 Hello everybody, welcome back to Retro Tech. Today I'm going to start a brand new series which is going to be called Comments of the Day. Now I want a chance to go through and highlight some great comments I get. Like I want to say thank you to everybody who leaves comments on the channel and on the videos because there are some great comments and unfortunately due to my schedule and just the way things have been going lately in my life, I have not had time to respond to really a lot of these comments. Some of them, some people have spent a lot of time and put in a lot of effort into some of these comments and I want to start highlighting them regularly. Now I won't be doing these episodes daily but more like every week I'll come out with a new video where I'll highlight a few comments. Maybe we can go through some technical details on some of these comments, help some people out and also talk about some issues that are going on in the CRT and PVM scene. But let's go ahead now and we're going to start with the very first comment of the day that I'm going to be highlighting on the first ever comment of the day video for Retro Tech. All right, this comes from a link between provinces and this is back on the what to consider when buying a CRT on eBay where I talked in heavy detail about a certain seller that's the biggest seller in the United States of America for selling PVMs and BVMs but we'll get to that in a second so let's get on to the comment first. I bought a PVM 9L2 from this seller in January 11th. I had it shipped all the way to Northern Canada for quite a fee and when it arrived the shell was cracked and I was missing one of the back panels. I can clearly tell that the unit I received was not what was pictured in the ad. Not long after I found the monitor would power on and struggle to display a picture when rebooted. I reached out to eBay and requested that they take action. The seller offered to send me a partial refund of 20 US dollars and said they would send me a back cover as I was not willing to spend hundreds to ship it back to the southern United States. I never received the cover and quite honestly I will be purchasing another unit elsewhere as the crack and other issues are quite unbearable. So I'm not really sure what happened here. This is a international incident unfortunately so I'm not sure how eBay and coverage works if you're sending something internationally if it's the same thing as if you bought this in America because I know if you bought this in America and it came from America you would be able to claim against eBay that this was not as advertised. Now again I would recommend never taking any kind of a refund from this seller and I'll show you the, well let's go through and just take a quick look here at the seller and of course this is Video Audio Studios is currently the biggest seller of Sony PVMs and BVMs on the market. So if you go in there and get on to eBay and search for PVMs or BVMs you're going to find this list of money that will be listed from this seller. So I went through and come through the last I don't know three months of feedback and there wasn't much for Sony Trinitrons. Most of them were for small, you know, 9 to 8 inch monitors which is like the one that was bought here and most people like this one actually had a good feedback no complaints helpful for a Sony PVM14M2 so there's not much feedback positive or negative but there were a couple positives however I did find one comment that was a little strange under the positive feedbacks which says it had a different serial number than the CRT picture in the listing. So here we are again it's obvious the seller's not changed his tactics for listing things that don't match they don't match what they're actually getting so I'm still not doing that I'd still recommend you staying away from this seller and if you want to go back and watch the video I'll put a tag to it but we go through at that time and show that there's just a lot of bad stuff going on here and eBay actually helps out these bigger sellers by deleting neutral and negative comments and negative feedback because there's not I went through the he did have some negative and neutral feedback but it was nothing to do with any CRT or PVM or BVM or anything so again take a look at that but I'm very sorry that happened to you I would just unfortunately stay away from it if you can't be guaranteed never get a PVM or BVM shipped to you that you're expecting to be in good condition unless it's covered okay so make sure that you're covered whether the seller packs it properly or you know incorrectly and it gets damaged that's on them but just make sure you're covered and sometimes you could even use a credit card to pay for something and then if they say you know try to fight you for the charges then you can you know go dispute the charges directly to your credit card company or if you're having any other troubles you know again try to reach out to eBay but do not accept a partial offer for anything unless you're accepting that partial offer as being kind of a final deal because I think that's the way this guy probably got away with it was offering the $20 so okay on to comment number two and this is from Jan Paganowski and then Jan asked what's the aperture control for that's on the Sony PVM 1350 and this is actually a control button that is on nearly all Sony PVMs that have these knobs and let's just take a look right here it says you turn this clockwise for more sharpness and counterclockwise for less sharpness and if you note see the note down here it says aperture chroma and phase controls which are those buttons that you see besides brightness which is obviously brightness and contrast those two work on everything but these are only going to be working on every other type of input except RGB so if you start using these controls like this aperture chroma or phase and you're not seeing anything and you're using RGB it's because it's not supposed to work a phase control before you ask me that's to turn it clockwise is going to actually give you skin tones of greenish colors and counterclockwise will make them purplish again this is going to be pretty much for composite s-video and component video use only for phase control so just remember that but that's going to make your greenish your skin color so if you're trying to adjust it someone's skin looks different you know you can use that to make it purple or greenish if it doesn't look right chroma control you could turn this clockwise to make color intensity higher and counterclockwise to lower the color intensity and that again only works with everything except RGB so don't forget they will have no effect on RGB signals so don't think you have a problem with your monitor if you start using those knobs while you're using RGB just try it on your vcr or laser disc or s-video systems that you're using and it'll it'll help you