Steve's trip to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Cathode Ray Podcast #24
The Cathode Ray Podcast is a series with CRT shaman Steve from Retro Tech and Louis Zezeran from Zez Retro. Together they talk about CRTs, TVs and other retro gaming topics.
The last week Steve was visiting Houston, Texas where he was running a series of workshops for the Museum of Fine Art. The purpose was to educate their curators of this museum (an several other notable museums) about CRT preservation and maintenance. Steve tells the story of his 20 hour drive to Houston, the different workshops that he gave and what he learnt about the use of CRTs in the world of visual arts. He also saw a great wrestling match.
If you missed last week's episode, go back and check out Steve's tour of prominent 20th century artists who used CRTs in their work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubbs9AHsZcY
00:00 Start
1:16 MiSTer S-Video updates
3:28 Steve's trip to Houston
7:20 First day of presentations - PVM 2030 teardown
22:10 Steve tears-down a dotronix monitor for the first time
30:45 The HDMI to S-video converters driving the exhibitions
32:40 Backstage in the museums CRT storeroom
37:50 CRT or flat panel for visual art?
41:51 The extremely cool 80's Sont CRT projector
51:00 A night at the wrestling!
1:17:30 Steve's pickups from the Electronic Parts Outlet (EPO) in Houston
Steve and Louis maintain a blog about their projects "The Cathode Ray Blog"
https://www.cathoderayblog.com
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