really made it look a thousand times better Everything on there with that 4 by 3 mask to be honest So I'm going to show you just a quick alignment check. There is an alignment menu directly in the monitor on this BVM once you get in there and you press menu There's just an alignment setting and this will let you do a quick Alignment adjustment for vertical size vertical center Horizontal size horizontal center and then even pin cushion settings You can adjust those in this quick menu in case you need to make an adjustment on the fly a lot of times You would move these monitors around and just the movement and then setting them up somewhere else You did get a lot of different magnetism and Based on what environment had been moved to so you would need to do quick calibration changes and Especially if you're going to use this for 240p Which I think a lot of people still are You're going to have shifts and those ROMs and those programs that's going to shift on the Orientation so you can go in there. It's really nice to be able to use that now What I'm going into right here is the main sub menu and it's very difficult to see while I've got this checkerboard pattern I apologize for that but to get into that You know you have to go down to the maintenance menu part of the system configuration menu right off the main menu So it's a main menu system configuration menu and then you'll see maintenance And that's how you get in and you can get into the master controls and change a lot more settings in there Lots of settings you can change And there is a generic password for that and that is four ones So it's one one one one enter and that'll get you into that menu nine times out of ten so that's Just a quick look and a quick way to get you kind of set on your geometry But it's always good to go in there and use the controls in the service menu to directly get everything adjusted But that's a quick look so it looks pretty good. So the big concern though is still going to be the bezel getting that fixed and still going to get inside the monitor and it definitely does need some cleaning and Just some overall checking of the condition inside the model. So there's a lot of metal piled and on top of each other boards in here and It's actually quite interesting because this BVM does the the flyback actually goes in to the side of the monitor It doesn't go in the top This is the top of the monitor it goes in down at the side right over here Where I'm actually laying it down on its side right in behind the input cards And so that was a little bit unusual for a nine inch usually they still come in at the tops and most of the time on Other eight inch older nine older eight inch nine inch models of PVMs So it's an interesting look inside the next thing. I really want to do though is I want to get the Bezzle button whatever you want to call it down here. I want to get that off because Something's obviously snapped inside of it and it needs to be fixed And this is a great opportunity for me to show you some of the plastics repair that I've been working on over the last three months and We'll also fix up this other end right here where it's really loose So thankfully it's pretty easy to get this button off Let me pull myself and move myself a little bit over out of the way But she just got four screws two on each side holding it in and then you can pull the That's and it's perfectly safe to move this around like this one is turned off But then you could pull it out and then there's just five or six little connection points that are all Individual they're not You know, you don't have to worry that there's not like one that can fit in a different spot so you just unplug all those and then you got your button board here and the button board It's I could see what has happened Especially back behind these power button one that's really loose the actual plastic has snapped in here I'll show you that and then this other side has taken a hit where the the U-shaped bolt has actually gotten a little bit loose and then it took a Ja a jarring hit and it bent the screws a little bit So we'll pull them out and straighten those up. That'd be pretty easy But the big fix is these little things. Let me go back and show you those just quickly they This is a timeless video, but these are Have both had cleanly snapped off and we're still inside there On the screws the screws actually go through those are guide holes on the back of the plastic inside this button housing So we're going to first get everything out all the little hardware will be taken out and removed You'll notice I did struggle a little bit with these screws on the side because again, they were bent So they'll need to be straightened out But again getting all that hardware out first and then we want to get the circuit boards out But here's a quick look you can see in there This side still has the the little tabs in place and when I flip it around the other side You can claim plainly see right there in the middle where the tabs are actually missing And this is a look from the other side of the view so you can see where the U-bolts would actually hit and sit on those on one side. They were actually halfway through So while I've got it apart, of course, I'm going to clean the plastic really well and everything else inside of it I'm going to use brushes nice to old toothbrush as well as an old paint brush that I've never used for painting of course, but It's good enough to wipe out the crevices and the little dust and dirt that builds up on the inside of these Buttonboards and you're not going to do any damage with that So definitely you want to make my surface nice and clean for the next step in this big repair Now I do want you to you know if you do have something where you have a Repair that involves plastic consider this stuff. This is JB weld I was able to get into my local hardware store and it's the most powerful stuff that they had but it does come out Gray so it works great on all these old electronics like Sony but that the process is mixing that two-part epoxy together and Then just using something to apply a little bit of it to one side of the cleanly broken pieces of plastic and then I'm just gonna take some tweezers and reset it and Do that on both of those ends and try to get it as centered as possible Make sure there's a nice bond layer around the entire Part there and then I did the same thing with the second one and You'll see that once I got both of them set I took an old capacitor with the long leg and then I actually took some extra epoxy and kind of built up a little bit of a side wall along the Things and to just just move them around make sure they're at a good spot come back and check them a couple times but the real half, you know thing happens 12 hours later when you come back