The 4K CRT Monitor, Revisited (ft. Shank Mods & slick) - Siemens SMM21201P MED
It's time for a redo of one of the highest end CRT monitors ever created! I tried to give it as much justice as I could this time around. There's tons of new information here, and an overall higher quality and entertaining experience (in my opinion) compared to the original.
The original video will stay up, of course. However, this is intended to be the "definitive" video for this monitor, with additional information. My video editor was unbearable this time around, I really need to switch. Hopefully you enjoy it as much as I did when I was finally able to get everything the way I wanted it to be!
There will be much more to come in regards to Siemens stuff in general. After all, I now have to get to work on the SMM21106LS: a 140khz 21" landscape CRT monochrome monitor. Oh yeah. We're far from done with this stuff.
I'd also like to shout out Shank Mods and slick for helping me with this video!
Please check out their channels:
Shank Mods: @ShankMods
slick: @kcils
Here are the links to various things I mentioned in the video:
SMfit ACT: https://archive.org/details/smfit-act...
Product Brief: https://archive.org/details/smm21201p_en
Siemens Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
TVL Test Pattern: https://archive.org/details/iso-12233...
If you wish to have zero empathy towards the blood, sweat, and tears that I shed in order to make this video, feel free to use these time stamps!
0:00 Introduction
2:09 Chapter 1: Specifications
8:08 Chapter 2: Internals
18:53 Chapter 3: SMfit ACT
34:05 Chapter 4: Extra Details
34:58 Motion Clarity (Notes)
39:14 HV Regulation (slick)
41:10 Auto Black Level Calibration (Shank Mods)
42:11 DAC + Setup (Notes)
49:49 Deflection (slick)
55:24 Spot Size + Resolvability (Notes, Shank Mods, slick)
1:05:06 Resolutions (Notes)
1:05:37 3000x4000p@34hz
1:07:57 810x1080p@169hz
1:10:26 360x480p@169hz
1:13:27 3150x4200i@60hz
1:15:56 1620x2160i@169hz
1:18:41 720x960i@169hz
1:20:52 Chapter 5: Content Montage
1:22:34 Content Montage
1:30:43 Ending
Date I Received This Monitor: January 18th, 2022
I told you the fish man would make an appearance.
And (yeahhhh, should've been doing this from the start, sorry LMFAO) here is a list of the songs used in the video (in order):
→ Web - Mornings (Harmful Logic Bootleg)
→ Tayla - Language
→ Erykah Badu - On & On (Blu Mar Ten Remix)
→ Vblvb - Nostalgic_Waveform
→ GYARI - Akari Has Arrived (instrumental)
→ The Chameleon - Just Close Your Eyes & Listen
→ Intensity - Generations
→ Solaris - Garden of Dreams
→ Axis - One in Ten
→ Hyper on Experience - East Coast Vibez
→ N-Jay - Revibe
→ Helen T - Jakes Progress '97
→ Death Note - L's Theme (A)
→ Drum Origins - Infinite Orbit [Timecode Audio Remix]
→ Makoto - Wave
→ shogun / artemis - nautilus
→ Artemis - Elysian Fields
→ moonchild - streams
→ Moakz - Distant Waters
→ Oceanlab - Satellite (Sewerslvt Remix)
→ Go2 - Purple Emotion (Sewerslvt Happy Hardcore Edit)
→ Discandy - In Love Again
Thank you so much for watching. Genuinely. It means a lot. I'm glad that there are a lot of people who share a similar interest in these amazing pieces of display technology.