Month: June 2026

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Sony KV-32FX66U 32-inch Trinitron

I’m catching up on a few updates that have happened over the last couple of months. One of which was the acquisition of a 32inch Sony Trinitron.

This absolute monster weighs in at 65kg, which meant it spent a few weeks in our hallway before finding someone to help me carry it down to its final resting place.

The person I got this from was actually the same person I got the 28inch version from a while back. This one however, is fully working, but with some minor geometry/convergenace issues. I’ve mostly fixed all of these now, with just a small issue in the top right, which I will look to fix with convergence strips when I get a few minutes. For now though, it is hardly noticeable, especially when playing games with a bit of overscan.

The only issue I have now is that both of these Trinitrons are 100Hz models, so the PlayStation 1 Lightguns will no longer work. To get around the loss of Point Blank, I’ve now set up my arcade cabinet to work with my Guncon 2s, which seems to be working great so far.

I’ve yet to try the PS2 lightgun games on this set, but from what I have read, I just need to switch the G-Con2 into 100Hz mode, and it should be good to go. Hopefully, that will be a good experience for playing Time Crisis 2 and Vampire Night again.

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I bought a box for £130 😬

Quite a while ago, I realised that collecting computers/consoles with their original boxes came with one big downside, the amount of space they take up!

I have a lot of boxes for a lot of systems, but I don’t really have the space to display all the boxes. The majority of them spend their time sitting up in the loft, which seems pretty pointless.

But when one specific box came up for sale recently, I knew I just had to get this one as it holds a special place in my heart. I am of course, talking about the Sam Coupe box.

Despite having 3 of these computers here, the boxes for them are long gone. At least the computers themselves never got thrown out!

I have only ever seen an empty box go up for sale once before, and that was a few years ago now. Usually, the boxes only sell with a computer inside, and these tend to fetch ~£1500 these days. So I had to grab this one whilst I could.

The box is in pretty good shape, complete with all the internal polys, and the blue bag that the computer was originally wrapped in.

I look forward to fully packaging up one of my Sams now with all of the original components, where it can sit out on display alongside my daily driver Sam.

Let this be a lesson to everyone, collecting boxes can turn into an expensive hobby! 😅