This is less of a guide, more of an ‘oh, it can work’ experiment. So it’s only partly serious and mostly fun. So buckle up! My origi

Turning a classic CRT into a Smart TV

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2021-06-21 22:00:04

This is less of a guide, more of an ‘oh, it can work’ experiment. So it’s only partly serious and mostly fun. So buckle up!

My original idea was to set up a connection from my PC to the TV to play old games and I did investigate going down the SDI route, however strangely my Sony PVM doesn’t play nicely with the SDI module in place. For a long time, changing to an input without external sync but with external sync enabled would send the poor TV into a ‘panic’ mode (which would display a sad orange coloured light on the tally light). This wouldn’t be so bad except it would happen every time you turned off a console without either first disabling the external sync OR changing to another input… Anyways. All “fixed” now with the SDI module removed from the Sony PVM-14M4A.

Back to reality, I feel like the longevity of a DVB tuner “set top box” is really getting towards the bitter end, with most services pumping their best content on ‘digital’ (aka streaming) platforms and broadcast is slowly taking a trip to the big TV in the sky. It’s a slow decline, but it’s there nonetheless. So here’s an option to migrate with the times - to a degree.

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