 All right ladies and gentlemen today. We are answering the question. What kind of CRT? Can you buy from eBay for the $200 range and Hopefully it's one that arrives in a single piece and not just destroyed because of the poor packing Wanted to show you this to begin with because this is not packed very well. Obviously. We've got a used Amazon prime box here definitely took a little bit of a ride and Got a little bit dinged up. So there's no Guarantees that this isn't going to be just Broken into a hundred pieces. I do have my address blocked off and there isn't really much to show you on this box except for that it is reused and It's definitely took it a bit of a hit where it's been bent UPS put some weight on top of the box. So that's just pretty normal Let's go ahead and open this thing and see What we get inside And lately we've had some pretty good luck with shipping CRTs and eBay purchases and I've been waiting for that luck to kind of run out and So one of these times we're gonna open and it will run out. No, this is this is a first I'm not sure exactly what this is. So we have maybe some tinsel wrapping from Christmas. I mean Does that seem like a suitable packing material to you? No, it is not and Frankly, if this is broken, it's gonna be an instant an Instance no from the insurance company. They're gonna say ha you call that packing to standards. No way All right, so let's pull this out. Looks like the seller left us a nice note on top of here I'm just gonna rip this thing out. Look at all that goodness gracious Christmas in August all right, have a great day it says and Thank you for your purchase Again, I won't be doxing myself there, but hey at least they left us a nice letter there And here's our CRT Back feels pretty solid Power cable, but the most important thing is gonna be our front and our bottom. Oh my goodness Hey power button seems okay. I hear some Loose plastic in there, but hopefully that's just normal incidental stuff I can't believe it. Maybe somehow we got lucky again. This is our PVM Definitely doesn't have screen burn, which is good Let's get it inside and goodness gracious Try and test it out. See how it looks. All right, folks. Here's the aftermath Just wanted to show you again. Look at this. This is not appropriate materials to be packing a CRT with Did you imagine packing a CRT with? tensile And a used Amazon box Guys, come on. We got to do better eBay. You get lucky this time. Maybe All right, let's go test this thing. See how it looks All right, everybody now we're set up to run a test on our Sony PVM here now first before we do that I do want to let you know that this is not the model that I was advertised to be buying If we go back and look at my eBay listing that I purchased this monitor from it listed as a PVM 1344 Q What we have here is actually a 1342 Q So it's not as good as the 44 Q. It's pretty close. It's about as close as it could get besides being the 44 Q However, I don't know why this seller listed it as a 1344 unless they just thought that they get more money for it If it was or if it was a honest mistake I will definitely reach out to them and let them know that it was not labeled correctly if it doesn't work, right? Then we'll try to get in and diagnose it and see what's going on and fix it up We're going to start by testing this thing with RGB from a Super Nintendo. It's plugged into the back and We're just going to turn this on. I've already set the dials for RGB and we'll see if we get anything on screen and Let's just hope for the best. Okay, so We've definitely got a scrolling image there. I had it pre-loaded for the 240p test pattern Let's see if v-hold. Yep, there we go. So v-hold corrects that up And look it looks like we have a good nice solid image on this screen Now it is a bit bright so we can turn that down in the contrast down a little bit It will need to be serviced for things like capacitor checks power supply checks and cleaned I'm sure and then we'll need some adjustment so that will all happen to this monitor But I'm pretty happy overall considering the price. I still paid for this at around $200 shift I mean a little bit over that But again, this is one of those monitors that you can find generally for a better deal if it's untested And the reason being is it's not an easy one to test It does not have any on-screen menus And it's pretty difficult to get a signal into this unless you just have an s-video device that outputs Analog video and that you have handy to test this a lot of people do not have that when they come into possession of these Especially these recyclers So it's a good one to look for this particular one had been tested and shown to power on where the light indicator down here was turned on and shown But that was it But I want to say thank you to everybody for watching me today and I will see you all next time for some more retro content