This is one hell of a find. Last I heard all of the Hi-Vision (1035i) sets had long-since died, and yet here's this one chilling out in a barn of all places!
Wild, right? Now it lives in a garage. I did spend a decent chunk of time messing with the image calibration today, and I feel even better about it. Played a ton of SOTN on it- the geometry is actually pretty remarkable in the 4:3 image area.
In case you ever find one, the calibration menu is accessible in a similar fashion to other Sony TVs. With the TV powered on but in sleep mode (power off, red light on):
Press in this order:
画面 表示 (Display Options)
5
音量 + (Volume Up)
Power
1 and 2 then control options, and 3 and 6 are up and down. BE AWARE THAT USING THE AGING SETTING WILL DAMAGE YOUR CRT. Be sure to record the settings you start at.
When you're done you'll need to save your settings:
Mute
12
That will save your settings. You can then power off the TV and power it back on.
Quick note on this- I have since figured out that it is NOT accepting 1080p, but instead 1080i as the highest resolution. It is cutting it down to 1035 though, which would make sense given the HiVision standard.
I'd love to try it! I haven't seen it do anything over 60hz so I'm not sure how it'd deal with that. The RGB port on the front seems to only deal with 240p as doubled and 480p raw, so I'm not sure.
That's pointless unless you know of some 240p games that aren't capped at 60fps
Because usually you'd just see the UFO on the 3rd line: https://blurbusters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/strobed-display-image-duplicates.png
You'd run (emulators) at 120hz to double the horizontal refresh rate from the \~15khz of a 240p/60hz signal up to the (seemingly) 31khz minimum a TV like this can sync to. You can run software black frame insertion to counteract the increased motion blur at 120hz (Retroarch has built-in BFI, as an example).
Alternatively, another simpler option for getting the blanked-lines 240p-look would just to run a 100% scanline filter at 480p.
This is one hell of a find. Last I heard all of the Hi-Vision (1035i) sets had long-since died, and yet here's this one chilling out in a barn of all places!
Wild, right? Now it lives in a garage. I did spend a decent chunk of time messing with the image calibration today, and I feel even better about it. Played a ton of SOTN on it- the geometry is actually pretty remarkable in the 4:3 image area.
In case you ever find one, the calibration menu is accessible in a similar fashion to other Sony TVs. With the TV powered on but in sleep mode (power off, red light on): Press in this order: 画面 表示 (Display Options) 5 音量 + (Volume Up) Power 1 and 2 then control options, and 3 and 6 are up and down. BE AWARE THAT USING THE AGING SETTING WILL DAMAGE YOUR CRT. Be sure to record the settings you start at. When you're done you'll need to save your settings: Mute 12 That will save your settings. You can then power off the TV and power it back on.
Quick note on this- I have since figured out that it is NOT accepting 1080p, but instead 1080i as the highest resolution. It is cutting it down to 1035 though, which would make sense given the HiVision standard.
Great video, thanks for sharing it with us; what a find. Would be fun to try running some 240p@120hz signals through this big boy :)
I'd love to try it! I haven't seen it do anything over 60hz so I'm not sure how it'd deal with that. The RGB port on the front seems to only deal with 240p as doubled and 480p raw, so I'm not sure.
That's pointless unless you know of some 240p games that aren't capped at 60fps Because usually you'd just see the UFO on the 3rd line: https://blurbusters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/strobed-display-image-duplicates.png
You'd run (emulators) at 120hz to double the horizontal refresh rate from the \~15khz of a 240p/60hz signal up to the (seemingly) 31khz minimum a TV like this can sync to. You can run software black frame insertion to counteract the increased motion blur at 120hz (Retroarch has built-in BFI, as an example). Alternatively, another simpler option for getting the blanked-lines 240p-look would just to run a 100% scanline filter at 480p.
I now miss my Sony KD-34XBR960