 Hey everyone, welcome back to RetroTag. I'm Steve and we're looking at the PVM 20L2 again. This is the second part of the monitor, basically restoration or getting it back in service and everything. So we've gotten it all cleaned on the inside and now we're going to go through the geometry settings. So let's just jump right into it. The first thing to note is to pull up the regular menu, just press the menu and this one like the older menu says the sub-menu, press A and B, or I mean I'm sorry, the gauze and enter at the same time to bring up this. Now some of these things like this white balance and things you're going to have to have some kind of a light probe I believe to do that. So I don't get into this signal adjustments because I don't need to. So we're going to just go through it here and again I'm not as familiar with this menu so we might work through some troubles as I'm going through it but the first thing that comes up here is our you know we're in here now and you can see maybe on your screen deflection. So while that's doing that let's go ahead and power up the Super Nintendo here and there we go. No more flickering on that screen but you can't really see it. So what I like to do is get into the 240p test suite and the best screen under the test patterns are the grids for geometry as well as your linearity screen we'll look at too. So we're starting off here and got our menu up. This monitor doesn't need a lot of adjustments I hope you can see how good it looks. We talked in the past if you see my other videos about how CRTs are never going to be designed they're not really designed to have perfect geometry. So if you're like looking for perfection and three percent's killing you you'll have to get over it pretty much three percent it's it's like a 97 percent design whereas it's got a three percent error just built into it according to specifications in the manual. So we got a when I get started here which I've already done that I like to center up the picture so the grid here shows us our outline of the picture I've got a little bit too far down but I like to see just an even black amount around the whole picture screen that way I can get my size as straight as possible and the screen if it needs a tilt on the yoke at all I'll be able to do that and see my results on every corner I can tell whether my corners are bulging or not like this and after I get the rectangle set I will expand it out horizontally and then vertically till those lines are just above our viewing area that's the way I like to calibrate it and what that does is it doesn't leave a line around because some games when you're dealing with eight bits 16 bit 32 bit games on RGB especially you'll start to get where you can see one side of the other Nintendo games are the worst about it really so they're always shifting all over the place that's why I don't use NES to calibrate and Sega Genesis is okay to calibrate but not as good I feel like the Super Nintendo hits right in the middle on a sweet spot that manages to do pretty good on both the Nintendo and all the other systems you know around that era from then on up to like PlayStation you don't really end up having a big trouble if you just get it set kind of to the Super Nintendo version of the 240p test suite that's what I always use and I've tried other ones but this one just seems to have the most consistent and and be work works uniformly better across all lines because you'll still run into times where certain games we'll end up seeing one of the lines on one of the sides or something well it'll be just off-center you can go in and change it for that game but you know that's that's just going to be something you're always going to deal with too so again that's why I'm using this particular rom-cord and this particular Super Nintendo so again we'll expand this after we're done for the time being though let's go ahead and just disconnect this and we'll try to go through some of these and I'll plug it back in so I know that on the camera you can't see the menu while I have the grid up so we're over here we've gone down to the deflection one there's a focus selection on here which I don't really recommend unless you have a problem with the blurry screen then you can go in there and try to mess with those focus settings but we want to go in here and see how it says raster h and raster v so that's our horizontal and vertical settings so let's go in here and plug our thing I can hear and the first one is size now I'm not as concerned as this middle one this horizontal blank left we're not worried about that when we're doing the top one and the bottom one mostly out of those three settings the top one is the size so right away if I hit enter here and I start to go up you can see how it expands out the sides of my grid so we're just expanding it and that's what I mean when I say we want to get it just past see how if we get everything uniform we go just past that viewing area with those lines on this grid it's really a great setting to play roms with so you know we're not again I'm going to just hit enter to go back and forth back there and then the position so the position it's on 80 now but you see if you move it left to right so I want you to see something right here if I go over 80 I start to get this wiggle here and it skips and I don't want it to do that so I go back to where it's 80 and then from there let's pick up the camera I'm going to show you something around the back there's a little potentiometer that we've been talking about here right there and if you spin that it'll actually center up your picture so if your screen starts to shake like that that means you're getting maybe too far too far out of the settings and so you're getting too far out of the settings and it's starting to mess with your performance on there and then you don't want to happen to do that jumping around because you won't be able to fix it then it'd be hard to make any adjustments with the screen flickering like that so 80 and it's centered on there and that's position that just means horizontal up position so enter and then exit which is above that and then let's go down to the vertical raster which is going to be the same thing it's got a size and a center and this one's got the black or black at the bottom so we're just going to be again using these two top ones and if we just go so for some reason it's the order is different on the horizontal deflection but size and you can see there we're expanding getting bigger and then we actually need to get this centered up a little bit better anyway so I want it to go up a little bit more and there you go so that's going to adjust your center and then you hit and you always want to hit enter and then it'll record your setting you just made if you don't want to record the setting you just made and you want to go back to whatever it was then simply hit exit instead of enter