Where can I try to scope out a PVM? I live in a place in the US where old people hoard random stuff. Lots of mom and pop shops near me. Trying to get one on the cheap since I'm a poorfag. Did you score a PVM in an unusual circumstance? Lemme hear your stories
>>12849171I rather just have one of those larger Sony WEGA Trinitrons desu
>>12849173I need one of these tiny boys specifically
>>12849171Bamp
Weren’t those used in offices?
>>12849234Based on what I'm reading: local tv stations, hospitals, occasional security monitors. They have gorgeous display
Dunno. I wanted a CRT so I looked aroun on Craigslist, Offerup and Facebook Marketplace and I found a nice looking 20" Samsung that I definitely paid too much for but aside from being lucky enough to dig these out of the trash I think overpaying is the only option.
>>12849171Oh boy I can't wait to pay $500 to play on a 12-inch CRT like people really did in the 90's
>>128493041. Fag2. Is retro3. Need it to be tiny4. Not a boomer5. Not looking to waste money, I am poor. Trying to find one for cheap>>12849328Trying to find one for cheap. Did you retards not read that part?
>>12849353Zoomer*
>>12849171I basically that same unit but those nubs near the bottom are little metal handles to mount it in a rack. It has BNC connections so I haven't connected a game system to it yet. It turns on but IDK if it's even in color. I'm assuming it is.
>>12849401Hey I'm a retard, it wouldn't have a hue knob if it didn't have color.
>>12849353Best to ignore the retards. The only way to get one cheap is to make friends with the guys working at your local transfer station/dump and tell them to put on aside for you or just swipe it when they aren't looking. I've gotten many cheap electronics and old graphics cards this way, but ymmv. If they have a shipping container that people put their broken tvs laptops and printers in just walk in with something like you're throwing your own stuff out and grab what you want. Feign ignorance if they yell at you.
>>12849403that knob turns up the brazilian laughtrack
>>12849171Pic related is 100% timeframe appropriate if you want a small screen.
>>12849412"Jej">>12849474Nice screens. I have some tiny guys too and I'll post them later if I don't forget.
>>12849304PVM derangement syndrome
>>12849573Thanks for your contribution, but have you considered being a faggot somewhere else and perhaps reading threads about things that actually interest you instead of impotently seething at a screen that can be used for video gmaes regardless of what it's original intended purpose was? They can run doom on a calculator, do you consider that "new age larping" too? Are you always this much of a raging double nigger? Do you even play video games? Why the fuck do you care so much how someone else( a stranger to you, no less) chooses to engage in a hobby? Did a rack mount crt fuck your sister or steal your girlfriend?
>>12849660I seem to have made a spelling error, I guess you can just disregard my post and continue crying like the little bitch made faggot you are.
>>12849304I think some of the snes kiosks you could play in toy stores had really good tvs/monitors, maybe not PVM's though, but similar in quality (JVCs maybe?), so I guess OP could larp he's in a toy store and only play in short bursts until his mom comes to pick him up and also place the screen really high so he gets neck pain after a while.
>>12849171>Where can I try to scope out a PVM?Wherever you and your kind "scope out" things>le copelol
>>12849328>note: people actually did pay $500 to play on 12 inch tvs in the 90s
>>12850234What the hell even is this reply? Do you feel smart and cool now? You sound retarded.
>>12849407Thank you, sir. I will check out the dump ASAP. Appreciate the feedback.Lot of PVM seethers in this thread. Fuck is up with that?
>>12850284$500 dollars in 1990 is the equivalent of $3 billion in today's money
>>12849474holy kino
>>12850234Most reddit shit I've read on 4chan. Well done
>>12850629You sound more mad than him. You lose.
>>12850629I'm not mad, I'm having fun playing video games. You're not even having fun arguing like a pedantic faggot. Lol go cry somewhere else that someone is using a device other than what it was designed for
>>12849171University surplus auctions are a better bet than most any other option. But the pickings are much slimmer than they used to be.
