Retro CRT Repair: Repairing a Sony Trinitron - Retro on a Budget | Living in the Past
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- With Retro gaming becoming more and more expensive, I have always been about the bargain and the challenge of restoring the past glories. In this video I go through the Grave to Cradle restoration of a Sony Trinitron KV-14 my wife found at the side of the road with some retro love along the way.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:31 The Patient
4:11 The Diagnosis & Tips
5:46 Cleaning and Prep
7:14 Fault Finding and Tracing the Issues
10:50 The gremlin in the machine
12:55 The moment of truth
13:38 Calibrating your CRT
15:16 Bask in your glory Retro VCR & Gaming
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Here in Brazil there was an auction of several sealed 2005 Sony Wega TVs that remained in the warehouse for decades.
Last year I managed to buy one and it was a surreal feeling to open the packaging of a classic TV like this.
PS2 with component cable looks amazing.
Sounds excellent Fellipe, I would love to get a brand new, Old TV be it a WEGA, Trinitron or PVM. Lush Retro man, lush.
@@NXGamer Thanks!
It was something no one expected. I imagine that some store in the 2000s must have gone bankrupt, the government must have kept the store's stock. And as everything in the government is bureaucratic, it took decades to carry out the auction. 🤣🤣
I wanted the 20l5 PVM for the versatility of having progressive scan. But it's a rare and very expensive monitor when you find it.
And I don't have the technical knowledge to fix it in case something goes bad.
So I was very happy and satisfied when I found selead Wega
You're lucky
That just sounds amazing, I've ended up buying a retrotink to solve my 2021 PS2 problem.
Great video. I often watch ‘my mate Vince’s UA-cam channel, his repairs are becoming legendary.
Yep, same here. MMV is a great watch.
Thanks, not seen him but will check his channel out now, appreciate the share.
Great ! This brings back memories from when I was fixing CRT monitors/TVs some 20-25 years ago.
I would never try this myself, but still interesting to watch, thanks!
I currently have 3 CRTs: 1 PVM which is what I use at the moment, and 2 small Consumer units for if/when my PVM stops working. I love retro gaming on CRTs, I even prefer RF via a CRT than anything on a HD TV for retro gaming. Which is basically what most of us used back in the day.
I wouldn’t mind getting an old PC CRT monitor for 480p stuff, but everyone seems to want £100+ these days for them.
Great video! It's always nice to see a CRT saved and that one has a great picture. I'm also a CRT enthusiast and I have some basic CRT repair skills but they are not quite at your level so it was nice to pick up some tips and you did a very good job of walking the viewer through everything.
Really chuffed to hear that and another CRT restorer is always good. Thank you.
Great video and i didn't even finish watching it! So far it's awesome!
Really enjoyed that, fantastic work.
Awesome. Thanks Likeminded folk!
Awesome video (as always).
This is definitely an interesting wave of new videos you are doing. Going outside of the typical video game analysis videos
Love the content! Thank you so very much good sir!
You should use the 240p test suite to calibrate your CRT. You'll get much better results.
I love this thanks for the video
Fantastic video! It’s great to see these TVs being saved from landfill
Could not agree more, thanks
I love CRTs. I have plenty of them in my house including PC CRTs which are great for modern games and retro ones
This was cool video
I own a 36" Magnavox Smart Series. It's in pretty good shape, and my Wii looks excellent on it.
Loved your video!! Reminded me of my days as a university student. I had picked up a Trinitron KV-21LS30E from the curb which apart from being grimy, had no problems at all. And a while later I found an old Sharp SV-2042E which after a small repair worked like a charm. I've been using them for retro gaming since 2013 and I have never had an issue with neither one. They both have excellent picture quality.
Yes man, I love these stories and moments. I have never had that many over the years to that or this level, but when they do they are even more special. I once had a old house I was helping clear out for a friend (parents) and he said that the biggest box I could take. Within it was a decent condition Amiga 500 with disk's, mouse and joysticks, broken but easily repaired. I kept that one and sold my own due to the history, sad I know but still. Thanks for sharing BillAES.
@@NXGamer An Amiga 500 is sure an amazing find! Thanks for the videos, love your channel!
Thanks for save this one from going to dumpster.
I love it, I have brought so much old tech back from the brink, it is a passion.
Great video 👍🏻
Used to have an old Sony trinitron crt back in the 90s. How I would love to have it now to play my SNES. It’s very good on modern 4K panel through a rad2x via hdmi but nothing beats a crt for 16bit era consoles.
I don’t have the skills myself to attempt this type of fix, but I’m still a big fan of seeing old tech being repaired for a new lease of life avoiding landfill.
Love doing it and hopefully helps others. Glad you enjoyed it and appreciate the comment and info.
That's awesome he's really using the Ecco the Dolphin Sega CD background music
Awesome Result, get to have your cake and eat it too. 👍
Like the pun, after my own heart. Quality.
More please
Nice work, I'm far too lazy for such a project!
This is really pedantic but surely the correct idiom at 19:31 is:
"one man's trash is another man's treasure"
Or am I missing a reference here :)
Personally I got myself a Sony triniton kv29fa210 TV a few weeks ago from a repair shop for about $55 ps2 with component looks awesome
Few things. Your toiler is in your shower! Amazing!
Were you rocking Pink Floyd when cleaning that?
