Best 20" CRT ever?

Teh.best.CRT.evar for me is a little 20" JVC - I don't remember the model number. It has a good picture and decent stereo sound for its size. It's about 12 years old now and it still works like a champ. It's the only CRT I still keep around. I do remember having a hard time playing games on it because the text was too small to read for games where you had to read stuff.

I look at a 480i signal on anything larger than a 20" set, maybe 24", but that's it, at least for the size of my room. By the way, flat screen would be nice.

I've always been partial to Sonys, they have historically had the best power supply stability.

Sony KV-20FS120.


Good Points: Near perfect geometry, great power supply, excellent color and depth, and perfect size for a bedroom.


Bad Points: No S-Video (just 2 composite and 1 component input) no audio out (except for the 1/8" earphone plug), no closed captioning on mute, NTSC tuner (literally) burned out after one year, plus grayscale had to to be adjusted in service menu.


Now that the grayscale is fixed, I really like this set, and will be unable to replace it with anything comparable when it finally dies, so I hope it keeps working for a long time. But since it was made in Mexico, I won't be expecting it to last more than another couple of years.

Because it has no S-Video input, it's unacceptable. Does anyone know of any previous models of that TV that were more fully featured?

The 24" model (Sony KV-24FS120) had an S-Video input. I was really shocked when I got my set home that there was no S-Video, but it's one of those things you just assume will be there (like audio output).



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Originally Posted by Josh7289 /forum/post/0


Because it has no S-Video input, it's unacceptable. Does anyone know of any previous models of that TV that were more fully featured?

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The older 20s should have s-video. I think the most recent 20" with s-video was the KV-20FS100.

Panasonics don't have a vertical compression feature, FWIW.



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Originally Posted by MechanicalMan /forum/post/0


Panasonics don't have a vertical compression feature, FWIW.

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That is true. But for that screen size, one might want to fill in as much image area as possible. I have set the DVD player screen option to 16:9, and it fill whole 4:3 screen without any noticable distortion.

Another approach I have used for our PS2 is a tuner box that converts the video signal to work with a PC monitor. Using a CRT monitor which supports native 480 lines means no vertical scaling (the box only converts from 480i to 480p). The unit we have has an NTSC tuner, composite and S-video input. Just a thought for games.


Red.

sony or panasonic