>>12849178There is no point in owning the 9" PVMs for playing retro games. They have no actual benefits over commercial CRTs other than having the RGB inputs.
>>12849171>>12849178Literally just take any PC CRT monitor that can display 640x480, and play your games in a 320x240 window in the center of the screen. If the monitor has 18" viewable you'll have a 9" window.
>>12850726"Erm, the CRT you're retro gaming on isn't being used the way it was properly intended to!!"Reddit's that way
>>12850759I think anons want a small PVM so it doesn't take much space in their rooms, your solution does nothing for that
>>12850726This thread isn't for you and no one is keeping you here. Go be a faggot somewhere else. It's obvious you're starving for human interaction, regardless if it's negative. That's how I know you're a loser. You lost a long time ago.
>>12850726I didn't admit anything, other than you're a faggot.
>you're not allowed to use a high quality CRT to play your games because...you just CAN'T OK!?!?!This nigger is serious.
>>12849171>cheap>PVMPick one.You aren't going to casually find a cheap PVM in 2026. It would take a stroke of luck. Even the small ones costed thousands back in the day so mom and pop shops didn't have any. It took me a couple years to find a decent PVM locally but it was not cheap.
>>12850823Imagine if audiophiles weren't allowed to use anything nice because they used a Walkman growing up so that's what they should always use. That's the modern CRT scene.
>>12849264Their displays are nasty and overly sharp. Bro they dont even have speakers most times. Theyre meant for checking if your broadcast is interlacing properly, theyre not for actually watching anything on lol.
>>12850834>Bro they dont even have speakers most timesMost actually have speakers. Not very goods ones, sometimes mono. There a a few that don't. Thanks for your blatantly wrong input though, we all know you're full of shit now.
>>12850834>overly sharpToo bad. They should have put physical adjustment knobs on them, shouldn't they have? Dumbass.
>>12849171You could try your local gay bar, I hear they have them stacked up to the ceiling in those places
>>12849171>Dude dude duuuuuuuuude you're not a retro gamer unless pay some faggot 500 dollars for antiquated professional specialist hardware nobody actually gamed on
>>12851004This is the prime example of someone who feels threatened and in danger
>>12849171If you are looking for a CRT overall you can search thrifts (if they still carry them) estate sales, garage sales, or local listings and get one. But to get a very specific one, especially a top end one is very difficultYou are better off just saving for it and biting the bullet when you find one listed, or flipping the other CRTs you can find to save up to get this one. This would be difficult to get
>>12849474Sorry the other one only has a coax input give me a sec
>>12851013I didn't pay any money for this
>>12851013Gen elec
>>12849474This old lady I know has that microwave TV on the left but she doesn't use it. How much should I offer her for it?
>>12851025Just ask her what she would like for it. Chances are that she'll give it to you for free.
>>12851006>Haha I spent 500+ on a 10 inch CRT that will show 'em
>>12849171what am I supposed to do when my old CRT has colors that bleed and shit like that, since sending it to the company to get it repaired isn't really an option
>>12851068The best kind of replies are the ones that confirm what I was saying to anon.
>>12851025Offer to do some chores or something, old bitches love that
>>12851068>I have nothing better to do than hate on things that don't interest me and make shit up about people I don't knowDouble nigger
>>12849573>It’s not retro gaming. It’s new age larping.>>12849304et alsee this post >>12850828Back in the day high-end gear was usually limited to studios and stuff, but it would have been mindblowing to get your hands on it. That high-end gear was affordable for a few years, though it's getting borderline now, at best. Junk-tier CRT's, however, are still junk.
ive been considering driving a few hours to go pick up a 13" in great shape for $350, which is a pretty reasonable price and one of the only ones ive ever seen come up "locally" in years. you really just have to be patient. at this point the people that have, and are selling them, know that retro game guys want them so they go for stupid money. everyone says email your local hospitals, new stations etc. but that shit never works. there are plenty of good consumer sets that will fit your size requirements if you cant score a PVM/BVM. good luck
>>12851127Zoomers and their consequences have been a disaster for video gaming. A better use of money would be to buy a scaler or converter, its probably cheaper, gives you better picture and allows games to actually be playable without lag.It's also better for the industry in general because holding to shit like PVM's or CRT's is foolish, they won't be remade and buying a more future proof solution is better but also increases the demand for those items which will foster competition, scale production, lower prices, etc.