Hey there how goes it. I went to my local scrap yard and I saw and found a Sony Trinitron kv 21m3d 51cm and plugged it in and it worked off the bat and the dude gave it to me for 3 euros. I tried it at home and its great with my Mega Drive. I wanna make an arcade cabinate as I have a Rasberry running a retro gaming system with over a thousand games. Gonna get some controllers soon. Question I have is, when I turn on my TV it goes to the channels first. Is there a way to program it to go automatically to Video input so I don't have to fidget with it and get the full Arcade effect I want? Might have to get a remote as it did not have one.
Hi there Michael.
Nice video! I am currently working on a similar model!(KV 14m1d). I managed to turn it on ( repaired some cracked solder points) but now it displays a vertically squished picture, starting from the top and only reaching the 2/3 of the screen. I decided to recap the whole board and then I find your video and I might have a go with the IC responsible for the Vsync. Have you ever experienced a similar issue with a trinitron? Any advice?
Great video man - especially the editing at the start. Question for you: in this video, black lines appear on the left and bottom of tekken 3. Is there any easy (ish) way to adjust the aspect ratio so the picture correctly fills the screen? I've found that the mega drive leaves a black line across the right of the screen on mine, aspect ratio is never centred. Thanks either way for making this stuff :)
Yes, in the video I discuss the engineers menu. If you have the remote use that to adjust the width and height of the screen including the length. This will or should fix most tubes that have drifted slightly. Message back if you still need help.
Excellent information. Can you link the website you were talking about where you found the service manuals and parts lists?
Thanks, glad you found it useful, this is the link:-
@@NXGamer You know, I don't think UA-cam is going to let you send that.
Hey I was hoping you could help me out with some advice. I got a crt vga compaq monitor that wouldn’t turn on. So I plugged it in for 2 days and then hit the power on off button non stop for about an hour and I got it to turn on. I then used it as my primary pc monitor for 8 months. Now it won’t turn on again. Any ideas?
I have a Sony KV-27S42 CRT I picked up a few weeks ago was working like a champ then all of a sudden there is no picture and sound when anything is connected to it, even when on cable more no white noise picture, the interesting this is that the menu screen pops up when activated, I opened it up to take a look at the board and I dont see any obvious blown caps or anything any idea where to start looking to fix this problem? thanks in advance!
I have a question, so I recently got a CRT Sony trinitron 1310UB. And it's great except, after 30 minutes of playing something, the screen goes suddenly to a purple hue, this will last for 10 seconds then goes back to normal, then again and again.
Do you know what could be causing this?
I know this is unrelated, but was there a model number on the yoke? I'm trying to test if a CRT I have is worn/dead in this tv as it uses the same tube, but I cant get the yoke off and don't have the equipment to check its inductance. Visually the yoke is identical to the one in your vid but I want to be sure before testing it.
Is there a particular video format that best suits a crt tv? I’d like to learn more about how to tune and optimise the picture, any resources you could share? Related to rgb, best input ie composite vs (?)
I’m restoring a 1971 trinitron to watch old horror films on eg The Thing, Alien, etc
I’m a newb. Any help much appreciated ✌️
I would love to see Analysis on The Sinking City Next Gen Upgrade no one has done an Analysis on The Sinking City i don't know how it runs and what graphics have been improved on PS5 and XSX. Devil May Cry 5 Special edition PS5 VS XSX PS5 VS XSX Tales Of Arise PS5 VS XSX Ghostrunner. PS5 VS XSX Demon Slayer Hinokami Chronicles PS5 VS XSX Back4Blood PS5 VS XSX Lost Judgement PS5 VS XSX The Medium PS5 VS XSX Little nightmares PS5 VS XSX analysis please
Cathode Ray Tube Master Race
Where do you get your schematics?
shit if I would've known I could sell it for a good price I wouldn't have tossed the HUGE HD CRT I found on the side of the road that was in (near) PERFECT CONDITION and working order - and it was a FLAT TRINITRON too and BOY WAS IT HEAVY!!! but I just kept it around for about a year without using it and eventually I put it on the side of MY road and the trashmen took it :/
Oh well, they are EVERYWHERE here in the states, still on the side of the road... but prolly not the quality I had found
I have a grey one that its still working fine,do you believe that it will need to be repaired?
If working, should be all good.
What causes this TV to turn off in it's own???
Mad lad.
What does it smell like when it's on? 👀
Now it is like sexual chocolate, but when my wife found it, a little ripe.
Also just curious, but have you done any console repairs?
Yeah, hundreds, at least. I used to repair and sell them on the side. Along with TV's, VHS, DVD, PC, Ipads....
@@NXGamer awesome, would like to see a video on that as well, if possible or maybe a mod haha cheers
@@TaimatCR Did you see the one I did on the PC-engine a few years back?
@@NXGamer 🤔 I don't think I did, but I'll look it up then, thanks!
@@TaimatCR here if you want. ua-cam.com/video/Gofg7Kz8iSU/v-deo.html
Your wife snagged that tv?! Damn I need to find a woman like that!
She is One in a Million, but hopefully you will.
Back when Sony made decent TV's unlike the crap they release today. Seriously though someone is going to watch this then try and fix one they have and end up electrocuting themselves. Haven't seen a scart plug in 25 years.
Do be careful, there is the potential for lethal electric shock.