/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2178253
PVM is short for Professional Video Monitor, as the name implies they were monitors used in professional settings like tv stations, hospitals, and video production companies. They are not televisions, as they lack TV tuners. PVMs are very popular amongst retro game enthusiasts for having higher quality construction as compared to consumer grade tvs, as well as better color reproduction and sharper pictures.

Many PVMs accept an RGB signal. Read the pastebin for info about RGB and other video signal types used by retro consoles.

Sony, NEC, Panasonic, Ikegami, and Mitsubishi all made PVMs. The OP image is Super Metroid over S-Video on a Sony PVM-2030.

Here's an old pic of a Panasonic PVM outputting to a Toshiba HD CRT. Neither displays scanlines (HD CRTs upscale 240p to 480i, and the Pana is too small to show them.)

>>1818532
I tested the video of the Panasonic monitor earlier by hooking up Mario World, through S-video. And for curiosity's sake, I ran an s-video cable from Panasonic's output to the living room tv, a Toshiba 32HF73. The Toshi is an early HDCRT.