but just remember if you make a setting and you want to record it in the memory of the monitor you need to hit enter so exit again and now you see the let's see I'll make sure I pull that out so then we've gone through horizontal vertical now there's geometry first let's just show you these settings so we got s linearity and c linearity and those are two linearity settings and I had someone asking about this I think this is this s linearity setting in the comments earlier and so this one appears to have that linearity setting in the geometry menu but this is probably when they added it because I've never seen anything just in a v linearity just a one linearity setting on other monitors so if you have an older m unit or 19 you know numbered m unit or 20 30 or something it definitely doesn't have those on there that I've seen that must be something that's new so that's going to change the vertical and a linearity those two settings and then we've got trapezoid which is just another term for the screen tilt so that's going to affect the way like this the top of the screen comes forward and and looks larger and then the bottom goes back and looks so it's just tilting it kind of on like that plane where it's coming the top's coming towards you or the top's going back and whatever one's coming towards you the bottom or top's doing the opposite and so it's just like that so that's what the trapezoid is these are you can see how many side pin cushion controls that we have here I'm not sure about this power control I've not used it yet these side pin cushion controls or whatever they are your corner controls so we'll go through and I'll show you some of those but they're going to expand the corners out or in and make it you know those are the ones that we've seen before it's called like pin amp and pin phase well now they've got it broken down where they've actually got it more so you can actually do the top of the corners and you come down to a little bit further on the screen and affect that part of the corner in the middle and then so that's why these ones have that's what they did to make these a little better is in these menus they added more controls to individual parts of your geometry calibration there's still no magic setting for all this you can see what your monitor has pretty much been standard set at but this one has the standard settings I've gone through a tweak to them a little bit just to make that square look like the way or the rectangle look the way it is we've seen but I'll show you some of those that's what those all do those pins there's four of them on there and that's what they do let's see what else we can get ourselves looking at here that's it on that geometry setting so let me go ahead and put the screen back in and I'll walk you through each one of these steps and let you see what I'm talking about so we will do the linearity last let's do the trapezoid so you can see here now watch as these expand and retract so first thing I'm going to do looks like 24 is the bottom set no there we go okay so see how that 63 see how that goes back and forth like that like you see makes that so so again I just hit exit to come out I didn't hit enter to write my setting so that's why I can just show you what these do and not really worry about it so that's again you can just play around with these see what you like and you don't have to record your settings if you're worried about it you just want to get comfortable with what these settings do and you've not done this before let's start looking at the pins this is the first one called side pin and just try to watch what it does on the screen see how it's it's really contracted in the tops of the corners a lot so you can do it that way or if you blow it out the other way it'll do the opposite where they go way out so that's how you control that so if you can monitor and it looks like this start working with these pin cushion adjustments to get it less you know wonky look in an hourglass figure or the opposite where it's a bubble globe figure looking matte almost and so I'll hit exit again go back to our settings same thing let's go down the next one which is pin w see what it went this one I think it does the same thing it's just a little tighter controls like this one seems to adjust it closer to this area what I was telling you about so if your if your side's really crooked it's because those settings have been adjusted and they they need to just be put back to a you know where you're trying to get this straight as possible don't kid yourself on trying to make it as straight as like a ruler just try to get it straight enough to where it's acceptable uh while you're playing so exit out of that setting and let's just keep going through them this one's pin balance let's see this one does so that one again it's just that one's actually moving it left and right you could see the corners shifting them left and right so that's more corner control let's see what the very labs one does this one should that one expands the center more so that's like you're sexy on your other ones it looks like that's what that pin control s is I'm sure that's what that means so we'll just go up here and let's see what this pair of control is just by president okay so that's obviously our our screen tilt kind of cool so that's what that one is you can use that one if your screen looks leaning or leaning now remember if your screen's leaning top down and matching corners like like the whole screen's tilted that's probably going to need to be a physical yoke adjustment you can go check my short talk videos for yoke adjustments that's the same for any much for any monitor but if you see what is where it just looks screen tilted but the lines are still parallel and visible up top that's when you got to come in here and work with the pair of control so let's get back out of that and that's all for that for that deflection settings that's your deflection control in this monitor option this would be for our option card let me get this back off here so you can see it better this would be for our option card if we have one installed I will test this one before I put it before it gets done on the option side but just so you know there's no option card loaded in this we're not using it so that's why it's blank system this is just giving us some internal system settings you can go in here and check out whatever you want it'll tell you model inch model type version of the factory settings so you know anytime that there's not really much you can do in there and that's pretty much all of it you're really going to be controlling on here okay so that's that's how we get into that menu so to get out of it we need to hit our input button that we're on okay and then we can hit back the menu button we'll be back here at the other regular menu because there's still a couple more things we need to talk about in this menu