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Gannon · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:20 pm Post subject: Curious Mitsubishi CRT

This chassis apparently was never imported into the North American market, but one manufacturer brought it in for their private demo room at their main offices. Number on it reads LVP-2001.

It has dichroic filtering on both the green and red guns...amazing lenses I've never seen before...two sets of RGB inputs, the second one can be component.

Nice beast.

Only 744 hours on it.

Gotta find a value for it. Any edumacated guesses?

Best as I can tell, it is comfortable with 480P, 720P, and 1080i...but won't display any of the 1080p outputs of my old Quantum Data 802b.

Heavy girl, too. They built this one to last. Quiet.

I might have to give it a nice home...

Cheers!
John

Phoenixed · Joined: 13 Oct 2011 Posts: 514 Location: The mitten

Some info John

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/kob/2001lab/spec.html&ei=szHWT4aPGc3k2wXK1NGaDw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CIsBEO4BMAY&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dmitsubishi%2Blvp-2001%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26prmd%3Dimvns

Nashou66 · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 16171 Location: West Seneca NY

300,000 yen

Click On Picture:

ES focusing machine.

Athanasios

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:12 pm Post subject:

I think we just found where Vision 1 got their idea for their case... Smile

Gannon · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:57 am Post subject:

The case I've got is more square...and the lenses seem larger, although I see the dichroics on the ones in the picture. What is 300k Yen in dollars...over $3,500! Even though this is only a seven-inch CRT, they did get the most out of 'em...even liquid cooling. But in this market, I'll never get that for it...

It sure is weird to see a chassis that is unfamiliar, after all these years.

It isn't THAT unfamiliar, I did the calibration on it last time I was through town.

It sure was weird to see my handwriting on the instructions that I forgot writing...LOL!

But I've only seen two Mitsubishi chassis in North America. The second CRT I ever adjusted, with a manual convergence board with all those wee variable resistors...and this one which is lightyears beyond that. Same as their vehicles, it seems, designed with thoroughness and ruggedness.

I want to play with it today, but need help getting it into the basement...my secret underground lair. And my artiritis is flairing with the heavy weather in Detroit...ugh.

Cheers!

CasetheCorvetteman · Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 6326 Location: Australia

CIR Engineering · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:21 pm Post subject:

Gannon · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:53 pm Post subject:

Sorry. But keeping the young'uns from understanding where we've been...what we've done...what we've seen which enables us to be as cranky as we are any time new technology is turned on in our presence.

I may be projecting a bit.

HEY! Get off that lawn, kid. You see that mound over there by the rose bushes?! Yep, fertilizer. That's what I call it.

See, if we skip the manual convergence, then the balance of that story...of how glad I was after ten hours of trying to get the damn thing to come together, after the original dealer mounted it a bit off perpendicular, that I was able to spend the NEXT ten hours in the model home's rather large hot-tub which could develop a current strong enough to swim against. If not for that amount of force, I may never have walked upright again, after literally bending over backwards with my arms raised over my head, on the last ladder on site...the shortie the painter was using for eye-level touch-ups. The fellow I contracted from told me not to worry bringing mine.

Nah...we gotta keep the experiences gleaned during the early era alive, so folks can know how Henry Kloss's little idea grew into what remains the best overall video display in our residential universe. My experience with three-gun nearly tracks the industry development of it...we had the Advent projector at Tech Hifi, later replaced with the Kloss. I missed the firey Harmon days...but picked up when Sam Runco's west-coast gang used to bump into the greasers of New Jersey and scrap behind the Las Vegas Convention Center. (actually, that first meeting was in a hotel room, and while we were nearly all holding...none of us had weapons!) Was at the third ISF seminar...first was at Kevin Voeck's studio in LA, second was ABC in NY (if I've my history memorized)...then a far-thinking manufacturer's rep wanted to prove to a young CEDIA that regional training would work, and the pre-divorce ISF came in for the weekend. Didn't realize until I typed it that my divorce happened just before Joe and Joel's, when the ISF suffered losing their outspoken guru. Not the first time I was a child of divorced parents, heh. Even joked about it at the time.

Cheers...this is a day for stories. I might have to lock myself up and write.

(the rest of the story of that hot tub...they were barely able to scrape me out of it and change clothes for the grand opening of the model at a bigwig party the property developer had arranged. She a Birmingham attorney, her spouse a doctor at a Lapeer hospital and holder of a patent on the popular chemotherapy drug at the moment. They had purchased a good amount of the Stroh beer family property in horse country north of Detroit, in Metamora...location of a few boys and girls scout campgrounds and my first sleep-deprived experience in the woods. This was to be the first of ten ten-acre divisions of an exclusive subdivision. But I digress...I didn't move out of the house for three months, they hired me as caretaker. It didn't suck going from a ninety-year-old efficiency apartment in the city to a 10,000 square foot mansion in the hills. That little duration earns itself an entire chapter of my life story.)

Gannon · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:59 pm Post subject:

Gannon · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:38 pm Post subject:

I might have to use this text in my ads on-line. Hope they don't mind.

Accessories
取り説なし・モコンなし・バージョンアップキット付き With or without remote control kit version up without taking theory
状態 State 動作良好・シアターメッセ製トップパネル多少キズ・塗装ハゲがあります。 There are some scratches, paint bald top panel made of good behavior Messe Theater.
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高画質で有名な三菱の三管式プロジェクターです。 Mitsubishi's three tube projector is famous for its high quality.
ちょっとマニアックなシアターメッセバージョン。 Messe Theater version a little maniac.

Is it any wonder why all of our owner's manuals throughout the history of electronics have had some translation issues?! I remember some doozies in early Denon manuals...but this series takes the cake.

A little bald maniac...taking theory on the way up. Exactly what I was thinking.

Gannon · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:53 pm Post subject:

I forgot to mention, the CRT came with a variac to lower our 120V down to Japanese 105V.

Unfortunately, the variac might be more valuable to most people...

Gannon · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:54 pm Post subject:

Um...come to think of it...I didn't USE the variac when I turned it on to check the phosphors and find the hour clock.

Whoa.