Facts

A 36" I'Art model from JVC. One of their later models, having been produced in 2002. The I'Art line was JVC's high-end consumer CRT line. Flat screen, but not a flat panel. It is large enough that it has an option to adjust the purity based on rotation in the setup menu. If you didn't know, very large tubes (I believe about 32"+) can have the color affected by the magnetic fields of the earth, so they require adjustment to get the color right. Fortunately, it's just a small amount of discoloration in the coners. Being a flat CRT, it does have geometry issues and a few convergence issues, but I bet most of these could be fixed with a recapping and then some adjustments in the service menu. Unfortunately, I don't have the remote and henceforth cannot access the service menu, as far as I know. I don't know the exact weight, but based off of similarly sized Trinitrons and other JVC tubes, it's in the range of 230-270 pounds.

How I got it

Found this bad boy sitting on the side of a road nearby my uncles house. I got him to hold onto it for a week before I eventually came back and picked it up. It now lives in my garage.

Review

8/10. Very exciting as it is my largest CRT, but a few points knocked off because of geometry and focus issues. Near the edges of the tube, it is pretty blurry and all of the colors aren't converging correctly. It also sometimes just doesn't power on. Other than that, it works pretty well and has nice, visible scanlines. It also has some cold solder joints on whatever is controlling the angle of the beam to align with the flat screen, as smacking the top of it causes the color to change greatly on the top and bottom. Lifting it up a milimeter or so before dropping it causes the colors at the top and bottom to flash rapidly before stablizing. This is slightly offset by changing the purity in the stup menu.

Gallery

It sat on chair while I got it out of my car. I deemed it would be too diffucult to bring it directly from the trunk to the ground without dropping it.

Banana for scale.

sticker

I belive this is a higher deflection angle tube, probably 100 or 110 degrees. Combined with being a flat tube, that probably contributes to the poor geometry.

sticker 2