Adding RGB scart to my dream CRT (AA-1 Chassis RGB mod)
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- EJ found a big, beautiful Sony CRT on Facebook marketplace and decided to mod the fake wood grained behemoth with an RGB scart input.
00:00 Intro and cleaning the CRT
04:24 The RGB mod begins
06:11 Removing the capacitors
07:40 Wiring the scart connector
10:26 Wiring points on the boards
12:25 Testing the mod
13:12 Installing the scart input
14:18 Accessing the service menu
15:06 Final thoughts
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Love the intro. I can totally relate.
I respond to your intro by saying : Hi EJ! Welcome! Keep coming back. 😊
Good mod. I just picked up a 27” Trinitron FD and it’s new enough to have component inputs, so I just got some component cables from HD Retrovision for my SNES and RGB modded NES. The picture is glorious!
Component is great on those mid 2000s trinitrons, especially if you win the geometry lottery
@@RedCowArcade The geometry isn't perfect, I was able to tweak it a little bit in the service menu but I am unwilling to open it up and mess with it any further. It looks good enough!
@@lordtaco I bet! I love the way those look. I'll try not to buy the first one I see on marketplace
Damn EJ pulling out all the stops!!!
Eyyy, great video guys ! Keep it up
13:36 This guy I know tried to drill a hole in his childhood desk, and it did not go this well. Great mod video, EJ! The SNES SCART image at the end is a thing of beauty.
for most Sony TV if you want to have 100% of the capabiity try the following to get into the hidden menu of the technical servce mode: when the tv is off on your remote hit in the following order, DISPLAY, 5, VOLUME UP, POWER the tv will turn on in service mode you could adjust the color intensity and color bias for R G and B individually, H and V size, scan and sweep rate, etc
oups made my comment before the ending of the video EJ is doing it :)
3:45 - #relatable
Man, awesome mod! I wish I had these kinds of skills.
This is my first time really watching these and I really appreciate the humor!
My old family Sony tv had the same green text display. That nostalgia hit me like a brick. Great video dude 👍👍
I imagine this is what it would look like if Mike and Jay of Lightning Fast VCR Repair actually worked on outdated electronics and not just drink beer and review movies.
Once you go RGB SCART, it's difficult to go back. I used RGB SCART on my Trinitron and it just looks glorious. You're brave to delve into CRT modding - the voltages scare the hell out of me. Great video dude
I think you could make some decent cash on the side selling these mods, EJ. I think this is really cool but I wouldn’t want to ever do it. Spent the better part of my teenager years and early 20s building computers and would be happy to never do it again. Heck, my gaming computer gathers dust because I don’t feel like plugging it in… but it’s Friday so maybe I’ll finally fix it!
Great video.
I got a beautiful free and enormous trinitron recently, and I thought we’d be able to lift it easily since I used to have one and had recently moved a 300 pound espresso machine with my buddy without too much trouble. And this thing is ended up being so much bigger than my trinitron I got in 2000, and was insane trying to get down a flight of stairs in the front of a brownstone. Then getting it in my basement and onto a dolley was no small feat. Now convincing my girlfriend that having it at our new place will be very necessary is a job in and of itself. Anyway, cool video. I won’t be doing this to mine but I loved watching you do it for yours.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK
incredible
Neat! Good kit, nice mod. I like the set and seems there's lots of room inside to potentially build in an all-in-one arcade set with the Raspberry Pi. A suggestion as a follow up would be to have an HDMI downconverter built into the TV directly and maybe install a switch to swap between scart and HDMI. Haven't seen any videos really attempt the digital to analog conversion along with downscaling for a CRT inside the TV. Kind of pointless unless someone really wants to play modern pixel games on a 4:3 CRT. A built in SBC and streaming is more sensible and easier but less fun?
