Repairing a 1984 Sony Trinitron KV-2670R 

You love to see it. I love seeing you bring this beauty back to life.

Excellent work on a gorgeous set! Thanks for the video, darlin'!

You are amazing 👏👏👏 it’s incredible how you repaired this TV . I love your channel and content 👏

Saw your ad on Instagram, the algorithm sometimes gets it perfectly right

Yup, your reel brought me here as well. Right up my alley. Subbed.

Fantastic Video. What is the brand and model of the test instrument ?? Thanks a million, Jim

We call the cold joint a dry joint , love to of seen where on the pcb it was

Inside the tv is so clean there is no dust in it, it has been cleaned before the video taken

Just discovered your channel. Love the content! Keep it up! 😄

Hey Matt, I'm a big fan of the early Betamax players. I was a teenager in 1975. Graduated high school. I have bought a 7200 Betamax the first stand alone one that I wanted back in the day. But It cost over a thousand dollars back them. I have it now with the clock timer. I am just wanting a couple of the original blank tape to go with it. K30 or K60. I seen you had a big box of them. Would I be able to purchase one or two from you. I can't find them anywhere. It would make my collection complete. Please, Please consider. I will pay top dollar for them. Thanks, Your video's are awesome...Gary

Such a great concept for a RU-vid channel

Do you know how to remove small scratches or a graze on the glass of a crt TVs?

Given how many were bad and how relatively few there are, I'd just replace them all, that thing is beautiful, but opening it up to repair it all the time with that long thin neck and giant neck board would make me nervous. Never seen the inside of a CRT TV so clean.

Came from facebook

Mod RGB?

You really should do a full recap of the board, and the Neck Board. All of those caps are 40 years old. It makes no sense, once you're already in there, to just find the bad caps. Because others will also fail, in a week, a month, a year, etc. It's fortunate that there are relatively few caps compared to newer sets. So why just do minimal repairs when, for a small investment, you could have this performing flawlessly for decades to come? It makes zero sense when I see people do this. So sad for this beautiful television. Just recap the damn thing. No logic at all. Maybe someone else will buy it and give it the tiny extra effort that it deserves to make sure it's reliable, and prevents any future damage that could ruin it permanently...

You are not a serious tech. Anyone who works on vintage gear, audio - video - PC, and who already has a unit taken apart for service, starts with a recap at the very least. 40 year old polyprope caps - they have to go. If you can't do everything, then the power circuit, the neck board, any place that gets hot or handles high voltage. That's basic. Something you figure out in your first couple of months. After all the times you've had to go back and repair something that you've already finished. Because something else went bad. So you start with a recap from the get-go. Then typically you reflow the solder also in the sections that get hot. Again, basic, day one service. Then, once you know that all of those things are good, if you still have an issue, you are starting from a good foundation. So much easier if it ends up that there was some bad resistor you had to track down. Then I see spots on the board with really old flux, or more likely, corrosion. That's going to slowly eat through the board and cause some short. Not cleaned. Not addressed. Just left to ruin a vintage TV (ten years away from Antique) that is both beautiful, and currently in beautiful condition. I've seen some of Adrian's Braindead Basement, and he does the same thing. If he could replace a cap with a wire and a piece of tape, he would. I can't watch that guy. He's obsessed with vintage kit - but he doesn't CARE about it. I think he really cares about clicks and sponsors. Does he have sponsors? I have no idea. But if you genuinely care about any vintage kit, then you walk up to that nice assortment of caps that you have, and you pull out everything that's on the board. Every important circuit at minimum. And whatever you don't have, you order. That's how you know that you genuinely appreciate this amazing old tech. Not by scraping by with the absolute minimum that you can get away with just to get it running. I wouldn't do that with a vintage car. Definitely not with some vintage audio. Nor with a vintage PC. And I wouldn't do it with this gorgeous television. I'm glad you rescued it. If you rescue a neglected dog, you don't just bring it home and give it a new blanket. You feed it, wash it. Give it a comb and a cut. Buy it a new collar. So even though this TV is safe, it's sad to see that it hasn't been cared for. Maybe you're just starting out, so I'm hoping that your knowledge, experience and approach evolves, and we see that you really care. That you really get serious. Anyway, best of luck to you. You've obviously started a family. I can only assume that you take that seriously. That should translate to all aspects of life that you care about...

you skipped the cold solder part. So am not impressed.

you have been very missed sir!

