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

I was taking some shots of my Toshiba CRT RPTV that I'm selling on CL, and thought I'd put one up here, because I think it looks pretty cool. The TV isn't exactly sharp - it can just about resolve 720p (which is about as good as CRT RPTVs get, I think, despite the ratings...?) but the color is drop dead wonderful. I spent a bunch of time tweaking on it... too bad I haven't got space in the HT room for it. Sad

Man, that thing is nice to watch. Insanely bright, too, even at 55 contrast. Oh, well... I hope somebody who'll appreciate it takes it...

Person99 · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 4899 Location: Flower Mound, TX

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 1:54 am Post subject:

CRT RPs rock. My BArco BG808s retro 72" has 44,000 hours on it, going strong. I need to change the blue tube in it as either the tube itself of the glycol is foggy (glycol seems fine), and I just realized that I have a brand spankin' new one here.. Smile

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 2:00 am Post subject:

LOL more stuff than you know about.

I did the beam alignment with the NEC test patterns off the HTPC on my 42" Toshiba RPTV. It looks awesum at 1080i. I can read the icon's on the desktop from 10 feet away.

Still have to do 480i/p though.

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

Person99,

Yeah, it was displaying 720p (actually I think it was 666p when I took the photos). It was from my (uh oh) HTPC... Smile

I actually can't get it to do 1080i from the PC for some reason, even when using HD timings from power strip. Oddly it syncs just fine to the DOS startup signal.

It's really not terribly sharp right now... part of it is that it's got a little wobble horizontally, which kinda sucks. I think there's a fix for that... if it doesn't sell I might do the fix and try to really crank it up. But I'm going to try getting rid of it... asking 400 OBO which is kind of going price for older RPTVs on CL. I'll be pretty happy to get 300. I've got so little time to tweak on it that it'll be worth it, and I'm not sure fixing it up more and tweaking it to hell would get me any more.

I really hate to let it go, but I haven't got space to put it in my HT / media room because it's semi-multipurpose (we at least want to use the door at the back of the room behind the HT curtains, and there's no room to keep it visible with the huge Cerwin Vegas on either side).

Here's another one. Kinda blurry but I love the color:

PS: Yeah, I did full convergence, optical, (I got it for free because the STKs were blown), after set to midposition and redid the astig, G2, raster size, etc. But I couldn't really get the optical right - due to the way the screen worked I had to keep going back and forth, pulling the screen forward to alter the focus. Maybe there's a better way to do that.

Electronic focus and astig didn't seem to help much. Of course, I did all this while I had a cold, so maybe a redo would help. But then I'd just want to keep it more... Razz

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