You're right, Jerome, I just get dismayed by all the "Cheap 'n' Nasty" stuff that seems to be the rule nowadays...A TV nowadays is an ugly grey-black plastic rectangle that displays pretty pictures for 2-3 years, dies, & then you have to go get another one...

In my excitement over receiving the Vidimagic projector, I neglected to post any pix of the actual unit. Here are a couple of shots of the unit set up in my "radio shack".
The "stand" at the front of the unit refuses to lock, so two of my favorite books, which are always at hand, "The Sony Vision" by Lyons and "The Cathode Ray Tube" by Keller are being used to prop it up. :yes:

jr

Geez - that thing is bigger than I thought! Nice images and good color reproduction.

So, when do we get to see pictures of the inside?

OT - I WANT a pico pocket projector - for me it will be totally useless, but it is COOL!

Dah-Yum, but that thing looks like the Eevil Dr Whoziwhatzit's Menacing Death Ray...Or at least could easily be turned into one for a homemade Sci-Fi flick....Damn, I need to get off this friggin' computer more often, don't I ?!? But I'd take it in a heartbeat...Eeevil death-ray machine or not...(grin)

Where you can download RCA CKC021 service manuals or schematics?
thks.

Hi Dinkar,

what is your interest, the camera or the color viewfinder?

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France

Hi jhalphen,

I have the color viewfinder, but only the PCB board and the CRT etc., no More information, so you can help give me copies of service manuals or schematics?

Best Regards

Dinkar
Fujian/China

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http://bbs.leowood.net/incomefiles/2...2049197273.JPG

I too, would like the manual too--particularly for the color EVF's.
I have TWO of the color VF cameras. One must be an EARLY production...as it has three boards, two stacked on each other and opne below. The other one I do not know about--I never took it apart. I ALSO have a "vidimagic" projo, it is the one with the beta VCR. It "kinda works", sometimes it would go off on its own, the last time I lit it off, maybe 7 years or so ago. It is in the basement here--climate--controlled year around.

Dinkar, RCA2000,

Your E-Mail adresses please.

I have scanned all the color VF data for the CKC-021 RCA camera (the 2 board version) and the CC-030 earlier RCA color VF (the 3 board version).

I have not scanned, and will not do the camera itself. It's around 100 pages with tens of meter-wide fold out schematics. The color viewfinders are great fun to use as micro-monitors, but the cameras themselves are totally outdated.

Dinkar, you're in China. Think you could find me a Hitachi HA-11759 IC? it's the color processor in the CC-030 beam-index board and i have a defective VF where the IC seriously heats up. Have been fruitlessly searching for this chip over the last 2 years.

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France

jhalphen


Thanks a lot.
My email is dinkar.net (at) gmail.com
OK, I try to find the Hitachi HA-11759, but I can not guarantee to find.

Hi to All,

To Dinkar, will send the CKC-021 color VF data ASAP.

New photo uploads:

The now recapped 1968 Sony KV-7010U operating properly:
http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/k...n%20-%207inch/

Some screen shots of the RCA CC-030 Beam-Index color viewfinder. I have a new camera with Macro-Zoom function and at least this one will focus on the tiny 1.5" screen. John FolsomJr still makes the best screen shots, but i am learning...

http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/k...%20Color%20VF/

And last, but not least, TRUE SCREEN SHOTS of the Sony XEL-1, the first consumer OLED TV - Remember! you saw it FIRST on VK!

Tech notes:
The European version of the XEL-1 has an all band/all Euro formats analogue & digital reception capabilities, SD & HD.

In analogue: PAL B/G-i-K... & French SECAM L
In digital: DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial)
- MPEG-2 in SD, 625/50
- MPEG-4 in HD, 1080i (OTA in France) & 1080p.

No analogue input available, only 2x HDMI.

The screen being an 11" diagonal 16:9 format, it does not have full 1920 x1080 resolution but a native resolution of 960 x 540 pixels. Still, subjectively, the resolution, contrast, color, dynamic range and total absence of angular directivity is absolutely jaw-dropping.

The pictures are genuine unretouched photos, other than resizing to 800x600 from the original 4000x3000 shots.

OLEDs seem to be way to the future - i just hope the blue phosphor holds up in time, short blue life is/was the plague of early OLED technology.

http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/k...1%20OLED%20TV/

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France

My email..

Jsouth1@cinci.rr.com

Thanks for the schematics of the VF. I suppose I do not need those of the camera either. One of mine IS a CC-030 for sure---the other I think is newer. I mainly want the VF stuff.

jhalphen,

Thank you for your service manual, now it worked, but some small problems, it is B-W, no color.

Well, at least you know its a good CRT...Shouldn't be too much wrong w/it...The color looks like its TRYING to work...

The photocell assembly needs to be fairly close to the front of the CRT to pick up the information from the index stripes... also, room light can interfere with the indexing function. Did you try to operate it in a fairly dark room?
jr