Sony 14" PVM-14M4U Trinitron

[Alex Eisenhut]

I'm contemplating buying this monitor
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Sony-14-PVM-14M4U-Trinitron-HR-Video-Monitor-with-SDI-input-output/122859722024?hash=item1c9b029528:g:t-UAAOSwBjdaIdCT

for my retro-computing nerdery. No real reason except it looks cool.

But this one is "as is", and I guess it is full of ASICs. Does anyone know if what's shown here is a known fault (unrepairable Sony IC failure, let's say), or might be an easy fix?

It can't even display its own OSD, so the problem's closer to the tube than the inputs.

[drussell]

Who knows...  With no attempt to show a signal from an external input you can't tell if it works basically fine bit the on screen generator stuff is wonky (could just be noisy power, bad caps, etc.) or something farther down the chain is really messed up.

Looks like it is probably fixable, though....  Mostly seems to work.... though I have no experience with this model, so who knows! 

[Alex Eisenhut]

Bleargh. I won the auction for 1$, I paid immediately the global shipping charges, then the seller sent me a mail asking for more money for the shipping, then he cancelled the sale.

 

I thought the global shipping program made things easier to ship for sellers? I guess he felt burned that I won for 1$... 

What does he think "professional" monitors for an extinct standard are worth?