[AiboPet]

My CX-500 needs some little attention. I got it from someone who admitted they messed with "some knobs inside"...and then they did a perfect job of putting it all back together. It looks like they messed with the "screen" drives or something and weren't sure what they were doing. Has a great sharp picture, but it's a bit bright, and I can only BARELY get it to go completely dark with contrast and brightness all the way down. It's also just barely tinted green if you turn the color all the way down. Whatever is giving it too much brightness is likely also where I'm seeing a little loss in contrast. Either he found and played with a "sub brightness", or there are some gain controls he screwed with. My guess...whichever knobs most resembled "bright shiny object" knowing this guy :-P

Looks like a VERY minor fix....involving me just finally getting INTO it and dialing it in with a proper crosshatch and color bars. I've just not done it yet.

It sure FEELS like a good sturdy set. It's MUCH heavier than any of my other briefcase B/W sets...and it DOES have a big green NiCad battery "pack" instead of all the D batteries. It DOES appear to run CX-500 for around two hours after charging all night (has it's own charger). I cycled that pack a few times, and after about a week....noticed it would run just about two hours.