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Soooo I'm wrong about it being a low hour set. I did a setup with a test pattern DVD and found out the drive controls are maxed out, and I have to max out the contrast to get the picture halfway acceptable.
I have some headroom on the G2 adjustment before I hit retrace lines, but the CRT is pretty tired.
Still there is enough life left in it for me to see just how good the picture was, and I can't blame the owner. If I paid the 1987 equivalent of $3400 for this TV, I'd sure as hell use it for the next 30 years until the CRT got too weak to be acceptable.
What amazes me is how clean the inside of the set is. Though I guess if you can afford a TV that expensive then you can also afford ionizers to keep dust out of the air.
Wouldn't it be neat if I could get ahold of an A68ACC12X CRT?
But I would settle for borrowing a CRT tester with a good rejuvenate function. A simple clean and balance (the lighter form of rejuvenate) would probably wake this CRT right up.
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