 Hey everybody, welcome back to Retro Tech. I'm Steve and today we're going to be taking a specific special look at the Sony PVM 1350 and Also, this PVM that you're seeing now behind me will be for sale Listed in an eBay auction. There will be a link to that below and I will also have more details at the end of this video about that sale and Details on how all that will Basically go But to start the video, I wanted to go through this the details on this Sony PVM So that you would know the differences between this 1350 and other Sony PVMs that you may see that are similar to this But not quite the same Again, this is a 14 inch Sony PVM It does match the same format as many other Sony PVMs from this time period Which is the mid to late 90s, you notice we have a lot of adjustment knobs to make our adjustments on the fly We also have the ability to Use this menu button and open up our regular menu and then a sub menu That way we can make adjustments to things like geometry and other important settings inside the PVM And that's a big step in the technology for these monitors Prior to this you'd have to go and take the shell off and make a lot of those geometry adjustments Internally with potentiometers, and it was just a lot more dangerous and a lot more Hassell than on a monitor like this So that's a big plus for this and really any other PVM that happens to have a sub menu But again, everything else you'll notice on this looks very similar as far as the build out does It has a standard handles on the side and then this particular monitor was made in July of 1996 again by Sony in Japan, and it's just a really high quality unit for using for CRT and We are going to look here at our inputs first We've got two lines that have composite ends and they also have outs So you can loop your analog video in and then out to another device or monitor from this Output on here if you just use either B and C cable or adapter and same thing with line B is the same In and out for composites. You also have mono audio on this monitor, which is common And then you have your S video in and out So you can get S video in and out of this monitor But down here towards the bottom is where I have RGB plugged in so this monitor does support RGB and RGB sync and it does a great job at that It also has a mono audio speaker on board and there is no Outputs on this monitor for RGB so you will not be able to daisy chain Your video signal out. However, if you do have either 240p or 480i video analog Signal and rgbs form. You will have very little trouble getting it to sync up to this You don't have to have a certain type of sync or anything now. I have personally calibrated this monitor I've also replaced the capacitors on the geometry board, which is something I always recommend if you get one of these monitors either try to have somebody to do it or Get in there and replace the capacitors yourself There are kits available. I have a kit available You're about $30 for kits a little bit less sometimes depending on your monitor But that way you won't have any trouble getting in there and making your adjustments Using your submenu. You just need to get a good copy of the 240p Test suite and that way you can make the adjustments and again try to make this a little bit over scanned The manual actually recommends about a seven percent Overscan for your picture and that's just going to give you less of a gap Over here between the actual screen and then your bezel So you want to get that tube picture and use a hundred percent But you have to over scan it just a little bit that way You won't have any of those crooked lines along the edges here and you can get the geometry set very well on it's very easy to set geometry on a monitor with the submenu and That is 14 inches, especially these trinitrons They do once you replace the capacitors you could get the geometry dialed in very nicely It just takes a little time and patience, but With the new capacitors and set you'll be good to go for another 20 years So that picture does look very nice. It has 200 and well, this is 240p, but it has 450 TV lines. Excuse me on this tube there are other monitors that will have 600 TV lines 750 800 and up and To be completely honest with you I have done a lot of comparisons of this 450 TV line picture right next to a 600 line monitor and I can't see any bit of difference and And it's very hard to notice even the 800 line difference. So You'll only notice a big difference on the picture quality I feel once you get over that 800 line into those higher-ed PVMs and BVMs that are up to a thousand and higher But you can get a great scan line picture Right there. You'll see you get great nice scan lines here once you get close. You'll notice them and it's very Sharp image. There's again no latency with any of these monitors. So those are just some great Notes about the performance This particular monitor will only support 240p and 480i. So there's no higher resolution support for this monitor. You can only get those two analog video formats to work on this and then maybe some of the other drawbacks you'd like to note are This 1350 was actually designed only for the United States. So it is an NTSC only Model which is a little different because a lot of these are made to go in other regions and to be able to use like PAL for instance or Even CCAM and other Video formats that aren't standard to North America But this monitor actually is just straight North American NTSC and it only accepts 120 volts through the AC plug So those are two important things to note And you also look at the inputs and it does not say component on there anywhere because it does not support component video This particular PVM was only for RGB. So I recommend if you have a Consumer set or if you're concerned with component video get a nice consumer set That way that with component video on it that way you have the best of both instances Where you can actually use The RGB monitor for RGB and then if you have component you're worried about playing component You can use that on a consumer CRT easily because you're pretty much getting one of these PVMs most likely For the RGB support But this does have a great picture and I definitely recommend it. It's very simple to use once you get it set There's only four different input buttons on it. So it's just you're switching between you just press those four buttons and You'll also notice there's a degaussing button. So you don't you know, it's not a very busy button area There is a one blue only button, but this is a pretty minimal button layout So it's it's again fairly easy to operate yet. You could still get in there in between that and the adjustment knobs Make any adjustment that you would need to on the fly or pretty easily And it does Use a lot of the same parts as the 1353 the 1354 the 1351 and even the 1453 so these are all pretty much the similar same sonys. So I Pretty much think that's about all there is to know Specifically about this monitor. Maybe one more thing is that it doesn't only support one single color temperature which is 6500 and There's 6500 K and that is just one some of the other monitors support as many as three or four So you are just limited to that one color Profile but that's not really a big issue either if you're just someone who's getting into RGBs for monitors for the first time maybe and you're really looking into a sony and you come across 1350 Don't be scared off by that But that's pretty much again all the major Differences between this one and others you might have additional Inputs and outputs or different inputs and outputs on other monitors, but this was kind of an entry-level lower cost Monitor at the time compared to the 600 line high res trinitrons that they were selling You know kind of like a higher-end model with a little bit more features and a little bit more Technical kind of power built into them So that's gonna be it for the technical profile as far as the sale is concerned I will be selling this monitor through eBay. The listing is below and it is a 10-day auction Just some quick details here pick up and delivery are available Now I should let you know that the only people they can bid on this particular eBay listing are people that are located Within the United States. They have to be within the continental United States So I'm sorry if you're outside of that area I can't ship to that area through eBay right now as far as like making sure it would be insured so If you're in those 48 states and you're interested you can click the link below for a lot of details again It's fully recapped fully cleaned fully calibrated There are videos that I've done where I've shown how I've repaired this particular PVM It was the one that had the damaged bezel and then we have a new bezel put on there so it's really been thoroughly cleaned and just works wonderfully fully tested and The delivery again if you need delivery that is available It's between 60 and 80 dollars depending on how far you are away from middle Tennessee or Nashville, Tennessee area and That will be done through FedEx So if you have any questions about that, please let me know Through the eBay listing, but I think it's a good chance for somebody to get a great monitor I just don't have the space for it and none of my patrons right now Are interested in it really so I figured if you know, I try to just throw it out there to give it a good deal to somebody and Hopefully find a good place for it to wind up and live out a long PVM life so That's pretty much the majority of the information again on the Sony 1350 and how it compares to other monitors and The information again through that eBay Listing so if you're interested if you've been looking for a monitor for a while and you're trying to get a good deal And you're what in a 14-inch. I think this is a great opportunity for you to get one and It's Most of the time these come available. They're not usually serviced. So just take that into mind and I appreciate everybody for watching the video. Please let me know if you have any questions I will come out with more CRT and PVM style profile videos where I'll go through kind of the specifics and the details of each Monitor and CRT or television as it pertains to you know, how it performs But that'll be it for today's video. I'm Steve. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next time with some more retro content