and everything has hardened and So this was a completely successful repair and the new bond is Exceedingly high it's it's generally higher than the rest of the plastic So the more likely other parts of this plastic would break before that repaired part did so there you have it We have the buttons just reassembled really easy to put that back together and put those screws back in there And this thing really came out well looks brand new You'd never know that it had any problems before both sides were easily fixed up the other side again Just had to have the screws bent and put together but this was the side that was loose and had the epoxy repair and that's just a Really easy way to save some of these plastics if you have something break and say shipping or Maybe you drop or have an impact on some of the plastic parts If you can keep all the pieces together, and it's a clean enough break then you can actually repair it quite well with that JV weld So the next step is to of course reassemble the button To the main monitor and do some more testing and so I'm gonna pull myself out of the way as I finish up the remainder of our Time together today, and we'll talk some more about this monitor and kind of You know my final thoughts on it because it's not the perfect monitor now. You'll notice it looks incredibly Sharp and it is a beautiful picture and one of the really cool features. I'm showing you here I didn't really show you but it's just a little drop-down stand that pulls out So you can pull this monitor and you set it up in front of you and have it aimed kind of towards your face On a desktop it actually is quite pleasing to play something like Super Nintendo on this machine on this monitor while It's propped up like this and it's a you know a nine-inch screen. It's very crisp and clear The only real issue with it is a sink. It's it's notoriously bad for dropping sink Where that is not normally the case with the other D series larger D series for some reason this nine-inch one has continuously had problems with sink but You'll have to you know do some more research on that if you're having sink issues because people may have had Solutions using some kind of extra on sinking device or other kind of sink devices But do plan on having some sink issues. That's kind of what prevents this D9 From being the perfect bench test monitor because otherwise you would enjoy this monitor much more if it didn't have the sink issues Simply because it does things like go all the way from 240p up to 1080i and you can do all that from one BKM 129x Input card and the last thing I want to go through is a calibration check this is post calibration after I've gone through and Run the checks and run the calibrations from the service menu Everything looks pretty good. There is one last thing on here You'll notice sometimes you'll get a purity problem with these smaller monitors And I found that that was fixed by changing the actual direction That the monitor was pointing it's always good to check your linearity too But yeah, just the fact that you know, whatever direction the monitor was pointing in and direction You know in relative to north could actually affect The purity on my screen and it did quite a bunch So just take that into consideration with these monitors if you show I have a or you do have a problem With purity in one of the corners It could possibly be simply because the monitor is getting a lot of outside Magnetism affecting that corner of the screen that does happen. So again, here's one last look at this nice little beauty And then I've got a little you know I'm gonna show you look some close-up footage here first But then I've got a slideshow because I had to pack this thing back up and it's going all the way over to France And so I'm interested to see how that goes Because I've never shipped one of these overseas Now it is just a nine-inch and normally I probably wouldn't consider shipping a larger one overseas But these nine inches, you know, could be safe one last thing to mention this a Card here is extremely Loud and noisy when it's plugged in this HD SDI card So if you want to take your power supply or your power cords out turn the monitor off You can remove this card safely and just leave it out If you're not going to use it and you'll get rid of the fan noise that comes with it because that's a problem with these bigger HD SDI cards as they make a big noise from the fans and it's really annoying So the last thing I want to show you is this button feature or the not the button but the battery feature So yeah, this power supply just pops right out of this slot by pushing this eject button here And then slides back into place I imagine if I had a lithium-iron ion battery pack, I could just slip a new one in place And I'm sure that if somebody is smarter than me Could design a nice little battery to fit in here You know with modern technology, you know be a lot smaller and probably make it on the go or it could even possibly redesign a power supply for something smaller, but that's an overview of the Sony BVM D9 H5U and I think we've gone over just about everything a fully loaded Monitor and I think that again if you're looking for a bench monitor, I would not recommend this monitor I don't think it's really the perfect monitor for that But again, it's it's still pretty. I mean it's still pretty good It's got a nice high-resolution Picture and it looks better than any other smaller monitor. I've ever messed with but here again I almost forgot here's a slideshow picture of the pictures of my packing So I actually added extra foam and packing on The monitor itself and everything as much as I could squeeze in there to try to add extra packing that I actually taped the box up to make sure that It would make it there safely because again all the way to France So we'll have to see how that goes. So last thing I want to say is anybody who stayed along this long thank you again for watching and Know that we're gonna do some great things coming up and next couple months first off This month at the end of this month is actually the two-year anniversary for RetroTech and man What that what a wonderful two years it's been. I want to say thank you to everybody in the audience You'll definitely be here more for me coming on that I've got a lot of crazy great monitors in the shop just right now I've got an amazing set of d24 monitors as well as this 2950 Q So we're gonna get to use some we're gonna get to work on some of the best monitors available And I'll give you a behind-the-scenes look at not just the monitors and what makes them so great but also how to Maintain one if you were lucky enough to own one. So thanks again everybody for watching I hope you have a great weekend and I'll see you guys next time with some more retro content