New JVC 13" CRT Monitor Unboxing & Testing (TM-A13SU, 2007)

Got an "Open Box" JVC monitor on ebay. Aside from the most minor of shipping damage (where one of the styrofoam corner thingies broke apart), it arrived fully intact. I turned it on and it has one hour of use on it according to the service menus.
I filtered the 15.6KHz noise from the monitor out of this video. But my camera did pick it up loud and clear. I did no editing other than just concatenating clips together.
I am disappointed about the scuffs from the shipping in one of the corners (photos from the auction show that it didn't have the scuff when it was shipped out). But at the end of the day it's nothing life-ending.

[@f.k.b.16]

New old stock is always a fun to see!

[@wyatt8740]

It was an impulse buy, and it's unfortunate that it now can't be new old stock anymore, but it's good that I bought it because my Apple IIe composite color monitor started dying while it was on the way. Unfortunately it seems totally undocumented what kind of flyback transformer the IIe monitor uses (because Apple), so my hopes of repairing it are low for the immediate future. This is basically a better substitute, though. It has S-Video and composite video, as well as multiple inputs, while the IIe monitor only has composite. There's a mod I can do with an Arduino or ATTiny microcontroller to make this one use a notch filter instead of a comb filter (to make it like the IIe monitor), and if I do that then it should be essentially a straight upgrade (Comb filters are better than notch filters for interlaced video, but worse than notch filters for 240p video. Comb filters introduce weird color blending on the edges of solid objects in 240p. Looks like there may be two more NOS units on The Broadcast Store.

[@f.k.b.16]

@@wyatt8740 You could always just repack it and pretend it's never been opened every couple of years! 😉 My dad built a Heathkit tv before I was born but it lasted a long time and I remember him working on it. That got me interested in videos of people fixing old tvs and stuff. I one day may try my hand at it too... But your thought sounds awesome with that mod!

[@wyatt8740]

@@f.k.b.16 I've always wanted an unassembled heathkit TV. Saw an assembled one around ten years ago at my first job in a back room, which was cool, but not as cool as building one would be.

[@l_arachel]

Where are the combustible cockroaches that spill forth from the monitor and catch fire?

[@wyatt8740]

I baited them out of the box with some old food and then shipped them all off to Twitter headquarters with Elon's name on the label.

[@cesar6479]

Nice and how much did you pay for this jvc?

[@wyatt8740]

$175 after the slight refund for the ding

[@cesar6479]

@@wyatt8740 ahhh nicee thats prolly one of the best deals for a new jvc crt fr and im boutta get the same one too but for a trade

[@user-pp6dh9oc3p]

Can you help me: "how to fix jvc tm9u(a) not supporting ntsc"? Thank you.

[@wyatt8740]

This is supposed to be able to handle NTSC, right? Does it show a black and white picture? Or does it show something scrambled? Does it not show anything at all?

[@mariowario5945]

It's been quite a while

[@wyatt8740]

Since I made a video? Did we meet in person? Sorry, just trying to figure out. A lot of things in my life are stuck in the past. :p

[@mariowario5945]

@@wyatt8740 nah, just saying since you made vid

[@wyatt8740]

@@mariowario5945 Heh, I'm just amazed and flattered that I have someone who follows and cares when I make a video! Thank you! I've been doing grad school and a job and together they have killed my energy levels unfortunately. I'm also not getting any younger. :p

[@rigbyslife]

You need a bnc connector to put an av??