Orion also made equipment for other brands.

Hi Rob I recently got one of these for light guns, works great for that. There's also a LG CT-29M0RX listed locally as well I thought about getting it to use the ps2 ilink for time crisis, its silver with the teal strip at the bottom. It has the same Tube number as the golden eye but with the LG philips label on it, I wonder if Philips did anything other than just inject money and they just printed new labels with the joint venture logo on it and no actual quality increase.

How do you get the TV to OUTPUT? Just pluggin in the scart on the right doesnt output.

Terrible picture quality. I wouldn't even play pong on this hunk of shit

Recently got one of these for free and have read that there is one of the format settings that apparently switches off the 100hz processing. If you select format 1, there are actually 3 sub-settings for this that can be toggled by pressing up and down on the BeoRemote. I'm yet to try it with a lightgun, but this might be useful for someone out there (if it works!).

In our previous home we had a big Orion TV, it wasn't good at all! All inputs were on the back, but... The image of the cable tuner caused ghost image on the video inputs! 😶 It had a "16:9" mode, but that just shrunk the picture vertically, making the three color stripes of the deflection visible, the image stayed between black bars. 👎 What a cheap garbage...

Awesome

Nice. Surprised they managed to pack so much into this little unit.

Out of stock, possibly forever? It's Sept. 2024 and I see this: "The 2600RGB is out of stock and is no longer economically viable to manufacture in its current form. It is due for a resdesign, but I currently don't have an estimate on when it will be ready."

Have you tried navigating the menu with the buttons on the tv itself?

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Nice set, but I actually don't like VCR units. If the VCR part breaks, or you need to clean the heads, you have to disassemble the whole thing & it's a massive hassle.

Cool unit for retro gaming! Get yourself a flipper zero to work out the IR codes, it's a handy tool for what you do.

So beautiful, gorgeous design.

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Connected to a SCART switch and a satellite/terrestrial combo box, this could be your only TV if you wanted to declutter your life.

That unit is FIRE !! Cheers, mate :)

This is a humble little unit. Love your work Rob 👌🏼

Wasn't grundig owned by Philips during the 90s ?!

How is the image quality on this little CRT? Is it really worth the "Pro" price?

Love how the deblur effectively just makes the text harder to read on a CRT lol, glad you turned that switch right off again after.

Rob if you're ever selling any of these 15.7kHz CRT projection TVs mate let me know, i'm after a couple more.

You got the lenses backwards, the one inside is the fresnel, outside is the lenticular grooved screen. The DPO goes darker in a dark room, brighter in a bright room. That set should have 9 point convergence, the wide screen versions all did, and the 4:3 sets did later in their life. The later sets also used Panasonic P16 tubes, the fact yours has the Hitachi tubes it may be too early to have the 9 point convergence. The fact it has the old convergence board it is probably still the older revision. Before you go too far with pot adjustments you'd be wanting to adjust the G2 as per the service manual, adjust the green and red focus pots, the blue MUST stay slightly defocussed for correct white balance, now adjust the astig rings, then remove and clean the lenses, now focus the lenses. THEN adjust the pots to get it all aligned. This is really quite easy to do, it just takes a while. The image will be loads better after it is all calibrated correctly, and your Saturn guns will hit the corners no problem. The Hitachi you spoke of is kinda useless for retro games because it has an internal scaler that can't be turned off, the deflection circuitry in those sets only scans to 31.5kHz or something around that. It'll also have Panasonic P16 tubes which are vastly superior to any other tubes used in rear projection sets.

Hello, I bought a Loewe Xelos M155 VT TV, Phillips tube (made in UK). The geometry is crooked in the lower line, it is crooked (wedge down). I read forums, many people write that many have this problem on Loewe crt. Is this normal?

Nice video! I have two Orion TVs, both VHS combos. They have a fabulous picture quality!

I recently bought one of these as centrepiece of my retro lounge. After giving it a wack, I fixed the red line and can get a sort of pic from it. Needs something done to make the picture better so a recap is probably my first step. Any idea how you would get a manual for this? Service or at least user. An added bonus would be a remote.

I just got my first crt from my neighbor along with two pcs

Hello, I had a speaker next to my Loewe Xelos M155 VT CRT (Phillips Made in UK Tube), I turned off the TV so that it would cool down, and turned it on, the rainbow appeared, but now the geometry is crooked on the lower left side, it is skewed. Tell me what I can do?

Hello, I placed a Bluetooth speaker next to a Loewe CRT TV (Phillips tube) and after 10 minutes I noticed a rainbow spot in the lower corner..) I removed the speaker and the spot disappeared, the TV also rebooted, but a small gray spot (or light spot) remained in the corner. The transistor works, a characteristic click when turned on... but the spot in the corner still remained..) Please tell me, will this go away on its own?

Just bought one today for my retro gameroom for 20 euro's... It's amazing!!! Love the image quality for all my old consoles and also the sound is just mind blowing!!! The only downside... it was soooo damn heavy to get upstairs... lol

Funny thing. The PVM 6041QM photo with the green power button and missing volume knob is the exact photo of my unit. Did not expect to find it floating around further away than on reddit lol :D

All these videos make soldering look so easy...

I like your videos

Pretty sure the Thorn set at the 7:26 mark is a rebadged Mitsubishi (CB-100B, or thereabouts). The ones I've seen always seem to turn up minus the power cord! 🔌

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That Philips looks sweet, would love to see a video on that one.

Nice Sony, that last one. 21 to 25-inch Sonys are sorted after in Melb. Has s-vid and component as well. 👌

Great work mate…For some reason i just thought of when Les and I used to watch Thrashin skateboard movie on Norms TV that just had 1 colour and it was Green lol ah the memories 🙏🏽

Awesome love it !

what a mother load, definitely a lot of very cool rare pickups - that old oscilloscope is very interesting looking. was curious to see yet another native SCART widescreen tube - will we be seeing a review on the sansui 76cm? that 9-pin IBM monitor would be very desirable to the right collector i'd say, it'd be cool to run the "8088 mph" demo on it, which i believe takes advantage of some more obscure tricks native to the old IBM video connector. definitely looks like a bunch of that stuff hit the garden soil at some point. crazy what you find out on your end of town - you gotta be in it to win it.

they are all so darm cute!!!!!!!!!!

How the hell do you find these gems? Do you sell them? Almost impossible to find some good crt TV's.

Awesome find

Holy shit do you really have space for all of this?

dont forget to try 480p on that metz. it can do 480p through the scart connector

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Hey Rob, exactly how many CRTs do you have? I'm curious to know if you beat me :)

Man of you have vertical footage render it on vertical container. Don't place vertical video in horizontal 1080p container.

Sorry for the Aussies, testing EU version later today, scart 1 and 2 have rgb, scart 3 is s-video/composite. The set also features h.position and rotation adjustments in the normal menu.

philips is shit, stop promoting it.