Retro Mecano
Enthusiast
Hello,
This is to share my first experience of modding a CRT into RGB. This one is a Sony Kv-1499X.
Having only RF and 2 Composite inputs (typical for sony CRTs in north africa) i started by reading it's manuals.
Found out in the manual that the jungle chip had actually a second RGB inout line which were free.
Second miracle is that the chassis had actually free pinholes direcrly connected to those RGB lines. I assume Sony populated those in other countries like france which had RGB scart as standard!
So i had only to assemble a scart connector, attach the 75ohm resistors to each R,G, and B lines, with 100ohm one in sync line, and just wire them to this pinhole, in which i soldered a socket. This saved a lot of trouble rerooting all the wires through the chassis. Finished with audio wires in the composite audio section and voila!
Image is waaaay better than the sh**y composite.
Now i can enjoy my MVS and Snes like it should be!
This is to share my first experience of modding a CRT into RGB. This one is a Sony Kv-1499X.
Having only RF and 2 Composite inputs (typical for sony CRTs in north africa) i started by reading it's manuals.
Found out in the manual that the jungle chip had actually a second RGB inout line which were free.
Second miracle is that the chassis had actually free pinholes direcrly connected to those RGB lines. I assume Sony populated those in other countries like france which had RGB scart as standard!
So i had only to assemble a scart connector, attach the 75ohm resistors to each R,G, and B lines, with 100ohm one in sync line, and just wire them to this pinhole, in which i soldered a socket. This saved a lot of trouble rerooting all the wires through the chassis. Finished with audio wires in the composite audio section and voila!
Image is waaaay better than the sh**y composite.
Now i can enjoy my MVS and Snes like it should be!
