FLAWLESS PICTURE Sony PVM-1271Q RGB NTSC PAL SECAM Broadcast Monitor Gaming L.A.

Description

Shipping to USA is flat rate 6.50, but if you are in California, please send me a message BEFORE you buy and I will reduce the shipping to .25 for you.
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This is a Sony PVM-1271Q Trinitron multi-standard (NTSC, PAL, SECAM, NTSC 4.43) broadcast video monitor serial number 200149.
This is a very high quality broadcast monitor with a perfect picture.
I would have moved to sell this two years ago with all my PVMs if I'd known I had it in inventory, it was sort of lost on paper here, hidden for possibly as much as 16 years, and found in 2021 sealed in a black doublewide 32U shock rack with both the lids locked on it that was stacked 6 feet up in the air in the back upper left of a warehouse unit that got moved out to a larger unit this year. Basically sealed airtight for almost two decades. I sold all the PVM 13s, 14s, and 20s 2019-2020, I didn't even recall having this. I think it might have come from a small private Avid editing suite here in California that was making some PAL versions of their material and they needed this until they closed the room and Synhouse bought it out. At the time, I just gave it at quick test and marked it as working perfectly with a tape tag, put it where it couldn't be seen.........and forgot about it.
You can see and hear this monitor along with the Sony BVU-950 and VP-5020 decks (that I also have listed on eBay) playing reference tapes (SMPTE color bars/test tone, television episode, motion picture) in the videos
"Vintage Video: Sony BVU-950 #18842 - The Best U-Matic VTR Editing Recorder of All Time"
and
"Vintage Video: Sony VP-5020 #12929 U-Matic Player - Playing a few tapes"
on the Synclav com Youtube channel. These videos (ultra HD 4K video took 20-23 hours EACH to upload and process) were made as I was finishing my testing on those decks.
The Sony PVM-1271Q is a 12" professional color video broadcast monitor, a multi-standard unit with PAL, SECAM, NTSC, and NTSC 4.43 capability. It has two channels of composite inputs, one RGB input, one RGB TTL input, and one 8-pin VTR input, and external/internal sync as well.
For audio, it has mono audio inputs and a mono speaker on the front.
This has overscan and underscan modes that can be selected by the user.
It has been tested and it works perfectly.
Defects:
Aside from very small scuffs that you can see in the photos if you look closely, and the removable tinted screen cover that has a few marks and scratches that are so small you probably can't see, the only "defects" for the collector on this were intentional on the part of the professional users that used it. The power switch was hardwired on, and the little plastic box/lid that covers every single one of the controls that needs to be used every time has been removed (I see about half of the photos online show the PVM-1271Q that way) and I don't have it, so those controls are exposed or accessible all the time.
Synhouse most often gets gear from audio post production facilities that use some video gear for scoring or spotting sound effects to picture, via the Synhouse Synclavier business, but some large lots are obtained from straight video post production companies as well, this unit is (probably, the best I can remember) from a local Avid editing suite here in California, until I powered it on this week to test it to list it, it hadn't been powered on in at least 10, maybe 16 years since I tested it while moving it into a big flight case in the warehouse, before that, it may not have been powered up for a few years. I don't think it was used since 2003 or so. This is the case with almost all my video gear I'll be selling. I was super excited to buy so, so, so, much video gear as the prices were suddenly falling because of the switch to high definition after years of all prices staying the same (like someone thinking they were doing you a favor by offering you a Digibeta deck for ,000 [I've got four you can have now for 0/each]), and I was doing all that from 2005-2006 (95% of what I have), then a little bit more through 2011 (5% of what I have).
So unlike all the other video gear on eBay, what's from my personal collection has not been flipped again and again (and shipped by eBay sellers that don't know how to pack) over the last 14 years, or used or even POWERED UP in the last 14 years in most cases. So a lot of my stuff is unusually clean. It also doesn't have the dusty/sticky/dull surfaces and oxidized metal parts most other gear has because it's ALL sealed AIR TIGHT in flight cases, and every piece of gear I have with BNC connections has plastic Caplugs on to protect them (mainly from getting bent, but it has the side effect of almost completely eliminating oxidation, so they are mostly still shiny). Also that 100% of it was purchased in Los Angeles with cartage by me personally, so it wasn't shipped when I bought it.
