Rare 24" Widescreen Sony Trinitron GDM-W900 CRT - similar to the GDM-FW900. BVM PVM

Hello! Up for sale (and please feel free to make an offer) is the widescreen Sony GDM-W900 monitor. This is the rarer brother to the more famous FW900. Purely on picture quality, I like this monitor - the W900 - better than the FW900 (which I also used to own.) One of the biggest differences is that this monitor has a curved screen, which more naturally follows the curve of the electron beam sweep, so you get less variation between the center and the corners. Like the FW900, this monitor has a 16:10 aspect ratio and is a 24" monitor with 22.5" viewable. This monitor has a maximum resolution of 1920x1200, which is pretty nuts for a CRT. It will sync at a ton of other PC resolutions, all the way down to 640x480. This specific monitor recently had about 95% of all the capacitors in it replaced (including surface mount) by an aerospace electrical engineer. I think the W900 (this monitor) is one of the best CRTs ever made and I would gladly keep it if I had the space for it. It looks freaking gorgeous. There are a few things that I need to mention in regard to condition though: - There are cracks in the casing, including a section in back top that was repaired with plastic epoxy. Sony trinitrons of a certain age can have brittle plastic and that likely contributed to the cracks. - There are 4 small dings/pinpricks on the anti-reflective glare film in front of the glass. You can't see it when the screen is on. - There is very minor burn-in from what appears to be a windows desktop. It's mainly on the very left (apps) and very bottom (taskbar). I could not see it when playing games, only when the screen is a uniform color. You can't really see it when the monitor is off, only barely if you shine a flashlight directly at the tube. - There is a single faint diagonal line from about the bottom third to the top third of the screen that only shows up when the bias controls are up and the screen resolution is low (like 640x480 low). The reason why about 95% of the caps were replaced was in order to fix this issue. Before the caps were replaced, it looked like a single retrace line, but then got fainter after the caps were replaced. At higher resolutions with the bias levels low, it's practically invisible. If you wanted to completely fix the issue, it's potentially some value that needs to be adjusted in the WinDAS program, which is the service mode for this monitor. I did not attempt this as it is an involved process. The very last picture listed shows the retrace line at a resolution of 640x480 and with the bias turned up - this was only so you could see it. Again, at higher resolutions and with the bias turned down, it is either invisible or only just barely visible on a dark/black screen. This is not a condition issue, but something inherent to the monitor: - This monitor was designed for VGA (or BNC) coming from a PC and came out before HDMI was really a thing, so there are a few extra steps to get it to work with normal 1080p/720p signals (480p works fine). I could get it to sync to 720p by feeding it analog component that was then converted to VGA. It looks like the best option, though, is using something like the OSSC in passthrough mode, which should work for 1080p. (I've seen reports of the OSSC being a solution for the FW900.) After all that (which I mention to be thorough) I do want to say again that the picture from this monitor looks gorgeous and the internals have been checked out by an aerospace engineer, with the caps thoroughly replaced. Please let me know if you have any questions and please feel free to send an offer. Thanks!