....amazing given it still has the late 70's Philips KT-3 TV chassis monitor in it. I was sure it would come back dead.
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I find your lack of faith in Dutch products disturbing !
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I've always wondered why there were so few Philips monitors in cabs, it's like they didn't care much about the cab market. Could also be that there was close to 0 production of cabs in our regions. Italian builders of course almost always chose Hantarex which is also Italian.
(The videocolor tubes often found in Hantarex monitors were produced by Philips by the way, hence the great picture
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The Irish Atari factory seemed to receive their monitors from the US.
I'd like to see a couple of good pictures of a Philips arcade monitor. The TV's that they built in that era were the best around IMO. Totally built service-friendly and non-compromising for quality. They had the best picture of all of them.
I've also often wondered why Sony didn't do anything in that market. Sony built loads of broadcast type monitors but (it seems) none for the arcade market. My guess is that either they, or the cab manufacturers didn't want them because color shifts happen when the Trinitrons get bumped.
I personally never liked the Trinitron picture. The sharpness was great, but I just didn't like the phosphors they used for their colors. Philips tubes looked much more natural to my eye.
