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Advent Videobeam · Joined: 03 May 2008 Posts: 37

How many people own novabeam projectors?? there's a company that's got a NOS CRTs and even some used CRTs if anyone is using these blasts from the past. I actually called and asked them since they mentioned support in an ad release for newer CRT PJ.

They don't have CRTs for medieval beast like my videobeam, but do have all novabeam tubes.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 1:52 am Post subject:

May I just say. You need to turn that projector into an R2 unit.

Welcome to the forum.

XANATOS · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 130

THE MIGHTY ADVENT VIDEOBEAM 1000
the coolest looking projector ever 8) Thumbs Up

and my first of many projectors
and it still works!!!!!!! take that digital Laughing

followed by a novabeam 100
novabeam 1a and three other novabeam models all still work

XANATOS

Tim in Phoenix · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 4379 Location: Phoenix

Guys!

VDC in Shreveport, a.k.a. "Novatron", acquired the Kloss Novabeam CRT plant when Kloss shut down, and trucked the whole thing from Cambridge Mass. to
Shreveport; and I would not be surprised if they can still refurb the tubes.

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crt projectors · Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 39

Please post pics of your videobeam 1000 xanatos

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:49 pm Post subject:

Damn, that thing looks new, more pix please! Kal, put one of the pix in the FAQ, that indeed is (sort of) a collector's item.. Smile

perisoft · Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 2920 Location: Ithaca, NY

donaldk · Joined: 17 Jun 2008 Posts: 308

"Damn, that thing looks new, more pix please! Kal, put one of the pix in the FAQ, that indeed is (sort of) a collector's item.. "

Even after getting an account I don't see any pictures of the Advent?!

Edit: now I do get to see the avatars. Looks like I am not the only one who uses this classic avatar;-).

Is this the 1000 or the newer 1000A?

ITT out of Germany used to provide the electronics for the Novabeam projectors and also sold these machines under its own brand getting the Schmidt Optik tubes from the US. They occassionally pop-up on the German Ebay so I got images of most models, all wouden boxes, nothing of the sexyness of the 70s Advent. Although the portable with pop-up mirror is kinda 8) .

Silvia Kristel and her first husband, recently deceased, Flemish author Hugo Claus used to own a 1000(A). There's some old footage of them watching a footmall match on the curved screen. This footage was re-used in a documentary on her life following the publication of her authobiography around two years ago, don't have the link handy though.

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Seems this image doesn't want to be embedded;-).

And of course the 1000A was the first THX approved projector Wink

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donaldk · Joined: 17 Jun 2008 Posts: 308

Some Advent goodies in an earlier online exchange:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=12876540#post12876540

pfloydphanatic · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 240

wow! i so want one of those novabeams! that looks so cool.. don't care how low res it is Razz

ribaud · Joined: 17 Jan 2008 Posts: 11

I have a 1000A. There used to be a fellow in Kenner, LA who supported the things. He once lent me a jig to measure the emission from my (remaining two) tubes when one went, and then sold me used tubes to match that figure (about 80% of new, as I recall). I don't think he refurbed tubes; he just had a stock of them. I also got a screen from him (they are really delicate -- you can't touch the surface at all). Anyway, I haven't heard from him in a few years. I also went through a few triplers... But the best? I have been able to make mine run either NTSC or PAL. Basically, I have the 1100A RGB inputs to do it.

donaldk · Joined: 17 Jun 2008 Posts: 308

Advent Videobeam · Joined: 03 May 2008 Posts: 37

Hey xanatos,
Can you post some pics showing a screen shot of videobeam 1000 running please?
Thanks

lexx21 · Joined: 10 Oct 2008 Posts: 119

My folks used to have one when I was a kid. They owned a restaurant and bought it for use there during the '76 olympics. On Saturday mornings my brother and I would go with them to the restaurant and would watch cartoons on it while they got the place ready for the day. I also remember watching the first Saturday Night Live episode on it...lol. That sort of dates the projector quite a bit.

They were definitely cool units Smile

JayAllan · Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 175 Location: Los Angeles

I had the Advent Videobeam. It was my first projector. I had it hooked up to a Laserdisc player and a Fosgate model 1 Surround processor. I was the only guy in town with surround sound! One day my friends were over watching Apocalypse Now and the shaking from the subwoofer caused the curved screen to fall forward. We all though for a moment that the helicopters were landing on us. To this day it sticks as one of the defining moments of my home theater experience. Very Happy

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

I had one myself, once. But it needed a curved screen that I did not have, so I got practically no use out of it, and traded it to someone
who DID have a screen for it. He got a few years out of it and then traded up.

This was in the days when line doublers existed but they were still very expensive.

CJ

cedarforests · Joined: 14 Jun 2010 Posts: 7 Location: Redmond, WA

We've got a Novabeam 100 with the original 6.5' curved screen...it all works! We bought a house with all this amazing equipment in it that the owner had spent nearly $50,000 to set up: McIntosh, Velodyne, Bose, Kloss...it blew our socks off! We still have it all but are moving and need to find a new home for it. Can anyone tell me the best way to sell all this? I read that I can't list it in this forum and want to respect that.[/img]

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

The design lives!...sort of.

This is the MCP2000 raster calligraphic projector made by VDC now. Formerly an Evans & Sutherland product.

It's the only other triangular arrangement CRT projector I know of.

This one would bake your home theater. The deflection amps are HUGE, run linear devices, run in class A,
and dissipate something like 1000 watts of heat EACH. There are three per projector. I want the heat sinks off
of one of them, for a special project I'm thinking of.

The tubes are Panasonic P19LUGs or equivalent. The magnetics are pretty special, though.

CJ

stefuel · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:41 am Post subject:

I want one of the curved screens that you need for them. I sold a projector to a woman who had one. Her projector was dead but she wanted to use the existing screen. Much to my surprise, after installing and setting up the new PJ, you could watch it in a fully lit room.

cedarforests · Joined: 14 Jun 2010 Posts: 7 Location: Redmond, WA

Just got permission from Curt to post my Novabeam 100 and 6.5 curved screen for sale. Look in the Buy/Sell forum and photos are in my profile.
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