Anyway, the Retrotink, Extron VSC/RGB combo, GBS-C, Corio series (if you don't mind the added lag), Ultracade Video Converter and there's a few Imagenics devices which could work. There was one oddball that I haven't had a chance to test yet which is still affordable, unlike the Retrotink and Extron options now, and that's the Creston HD scaler. Maybe that combined with the GBS-C could offer some interesting results. Build in a small HDMI splitter to maintain the digital signal for an HDMI out, and this TV could be ultimate all-in-one, clean, classic game streamer consumer CRT. Throw wheels on the base and it'd even be portable.
This is a great guide EJ, definitely thinking about doing this myself. I am also a CRT addict lol.
I have to delete Facebook from my phone so I don't get tempted to browse marketplace.
@@RedCowArcade 😅😅😅 that's so funny I find myself doing it a lot especially at work and then I see a deal on one or one poster for free and I get bummed out because I'm at work and can't go pick it up hahahaa
I gave this video a like but have no idea what it’s about. Just supporting the fellas 😂
Thank you.
I don't have anything nearly as fancy as a Sony Trinitron or anything studio grade but I do have my old childhood CRT/VHS 16 inches. I had it in storage for about 2 decades until last year. It's unfortunately only a 50hrz scart. I've got a little hdmi convertor i'll use to hook it up with my PC and Retroarch. It looks great but i feel like the brightness is a bit unaligned? I swear as a kid i remember people using magnets to "fix" them. It's nothing serious but if i could blend in the light from the center to the borders more evenly i'd be thrilled.
I've always been naturally freaked out to ever open up CRT's from all the warnings we got back in the day. as a euro bro with a fear for cathode ray tubes it's really cool getting some insight into 60hrz crts and the internals to one as nice as this. I had no idea you could even mod them for new inputs. (If only i could turn mines into 60hrz haha) Great video EJ. Jealous of your solder skills!
Wow, I'm early here.
Good to see the mods I designed years ago from half a world away still bring joy.
Not me spending almost $250 shipping a mint condition CRT from Japan just to have that perfect CRT experience for retro gaming. Fyi I live around Asia and my country really lacks a mint condition CRT cause most of us don't appreciate CRT as much as North American do. Japan is the only market where I can find tons of perfect condition CRT. Might do RGB mod in future.
an AA1 chassis
is it safe to touch those capacitors with bare hands?
I just finished this mod on m 32V16 doing BNC inputs and a switch. Had the initial dim picture going on. I fixed mine by turning up the RGBP setting in the service menu from 10 to 35. I'd be curious to know what yours is sitting at if you have a chance to check? I'm wondering if this just comes too low from the factory? (or if someone turned it down. Seems to be a common thing though)
I keep striking out. I've got 3 huge trinitrons and I had to jump on em quick, and they all have geometry issues
Uhhh rough start
Having grown up with SCART it's so weird to see all the trouble Americans have to go thru to get what we just had by default.
Do you know if the KV-9 is RGB moddable? I hadn’t even considered modding the TV itself
Looks like at least some models are! sector.sunthar.com/guides/crt-rgb-mod/sony-bn-1.html#step-2-connect-rgb-and-blanking
@@RedCowArcade this is encouraging news! Thank you!
@@RedCowArcade dang, mine is the pt40 and these only have schematics for the pt50 and pt60…
@@HPRshredderopen it and see if it has the same jungle chip if so it should be good to go
That dude copied my board I just haven’t put mine on osh park yet I need one more fix but other people have used it ille throw it up on osh once done. Mine doesn’t mux it uses a switch but it uses more modern surface mount passives. I also made a template pcb I’ll add on osh as well. Mine has the audio and sync included so you don’t need to have a connector plugged, just the scart cable.
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Man forget retropie just use rgb consoles with everdrives.
I use both! It’s convenient for mame. Looks and plays on this 32 inch screen
SNES and N64 don't tend to be ideal for RGB SCART. The difference on PS1, PS2, Saturn and GameCube is night and day.
Wonderful video... but wy is it on the Red cow arcade channel?