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Create Sony PVM-2030 page from operating instructions + first-edition service manual

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{{CRT model
|brand=Sony
|model_code=PVM-2030
|market=USA,Canada
|series=PVM
|crt_type=Professional monitor
|form_factor=Standard
|screen_size_in=20
|aspect_ratio=4:3
|tvl=560
|msrp=$1125
|height=40.9 cm
|width=51.6 cm
|depth=48.1 cm
|weight=30.5 kg
|tube_type=Trinitron
|tube=A51JKQ10X
|chassis=SCC-A85A-A
|mask_type=Aperture grille
|pitch=0.55
|deflection_angle=100
|visible_diag=19.9
|av_system=NTSC
|frequency=50Hz,60Hz
|power_max=150
}}
The '''Sony PVM-2030''' is a 20-inch NTSC Trinitron professional video monitor, the smaller of a pair with the 25-inch PVM-2530; the two share a single operating manual and differ only in tube size and audio power.<ref name="oi">Sony PVM-2030/PVM-2530 Operating Instructions, Sony Corporation. https://archive.org/details/sony_PVM-2030_2530_Operation_Instructions</ref> US and Canadian sets carry chassis number SCC-A85A-A.<ref name="sm">Sony PVM-2030 Service Manual (First Edition), Sony Corporation. https://archive.org/details/sony-pvm-2030-service-manual-first-edition</ref> Its original list price was around $1,125.<ref name="crtdb">[https://crtdatabase.com/crts/sony/sony-pvm-2030 Sony PVM-2030], CRT Database.</ref>

The picture tube is a fine-pitch Trinitron (Sony part [[A51JKQ10X]]) with an approximately 50.6 cm visible diagonal, 100-degree deflection and a 0.55 mm aperture grille pitch. Sony rated it at 560 TV lines from the video inputs and 640 × 200 dots — about 2,000 characters — from the RGB input, with a 9300 K colour temperature and a video bandwidth of 6 MHz (−3 dB) on composite and 10 MHz on RGB.<ref name="oi" /> The line pull range is ±500 Hz horizontally and −8 Hz vertically, so the set is a fixed-frequency 15 kHz monitor rather than a multisync.<ref name="oi" />

== Features ==

The monitor's headline feature is its '''CMPTR''' input, a 25-pin [[DB-25]] "multi connector" that accepts either analog or digital RGB from a microcomputer.<ref name="oi" /> Mode pins on the connector select between analog RGB (0.7 Vp-p, or 1 Vp-p with sync on green) and TTL-level digital RGB, and separately between IBM-style RGBI signalling and 3-bit TTL. Horizontal and vertical sync arrive on separate pins, but the horizontal pin also accepts composite sync. A blanking pin lets a composite source from LINE A/B or the VTR connector be superimposed over the computer picture.<ref name="oi" />

Sony also fitted the set with New Dynamic Color, which raises the apparent colour temperature without turning skin tones unnatural by controlling RGB amplitude, and a Colorpure comb filter to suppress cross-colour on composite sources.<ref name="oi" />

CONTROL S IN and OUT connectors allow several monitors and a VTR to be driven from a single RM-739 Remote Commander, which was supplied with the monitor. Rear-panel REMOTE CONTROL and MANUAL CONTROL switches independently enable or lock out the remote and the front-panel touch controls.<ref name="oi" /><ref name="sm" />

There is no built-in loudspeaker. Rear SPEAKER L/R terminals drive external 8–16 Ω speakers at 7 W + 7 W; Sony offered the SS-X6A and APM-X5A speaker systems and the SU-539 and SU-541 stands as options.<ref name="oi" /> A switched AC OUT socket supplies up to 100 W at 120 V for a connected computer.<ref name="oi" />

Not every production run received the S VIDEO connector, so an individual PVM-2030 may have only composite and RGB inputs.<ref name="crtdb" />

== References ==
<references />
{{CRT voltage range
|voltage_min=120
|voltage_max=120
}}
{{CRT input
|label=LINE A
|signal=Composite (CVBS)
|connector=BNC
|count=1
|audio=Stereo
|audio_connector=RCA (connector)
|location=rear
|notes=Loop-through to the LINE A VIDEO OUT / AUDIO OUT; a rear switch selects 75-ohm termination when the loop-through is unused.
}}
{{CRT input
|label=LINE B
|signal=Composite (CVBS)
|connector=BNC
|count=1
|audio=Stereo
|audio_connector=RCA (connector)
|location=rear
|notes=Loop-through to the LINE B VIDEO OUT / AUDIO OUT; a rear switch selects 75-ohm termination when the loop-through is unused.
}}
{{CRT input
|label=VTR
|signal=Composite (CVBS)
|connector=EIAJ-8
|count=1
|audio=Stereo
|audio_connector=EIAJ-8
|location=rear
|notes=Sony 8-pin VTR connector carrying composite video and audio, internally 75-ohm terminated. A rear S VIDEO/VTR IN selector chooses between this and the S VIDEO connector.
}}
{{CRT input
|label=S VIDEO
|signal=S-Video (Y/C)
|connector=Mini-DIN-4
|count=1
|audio=Stereo
|audio_connector=RCA (connector)
|location=rear
|notes=Shares the input position with the VTR connector via the S VIDEO/VTR IN selector. Not fitted to all production runs.
}}
{{CRT input
|label=CMPTR
|signal=RGBHV
|connector=DB-25
|count=1
|audio=Mono
|audio_connector=DB-25
|sync=HSYNC+VSYNC
|location=rear
|notes=Analog RGB at 0.7 Vp-p, 75 ohms. Audio arrives on pin 13 of the same connector when pin 2 is held high.
}}
{{CRT input
|label=CMPTR
|signal=RGBS
|connector=DB-25
|count=1
|audio=Mono
|audio_connector=DB-25
|sync=CSYNC
|location=rear
|notes=The H sync pin also accepts composite sync at 1 Vp-p, 75 ohms.
}}
{{CRT input
|label=CMPTR
|signal=RGsB
|connector=DB-25
|count=1
|audio=Mono
|audio_connector=DB-25
|sync=Sync on Green
|location=rear
|notes=Sync on green is accepted at 1 Vp-p on the green line.
}}
{{CRT input
|label=CMPTR
|signal=TTL RGB
|connector=DB-25
|count=1
|audio=Mono
|audio_connector=DB-25
|location=rear
|notes=Digital mode, selected by grounding pin 9. Pin 1 further selects IBM RGBI (with luminance on pin 25) or 3-bit TTL.
}}
{{CRT output
|label=LINE A VIDEO OUT
|output_type=Video
|signal=Composite (CVBS)
|connector=BNC
|count=1
|location=rear
|notes=Loop-through of the LINE A video input.
}}
{{CRT output
|label=LINE A AUDIO OUT
|output_type=Audio
|signal=Analog stereo
|connector=RCA (connector)
|count=1
|location=rear
|notes=Loop-through of the LINE A audio input.
}}
{{CRT output
|label=LINE B VIDEO OUT
|output_type=Video
|signal=Composite (CVBS)
|connector=BNC
|count=1
|location=rear
|notes=Loop-through of the LINE B video input.
}}
{{CRT output
|label=LINE B AUDIO OUT
|output_type=Audio
|signal=Analog stereo
|connector=RCA (connector)
|count=1
|location=rear
|notes=Loop-through of the LINE B audio input.
}}
{{CRT link
|link_type=Database
|link_source=CRT Database
|link_url=https://crtdatabase.com/crts/sony/sony-pvm-2030
}}

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