And oh yeah, I TEST my gear! The rate of PVM-1271Qs on eBay being "as-is, for parts/repair", "won't power up", "surely working 100% perfect but I don't have any way to test it so it is sold as-is, no refunds" is about 95%. This isn't one of those, and if you are shopping on price, that doesn't end here. I ship with equipment and materials other eBay sellers don't have and wouldn't know what they were if they had them.
It has BNC jacks for all sorts of I/O, including RGB, and supports various international standards, but all I had on hand to test it with was color composite NTSC video and audio from two different professional video decks (Sony VP-5020 and Sony BVU-950) to test this internal speaker, which is clear and loud.
I am not a video engineer and can't do critical tests for specific performance attributes, but I can tell you how I have tested it today and what the results were. All I can guarantee is that I got these results, beyond that, I don't guarantee it.
My test results from today:
The basics: Powers up (permanently, the on/off switch is hardwired on). All controls work as far as I can tell (I don't have a manual). All buttons respond instantly to the lightest touch. Displays good and clear video coming from playing a U-Matic tape (and the picture is very, very clear with good contrast and color, I'm playing a SMPTE bars video/SMPTE LTC time code/audio test tone U-Matic test tape and various work tapes of different old TV episodes I got from audio post houses, you can see some of both in the photos). Loud and clear sound comes from the speaker.
More critically: Professional video broadcast monitors need regular maintenance and periodic service (whether used or not), including calibration or alignment, as does this one, and it hasn't had maintenance or service since, well, I don't know, I'd say some time a long time before I got it (in the 2000s and even then it hadn't been used in a long time).
I played several tapes over several hours over the last week, letting it come up to temperature for hours at a time, it's stable, always the same.
Shipping
This will be VERY safely packed for shipment. This is a heavy item, very valuable and delicate. I will pack it into a cardboard carton, polypropylene strap it, then double-box it into a second outer carton, with solid foam/air packs between the layers, then strap that. I just spent EIGHT HOURS EACH packing two professional Sony video decks sold recently (this one will probably take 6-8 hours) and I don't get paid for that. So local pickup would be nice...
Shipping to USA is flat rate 6.50, but if you are in California, please send me a message BEFORE you buy and I will reduce the shipping to .25 for you.
Free local pickup in the Los Feliz district of L.A. is okay if you can
work around my busy schedule.
Los Angeles or SF Bay area? It's possible, just possible that I would keep the stated shipping money and deliver it in the Synhouse company truck, as I have business in both places (but very little in SF during the lockdown, though I was there seven months ago and I might be back there seeing customers and delivering machines).
Please see my other listings for other Sony video players, recorders, and broadcast monitors might be of interest.
I will be listing at least a few of my Sony video decks soon, maybe several, some are already listed, possibly including (1) Sony VP-5020, (1) Sony VO-5600 U-Matic, (1) Sony VO-5800 U-Matic, VO-9800 U-Matic SP recorder, (1) VP-9000 U-Matic SP player, (1 or 2) DMR-4000 (this is a U-Matic deck optimized for digital PCM audio recording with the Sony PCM-1630), (1) UVW-1800 Betacam SP recorder w/Michael Sellman LTD 4-channel audio extender mod, (1) BVW-22 Betacam SP player, (1) BVW-65 Betacam SP player, (3) BVW-75 Betacam SP recorder, (1) DVW-500 Digital Betacam SP recorder, (2) DVW-A500 Digital Betacam SP recorder. All I really need is one of each format, but I have so many.
I also have a ton of absolutely mint condition BNC cables, including some Belden Brilliance RGB sets. Also BNC patch bays and everything for older analog video. At least 10-15 Avid Media Composers. One of the first Chyrons ever made in beautiful cosmetic condition but untested. Lots of broadcast monitors, not even sure how many but for sure a Barco CVS 51, Ikegami TM14-16R, (2) Ikegami TM20-16R, and Panasonic WV-5200BU triples in rack mount. I can't easily tell because all are in flight cases that are stacked in the warehouse, most I haven't even seen in 14 years.