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Originally Posted by nasadowsk
Darn. One of those RCA studio monitors must be the ULTIMATE roundie. I bet they're as good as a modern TV, or darn close.
Anyone know where I can get one?
(wouldn't mind an old conrac B&W monitor either...)
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Yeah, no kidding. Just look at all those tubes... Man, I'd love to find one of those. 'Course, I'd love to find a roundie period, but, one can dream
. I wonder how good the DC restoration on something like that would be. That's one thing that kinda bugs me with some cheaper sets, is the way the picture shrinks and expands, darkens and lightens as a function of the overall brightness of the image. Sure, I've added diodes and caps to help compensate, but even then it's hard to get good, crisp high contrast stuff on some sets.
I've been hunting a Conrac monitor for some time as well, haven't found a tube one on eBay, but some of the older solid state models show up from time to time. I'd love to be able to have a tube set that took composite video reliably. I've modified small black and white portables to take composite video, and used them as monitors with very old computers (Apple II, etc.), but it's a pain working around a way to safely direct-couple video into a stage in a hot chassis television set...
-Ian