Sony Trinitron fv310 retro gaming corner (work in progress) 

yes he did!

thanks!

Thanks!

Yeah, I like it a lot. I enjoy playing on the CRT, but when I’m with friends of when my kids are down here it’s nice to utilize the bigger screen. Also occasionally nice to be able to throw on a movie on one screen while gaming on the other. It’s pretty versatile.

The FV310 is a SD set. Did you mean HD?

@@mikegreiling Yes, I meant I have the 36" HD set :)

thanks!

I can tell you it looks like either a KV27-FV310 or KV32-FV310. One of the best consumer CRTs ever

It’s a 27” Sony fv310 with matching stand. I got super lucky when I saw it pop up locally on facebook marketplace.

@@mikegreiling wow I would love to find a 310 on FB!!!

I’ve got a Neo Geo MVS cabinet off-screen. I’d love to get an AES one day but that console is ridiculously expensive to collect for

I did! HDRetrovision sadly never came through with their tables, but RetroGamingCables over in the UK put together a solid YPbPr cable using tech they licensed from Mike Chi. I’m very happy with it.

The long shelf where I house my modern consoles is a black-brown BESTÅ TV unit. I purchased the extra shelves and legs separately. The KALLAX shelf as I mentioned is the result of mixing a 3x3 and a 2x2 configuration into two 3x2 shelves. They sell the glass shelves and drawer inserts separately. Since the KALLAX doesn’t come with a back board, I purchased some Elmers foam boards from a craft store and cut them to size, then drilled holes at measured locations to feed cables through. It was a chore, but it came out looking very clean.

it’s a C9 actually, I’m a little jealous of the C1s but this model is still pretty great

The RetroTink 5x. It’s pricy, but it’s at the heart of my setup and I find it invaluable

Sony upscale better. Ps2 looks incredible on my oled a8h. Try getting a backwards compatible ps3.

@@superbn0va i have 6 PS3s Backward Compatible. On of them, new from 2007. is for sale.

Get yourself a Retrotink 5x. The motion adaptive deinterlacing feature is some sort of voodoo magic… it makes my PS2 games look great on the OLED now without any input latency.

yeah, it could use a bit of love. I plan to do a full capacitor replacement and yoke adjustment when I can find the free time, but it’s pretty good most of the time.

@@mikegreiling Nice!

The CRT on the top of the shelf is an 8” Sony PVM that I picked up at a gaming swap-meet early this year. I mostly use it to bench test arcade PCBs. The bigger set is a 27” fv310 Trinitron. It is one of the better consumer sets you can buy (if you can find one). They come in 32” and 36” sizes also, but I have heard the bigger sets tend to have geometry issues.

I have the analog IO board on my MiSTer which outputs YPbPr to the CRT. It also connects to the OLED panel via HDMI. This is nice for several of the vertically oriented arcade games which would display sideways on the CRT or the computer cores with the oddball resolutions and refresh rates that my CRT doesn’t support.

That is a myth. There is nothing inherently different about flat CRTs apart from the fact that the glass is flat and they have a more complicated deflection circuit to compensate for the geometry distortion. They handle the inputs just the same as a curved CRT. That said, some late model CRT TVs used digital signal processing which *does* introduce combing artifacts in 240p images. It depends on the features of the TV, not the curve of the glass. If a TV supports 480p or 720p or 1080i, it is probably one you want to stay away from because it will attempt to upscale 240p and 480i to the tube’s native resolution and it will do a very bad job of it. That is where the confusion lies.

no exhaust fan, but there is plenty of ventilation in the back of the cabinet. the drawers don’t have anything in them that would generate much heat, just the power bricks and the component switcher and usually I only have one console on at a time so I’m not terribly worried about those power bricks.

They’re both the same set, just different size. Get whatever you have space for. FWIW, the larger sets tend to have more geometry issues, but I still wish I had a bigger one.

@@mikegreiling Ok I managed to get a FV300 nearby me. Is there any differences between the FV310 or the 300 that are amazing?

@@Lilwebstarr literally the only difference is the voltage regulator in the fv310 which prevents the image geometry from expanding when bright images are displayed… something that if you weren’t looking for it, you wouldn’t notice it…. also the fv310 has a different colored front bezel and one extra component video input. Other than that they are identical.

@@mikegreiling Gotcha thank you!

it is indeed. I lucked out and found it on facebook marketplace for free last year. I had to drive a few hours to pick it up but it was well worth it!

Yes, I used the Tim Worthington mod which probably cost more than the NES did, but it’s absolutely worth it

Ikea KALLAX shelf 3x2 with glass inserts and drawer inserts on the bottom

The contrast on the Trinitron looks better in person than it does in this video. CRTs are notoriously hard to capture correctly and I’m just using my iPhone camera here 😅

Id be more concerned about the ps3 and ps5 building up heat under the flat screen tv

The back of the cabinet under the TV has a very large ventilation hole so they aren’t completely contained in there, but I do intend to re-arrange everything in there a bit better once I get my second gCompSw

@@mikegreiling othankgod

www.ikea.com/us/en/p/kallax-glass-shelf-70423765/

soon

I had considered it, but component looks so good on this I’d be hard pressed to notice the difference. Though SCART cables are probably a hell of a lot cheaper than HD Retrovision component cables, that’s for sure…

@Mike Greiling Bob with retro rgb does say that in a side by side comparison RGB looks better. Still he recommends not to discharge 32” crt that has component already just to get rgb. If someone does then that would be awesome.

@@johndee759 I'm sure that largely depends on the set and how well it decodes YPbPr. Some may be better than others. "Theoretically" YPbPr is a lossless conversion to and from RGB, it's just a different way of representing the same signal. If you watch some of Bob's old "retro roundtable" videos, Ste from HD Retrovision and Zack (a.k.a."Voultar") talk at length about it.

@@mikegreiling I also agree. It’s all preference and taste at that point. I for example prefer consumer TVs that have a flat tube just like the almighty fv310. I love when the picture is cold and crispy. Others want curved tubes due to their geometry. We are just so nerdy.

My wii is boxed up in the closet, but I have my Wii U set up under the flatscreen. Currently no way to play Wii games on the Trinitron sadly, but I may take it out once I get my second gCompSw in the next few weeks

What monitor is that?