Second channel: Adding a high resolution mode to this composite color monitor
🕑 Added 2025-05-31 00:29:40 +0000 UTCHello my patrons! Let the mods begin on the Philips monitors that I recently featured on the main channel. In this video I go over how I did a super simple mod to disable the silly "Green Only" mode this monitor has and instead make it have a high resolution monochrome mode. This will make a huge difference on any of these monitors that lacks Luma/Chroma input and especially on ones with a high resolution CRT.
I am very pleased with how this turned out, so hopefully you find it interesting.
Thanks for all your support!
Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCnqkvF10to
Comments
Adrian's Digital Basement
It's always a pet peeve of mine when people outline a mod, and they say stuff like: "Remove this component. Install this other component." without actually explaining what the components do or why they chose those values.
tim1724
After watching your various CRT videos I feel like I really understand analog video much better. These are all really useful, not just for showing how to repair or mod particular monitors, but in helping viewers get an idea of how analog video actually works.
Rick Arabian
+1 to this comment.
Bo Andersen
What a great video explaining the techniques and history of how video from retro computers actually work. Good stuff.
Mark Dymek
in the upper right corner of the screen either when you cleaned it or there's some dirt on it. wipe that off its horribly distracting :P