>>12849171I found a pvm 20L5 sitting on the sidewalk in front of a thrift store, presumably the store refused to accept it as a donationA friend of mine gave me his dads jvc production monitor when he found out I was into themBought a pvm1910 through a vague craigslist ad referencing a Sony production monitor, no pictures, no model numbers. That one was $20 and picked up from an old dude at a warehouse filled with film rental shit.Waited a couple months and called the guys office again and asked about monitors for sale. His daughter answered and said she'd ask her dad. Dad vouched and said I could come through and look through his stuff.Found literal stacks of monitors. Bought all of the 20" and 13" bvms, some pvm 2030, a couple of vcrs and fucked off. $50 each 20", $20 for the 13"
>>12850793A 17" PC CRT is barely bigger than a 9" PVM. You are silly. Your whole premise is just silly. A 19" CRT is not too big for a bedroom. A 27" CRT is not too big for a bedroom.
>>12851145
>>12851076What model and year
>>12851152>You are sillyI'd say it's sillier to recommend Y to anons when they want X
>>12851153>>12851145
>>12851153Holy smokes dude that's rad! What state? I would love to get a 13 inch one for my RV and one for my kid
>>12851161Anon never said a 17" monitor is too big for their room. Also I can just call them a dumb faggot if I want. I don't have to agree to their premise.
>>12851164That was in Los Angeles. I actually worked at a rental house around 2010-2015. I personally packed up some pallets of monitors to be recycled. We had a parking lot sale and we couldn't sell any of the stuff so we gassed em. I sold a couple pretty soon after. Held on to a few then sold a couple more before moving across the country. Now I'm down to a couple bvm 20" , a 20" sony pc crt, the 15" jvc, and a 13" bvm.
>>12851164lol, looking at this picture more closely now I wish I'd sifted through more of the small stacks. There are some nice ones in those back rows
>>12851169They say they want a 9". You keep recommending what they do not seek.
>>12851172Right on, ah well the quest continues. Go and plug one of those bad boys in and show us how it looks! I think I'm gonna bug the local hospitals maintenance staff see if there is some rotting in a closet somewhere
>>12851203kys
>>12851203>they
>>12851367I'm in Virginia now, where are you?
>>12849171They are pretty hard to come by in 2026, you are going to need a bit of luck and some time. The method of contacting TV stations or hospitals is a waste of time imo, but you might get lucky. I would create iso posts for fbmp and cl and keep them refreshed, maybe post them in multiple areas, also expand your zone of search to a few hours away if you can drive that far, it will help. Check medical supply resellers and electronics recyclers, those can be hit and miss though. Prepare to wait a long time and be constantly searching.
>>12849171Found a 13" one locally listed for $300 a few months ago, it's nice but not a grail.
>>12849171>>12852932I imagine they'd be great for shmup players with how easy it would be to flip them on their sides for vertical arcade games. But I don't know how safe that would be.
>>12850325You sound mad. And you should.
>>12851135Zoomers interest is the reason you now have the best emulation and piracy of retro gaming ever, opening you the opportunity to play just about every retro game ever made
>>12853285People do that all the time. Honestly the only reason I would ever consider getting another pvm.
>>12853472Blatant same faggotry. Fuck off nerd
Lol the whiny pvm hater got the banhammer.
>>12853636There's some truth to that, because zoomers create general demand which is healthy and incentivizes those things, but they have done immense damage as well. Also Emulation wasn't done by zoomers, that's been an ongoing Gen X and Millennial thing.
>>12851145>>12851153holy shit
>>12849474That one on the left is sexo.
>>12853636Zoomers don't even know how to use emulation.
I have a jvc pvm, but it only has composite inputs. Honestly think the best thing about it is being able to play pal hardware on it as a burgernoid.
