Sony PVM-20M4U

[Mark Raudonis]

Yes, this monitor, assuming that it works would definitely be worth $500 bucks.

In a world where everything is going “LCD or plasma”, high quality CRTs are getting rare.

Jump on it. (But confirm that it works).

A common problem with this monitors is a red, green and blue trace line at the top of the picture.
Any competent TV repair guy should be able to repair this for about a couple of hundred bucks. So, if that’s the only problem, go for it.

Mark

[Jeremy Kromberg]

Thanks Mark. I might be able to get a PVM-14L2 for a realy good price too. I think I am going to jump on them.

[Richard Dee]

forget both of them – get the pvm14L5 – that’s the best available monitor for the HVX.

The other 2 monitors listed are SD not HD. the 20M4U is an old monitor and you have no idea how many hours are on the tube – I sold mine for a 20L5.

the 20L5’s are out of production – get the 14L5 while it’s still available at B&H or you will be kicking yourself.

[Jeremy Kromberg]

Probably a silly question but what make the pvm14L5 better for the HVX than the pvm14L2? Maybe resoloution? Would the L2s component not display the HVX signal? Ok, Lots of silly questions.

Thanks Deadhead

[Shane Ross]

The 14L2 has 600 scanlines of resolution…the 14L5 has 800 scanlines.

The 14L5 has an optional HD SDI board you can buy for it to view HD footage…the 14L2 does not.

Shane

Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[Rennie Klymyk]

The pvm-20m4u is actually 800 lines and you can add sdi into it but it is an old monitor. I think the phousphors are good for 150,000 hours but there are other things that just die after a while (like the tube itself). The L5 is something you will have for many years and won’t need to update (once you add the HDSDI card). For the next 10 years you will be happy you spung for the L5.

“everything is broken”

[Nate Weaver]

The 20 and 14L5s are multiformat monitors that accept HD and display a good deal more resolution with an HD signal. For an HVX user’s intents and purposes, it is a proper HD CRT monitor.

The 20M4U is just an SD monitor with component inputs.

Counting lines of resolution out of the Sony specs does not paint the entire picture…

[Richard Dee]

no HDSDI card is needed for the 14L5 or 20L5 – just component analog HD in – and most edit systems today provide that – the HVX200 does as well