Nice work! Can you go into more detail regarding the equipment you use and how to use it properly? I’ve got a 90’s set I’m about to start replacing caps on.

Sorry, I said 1987, but you said 1984 (George Orwell). So my comment applies even more, and I still had two more years of high school to suffer through...

I don't remember if we ever owned a TV with those really silver colored phosphors. Probably, but I wouldn't have noticed if we did, or thought twice about it. Curious to see the black levels once it's up and running.

I'm only 25 seconds in - and that TV is beautiful, by my standards. Remembering all of the huge wooden console televisions of that era (I was a year out of high school), this is atypical of what the market generally had on offer. But, everyone knew that Sony was the premier line of products, so they were not like everything else. I can't recall the year, but I do remember the conversation with my father the first time, when he had to buy a new TV, that he literally could not purchase a console TV. He was distraught that nothing was available with the substantial carved wood enclosure that he had always known. The salesman told him that the best he could do was to get some kind of entertainment center in which to put the television. The end of an era. So this 1987 TV that has no giant wooden cabinet really pleases me. Can't wait to see the picture...

Excellent video. Thanks for your patience and honest method in fault finding. Ive worked as an electronic engineer for over 20 years with mostly modern digital equipment but ive got a real affinity and interest in old electronics like CRT TVs and 8-16 bit games consoles. Ive recently bought a working mega drive gen 1 and a mitsubishi CP-1627BM just to clean up and maybe upgrade with some new capacitors etc if needed. Any solid advise for me starting out this hobby in regards to equipment spare parts and sourcing repair manuals for old electronics? I live in the UK.

Hello! I have a question concerning your last video. Were you able to find the schematics and/or manual and fix it? Wishing you the best of luck!

All you need now is the matching TV stand for the KV-2670R.

Hey Matt!, i love the videos and that’s a beautiful TV. I am obsessed with the set you have in the back with the flat hinged front glass panel. I gotta know what that is i would love to have one of my own!

Good to have you back! I have the kv-2665, basically the non-remote version of this set. Thanks for posting!

I cannot believe how clean this was inside, whose condo was this, Howard Hughes??

Coming from tiktok you just saved the meal time 😂😂

Would’ve been nice if you could’ve shown where the the cold solder was at

Here from tictok

What brand is that ESR meter?

This was great, love your IG, hope to see you post back here more often.

Wonderful.

Caps aren't all that pricy. Why not just replace them all?

Beautiful television! If you haven’t already, you might wanna go back in and check/resolder the Horz drive transformer connections. Also check around the STR regulator area, incredible find man!

It was business television. I think it's cool.

I’m in NC and your house looks like it could be in my neighborhood. I have a smaller atomic ranch and I love orange too. You’ll have to reach out when you get settled in.

Hello Matt, I love your content. I was hoping that you could help me with some issues that I have with my Video Cassette Recorder. If it's no trouble for you. I have the JVC HR-2200U Video Cassette Recorder, and it’s fully functional, I can watch tapes with no problems. The only issue is when I want to record with it. I’m using a Panasonic WV-3060 Color Video Camera, which works because I can see an image through the viewfinder and when I press the camera’s trigger switch the recording starts and the tape advance. The REC and PLAY indicators are lighting, so I assume that the recording is taking place. But when I rewatch the tape to see what I recorded, nothing appears. I have no image that has been recorded or sound. Do you know what may be the problem and how to fix it? I appreciate a lot your answer and help!

Very Cool, brings me back to my childhood. Thank you for everything you do! 📽🎥🎬🎃

Yes new video!!! I saw one in Craigslist!!

Seen your Tiktok and was really interested for the full repair. Very cool.

Great work, thanks for the video!

40 years old. wow

Awesome video 👍

Nice one mate...

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