Insignia IS-TV040919
May 3, 2024, 11:44 pm
Summary
A cheaply-made but still quite good set by Insignia. Sold at Best Buy in the mid 2000's, this set was originally manufactured by Xiamen Prima Technology in China. It features composite, s-video and even component inputs. Having such high-quality inputs is a rare sight to see on North American CRTs with a 20" curved tube.
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Notes
Sets using this chassis tend to have colors intermittently dropping out or not being displayed onscreen altogether. (Usually the color blue.) The culprit is bad solder joints on the neckboard, so reflow them to fix the issue.
This set uses a Philips jungle IC and it handles component quite well. I recommend turning sharpness all the way down. I also advise to set the color a little below the midpoint, as it looks a bit too saturated by default. The picture processing has a mild "luma shadow" that extends for a pixel to the left of the contours of objects onscreen, but it is very faint and hardly detrimental.
Once dialed in, this set has a very nice picture that reminds me of a 19" arcade monitor, but with a slightly finer dot pitch and pointed corners. In my opinion, it jives best with 8-bit and 16-bit titles that are 256 pixels wide.
Service Menu
On the remote, press the “MENU” button, followed by 6,4,8, and 3. To show you have entered the service menu, “Test” will appear on screen. The service menu is compartmentalized into separate "menus". MENU1-4 can be selected by pressing buttons 1-4 on the remote. To enter MENU0, 5-9, you must press the "CHILD LOCK" button on the remote followed by 0, 5-9. To navigate the service menu, press “CH+” and “CH-” to select and “V+” and “V-”to adjust. Press “STANDBY” on the remote to exit.
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Specifications | |
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Brand: | Insignia |
Manufacturer: | Prima |
Model: | IS-TV040919 |
Series: | TV |
Viewable Size: | 20" |
Inputs: | Composite, S-Video, RF, Component YPbPr |
Resolutions: | 240p, 480i |
Horizontal Max: | 15 kHz |
Vertical Max: | 60 Hz |
Formats: | NTSC |
Aspect: | 4:3 |
Adjustments: | OSD Customer Controls, OSD Service Menu |
Jungle: | Philips OM8377 |
Tube: | Samsung , Irico , A51KQK99X01 , 54SX503Y22-DC01 |
Mask: | Slot |
Tint: | Dark |
Speakers: | Stereo |
Chassis: | Prima, TK2026 |
Application: | Consumer |
Launched: | 2006 |
Country of Manufacture: | China |
Degaussing: | Automatic on Power-on |