Main channel: Your Philips Commodore 1084 monitor might have a serious flaw
Added 2025-05-27 18:25:32 +0000 UTCHello my patrons! Thanks to friend of the channel Mike, I recently ended up with a whole bunch of monitors (of unknown condition.) Two of them were these Philips Magnavox monitors that while looking totally different than the Commodore 1084, I suspect they are actually very similar or identical on the inside. If that's the case, all of these monitors have the potential to have a flaw that can render them unusable, so I want to dig into all three of these monitors and see how similar they are, and see if the flaw has already gotten them.
Thanks for all the support!
PS: Reminder I'll be at VCF Southwest in Dallas June 20-22. If you're in the area, stop on by to say hi!
Direct link: https://youtu.be/4p_2ysRjsD4
Comments
I have another 1084 sibling monitor: The Philips New Media Systems VS0080/00 which was meant for the Philips MSX "ecosystem".
Rudo de Jong
2025-06-02 18:42:12 +0000 UTCI have a Phillips CM8833 Mk I (according to Grok) from around 1985, not powered up since around '93. The circuit board seems very similar to the one in your 1084 and most of the PCB is populated with components. However besides the vertically mounted TTL RGB board theres another vertically mounted board in the area of the SCART-plug. This board is not visible on any of your monitors. No idea what its used for. Anyways I powered up the monitor for the first time in over 30 years ... and it works perfectlly ... except the power button which only occationally latches, just like you mentioned it would, haha.. The flyback transformer is of the original good quality type and works just fine.
Bo Andersen
2025-05-31 14:29:19 +0000 UTCI haven't watched the video yet. I have a 1990 Philips CM8533 which may be the same. Except the PAL decoding has stopped working last year but RGB works fine and is really sharp. I need to watch the video.
Mark Wilson
2025-05-30 07:26:11 +0000 UTChttps://www.ebay.com/itm/326200716299
David Kuhn
2025-05-28 18:28:40 +0000 UTCA link for the flybacks you ordered?
David Kuhn
2025-05-28 18:20:08 +0000 UTC