and that's the second one this is your color temperature balance I've got it into one of the preset d93 color temperatures that's the one I like it's got more of the whiter I feel like it's a brighter color look to it if you like the softer color power your temperature look on it that's what the d65 pretty much is and then there's a set a manual setting so you go in there you go hit enter and you see you hit enter again and it'll get you over here where you're yellow and you can flip through those three color settings that's the color temperatures if you want to go in there and play with it I just like the d93 so if it looks good in the current color temp it's a factory setting one of those two you can usually make those work I feel like I feel like they're good settings get back out of that press exit again and let's just keep going down sub controls so if you go in there and you hit enter and you go down to your adjust on the sub controls this is where you can adjust brightness and contrast that's all you can adjust on rgb or when you get into component you might be able to adjust some of these other things as well as like s video and then composite then you can adjust all those things those are more of filters to help you make your older lower-end signals look a lot better um so that's what you can do and you can also go in there if you feel like your monitor is too bright and even with you know these these knobs on the front should be kind of a standard setting where it's in the middle is a good middle on your brightness so you can turn it up or turn it down as you need to same thing with the contrast so if you find out that your monitor's been too much brightness or too much contrast in the neutral setting go into these controls and adjust it down or up accordingly and that way you don't have to do anything behind the monitor it's all done right there so if you have blooming or too much of that just do that so this again is how we change from rgb to component if we were to change the setup on that a lot of this other stuff doesn't matter you can put this on a degauss delay where it'll just delay that initial boom degauss when you turn it on a couple seconds or however long don't really need to do that i don't know why but somebody had a purpose for that and then there's all these pin you know assignments if you're using some kind of switchbox i think something that you're not really going to be worried about and then this option configuration if we had the option card in here it would do the same thing if it was the sdi card it would just say sdi give us a couple options for that if it's the rgb card it will say can you want to change it to rgb or component and that will be pretty much it for it so i hope that that is helpful so let's now go look at the shell which is going to be like anything else we'll scrub it and then we'll reassemble the monitor and we'll run another test when it's closed to make sure it looks all good and it'll be ready to go getting ready to clean this thing off there's not really any secret trick to this part this thing's safe to just hose off and then if you've got extra residue left over you can just hit it up with either some alcohol some wd-40 gugan or at windex i'm gonna use this little this is like an organic just um mires clean i'm gonna try this out on some of the hard spots it would have a nice lemon he sent but i'll get everything out so first i'm just gonna spray it off let's take a closer look so you can see typically what you're looking at inside here there is some dust it's that big just nasty dust built up on the inside there so be good to just spray it out and let it sit out and air dry just make sure it's absolutely dry let's just go ahead and start spraying it out and then we'll get going all right so i'll finish cleaning it up and then we'll come back to it in a minute well here we are in our cleanings for the most part done i like to use little boxes like that set it on there so it doesn't interfere with my edges it's a cool little tip let's get you a mailbox and do that well you can set it on there and flip it around and get it nice and dried out for you but it's nice and sunny today so like i'll flip it back and forth like this for the next few hours just take a look inside here real quick see how it's just nice and shiny now we got pretty much all that residue off so once it's dried off i'll come back and take a nice towel nice clean soft towel and rub everything down and just get it nice and shiny and then it'll be ready to go right back on the back of the monitor now we'll go right back on the monitor since it's been cleaned and wiped down and then we'll do one more test after we do that all right everyone so we are back it's been reassembled and it looks great won't you just see this grid one more time see how i've got it all spaced out the airity and you'll notice you know pretty linear uh let's see on this linearity screen it looks like it's a little lower that's okay our full circles here but these corner circles are a little lower well that's just kind of the way the setting goes so notice this one hits a lot larger so you can see that's why it's expanded more into the viewing area and just look at how uniform and nice the screen looks one more color bars i like this one too that shows you the color bars as well as the graph or the geometry so that's pretty much it for the settings now what i'm going to do is i'm going to turn on just some other game that's got a little bit of a darker background so you can see it and let's just go with this one i like the way this one looks on here so let's take a look at this and uh let's go ahead try to zoom in a little bit the white screen won't work but an all-around good-looking screen so as it's going let's just go ahead and walk around and take a quick look at it cleaned up here we go look at that almost as good as brand new this is a pretty minty conditioned one and not a lot of usage on it later in its life it was replaced it seems like and just forgotten probably so let's just see you see the contrast we can take the contrast down on there a little bit and then same thing with the brightness so there we go so again let's take another little tour around it very beautiful monitor rgb sony perfect so i hope again that today was helpful in some way that uh maybe you can see some scan lines on there if not it's okay this is a very sharp picture very clear very clean and crisp and again 600 tv lines is a very good sweet spot for rgb and 240p signals and even 480i 480i will look really good on this monitor also so that's another long run through for this monitor please if you've enjoyed this or if it has helped you at all please help me out by go ahead and hitting that like button on this video and any other videos you watch that are helpful please do the same and subscribe if you haven't already thank you again and have a great day