improve those those quality the picture quality on there by either you know turn up your screen intensity for colors and make them robust a little bit more if it seems a little dark so that's what you want to use those buttons for is anything except that that's one of the advantages of using component which maybe i'll go into deeper on another video over rgb is actually they you get to use those screen controls while you're using component all right so this is the last comment it came from random task and i know he spent a lot of time on it so i wanted to highlight it here as our final comment of the day and it's going back to the limited run games uh video that i talked about how they were selling you know this extremely high expensive copy of a game that you can literally get for ten dollars or less at any gaming store with no extras except for just a new box and some you know swag that's kind of like cheap looking so but anyway let's not get at that again uh random task said what you said is right and i'm not trying to defend limited run games but the only reason a company like them is able to exist is because paying for digital distribution was accepted it shouldn't have been but it was so games being released without a physical copy became normal and acceptable which opened a niche for companies like limited run games to fulfill valve normalized and popularized digital distribution and the many negatives it comes with such as being charged for a download and games being intentionally released unfinished or unplayable without a patch because they can easily patch it through whatever platform which only further encourages games to be released that way rampant downloadable content and micro transactions made games more expensive than ever when you take into consideration we pay we went from paying for a physical copy with a box manual to paying for a download license for an incomplete game it relies on an internet connection has downloadable content and or mtx micro transactions don't get anything in return for your money etc so valve and people that refuse to boycott steam should get most of the blame if digital distribution were never accepted then limited run games wouldn't exist i will give them credit for giving pc proper physical releases every now and then an actual physical copy with the entire game or disc and doesn't require any platform like steam they opened orders for double switch for pc last friday so i bought it solely for being a proper physical copy for pc i switched to piracy with pc with digital only only games i buy are the very rare proper physical copies like double switch that pc gets and older use physical copies and this is a great comment obviously i think you spend a lot of time putting it together and i can just add a little bit more of what i think i completely agree with you that a lot of people have accepted the digital distribution now personally i hate digital distribution i like having a physical copy of everything i like to have a manual here and i mean it is handy to have these things online as well but it's very frustrating to not even have the option most of the time to getting a physical copy so you are absolutely right limited run games then gets to pop up and have a niche market for making these collectible high expensive physical copies that are speculated upon which drives up the cost and then since they're just limited release and limited uh in distribution they could end up all over the place and like i say some copies probably would sit in a retro gaming store for a while and never sell where other ways on the internet it would sell for a lot of money if some were just trying to get a physical copy of a game that they really wanted on a platform and that way they'd have something to hold you know i don't understand how people would consider that you know you're you're given up all your resale value rights too when they jumped on to the digital copies instead of physical copies you're given away all that resale value that we used to have and used to support complete systems like gamestop and this is going to go into another reason that gamestop has so much trouble is they should have been boycotting and strongly against the downloadable content thing since the beginning because they are effectively gamestop is the middle man and any kind of store uh that you know they should have they needed to maintain the value of that so i don't think that they're at a point where they're ever going to be able to say hey enough is enough and uh we're not going to support anybody who does downloadable games only or something but that's a decision that should have been made probably a decade ago that they should have said hey we're going to say no to this streaming and uh did downloadable content thing only we won't accept that you know they could have even gone and boycotted certain gaming systems and made a big good name for themselves because not and they should have told people that this was going to be very big pain down the way how companies in hindsight have used that uh as a revenue stream to charge you more money for downloadable downloadable content updates and microtransactions and so you're getting stuck here uh with being charged more to play a game than it used to be and you're getting way less because you're having no physical copy which as you know from like the retro gaming scene and any of you that watch this probably have some type of a collection of some type of retro games or something and um imagine you know imagine if back in the day they just stopped making Nintendo games you know down the road there's just not going to be any of this stuff it's all just going to be downloadable sure but they they they do a couple things they devalue the products because it's just downloadable so you have no like physical connection to it when you grab something even a piece of paper or nothing uh no matter what you say you're having a physical interaction with that and that that can leave a memorable experience good bad or sometimes forgettable unforgettable sometimes people will sit there and think about oh my goodness the first time I opened my actual first game it's like opening a Christmas present you open the Christmas present you get the game you open the game physically and you get to you know feel it you get to read the manual you know it might be somewhere where you don't get to play the game right away so you'd get to read the manual and understand maybe even if the game was terrible you found something that you liked about it so a lot to unpack there but I really want everybody to know that I appreciate all these great comments you're sending me and I'm gonna do my best to try to make this you know a more regular thing let me know what you think with a comment below on this video and if you liked it give it a thumbs up and I'll see you guys next time with some more retro content