Summary

27" JVC I'Art from 2004. Has a full set of inputs: RF, composite, s-video and component. Made in Mexico.

(Special thanks to Kenneth Hale for some of the pics!)

Manuals

• User Manual
• Service Manual

Notes

Picture quality is decent by default, but the red push is very severe. If you wish to disable it, JVC sets with component inputs made from 2002-onward can have red push disabled by setting service menu option "NTSC-MAT" to 0.

Now after you turn this setting off, there may still be some saturation boosting of the reds and blues, so turn down the color in the standard menu until those tones look correct. After that, go back into the service menu and perform a white balance.

I also advise to turn off VSM and sharpening in the standard menu. Once you do all these tweaks, the image should look much better.

Composite 240p Performance

by Eli Krause

For composite decoding this set uses a Toshiba TC90A49P, a 3-line digital comb filter. Depending on the console/revision, dot artifacting ranges from slight to severe, and blending effects may be broken. If the set has an s-video or component YPbPr input, then using a good external notch filter to decode composite instead and sending that to the set would blend all dithering patterns and remove nearly all dot artifacts (full guide here).