Summary

Compact broadcast monitor from Sony, commonly used in video walls. Due to it being monochrome, it has a standard round tube instead of the usual Trinitron shape. Picture is extremely sharp for its size, and is rated at 900 TVL.

Literature

• User Manual (European)
• Service Manual

Notes

As with all monochrome monitors, the picture is much cleaner if you're able to input a pure luma signal rather than composite video. This can be obtained from S-Video (via an RCA splitter adapter), or from component video if you use the green RCA plug.

This monitor had a very long production run, from 1993 until the mid-2000s.

The phosphor used in the PVM-96 and PVM-136 has a white balance of 6500k. Sony also produced the PVM-97, which used a 9300k phosphor but was otherwise identical.